Tens of millions of Americans spice up their Sundays by running a fantasy football team. This market of sports fanatics does not go ignored by advertisers and you can already guess that the commercial breaks for FX's new man sitcom The League will be filled with beer, pizza and possibly male-enhancement treatments. Tonight is the series premiere, so get your line-ups ready and hope that the series' comedy skills are more on the level of Drew Brees than Jake Delhomme.
The League [10:30 PM, FX]
Tonight the executive producer behind Seinfeld and the blasphemous Curb Your Enthusiasm debuts his new series, The League. Already being compared in raunchiness to its lead-in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the show centers on a group of suburban, fantasy football fanatics. In the premiere, reigning champion Pete (Mark Duplass) re-organizes the league. Paul Scheer, Jon Lajoie, Nick Kroll and Stephen Rannazzisi co-star. It will be interesting to see if League can top Comedy Central's crude-yet-highly rated time-slot competitor, The Jeff Dunham Show
The Real Housewives of Atlanta [10 PM, Bravo]
Tempers always flare during Atlanta's reunions and tonight's first installment of its two-part special will be no different. NeNe has a lot that she wants to get off her chest about last week's closer, in which she believes she was edited to appear "evil." Also, the Target parking lot choking will be addressed.
Broke & Famous: Willie Aames [10 PM, VH1]
Believe it or not, VH1's docu-drama does not just focus on the slow and steady downward spiral of Eight is Enough and Charles in Charge star Willie Aames. The actor, who struggled with alcohol and drugs, weight (documented in Celebrity Fit Cub 2 and Celebrity Fit Club 6: Boot Camp) and more recently, bankruptcy and a Thanksgiving Day suicide attempt last year is profiled as he regains financial stability with the help of financial/life coach Sarano Kelley.
Hustle & Flow [8:30 PM, BET]
This film about ambition and struggle is maybe too real to compete with the underdog myth making of Rudy or 8 Mile, but it did put Terrence Howard and Taraji Henson on the map and won Three 6 Mafia an Academy Award. It would be nice to think that another rap group will win an Oscar in the future, but it seems like a song has to come from a hardscrabble hip-hop film to have any shot against the field. In a couple of years it will be time for another rapper-rises-from-the-streets film and hopefully they will get Jay-Z in on it.