Today on TV

NBA (7 p.m., Ch. 14): Mavericks at Jazz

Smallville (7 p.m., Ch. 30): Clark and Lana head to China in search of a kryptonian crystal.

King of Queens (8 p.m., Ch. 2): Burt Reynolds — who played a high school football coach on the 1990-94 sitcom "Evening Shade" — guest stars as Doug's old high-school football coach.

Alias (8 p.m., Ch. 4): Gina Torres reprises her first-season role as the evil Anna.

The West Wing (8 p.m., Ch. 5): With "Bingo" Bob Russell — the current dunderheaded vice president — emerging as the Democratic front-runner, the Santos campaign is further rocked by the emergence of another candidate, Sen. Rafferty (Mel Harris of "thirtysomething"), as a contender.

Dirty War (8 p.m., Ch. 7): This made-for-HBO movie aired just last month — it's the first of three that the pay-cable network is letting PBS air for free. It's a well done, albeit somewhat tough-to-watch telefilm about a terrorist plot to detonate a nuclear "dirty bomb" in London — a telefilm made more chilling by the fact that it's based on the sort of scenario real-life anti-terrorism experts fear could actually happen.

American Idol (8 p.m., Ch. 13): Four of the 24 remaining hopefuls — two men and two women — will be eliminated when the results of this week's voting are announced.

Kevin Hill (8 p.m., Ch. 24): Kevin moves toward gaining full custody of his niece.

Jack & Bobby (8 p.m., Ch. 30): Peter is forced to take action after learning about the relationship between Grace and Tom.

CSI: NY (9 p.m., Ch. 2): When half a body is found, the detectives look for both the killer and the other half of the body.

Wife Swap (9 p.m., Ch. 4): Two mothers of integrated families swap places.

Law & Order (9 p.m., Ch. 5): McCoy doggedly targets an unlikely hero who pursued the mass murderer of a hunting party.