TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: "DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS" SEASON-OPENER (7 P.M.) AND "HOUSE" (8 P.M.), FOX

Summertime Fridays are a dead zone for most networks, but Fox is trying.

Tonight, it launches the summer run of "Lyrics." Rock star Meat Loaf teams with his daughter, Pearl Aday, as contestants.
A week later, a new scripted show ("Mental") will follow at 9 p.m. Filling the spot tonight, Fox inserts a rerun of the terrific "House" season-opener.
When the previous season ended, Amber (Wilson's loved one) had died. It was partly House's fault; now Wilson has quit his job and his friendship.
Tonight's patient is the assistant to a hard-driving female executive. House spouts some nonsense (as he tends to) against feminism, while diagnosing her.

TONIGHT'S MIGHT-SEE: "EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS," 7 AND 8 P.M., CW

This clever series -- with Chris Rock narrating a comic version of his boyhood -- has spent its fourth season buried in Friday obscurity. Here's a second chance to catch the start of the season.
In the first episode, Chris starts high school in an all-white home room with a bigoted teacher. In the second, he'll help a classmate with home-ec skills, in exchange for being hooked up with a hot girl.
Meanwhile, Chris' younger sister Tonya has trouble. In the first episode, she's too blunt while helping at the salon; in the second, she's supposed to take care of a neighbor's fish.