The importance of fashion, seating charts

“Kell On Earth” (9 p.m., Bravo) “stars” Kelly Cutrone, one tough woman. We’re told she’s one of the hottest fashion publicists. She runs an extremely high-strung office of emotional interns and barely trained neophytes for whom every task is a chance to hyperventilate.

Cutrone’s office organizes fashion shows during which potential buyers and fashion journalists must be placed in just the right seat or else the earth may slip off its axis. From what I can gather, the really, really important responsibility of Cutrone’s office is to create a seating chart. Apparently, this entails months of agony and at least an hour of our time. It’s a seating chart.

Give Cutrone points for working in the fashion world without trying to look fashionable. She sports no makeup or fancy clothes. And she speaks to her bubble-headed staffer in a no-nonsense demeanor. By no-nonsense, I mean she swears like Tony Montana in “Scarface.” On the plus side, she makes time for her 7-year-old daughter. She’s trying to have it all.

At first glance, I wondered why anyone would want to come home from a hard day’s work and plant themselves in front of this tedious and frequently annoying workplace series about seating charts. Then it occurred to me that Bravo’s chic demographic may include people who have no office work to come home from — formerly fashionable folks who participated in the great job-disappearing act of 2009. For that audience, “Kell” may provide a kind of nostalgic tonic, a loud, messy glimpse at The Way We Were.

• I don’t dislike “RuPaul’s Drag Race” (8 p.m., Logo) because it’s about men in drag. I just find it boring. If you want to see a show where people say “fabulous” and “fierce” repeatedly, then be my guest. For all of the theatrics on display here, there isn’t enough genuine wit in one hour of “Drag Race” to animate a minute of “Hollywood Squares.”

• Every movie shown on TCM this month features an Oscar winner or nominee. And every film is linked to the next by its star. So “The Way We Were” (5 p.m.) with Viveca Lindfors and Barbra Streisand gives way to “Funny Girl” (7 p.m.) with Streisand and Omar Sharif, and is followed by “Lawrence of Arabia” (10 p.m.), starring Sharif and Peter O’Toole. The daisy chain continues over 31 days and 360 films. For the record, the festival begins and ends with films featuring Kevin Bacon.

Tonight’s other highlights

• Chuck multitasks on “Chuck” (7 p.m., NBC).

• A football star fades on “House” (7 p.m., Fox).

• “Designer People” (7 p.m., Ovation) profiles Dutch interior and product designer Marcel Wanders.

• Peter saves Emma on “Heroes” (8 p.m., NBC).

• Renee worries Jack on “24” (8 p.m., Fox).

• Joe’s golf skills loom large on “Men of a Certain Age” (9 p.m., TNT).