Today on TV

• NCIS (7 p.m., Ch. 2): Gibbs interviews a serial killer on death row.

• Nova (7 p.m., Ch. 7): The sinking of the biggest battleship ever, Japan's Yamato.

• Gilmore Girls (7 p.m., Ch. 30): Sookie plots to reconcile Lorelei and Rory by having them serve as godmothers to her children.

• Rodney (7:30 p.m., Ch. 4): Rodney finds religion — sort of. (Second-season premiere)

• Amazing Race (8 p.m., Ch. 2): The race continues. And that awful Paolo family is still fighting.

• Commander in Chief (8 p.m., Ch. 4): The Speaker of the House interferes as Mackenzie tries to choose a new vice president.

• My Name is Earl (8 p.m., Ch. 5): Earl helps his brother score the touchdown Earl kept him from scoring while they were in high school. (Postponed from last week)

• Supernatural (8 p.m., Ch. 30): A spirit is causing plane crashes.

• Close to Home (9 p.m., Ch. 2): Promising new series about a young mother who's also a prosecutor. Tonight, she is assigned to the case of a woman who confesses to setting on fire the house she was locked inside with her children — but all is not what it seems.

• Boston Legal (9 p.m., Ch. 4): The "black widow" (Heather Locklear) goes on trial.

• Law & Order: SVU (9 p.m., Ch. 5): A 911 call from a young girl leads detectives on a wild goose chase all over New York City.

• Frontline (9 p.m., Ch. 7): A decade later, a look at O.J. Simpson's murder trial.