Have they already run out of good TV shows to talk about on “The Writers’ Room” (Sundance, 9 p.m.)? After a first season that began with “Breaking Bad” and went on to include “Parks and Recreation,” “New Girl” and “Game of Thrones,” Jim Rash, the Oscar winning screenwriter of “The Descendants” who is also known as Dean Pelton on “Community,” begins the second season with “Scandal.”
Those behind that awful, overblown, self-satisfied soap (a notion emphasized after seeing its appalling season finale Thursday) get to talk about its low ambitions as if they were producing art. Things look up in subsequent weeks as the writers of “The Walking Dead,” “House of Cards” and “The Good Wife.”
Cesar Millan does what he can to counter the campaign against one put-upon dog breed, which is being out-and-out banned in some communities in the special “Cesar Millan: Love My Pit Bull” (Nat Geo Wild, 9 p.m.). He’s got a dog in this fight, so to speak, his own pit bull Junior.
Flying is in the cards for the presentation on “Great Performances” (PBS, 9 p.m.) of “Peter Pan” from the Milwaukee Ballet, choreographed by Michal Pink with a score by Philip Feeney and starring Marc Petrocci and Valerie Harmon.
A new episode of “Unforgettable” (CBS, 8 p.m.) kicks off another all crime evening on the network, with “Hawaii Five-0” (CBS, 9 p.m.) and “Blue Bloods” (CBS, 10 p.m.).
Two hours of “Kitchen Nightmares” (Fox, 8 p.m.) means two reclamation projects by Gordon Ramsay, in Arvada, Colo., and Queens, N.Y.
There are also double episodes of “Last Man Standing” (ABC, 8 and 8:30p.m.) and “Whose Line Is It Anyway” (The CW, 8 p.m.). (The first of both are the new episodes, followed by reruns).
The boom in true crime stories on TV doesn’t mean crime is going up; they may be just reporting on the same crimes. Case in point: the Florida woman who broke up with her boyfriend, a deputy sheriff, whose death by gun is treated as a suicide. It’s on again tonight on “Dateline” (NBC, 9 p.m.) after lengthy reports on “Frontline” and in The New York Times.
Greta Van Susteren dedicates a whole show to a Florida woman who went missing eight years ago on “Greta Investigates: The Mysterious Disappearance of Jennifer Kesse” (Fox News, 7 p.m.).
Tonight’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” (HBO, 10 p.m.) is a rerun of last week’s show with Pussy Riot, Rob Lowe , Ana Marie Cox and Matt Taibbi. Before it, there’s a catch-up of the season’s first two episodes of “Game of Thrones” (HBO, 8 and 9 p.m.).
The two day celebration of MGM’s 90th anniversary on Turner Classic Movies continues all day with “The Philadelphia Story” (7 a.m.), “The Band Wagon” (9 a.m.), “North by Northwest” (11 a.m.), “How the West Was Won” (1:30 p.m.), “Doctor Zhivago” (4:15 p.m.), “Meet Me in St. Louis” (8 p.m.), “The Postman Always Rings Twice” (10 p.m.), “Singin’ in the Rain” (midnight) and “Ben-Hur” (2 a.m.).
Hockey playoffs include Montreal at Tampa Bay (CNBC, 7 p.m.), Detroit at Boston (NBC Sports, 7:30 p.m.) and Dallas at Anaheim (NBC Sports, 10 p.m.).
Baseball includes Yankees at Tampa Bay (MLB, 7:10 p.m.).
Daytime Talk
Kelly & Michael: Colin Firth, Margo Martindale. The View: Marisa Tomei, Anika Noni Rose, Mekhi Phifer, Tichina Arnold, Marc Summers, Lindsay Lohan. The Talk: Olivia Newton-John, Ted Stryker, Curtis Stone, Marie Osmond (rerun). Ellen DeGeneres: Kristen Bell, Tony Hale, Needtobreathe. Wendy Williams: Tichina Arnold, Rajni Jaques (rerun).
Late Talk
Bruce Springsteen: Bryan Cranston, Melissa Rauch, Leif (rerun). Jimmy Fallon: Justin Timberlake (rerun). Jimmy Kimmel: Tracy Morgan, Kate Mara, Birds of Tokyo (rerun). Seth Meyers: Kenan Thompson, Johnny Weir, Tara Lipinski, Sarah Lewis (rerun). Craig Ferguson: William Shatner, Jaime Pressly. Carson Daly: Wally Pfister, Jake Bugg. Tavis Smiley: Ken Caldeira. Arsenio Hall: George Lopez, Albert Tsai, Camille Solari (rerun). Chelsea Handler: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jo Koy, Claire Titelman, Ryan Stout (rerun).