Best known for her extended run on “Arrested Development,” actress Judy Greer stars in “Miss/Guided” (9:30 p.m., ABC) as Becky Freeley, a former social outcast who returns to the scene of her high-school humiliations to work as a guidance counselor.

The production of “Miss/Guided” has a casual feel. Many scenes from Becky’s past – including a brief stint in the high-school production of “The Sound of Music” – are presented as home videos, giving the show a low-tech YouTube vibe.

But just as expensive special effects can’t save a bad medical drama, the low-wattage approach to “Miss/Guided” is not enough to compensate for a story that’s just not that funny.

Becky’s strength, and the show’s central comedic hook, is her sunny self-delusion. When she encounters her old classmate and rival Lisa Germain (Brooke Burns) on the faculty, the two share overlapping and completely contradictory memories of their school days. In Lisa’s version, Becky barely exists.

The fact that Becky doesn’t realize that she’s a wallflower geek may sustain her, but it doesn’t necessarily amuse us. And it doesn’t help that most of her fellow faculty are either losers or misfits.

While viewers of “Ugly Betty” can root for that heroine as a striving, centered voice of reason in world of vain poseurs and corrupt schemers, Becky only invites our pity. At best, Becky should be a notable supporting character in a stronger comedy. Her character is simply too pathetic to carry a sitcom.

ABC has made much of Ashton Kutcher’s (“That ’70s Show”) role as executive producer of this series. In a forthcoming episode, he appears as a substitute teacher. He is shown walking into the faculty lounge in slow motion and sending the female teachers into spirals of excitement and anticipation. I guess you could call this a vanity production.

¢ After years of anticipation, “American Idol” (8 p.m., Fox) finally got around to a Lennon-McCartney night last week. The kids rose to the occasion, putting their own spin on music that could be best summed up in the old Beatles song “Your Mother Should Know.”

David Hernandez earned the first eviction from the final dozen for a rendition of “I Saw Her Standing There” that Simon quite rightly described as “desperate.”

I was completely in agreement with the raves for Chikezie but a bit puzzled by the harsh words for Kristy Lee Cook, who turned the throwaway “Eight Days a Week” into an up-tempo country number. I don’t think she’s among the stronger performers, but she did exactly what was asked of her and did not deserve the judges’ rebuke.

Tonight’s other highlights

¢ The gang celebrates the holiday on “It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown” (8 p.m., ABC).

¢ “How It Was: Secrets of Mona Lisa” (8 p.m., National Geographic) looks at the puzzling painting at the center of “The Da Vinci Code.”

¢ Jake takes charge on “Jericho” (10 p.m., CBS).

¢ A nanny’s killer may have found her on the Internet on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (10 p.m., NBC).

¢ Fearing exposure, Dahlia and the kids take a trip on the second-season premiere of “The Riches” (10 p.m., FX).

Cult choice

Talk of an invisible 6-foot-tall rabbit causes concern in the family of an eccentric (Jimmy Stewart) in the 1950 comedy “Harvey” (8 p.m., TCM).