The blending of Internet media with television seems both logical and inevitable. And it will probably be expensive. Just last week, Viacom sued Google for a cool $1 billion.

Tonight, a cable station owned by Viacom launches “Acceptable TV” (9 p.m., VH1), a comedy hybrid combining the best and silliest of interactive media and old-fashioned television. Every half-hour installment will present six short pilots for possible series. Viewers are encouraged to proceed to the Web site www.acceptable.tv to vote for the two pilots that they would like to see continue. Viewers can also submit their own productions. Future episodes will feature the two ongoing series chosen by viewers, new offerings from the “Acceptable” staff of improv comics and one viewer creation.

Produced by and starring Jack Black, “Acceptable” may not be the future of media, but it has its moments. One of the “pilots” available for review presents a scatological take on “Deal or No Deal” that does a good job of sending up the conventions of the game-show genre while wallowing in some of the oldest and and most surefire tricks of the joke-telling trade. I’m looking forward to the homegrown talent.

¢ “Six Degrees” (8 p.m., ABC) returns after a long hiatus, only to remind us that it wasn’t that good in the first place. As the title implies, “Six” revolves around the random connections between good-looking New Yorkers from all walks of life, from cops to fugitives to corporate hotshots and starving artists.

In tonight’s episode, Laura (Hope Davis), the widow of a correspondent killed in Iraq, nervously goes to lunch with a seemingly nice man, her first “date” since the tragedy. Things go well until she spies a photograph of herself hung in a posh gallery. As fans of the show know, the shot was taken by Steven Casemen (Campbell Scott), a once-great photographer recently rediscovered by Whitney (Bridget Moynahan), Laura’s new best friend. The photo – showing her in a moment of private grief – makes Laura feel violated and slightly less than rational. Needless to say, the date ends badly. Or, at least, weirdly.

In many ways, the romantic ricochets and entanglements on this series are as farfetched as those on “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Brothers & Sisters,” “Men in Trees” and every other ABC comedy-melodrama, but unlike those shows, “Six” is more pretentious than fun.

¢ Mini-marathons abound, giving viewers chances to sample series they may have missed. Three episodes of “The Dresden Files” (6 p.m., Sci Fi) unfold, as do three repeats of “Rome” (7 p.m., HBO). Showtime repeats the pilot of “This American Life” (7 p.m., Showtime) twice.

Bravo will air encore episodes of “Friday Night Lights” on Fridays and Saturdays in March and April. The first season of the acclaimed but little-watched NBC series wraps up April 11 on NBC. Bravo airs repeats of “Friday” (6 p.m.) and airs three consecutive helpings every Saturday starting at 2 p.m.

Tonight’s other highlights

¢ The NCAA basketball tournament (6 p.m., CBS) continues.

¢ “Biography” (7 p.m., Biography) profiles Loretta Lynn.

¢ Nancy O’Dell hosts the Miss USA 2007 pageant (8 p.m., NBC).