BEST BETS FOR MARCH 14, 2008

THE RETURN OFJEZEBEL JAMES

Fox, 8 p.m. ET

This is more of a notification than a recommendation. This sitcom brings together three women who have their own devoted followings: Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, indie film darling Parker Posey, and Six Feet Under co-star Lauren Ambrose. Posey plays a single woman, an editor of children's books, who learns she's infertile and hires her estranged little sister (Ambrose) to move in and carry her child. The dialogue is arch, even by Gilmore standards, and until Ambrose arrives in the second half, the series is oddly unpleasant. I don't see it catching on - but fans of one or all of these women may want to give it a try regardless.

BILLY LIAR

Flix, 8 p.m. ET

Julie Christie, in this 1963 fantasy movie starring Tom Courtenay as a British daydreamer, doesn't do much more than play a version of her vibrant young self. That's enough, though, to fuel more than one fantasy movie, so enjoy.

GLORY ROAD

TNT, 8 p.m. ET

This 2006 movie, about a small Texas Western team that became the first NCAA basketball squad to make a statement by starting five black players during the finals, is pretty much by the book so far as docudramas go, but it's also very well done. Josh Lucas stars, and the film's coda, in which we hear from some of the actual former players and coaches, is dramatic and memorable in its own right.

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES

ABC, 9 p.m. ET

In the 1980s, when Dynasty was the hottest prime-time soap on television, Richard Chamberlain told me in a one-on-one interview that he'd love to guest star on that show. At the time, Chamberlain was King of the TV Miniseries - Thorn Birds, Shogun - and his appetite for Dynasty was big news. I let producer Aaron Spelling know about it, but somehow the two camps (one of them very camp) never got together. I mention all this because tonight, Desperate Housewives repeats the episode in which Chamberlain guest stars, playing Lynette's estranged father - and thereby finally appearing on a hot prime-time soap, a generation later.

IN TREATMENT

HBO, 9:30 p.m. ET

In tonight's therapy session, Paul learns lots of secrets about his own daughter - secrets his wife Kate knew, but he didn't. And guess what? That doesn't sit very well.