‘Liars’ entertaining, puppets and all

The late-night comedy field gets ever more crowded. Character actor and comedian Larry Miller (“Best in Show”) hosts the odd and amusing hybrid series “Late Night Liars” (10 p.m., GSN).

“Liars” combines comedy and game show antics, and stars puppets to boot. Every night, two contestants will play a variation on “To Tell the Truth,” featuring Miller, his sidekick, a puppet rodent named Weasel and a panel of “celebrity” puppets.

You don’t have to be old enough to remember the heyday of “Hollywood Squares” to appreciate this, but it probably helps. The quartet includes “Shelley Oceans,” a Joan Rivers-like insult comic stitched a tad too tightly around the cheeks. “William A. Mummy” is a gay mummy who is a vocal dead ringer for Paul Lynde, who appears to be out of the sarcophagus, if not out of the closet. Clearly modeled on Paris Hilton, “Cashmere Ramada” sounds like Drew Barrymore. A thickly padded compendium of British music-industry cliches, “Sir Sebastian Simian” rounds out the plush quartet.

“Liars” does a nice job recalling “Squares” and other prime-time game-show antics, comedy roundtables that always offered ribald and risque observations intended to sail over the heads of the innocent while delighting the knowing.

This odd little throwback has potential. It’s hardly appointment television, but should you land on this while grazing the cable dial, stick around.

• Larry Miller also appears on the comic showcase “The Green Room with Paul Provenza” (9:30 p.m., Showtime), a talk show featuring well-known comedians swapping stories of success and hardship, and the mechanics of pleasing audiences and telling jokes.

Over the course of the series, Provenza’s guests will include Roseanne Barr, Sandra Bernhard, Drew Carey, Andy Dick, Eddie Izzard, Penn Jillett and Bob Saget.

“Green Room” purports to be an uncensored conversation between insiders, a cool party for a select few. But rather than go for intimacy, it’s taped before a live audience. As a result, the comics are more “on” than entirely candid.

I prefer the puppets. At least you know they’re fake.

• A “Real Housewives of New York City” (8 p.m., Bravo) sets up the new series “Bethenny Getting Married?” (9 p.m., Bravo), which follows Bethenny Getting as she prepares for the birth of her baby and prepares for her wedding day with fiance Jason Hoppy.

Tonight’s other highlights

• A school showcase pushes boundaries on “Glee” (7 p.m., Fox).

• Fans can anticipate the big game on “Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night” (7 p.m., ABC) and “NBA Countdown” (7:30 p.m.).

• The competition continues on “So You Think You Can Dance” (8 p.m., Fox).

• On two episodes of “The Office” (NBC), disability detectives (8 p.m.), rumors abound (9 p.m.).

• Michael meets a fellow banished agent on “Burn Notice” (8 p.m., USA).

• Game 4 of the NBA finals (8 p.m., ABC).

• A released killer threatens to blow Nick’s cover on “Moonlight” (8 p.m., CW).

• A new cast member finds it hard to fit in on “30 Rock” (8:30 p.m., NBC).

• Cho’s past resurfaces with a vengeance on “The Mentalist” (9 p.m., CBS).

• Hank attends to an eccentric inventor on “Royal Pains” (9 p.m., USA).