Tuesday's Best Bets on TV

“Fringe” (8 p.m., Fox): This eerie sci-fi thriller from “Lost” co-creator J.J. Abrams is guaranteed to creep you out. A potent blend of “The Twilight Zone” and “The X-Files,” “Fringe” focuses on a female FBI agent (Anna Torv) who snoops into bizarre cases with the help of a formerly institutionalized scientist (John Noble) and his sharp-witted son (Joshua Jackson). In the turbo-charged two-hour pilot episode, they launch an investigation when an international flight lands at Boston’s Logan Airport and the passengers and crew have all suffered grisly deaths.

“Clyde Singer: An American Artist” (8 p.m., PBS): This PBS 45-49 documentary showcases exhibitions of the late Youngstown-based artist’s work at the Butler Institute of American Art and the Canton Museum of Art. Both exhibitions are currently on display.

“Privileged” (9 p.m., The CW): Ready to watch more rich people on TV? “Privileged” is a new soap about a young woman (JoAnna Garcia) who is hired by a Palm Beach, Fla. cosmetics mogul (Anne Archer) to be a live-in tutor to her rebellious teen granddaughters. It airs right after the wealthy kids of “90210.”

“How to Build a Better Being” (10 p.m., National Geographic Channel): Humans may not be exactly kissing cousins with fruit flies. But we have more in common with them than we might expect. In “How to Build a Better Being,” Spore mastermind Will Wright meets with top scientists who are researching in the lab some of the creature-making principles Wright has replicated for the virtual arena of gaming.