Critic's corner

9:30 p.m., VH1
This improvised comedy could have been cringingly funny, on the order of "Da Ali G Show." A really bad fictional radio interviewer named Lance talks to real stars in the studio. Tonight, he asks dumb and insulting questions of Emily Deschanel from "Bones" and Blake Lewis from last season's "American Idol." Unfortunately, though, the guests are in on the joke and so they just go along with Lance's idiocy. It's all pretty predictable.

8 p.m., BET
Cedric hosts. That's Mr. The Entertainer to you.

8 p.m., Cinemax
Anapestic tetrameter.

10 p.m., TV Land
When the CW was just a sparkle in TV's eye.

9:30 p.m., HBO
Some of the best episodes in this series take place between therapist Paul (Gabriel Byrne) and therapist Gina, played with passive-aggressive gusto by Dianne Wiest. She used to be his supervisor, and now she's his . . .? They duke it out on a weekly basis, as Paul fights against falling for a patient or Gina pushes him into it - it's never quite clear.

9 p.m., Channel 2
A look at congressional earmarks, those models of objectivity.

9 p.m., USA
Yup, another season finale. "Monk" comes and goes like the wind.

Comcast
Big-screen version of the animated TV series about Neanderthal suburbia plays like a tease for the Bedrock theme park. Rick Moranis (Barney), Rosie O'Donnell (Betty), Elizabeth Perkins (Wilma), and John Goodman (Fred) soldier on, but can't hide the fact that the 32 writers who worked on this script somehow failed to turn one in. Some special effects are cute (Dino, for instance), and Bedrock's split-level caves, lobster lawnmowers, and pigosaurus garbage disposals are fun to look at. (PG, through March 27)