What's On: Winning Hell

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The chef competition reality genre is awful crowded these days, as Top Chef, Chopped, The Next Iron Chef and Hell's Kitchen compete for the lengthy attention span of armchair foodies. But HK has had a major advantage from jump street: It's on Fox. While a chef swearing or throwing something might be an OMG moment on Top Chef, that's par for the course in Gordon Ramsay's fear factory. Tonight is the finale, and while the winners rarely go on to bigger or better things, they never go gentle into that good night.

Hell's Kitchen [8 PM, Fox]

Ariel (Santa Cruz Sous Chef), Dave (Curly-Haired Executive Chef) and Kevin (Bald Executive Chef) are rewarded for surviving Chef Ramsay's temper in tonight's sixth season finale. The chef-testants will be subjected to two dinner challenges and later prepare dishes from around the world for an international panel of experts. The victor's family will sample the recipes, prepared by executive chefs, in the two hour closer.

Sons of Anarchy [10 PM, FX]

You know a series means business when it kicks off its season by staging a white supremacist gang rape. Expect just as much violence and intrigue in tonight's sixth episode when Clay (Ron Perlman) plans retaliation, after an inciting incident by Zobelle (Adam Arkin). Meanwhile, Gemma (Katey Sagal) teaches Tara (Maggie Siff) about anger management.

The Hills [10 PM, MTV]

There comes a point in every new relationship when one partner is inevitably disappointed by the other. MTV producers tackle this tough stage in tonight's episode when Kristin fakes sadness as she realizes her new on-camera lust object will not be attending Brody's "surprise" party. Meanwhile, Audrina seeks revenge by dating Justin's best friend. Heidi continues her baby craziness.

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Aladdin [8 PM, Disney]

Ease into tonight's staged relationship troubles by catching Disney's Oscar-winning (Best Score, Best Original Song) animated feature that launched a genuine feud between its star and the studio. The conflict arose when Robin Williams agreed to voice the Genie for scale if the studio wouldn't use the character's image on more than a quarter of the poster's size. Disney made sure not to enlarge the Genie, but the studio shrewdly shrunk the other characters on the poster until they were significantly smaller. Williams was so enraged that he refused to voice the direct-to-video sequel, The Return of Jafar (though he patched things up in time for the third installment).