Tuesday TV: Ross Enters, Women Leave

One of the more elaborate reality experiments is conducted on the self-explanatory show “The Week the Women Went” (Lifetime, 10 p.m.), in which the women folk of Yemassee, S.C., go to a resort for a week, leaving men with the unimaginable (to them) task of raising their own children and making their own dinner.

How will the poor guys ever survive?

Just about the only people to cheer are the teenage daughters who take over their mother’s diners. At the same time, the underappreciated women who leave get to pause to consider for a second how they run things in town, even if they’re paid 77 percent of what men receive.

Give Jeff Ross credit for adding content into Charlie Sheen’s pointless tour and for flirting with the edges of comedy in his many roast appearances, the latest of which he dressed as Joe Paterno.

Ross uses this penchant for topical material with his new series “The Burn with Jeff Ross” (Comedy Central, 10:30 p.m.), in which he considers the news events of the past week (of which he was one).

A reality competition arguably better than the scripted show it’s casting for, “The Glee Project” (Oxygen, 10 p.m.) announces a second season winner. Unless they decide to make everyone a winner, as they did last summer.

In the new “Collection Intervention” (Syfy, 10 p.m.), former head of special collections at Christie’s Elyse Luray, who is also one of the “History Detectives” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings), tries to talk nerds with big pop-culture memorabilia collections into reducing them. First up is a humungous “Star Wars” collection that takes up a whole room. A man also has a Catwoman problem.

Back after a two week absence due to the Olympics, “America’s Got Talent” (NBC, 8 p.m.) is back with new episodes, only to dedicate itself to acts found on YouTube.

As Shark Week progresses, it seems to be more abut the image of sharks than the fish themselves. Hence “How ‘Jaws’ Changed the World” (Discovery, 9 p.m.).

Looks like the new “Hotel Hell” (Fox, 8 p.m.) has as least as strange a running schedule as Gordon Ramsay’s other show. After premiering Monday,  a second episode runs tonight, alongside his “MasterChef” (Fox, 9 p.m.).

A single mother with breast cancer learns whether it’s spread on a new “NY Med” (ABC, 10 p.m.).

“American Gypsies” (National Geographic, 9 p.m.) goes to a car auction.

Neal strikes a deal with an art dealer on “White Collar” (USA, 9 p.m.).

Eddie Cibrian returns to guest star on the summer finale of “Rizzoli & Isles” (TNT, 9 p.m.). It’s also the season finale for “Franklin & Bash” (TNT, 10 p.m.).

Cathy is out for revenge on “Dance Moms” (Lifetime, 9 p.m.), which is not to be confused with “Teen Mom” (MTV, 10 p.m.).

Proof that two hour reality episodes can easily be cut down to one: with a half-size rerun of Monday’s premiere of “Stars Earn Stripes” (NBC, 10 p.m.), a show that Desmond Tutu and eight other Nobel Peace Laureates have urged cancellation for trying to “sanitize war by likening it to an athletic competition.”

Once, everybody in this country could do a James Cagney impersonation. Now you only see him on all day surveys like the one today on Turner Classic Movies. The prime time lineup starts with “City for Conquest” (8 p.m.) and continues with “White Heat” (10 p.m.), “Footlight Parade” (midnight), “One, Two Three” (2 a.m.) and “The Seven Little Foys” (4:15 a.m.).

In baseball, it’s Rangers at Yankees (MLB, 7 p.m.).

Daytime Talk

Kelly Ripa: Jordin Sparks, Dr. Greg Yapalater, Chris Harrison. The View: Michelle Obama (rerun). The Talk: Reba McEntire, Elaine Griffin (rerun). Ellen DeGeneres: Rob Lowe, Adam Lambert (rerun).

Late Talk

David Letterman: The U.S. Women’s Olympic Gymnastics team, Jennifer Garner, Rodriguez. Jay Leno: Kelsey Grammer. Jimmy Kimmel: Joseph Gordon Levitt, Rebel Wilson, Good Old War. Jimmy Fallon: Leslie mann, Dolph Lundgren, Grimes, DJ Ashba. Craig Ferguson: Mark Wahlberg, Sloane Crosley (rerun). Tavis Smiley: Erin Brockovich (rerun). Carson Daly: Paul de Gelder, Brit Marling, Melvins, (rerun). Jon Stewart: Misty May-Treanor. Stephen Colbert: Grizzly Bear. Conan O’Brien: Andy Samberg, Eric Hutchinson (rerun). Chelsea Handler: Matt leBlanc, James Davis, Fortune Feimster, Brad Wollack.