Survivor: Nicaragua (8pm, CBS) - The 21st edition of this CBS reality show begins tonight with a special "old vs. young" competition, featuring former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson and three contestants from North Carolina. Be sure to check back with us after the show for a recap.

MasterChef (8pm, Fox) - The winner of the first season is announced. I have no prediction but I'm pulling for 22-year-old Whitney. The winner gets $250,000, a cookbook deal, and the title "America's Best Home Cook."

America's Got Talent (8pm, NBC) - The winner of Season 5 is revealed in a two-hour special.

Big Brother 12 (9pm, CBS) - The jury votes for the winner of the $500,000 prize in the season finale.

Dark Blue (9pm, TNT) - Two new back-to-back episodes with the 10pm episode marking the second season finale. In the finale, the gang tries to stop a terrorist smuggling dirty bomb components into the country.

Ma's Roadhouse (9pm, TruTV) - A new reality series following a Dallas man who oversees a bar, a tattoo parlor, and a motorcycle shop with plenty of input from his opinionated 71-year-old mother, who also manages his bar. Two new back-to-back episodes tonight.

Outlaw (10pm, NBC) - A new pilot starring Jimmy Smits as a Supreme Court justice who quits the court to return to private practice, traveling the country with his legal team taking on controversial cases.

Top Chef: Washington, DC (10pm, Bravo) - The winner (please don't be Angelo) is announced in tonight's finale from Singapore. The winner (please don't be Angelo) receives $125,000.

Top Chef: Just Desserts (10pm, Bravo) - This delicious "Top Chef" spinoff debuts after the D.C. finale. Check out our review.

America's Next Top Model (8pm, CW) - The 15th installment begins with 32 hopeful models in Palm Springs.

Hellcats (9pm, CW) - A new series about a pre-law student who wins a spot on her Memphis university's fiercely competitive cheering squad.

Dark Blue (9pm, TNT) - New back-to-back episdoes tonight. In the first, Carter and his squad try to wipe out a home invasion gang. At 10pm, possible crooked behavior by a renowned member of the black community rises to the surface when a young black man is shot.

Top Chef: Washington, DC (10pm, Bravo) - I'm a little heartbroken over last week's elimination, but there's a finale to watch so I have to let it go. Tonight is part one of a two-part finale, and the four remaning chefs -- Angelo, Ed, Kelly, and Kevin -- square off in Singapore. If Angelo (right) keeps making love to his dishes, he will most likely win the whole thing.

Psych (10pm, USA) - In the summer finale, a government spy seeks the help of Gus and Shawn to help prove her innocence after she's implicated in a crime. Franke Potente, Jon Gries, and Nestor Carbonell guest star.

Terriers (10pm, FX) - A new series about two low-rent private investigators starring Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James. In tonight's episode they search for an ol friend's daughter. We have more on the show here.

Dark Blue (9pm, TNT) - In the second season opener, Carter (Dylan McDermott) and his undercover team join forces with an FBI agent to take down a regional crime boss, but things take an ugly turn when one of Carter's close friends becomes a victim. The premiere is a two-parter and the second part airs at 10pm. Adrienne and I are also putting together an undercover team to figure out who stole our "Dark Blue" screener out of the office. This could likewise take an ugly turn.

America's Got Talent (9pm, NBC) - It's elimination night and rocker Bret Michaels and British singer-songwriter Taio Cruz both perform.

The Fabulous Beekman Boys (9pm, Planet Green) - While Farmer John contends with all the new baby goats, Brent uses Josh's culinary skills to help market their cheese on the menu of Jean-Georges Vongerichten's restaurant, ABC Kitchen.

Top Chef: Washington DC (9pm, Bravo) - Not sure anything can live up to last week's diabolical Pea Puree-gate, but who knows. Tonight the chefs -- even the thieving one from Brooklyn -- prepare Ethiopian food.

Psych (10pm, USA) - A rich widow's young boyfriend is murdered and Shawn and Gus believe someone trained the man to be a con artist. Jean Smart guest stars.

When I was checking out TNT's "Hawthorne" I forced myself to watch two episodes, hoping it would get better.

It didn't, but some shows do. Sometimes a first episode, the 'pilot' in TV talk, is not as good as the series will be.

I didn't get a chance to watch a second episode of "Dark Blue", which premieres tonight at 10 on TNT.

But I saw glimmers of what it could be toward the end of the pilot, and it made me want see what develops.