After his self-immolation hosting the Oscars, it would hardly seem that he needs a roasting, but with enough of his show biz friends willing to make the gig, here’s “The Comedy Central roast of James Franco” (Comedy Central, 10 p.m.).
Seth Rogen hosts a tuxedoed roster that includes Jonah Hill, Aziz Ansari, Nick Kroll, Andy Samberg, Bill Hader, Natasha Leggero and Jeff Ross, wearing cornrows.
Cartoon Network shows are getting as weird as their Adult Swim shows. Which is a good thing, I guess. Anyway, new titles like “Uncle Grandpa” (Cartoon network, 8 p.m.) featuring a nutty guy who looks like a character from out of Mad Magazine’s Don Martin whose belly bag and piece of pizza talk to him and they all drive around in a rainbow RV. It’s a good match with “Regular Show” (Cartoon Network, 7:30 p.m.) starting a new season.
Later comes a new season of Patton Oswalt’s weird redneck soap opera “The Heart, She Holler” (Cartoon Network, midnight) that begins with a neat trick, with Kristen Schaal’s character replaced by Amy Sedaris, who is used to this kind of thing from starring in “Candy with Strangers.
One of the “Real Housewives of Orange County” gets her own three episode spin-off, “Tamra’s O.C. Wedding” (Bravo, 8 p.m.) — shorter if the wedding doesn’t last.
The first season of the deckhand reality series sort of sank on its own power, but there’s still a “Below Deck: Reunion” (Bravo, 10 p.m.).
FX is cutting its channel into two and sending all of its youth-skewing shows to the new FXX. Now’s the time to start the search for it on your system. New seasons of “Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and “The League” don’t start there until Wednesday; today they start with an all day marathon of “Parks and Recreation” (FXX, 7 a.m.).
Alas, it’s too late this year to get any use out of “Beachfront Bargain Hunt” (HGTV, 8 p.m.).
Seems like here should be some law against being “Stalked by a Ghost” (Bio, 10 p.m.). (And what is this doing on Bio?).
A new makeover show for vehicles is called “Turn & Burn” (Discovery, 10 p.m.).
Let’s think about all the movies that were made more than 100 years ago. They’re the best window into another time and established the foundation that filmmaking followed ever since. Turner Classic Movies turns back the clock more than a century with the earliest experimental films, collected in the “Edison Album” (8 p.m.) followed by a similar collection from Paris in “Lumiere’s First Picture Shows” (9:30 p.m.). A third collection “The Story of Film: An Odyssey: 1895-1918 – The World Discovers a New Art Form” (10 p.m.) before a series of silent classics, “A Trip to the Moon” (11:15 p.m.), “Canned Harmony” (11:30 p.m.), “A House Divided” (11:45 p.m.), “Falling Leaves” (midnight), “The Squaw Man” (12:30 a.m.), “The Birth of a Nation” (2 a.m.) and “Orphans of the Storm” (5:15 a.m.).
Daytime Talk
Kelly & Michael: Lisa Kudrow Selena Gomez, dr. Wendy Bazilian. The View: Joe Scarborough, Mike Brzezinski (rerun). Ellen DeGeneres: Halle Berry, Zendee Rose Tenerefe (rerun). Wendy Williams: Andy Cohen, Daphne Oz (rerun).
Late Talk
David Letterman: Serena Williams, Sean Donnelly, MGMT (rerun). Jay Leno: Jason Sudeikis, Jim Stacy, K.T. Tunstall (rerun). Jimmy Kimmel: Harrison Ford, Keri Russell, Joan Jett (rerun). Jimmy Fallon: Derek Jeter, Emma Roberts, Jake Owen (rerun). Craig Ferguson: Angela Kinsey, David Feherty. Carson Daly: Regis Philbin, Sean Dunne, Curtis Peoples (rerun). Tavis Smiley: Nancy DiTomaso, Charlie Haden. Conan O’Brien: Kevin Hart, Chris Kluwe, Eve (rerun). Chelsea Handler: Bradley Trevor Grieve, Dan Levy, Fortune Feimser, Jo Koy.