ABC promises extreme makeover for ‘The Bachelor’

Few things accentuate the “Groundhog Day” aspects of watching and reviewing television like the constant onslaught of “new” seasons of “The Bachelor” (8 p.m., ABC).

The latest lucky fella is named Charlie. ABC vows to really shake things up this time. We’re promised fewer formal rose ceremonies. Whoa, hold on there, Charlie! Talk about petal to the metal!

ABC also vows, and these are their words, “More Real and Spontaneous Reality.” Is there any other kind? The notion of “realer” reality reminds me of the old coffee brand that used to tout itself as “coffee-ier coffee.”

ABC had better handle this with care. Are they implying that previous “Bachelor” installments were less than “real” and un-spontaneous? Are they insinuating, ever so slightly, that we may have wasted our time, whole months of our lives, watching “The Bachelor”?

  • Curtis wants to use Behrooz to catch Marwan on “24” (8 p.m., Fox). Think you’ve had a bad day? In the space of about 12 hours, Behrooz has seen his mother poison his girlfriend; driven his girlfriend’s body to the desert, where he was to be bumped off on his father’s orders; killed the killer; seen his mother shot by his father’s henchman; seen his uncle shot by his father; shot his own father; and now Marwan’s henchmen have killed his mother. I think Behrooz deserves a little personal time.
  • With March Madness in full throttle, the documentary “Perfect Upset” (8 p.m., HBO) recalls the underdog story of Villanova vs. Georgetown in the 1985 NCAA Basketball Tournament.
  • Cameron Diaz and an entourage of buddies travel on the rough to promote National Parks and environmental awareness in the new series “Trippin”‘ (9:30 p.m., MTV).

Tonight’s other highlights

  • “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: How’d They Do That?” (7 p.m., ABC) provides an unpaid political commercial for California’s governor.
  • Tonight’s repeat episode was considered the most popular “Everybody Loves Raymond” (8 p.m., CBS) ever by an Internet poll.
  • Don Knotts appears (as himself) as the source of some seriously vintage threads on “Las Vegas” (8 p.m., NBC).
  • A car-jacking is more than it first appears to be on “CSI: Miami” (9 p.m., CBS).