Critic's corner

Desperate Housewives
Tomorrow at 9 p.m., Channel 5
Marc Cherry, the creator of "Desperate Housewives," has said he got the idea for his show's five-year fast-forward from the executive producers of "Lost." Let's see if the time leap gives the new season of "DH" the spark it gave to "Lost." Gaby's dumpy, Bree's a lifestyle queen, and Edie is rich and married.

Saturday Night Live
11:30 p.m., Channel 7
Will host Anna Faris play Cindy McCain?

Amazing Race 13
Tomorrow at 8 p.m., Channel 4
Will the new batch of twosomes be terrible?

Brothers & Sisters
Tomorrow at 10 p.m., Channel 5
Will looking for Ryan distract us from incest creepiness?

Pulse
Comcast, Encore
Kristen Bell, that clever lass from TV's "Veronica Mars," plays a psych major trying to figure out why all her text-messaging and chat-rooming friends are dying. If this Hollywood remake of a Japanese horror flick is unsurprising as a scary movie, as a campaign against the Internet, digital piracy, cell phones, and anything that computes anything (like laptops or brains), it's a riot. (PG-13; runs through Oct. 2) - Wesley Morris