Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: In a story that sounds convoluted even for this show, a hip-hop artist (Outkast’s Big Boi) helps the detectives investigate a murder linked to an animal-smuggling ring as part of an undercover operation that has Benson (Mariska Hargitay) posing a...

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Young singer-actor Jesse McCartney goes for a change of pace in this episode, in which he plays a high school "saint" who leads the detectives to strange doings involving a chastity circle and a group of pregnant girls. 9 p.m., KXAS/Channel 5

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Stabler (Chris Meloni) is stunned to find that his daughter (Allison Siko) is a suspect, and he turns to his estranged mother (Ellen Burstyn) for help. 9 p.m., KXAS/Channel 5 Eli Stone: Sigourney Weaver guest-stars as a therapist in the second-season...

In the race for best drama actress, Brothers & Sisters matriarch Sally Field, last year’s winner, was nominated again. Joining her are Kyra Sedgwick for her tough cop on The Closer; Glenn Close for her duplicitous lawyer on Damages; Mariska Hargitay for her hard-but-sensitive dete...

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Benson (Mariska Hargitay) begins a relationship with (uh-oh!) a journalist (Bill Pullman, whose casting is the subject of much debate among readers of the production blog on the SVU page at www.nbc.com). 9 p.m., KXAS/Channel 5

Mariska Hargitay: The E! True Hollywood Story: Hargitay has earned an Emmy and a devoted fan base for her heartfelt portrayal of Detective Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. But her Hollywood story is about her parents -- ill-fated bombshell actress Jayne Mansfield...

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: NBC gives SVU fans a New Year's present with a first-run episode, although a story about a homeless community linked to the slaying of a teen socialite seems like a pretty grim gift. 9 p.m., KXAS/Channel 5

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: NBC airs two episodes featuring Emmy-bait guest appearances from earlier this season. In the first, Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon chews the scenery as a woman with multiple personalities who may have killed her daughter. Then Sabrina the Teenage...

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: This hasn't been a good week for nannies on TV's procedurals, with one turning up dead on Monday's CSI: Miami and another suffering a similar fate on SVU tonight. But when that slaying is solved, this episode -- titled "Paternity" -- is just getting st...

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...