Critic's corner

10:30 p.m., IFC
This chat series does not return for a new, fifth season tonight, after going missing since 2005. But host Jon Favreau is bringing together a few of his friends - Vince Vaughn, Justin Long, Keir O'Donnell, and Peter Billingsley (yes, the kid from "A Christmas Story") - for a one-off gathering. All the guests starred in the documentary "Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland," about standup comics on tour. And, of course, Vaughn and Favreau broke through together in "Swingers" in 1996.

8 p.m., CMT
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia, pardner!

9 p.m., Style
SAG drag.

9 p.m., Channel 7
Tyra, tyro in love.

7 p.m., HBO Signature
I know that Helen Mirren had to win the best actress Oscar last year. It was written in the cards, or something. But Judi Dench was outrageously and unforgettably fierce as the predatory teacher in this movie. If you haven't seen her performance, then you haven't seen an actress a the very top of her game, riskily playing infatuation within an inch of madness. And Cate Blanchett as a far less devious predator, is no slacker, either.

9 p.m., USA
He takes up finger-painting, without the finger part.

9 p.m., Channel 4
Mick gets stranded in the desert. Nope, not the brightest bat in the cave.

Comcast
Michael Bay's live-action incarnation of the cartoon series and Hasbro toy is itself a 2 1/2-hour, partly impressive, partly inane buck-banging toy. The story is devoted to protecting whatever part of Earth isn't destroyed in battles between warring metallic beings from outer space. Bay concocts some characteristically impressive sequences, and the effects are astoundingly lifelike. But it's a comic sequence in a house that proves Bay can do more than crush bones. It lasts about 20 minutes. ( PG-13; runs through April 30) - Wesley Morris