TV: Five shows worth watching tonight: April 10
A select viewing guide for Tuesday, April 10
COMEDY Glee Fox, Global, 8 p.m. ET/PT Good things come to Gleeks who wait. Back tonight for its third-season spring premiere (translation: Fox is finally airing new episodes filmed last fall), this musical-comedy series picks up the story of the singing-and-dancing teens of William McKinley High. Tonight's first new episode in months focuses primarily on the openly gay student Blaine (Darren Criss) who is mortified when his successful Hollywood star brother Cooper (Matt Bomer) comes for a visit and ends up teaching a master class to the New Directions glee club. All well and good, but where's Sue Sylvester?
COMEDY Raising Hope Fox, CITY-TV, 9:30 p.m. ET/PT Devoted viewers of this quirky sitcom will know that the central character Jimmy (Lucas Neff) is raising daughter Hope because her serial killer mother Lucy (Bijou Phillips) has long since been executed by the state. But how did the unlikely lovebirds ever get together? Tonight's mockumentary-style episode guest-stars Headline News personality Nancy Grace, who shows up to find out the story of the Jimmy-Lucy coupling. Unfortunately for Jimmy, this means Grace plans to interview every member of his weird family – including Maw-Maw (Cloris Leachman).
DRAMA Unforgettable CBS, CITY-TV, 10 p.m. ET/PT If you've become attached to this rookie crime drama starring Poppy Montgomery as a cop with a freakishly efficient memory, better enjoy it now. CBS has already renewed 18 shows for next season, and this one isn't on the list, which means the likelihood of the show coming back next season is about the same as Charlie Sheen returning to Two and a Half Men. Whatever the case, in tonight's new episode, Montgomery's character of Carrie teams with her fellow cop/semi-beau Al (Dylan Walsh) to get inside the mind of an unhinged conspiracy theorist who has hidden a series of bombs all over New York.
MOVIE Get Carter TCM, midnight ET; 9 p.m. PT At 79, Michael Caine may be in the twilight days of his acting career – his most recent big-screen role was playing the adventurous grandfather in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island – but back in 1971 he was still one tough bloke. Caine is quietly ominous in the role of Brit gangster Jack Carter, who takes it very personally when his brother is murdered in the working-class town of Newcastle. While systematically rubbing out the gangsters responsible, Carter also attempts to rescue his teenaged niece Doreen (Petra Markham) from the clutches of some nasty pornographers.