Critic's corner

Gone Country 8 p.m., CMT
CMT's most-watched series returns with a new gang of seven who are looking to become country music stars. Among the contenders trying to impress John Rich are professional psycho Sean Young, Jermaine Jackson, and Chris Kirkpatrick. My favorite: the very not-country Mikalah Gordon, an "American Idol" alum who looks and sounds like Fran Drescher's younger sister.

9 p.m., E!
Ladies and gentlemen, another E! high point.

9 p.m., Lifetime
My best to you and you. May you never split up.

8 p.m., Discovery Channel
I want to say Dina Lohan. But she's much too easy to sight.

11 p.m., BET
This new weekly half-hour talk show will look at politics, pop culture, and news from what BET is calling "an unapologetically black point of view." Host Jeff Johnson, BET correspondent and "Rap City" regular, will take the show to the Democratic National Convention at the end of the month.

10 p.m., Channel 4
That '70s show.

8 p.m., HBO
RIP Bernie Mac.

Comcast, Encore

While the prospect of a movie starring Marlon Wayans as a 36-inch-tall ex-con pretending to be a toddler isn't inherently exciting, the film's enthusiasm for the lowest imaginable humor and Marlon's seemingly boundless skill at bringing it off are contagious. Everybody appears to be having fun in this latest inane comedy from the Wayans brothers, and with some ineptly made movies (like this one) that's good enough. With the classy Kerry Washington and the not-as-crass-as-usual John Witherspoon. (PG-13; runs through Aug. 21) - Wesley Morris