Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
NEW TIME: Fox is shuffling its Tuesday schedule beginning tonight, and the new night starts off with a transplanted Raising Hope, now the network’s leadoff sitcom. To do so, this funny series has booked a big special guest star: Katy Perry, who happens to be good friends with Shannon Woodward, who stars as Sabrina. But Perry, playing a prison guard who torments the temporarily incarcerated Sabrina, isn’t exactly playing the glamour rock star card. That’s her in the photo at left.
HBO, 8:30 p.m. ET
This 2011 movie, half action thriller and half psychological character study, ends as abruptly as it begins, and with the same punctuating visual. But in between is an impressively, unusually involving drama about a teen girl raised in isolation to be a very effective offensive weapon. Saoirse Ronan stars in the title role, and the photography, especially in the remote winter lands, is stunning. That's her, behind the tree, in the photo at left.
Fox, 9:30 p.m. ET
SEASON PREMIERE: For this return season (and its return is itself a surprise, since the show had been canceled), the producers have retooled the show significantly – and not necessarily for the better. The biggest change, one that may or may not pay off in terms of cast chemistry, is the addition of Megan Mullally as the firm’s super-quirky new boss. Almost instantly, it becomes her show – which may not work well, or sit well, with series star Christian Slater.
NBC, 10:00 p.m. ET
It’s Super Tuesday, and a lot is at stake for the Republican presidential contenders in the primaries being held today. Yet only NBC, of all the broadcast networks, is devoting an hour of prime time to reporting and assessing the results. It’s a very smart way to distance yourself from the rest of the broadcast news pack: be there when the others aren’t. Brian Williams anchors the live coverage.
FX, 10:00 p.m. ET
Boy, it’s hot in here. The temperature on Justified has risen to the boiling point, with Quarles (Neal McDonough) responding to the scrutiny of Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) by targeting, indirectly but very effectively, both Raylan and Boyd (Walton Goggins). And all three of them are furious, and not about to stop.