1) “Loteria Loca” debut, 9 p.m., CBS. As Jaime Camil tells it, every home in Mexico has a loteria set. It’s sort of like bingo, but with bright pictures. The game has been in Mexico for 250 years and now reaches TV, with Camil (the “Jane the Virgin” co-star) hosting and producing. This version (shown here) starts with the cards, then moves on to interactive challenges.
2) “The Price is Right at Night,” 8 p.m., CBS. To nudge game fans toward “Loteria Loca,” CBS plans some specials centering on its daytime show. This week has Jeff Probst and an audience full of “Survivor” fans. Next week is Phil Keoghan and “The Amazing Race.”
3) “Kitchen Nightmares,” 8 p.m., Fox. Just six months after spending a million dollars to start a restaurant, a New Jersey couple was drowning in trouble. The cook boasted of being a “culinary gangster.” Guests arrive with no menu and left with take-outs of the mega-servings. When Gordon Ramsay came, he was told to find the menu online “I’m here for lunch, not an IT meeting,” he replied. It’s an interesting hour, albeit not a cheerful one.
4) “The Irrational,” 10 p.m., NBC. After a terrific opener last week, this story slides downhill tonight. The plot – a reporter is slowly dying of a Soviet-style poisoning – is OK, but the luring of an accidental confession is a bizarre stretch. Fortunately, next week’s episode is better.
5) ALSO: Now that their writers are back, the latenight talk shows plan to open their seasons. At 11:35 p.m. are NBC’s Jimmy Fallon, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and CBS’s Stephen Colbert; at 12:37 a.m., it’s NBC’s Seth Meyers. Kimmel may be delayed, because ABC has the Seahawks-Giants football game at 8:15 p.m. ET. And there’s a fairly clever, movie-length “Mrs. Sidhu Investigates on www.acorn.tv; the crimesolving caterer visits a high-tech world.