Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
Tonight, the surviving Top 8 take on the music of the 1980s – with Gwen Stefani as one of the guest mentors. No Doubt, she will display a strong connection to both the music and the contestants.
NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE_ After the special sneak preview, here comes this series itself – in which Betty White plays ringleader to a band of geriatric pranksters. Will this NBC series be a worthy successor to the likes of Candid Camera? Don't know yet. More to the point: What do the playful schemers on this show have that the ones on, say, the new incarnation of MTV’s Punk’d do not? Depends.
NBC, 10:00 p.m. ET
Among the stories featured tonight is a Kate Snow profile of Jin Xing, a celebrated Chinese ballerina who has become a cultural icon and a national celebrity over the past 17 years. What makes this such a singular story, especially from China, is that she used to be a he – and came out, long ago, as the first person in China to admit publicly to a sex-change operation.
Cinemax, 10:00 p.m. ET
Forget the early blooms, unseasonably warm days and chirping birds of April. For me, the first reliable sign that spring and summer are on the way, and the long winter season is over, is the first prime-time telecast of Jaws. And here it is, with more iconic scenes than in a dozen other blockbuster movies. As Quint toasts at one point: “Here’s to swimmin’ with bow-legged women…”
Comedy Central, 10:00 p.m. ET
Just in time for the holidays, Cartman produces a video that he claims to capture the first visual proof of a scary new creature that preys upon participants of Easter Egg hunts: the dreaded Jewpacabra. (Send emails to South Park, please, not here.)