Doogie Howser, Top Chef

As How I Met Your Mother and the recent Tony Awards have proven, Neil Patrick Harris is a breath of fresh air wherever he goes. Now with an Emmy gig in the future, he's keeping the pedal to the metal and appearing on Top Chef Masters tonight on Bravo. Will there be singing and/or dancing? Hopefully yes, though probably not next to the flambé station.

Top Chef Masters [10 PM, Bravo]

Neil Patrick Harris arrives this week to watch chefs Anito Lo, Douglas Rodriguez, John Besh and Mark Peel do their culinary magic. Top Chef always provided an alternative to the extreme chef-sploitation at the Food Network, and after this guest-star, celebrity chef-filled season, it will be nice to get back to the joys of unknown chefs who need the face time and cash.

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien [11:35 PM, NBC]

Guests: Meredith Vieira, Andy Hillstrand, stand-up comic Al Madrigal. The signs of maturity are everywhere at Conan's new show, but the changes in guest booking are possibly the most important. Bob Newhart was the original first guest for tonight's show, but given that this is a massive news week, it behooves the Tonight Show to bring in a newsy guest to talk about Michael Jackson. Vieira is great talk in the first place, but she can turn the gravitas on when it counts.

Fifteen and Pregnant [8 PM, Lifetime Movie Network]

Before there was MTV's 16 and Pregnant, Kirsten Dunst starred in this little MOW about teen pregnancy. It's hard to believe that only 11 years ago, Dunst was still doing TV movies requiring her to yell at annoying boyfriends and grow to a gargantuan size. Cautionary tales about pregnancy might be an excellent distraction in this moment of national mourning.

My Blue Heaven [10 PM, TCM]

As Steve Martin's work goes, this is one of his less notable films, but given the lack of output from Rick Moranis over the last 15 years this is worth a look-see. Moranis does his standard uptight character as an FBI agent assigned to protect Steve Martin's Henry Hill-esque former mobster who has to adjust to a new suburban life. Joan Cusack and Moranis falling in love is a bit of a stretch, but this is a slightly better film than you remember.