A decade after they crash landed from another planet for survival purposes, the aliens still aren’t treated too well on Earth, forced to live in detention. Now some of the teenagers are allowed to go to high schools with the Earthlings and, well, it’s not easy. Though they look just like the Earthlings except for some unfortunate splotchy tattoos there’s plenty of prejudice and bigotry, protests outside of the school and fights inside. Though there’s one girl who has her eye on an alien and vice versa.
They’re selling “Star Crossed” (The CW, 8 p.m.) as a kind of “Romeo and Juliet” though it triggers ore comparison to civil rights integration (except that most people on both sides are white). It plays out sort of like “The O.C.” with the outsider fighting his way through the crowd. There’s few standouts in the cast so far though, and its cheese factor seems cheaply done, even by CW standards. (Plus there is another CW series coming this spring with essentially the same plot).
The two hour documentary “Breath of Freedom” (Smithsonian, 8 p.m.) shows how serving abroad in World War II was an eye opener and motivator for African Americans. Cuba Gooding Jr. narrates..
They say it’s the finals for ice dancing tonight on The Winter Olympics (NBC, 8 p.m.), but I’ll be believe it when I see it. It’s been on every night for more than a week, it seems. Finals in men’s snowboarding, men’s freestyle skiing and men’s ski jumping are also on the roster.
“Los Marthas,” a film by Cristina Ibarra on “Independent Lens” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) looks at the bicultural debutante event hosted by the Society of Martha Washington in Laredo, Tex., that involves young women from its sister city Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
The exotic foreign travel is over for now on “The Bachelor” (ABC, 8 p.m.), with the six remaining candidates joining Juan Pablo in his hometown of Miami. It’s not exactly a hometown visit, though. Only one gets to meet his daughter.
You’ve met them individually, now the “First Ladies: Influence & Image” (CSPAN, 9 p.m.) series concludes with an Presidents’ Day overview. It follows a lecture by historian Richard Norton Smith at the University of Kansas titled “The First Ladies: Intimate Sacrifice, Honored Past” (CSPAN, 8 p.m.). Other presidents? How about “Lincoln” (Showtime 2, 8 p.m.) starring Daniel Day Lewis.
The fourth Hall of Game Awards (Cartoon Network, 7 p.m.) hands out trophies to sports stars as voted on by kids. NFL quarterbacks Colin Kaepernick and Cam Newton host; Jason Derulo and Fall Out Boy perform.
A fifth season of “Worst Cooks in America” (Food, 9 p.m.) begins and still they haven’t called me. Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay form their teams who attempt a pizza.
“Basketball Wives: L.A.” (VH1, 8 p.m.) is back for a third season.
A new Oscar category in 1962 was the best adaptation of a music score and its nominees were “Gigot” (TCM, 8 p.m.), the winning “The Music Man” (TCM, 10 p.m.), “Gypsy” (TCM, 12:45 a.m.), “Billy Rose’s Jumbo” (TCM, 3:15 a.m.) and “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm” (TCM, 5:30 p.m.).
Men’s college hoops tonight includes Delaware at Towson (NBC Sports Network, 7 p.m.), North Carolina at Florida State (ESPN, 7 p.m.), Oklahoma State at Baylor (ESPN, 9 p.m.) and Mississippi Valley State at Southern University (ESPNU, 9 p.m.). Women’s games include Maryland at Duke (ESPN2, 7 p.m.).
It would have seemed a bigger deal had the host not changed a couple of times in recent years: first Conan O’Brien and then the return of Jay Leno. But the debut of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC, 11:35 p.m.) is cause for some cheer. It issues
Daytime Talk
Kelly & Michael: Kiefer Sutherland, Amber Heard, Brad Keselowski. The View: Kevin Bacon, Alex Minsky, Troy Dunn, Ross Mathews. The Talk: Boy George, Heather Tom, David Tom, Anne Burrell. Ellen DeGeneres: Bradley Cooper. Wendy Williams: Audrey Cleo.
Late Talk
David Letterman: Kevin Spacey, Amber Heard, Gary Clark Jr. Jimmy Fallon: Will Smith, U2. Jimmy Kimmel: Will Arnett, Chrissy Teigen, Nina Adgal, Lily Aldridge, Silversun Pickups. Craig Ferguson: Gary Oldman, Ellie Kemper, Roddy Hart & the Lonesome Fire. Tavis Smiley: P.J. O’Rourke, Amel Larrieux. Jon Stewart: Joel Kinnaman (rerun). Stephen Colbert: Godfrey Reggio (rerun). Arsenio Hall: Tom Arnold, Antoinette Tuff, Ron G. Conan O’Brien: James Franco, Neal McDonough, Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers (rerun). Chelsea Handler: Jackie Collins, Jeff Wild, Arden Myrin, Josh Wolf, Ross Mathews.