Tonight's Picks

Kelly Clarkson, Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles, John Legend and Robin Thicke journey across America looking for undiscovered talent in this new competition. Ultimately, each superstar will choose two singers to be his or her duet partners. Together the superstars and their proteges will take the stage each week and perform for a live audience. In the end, only one duet will be at the top of the charts, and the winning amateur receives a recording contract.

Stuart (Kevin Sussman), the guy from the comic book store, asks Amy (Mayim Bialik) out on a date, awakening Sheldon's (Jim Parsons) green-eyed monster -- and we're not talking about a comic character. He considers taking their relationship to the next level before Stuart or some other fellow steals Amy away in "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition." Johnny Galecki also stars.

Season 9 begins tonight, then moves to its regular Wednesday slot starting May 30. Host Cat Deeley and resident judges Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy are on hand once again, along with guest judges Adam Shankman, Debbie Allen, Tyce Diorio, Lil' C, Stacey Tookey and Jesse Tyler Ferguson helping rate the contestants.

The 2012 National Geographic Bee is sponsored by the National Geographic Society and features the country's top young geographers competing for a grand prize of a $25,000 scholarship and a trip to the Galapagos Islands. Alex Trebek ("Jeopardy!") hosts.

Would you like a little salt and pepper to go with that scenery you're chewing, Jen? This 2007 mystery has its heart in the right place, but Jennifer Lopez turns it into a movie all about her. She plays a Chicago journalist investigating the unsolved murders of hundreds of young female laborers from factories on the U.S.-Mexican border. Yes, exploitation of workers is bad. Yes, exposing it is good. But this movie isn't.

Now entering their third year on the job, the rookies have learned to overcome the sophomore curse -- and discovered that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. With a little more experience under their belts, they're starting to realize that not only is the uniform shaping their professional identity, but it has also started to mold them as people. Missy Peregrym and Ben Bass star in the season premiere, "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life."

Henry Thomas ("E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial") is all grown up and guest starring in this episode as a bounty hunter who also happens to be Lisbon's (Robin Tunney) younger brother. The siblings cross paths when a police chief's murder brings the CBI team to a resort town. Simon Baker and Amanda Righetti also star in "Where in the World Is Carmine O'Brien."

In the conclusion of the two-part season finale, the whole police force tries to locate Britten (Jason Isaacs), who's still on a mission to crack the conspiracy that tore his family apart. As his worlds start to collide, his therapists (B.D. Wong, Cherry Jones) are united in a debate that forces him to choose a path. Wilmer Valderrama and Steve Harris also star in "Turtles All the Way Down."

Filmed over two years, "Left by the Ship" profiles three young Filipinos who were fathered by U.S. servicemen stationed in their homeland. Not covered by the Amerasian Homecoming Act -- which grants U.S. citizenship to Amerasians from Vietnam, Korea and Thailand -- they face poverty and discrimination and the stigma of illegitimacy.

Danny Masterson ("That '70s Show") returns to series television as the newly single Milo, who works at a men's magazine. James Lesure, Michael Cassidy and Adam Busch play his friends and co-workers -- womanizing photographer Gibbs, stylish feature writer Tyler and geeky reporter Neal -- who step up to help him navigate his post-breakup life and get back into the dating game.