The Idol kids made home visits this week, but tonight we're more interested in how the Biggest Loser contestants fared during their time off the ranch. Did they keep up their training? Or were the jealous stares of the unenlightened townspeople too much for the formerly fat to handle without something butter-based to take the edge off? The scale won't lie.
The Biggest Loser: Couples [8 PM, NBC]
It's a three-hour season finale, so we can only assume that most of that time is disappointed reaction shots with heavy scoring. ("Mike, your final weight is..." DUH-DUM! BUH-BUM! Bob tilts head back in a surprised or devastated way. DUH-DUM! BUH-BUM! Mike's dad sheds a single tear. TIMPANIS GALORE!) Contestants will find out which of the two players that fell below the yellow line last week (Ron or Mike) will have a chance at the $250,000 prize. Tara has won everything so far, so we're going to predict that she goes wire-to-wire.
Frontline: The Madoff Affair [9 PM, PBS]
Correspondent Martin Smith attempts to get to the bottom of how Bernie Madoff pulled off the first truly global Ponzi scheme in this Frontline report premiering tonight. Former Madoff investors, colleagues and financial reporters will express their shock and awe at his impressive con, lavish spending and how he has totally ruined everything for the young generation of international investment fraudsters. Find a new dream, kids.
Hustle & Flow [7:30 PM, MTV]
There's not many memorable parts of this film, but something about Anthony Anderson's performance as a friend/audio tech stick with us, especially his line: "Just because you got the bacon, lettuce, and tomato don't mean I'm gonna give you my toast." Isn't that life? Terrence Howard and Taryn Manning do the heavy lifting here as a rapper with a dream of gold records and a hooker with a heart of gold. At least this ensures that MTV will have some sort of music in their programming tonight.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & The Colbert Report [11 & 11:30 PM, Comedy Central]
Two of our best talk show guests hit two of the best talk shows to discuss swine flu, banking reforms, and, oh, their mega-summer, super-blockbuster, Vatican-destroying film. Sometimes actors - or former actors turned directors - tend to put up conversational roadblocks instead of "Yes, and..."-ing Colbert's shtick, but Opie should be game for disabusing the host of various notions.