Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Big Brother 9: At press time, Tuesday's premiere hadn't aired yet, so you know as much about these people as I do. If you care at all, that is. Ordinarily, I don't care, but as long as Dallas' Joshuah Welch is in the Big Brother house, I'll be paying attention. 7 p.m., KTVT/Channel 11

Law & Order: Criminal Intent: This is a rerun of fall's Untethered, which pretty much describes star Vincent D'Onofrio's overacting when his character, Detective Robert Goren, goes undercover at a prison where bad things have been happening in the mental ward. 8 p.m., KXAS/Channel 5

Law & Order: Criminal Intent: As CI returns to NBC, the network is promoting this as "new." But if the scheduled episode airs, it won't be "new" to people who followed CI on USA during the fall -- it was the seventh-season premiere, involving the murder of the partner of Eames' long-dead...

Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Detective Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio), still the leader in TV's eccentric-detective competition, gets a big opportunity to show off his eccentricity as he worms his way into a prison mental ward to find out if a murder was committed. 9 p.m., USA

Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Andrew McCarthy goes from Brat Pack to hat trick, hitting for the Law & Order cycle by guest-starring in this episode after guest-starring in Special Victims Unit in 2000 and Law & Order "the mothership" in 2003 (trivia provided by the Internet...

Ugly Betty: Freddie Rodriguez, who played a guy who made corpses look pretty on Six Feet Under, begins a recurring role as an annoying sandwich guy (I think that's a move up) who catches the attention of Betty (America Ferrera). 7 p.m., WFAA/Channel 8

Law & Order: Criminal Intent: The seventh-season premiere lands not on NBC but on cable sibling USA Network. Vincent D'Onofrio gives his usual showy performance as eccentric Detective Robert Goren, but the focus tonight is on Goren's partner Detective Alexandra Eames (Kathryn Er...