AMERICAN IDOL
Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
This week begins the competition by the Top 10 finalists – so if you’ve wearied of Idol and stayed away thus far, this is the night to check back in and see whether this new season, and its new judges, is worth going along for the ride. So far as the talent goes, we’ll see. As for the judges – the one flat note comes from Mariah Carey, who seems to have studied sentence structure and brevity from Sarah Palin.