The CW adds to its occult-heavy programming with “The Secret Circle” (8 p.m.). For all its emphasis on hidden destinies and incendiary surprises, “Circle” feels decidedly generic.

”Secret” begins as pretty teen Cassie Blake (Britt Robertson) finds herself with a flat tire by the side of a highway and decides to call her mom. Is Cassie in trouble? Peril arrives in the shape of a creepy stranger and visits not Cassie, but her single mother, filling her home with mysterious flames and consigning her to a fiery death that Cassie later believes to be accidental.

Fast-forward one month and the orphaned teen is exiled to her mother’s old hometown, a picturesque place called Chance Harbor, Wash., that looks like the setting of “Haven.”

Cassie’s grandmother Jane (Ashley Crow) seems nice enough, but she reminds Cassie why her mother never talked much about the old town. And gosh, being the new girl in high school is rough, particularly when everybody is as gorgeous as Cassie.

But just when “Secret” begins to resemble yet another CW drama as Tommy Hilfiger fashion shoot, we discover that Cassie has been drawn back by fate to a town filled with witches. And that she may be the missing piece that could turn the coven (or whatever) into something more powerful.

The best, or least forgettable, character is Faye (Phoebe Tonkin), the dark-haired mean girl of the school, a witch with little patience for her classmates’ kindly and deferential attitudes toward the newcomer. I can sympathize with her desire to speed things along. With any luck she might emerge as the new vixen of the CW, a Shannen Doherty for the 21st century. But this “Circle” is hardly “Charmed.”

• NBC repeats the pilot episode of “Up All Night” (7:30 p.m.), starring Will Arnett, Christina Applegate and Maya Rudolph. It also gives “Free Agents” (8:30 p.m.) a second shot at a first impression.

• The shock-value comedy “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (3 p.m., FX) returns for a new season. The gang attempts an image makeover for Frank’s intended bride, a “pretty woman” who is anything but.

• Versus welcomes NFL Films, a tradition in sports for half a century, with “NFL Turning Point” (9 p.m.), a glance at crucial moments in key games on the way to the championship. This marks the first NFL-related programming on Versus.

Tonight’s other highlights

• Arnold Vosloo guest-stars on a two-hour “Bones” (7 p.m., Fox).

• “Wipeout” (7 p.m., ABC) calls it a season.

• Elena turns 18 on the season premiere of “The Vampire Diaries” (7 p.m., CW).

• Denzel Washington stars in the 2010 runaway train drama “Unstoppable” (6:45 p.m., HBO).

• Jim runs the search committee on “The Office” (8 p.m., NBC).

• “Secret Weapon of the Confederacy” (8 p.m., National Geographic) recalls the efforts to develop a working submarine.

• Jane confronts Red John on two helpings of “The Mentalist” (8 p.m. and 9 p.m., CBS).

• Meredith’s mendacity is exposed on “Grey’s Anatomy” (9 p.m., ABC).