Weekly Best Bets

Thursday

7 p.m. on ABC

Ugly Betty: Note to Betty: Do not put your sister in charge of your next makeover. Ask your nephew instead. In “Queens for a Day,” Betty (America Ferrera) persuades a well-known but Meade-hating photographer — an old Queens boy — to meet with her and Daniel (Eric Mabius), using her neighborhood connections. But when her attempt to change her look goes horribly wrong, she has Amanda (Becki Newton) go in her place. You can guess the rest.

8 p.m. on CBS

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: A woman makes a surprise confession during the high-profile trial of her brother for the murder of a teenage girl. Now Grissom (William Petersen) and his team must re-evaluate all the evidence to find the truth. It may not be a simple case of “he said, she said,” however, but something bigger and more sinister.

Friday

8 p.m. on NBC

Las Vegas: This episode is called “Father of the Bride Redux,” but a better title might be “Father of the Bride, Duck!” as an armed man’s attack on Ed (James Caan) sends shockwaves through the casino. Derek (Shawn Christian) has his own personal shock to deal with when Delinda (Molly Sims) confesses that she has feelings for Danny (Josh Duhamel).

8 p.m. on DISN

Freaky Friday: Jodie Foster was cute as a bug in the 1976 version, but this 2003 remake more than holds its own in comparison. Jamie Lee Curtis copped a Golden Globe nomination for her hilarious performance as Tess, a 40-ish psychotherapist who switches bodies with her rebellious teenage daughter (Lindsay Lohan), thanks to a most inconvenient magic spell that hits the pair just a few days before Tess is to marry her handsome fiance (Mark Harmon).

Saturday

8 p.m. on CBS

Without a Trace: Why, Lane Kim, what are you doing here? Oh, it’s just Keiko Agena moonlighting from “Gilmore Girls” to play a rape victim. Her rapist was a Marine who disappeared four months after coming home from the Japanese prison where he served his sentence. When the Missing Persons Unit learns he went back to Japan and got her on tape recanting the charge, Jack (Anthony La- Paglia) goes to Tokyo to talk to her.

Sunday

8 p.m. on ABC

Desperate Housewives: New Year’s is a time for resolutions, but this episode is all about revelations. Bree (Marcia Cross) finds out that Andrew (Shawn Pyfrom) worked as a prostitute after she threw him out. Orson (Kyle MacLachlan) learns Mike (James Denton) is out of his coma. So does Susan (Teri Hatcher), but her reaction is a bit different. And Mike gets the skinny on Susan from Edie (Nicollette Sheridan); however, it’s mostly false.

9 p.m. on ABC

Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2007: Dick Clark got mixed reviews last year for appearing on his annual special despite being disabled by a stroke a year earlier. Some praised his courage and dubbed him a role model for stroke patients; others found seeing him in that condition a major buzzkill. He’s back, doing a bit better, for this year’s festivities, which he co-hosts with eventual replacement Ryan Seacrest. Fergie, Natasha Bedingfield,

Meat Loaf and RBD are among those

scheduled to perform.

Monday

9 p.m. on CBS

CSI: Miami: Echoes of the Laci Peterson murder can be heard in this episode. A man is accused of killing his wife, but without a body, there’s not evidence to convict him. After he’s acquitted, the body is found, but the double-jeopardy rule prevents him from being tried again ... unless Caine (David Caruso) and company can find a loophole. Come on, you know they will. But you won’t believe the ending.

Tuesday

9 p.m. on NBC

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: He’s not quite the Susan Lucci of prime time, but with six nominations so far, Brian Dennehy is long overdue for an Emmy. He could clinch one with his moving guest turn in this new episode as a cancer patient on his deathbed who confesses the truth about his partner’s murder decades earlier. Where are those “Cold Case” detectives when you need them? Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni star in “Scheherezade.”

Wednesday

8 p.m. on CBS

Criminal Minds: Is there a dastardly duo at work here? The profilers look for whoever’s committing a string of murders, recording them and sending out the DVDs to torture the victims’ loved ones. They soon come to strongly suspect that they’re dealing not with one killer but with two working together. But the solution to this whodunit is as much of a surprise to them as it will be to you.

8:30 p.m. on ABC

In Case of Emergency: “The Class” meets “Six Degrees” in this new sitcom, a tale of four high-school classmates who find themselves together in the same hospital on the same night. Divorced Harry (Jonathan Silverman) visits a massage therapist (Kelly Hu) who turns out to have been valedictorian of their class. Sherman (Greg Germann) reacts to the end of his marriage with the mother of all binges. Jason (David Arquette) is an unsuccessful suicide.