This week's TV picks

THE NIGHTLY SHOW WITH LARRY WILMORE. 11:30 tonight, Comedy Central.

The veteran producer and comedian brings his own satirical point of view to the half-hour following "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." (See interview, Page 21.)

JUSTIFIED. 10 p.m. Tuesday, FX.

The final-season premiere of the Elmore Leonard-inspired series finds Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant, above, with co-star Joelle Carter) on a collision course with Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins), the unrepentant character I'll always be grateful wasn't killed off in the show's first episode. More than ever, I'm also grateful for Carter, whose performance as Ava Crowder, a woman caught between a rock and a hard place, only grows deeper.

EMPIRE. 9 p.m. Wednesday, Fox 29.

Cuba Gooding Jr. guest-stars as a songwriter who has history with Lucious (Terrence Howard) and Cookie (Taraji P. Henson).

BACKSTROM. 9 p.m. Thursday, Fox 29.

New series from the creator of "Bones" stars Rainn Wilson ("The Office") as an ultra-cranky police detective with annoyingly sharp powers of deduction. (In the Swedish novels he's based on, he's apparently annoying but not particularly competent.) Not loving it yet, but it could grow on me, particularly with Dennis Haysbert ("24") as a cop moonlighting as a minister.

- Ellen Gray