“The Amazing Race” (8 p.m., CBS): Eleven teams go from Los Angeles to Brazil, where they

“The Amazing Race” (8 p.m., CBS): Eleven teams go from Los Angeles to Brazil, where they have to crawl up a stone structure to prove their worth.

“Desperate Housewives” (9 p.m., ABC): The story skips ahead five years.

“Little Britain USA” (10:30 p.m., HBO): “Little Britain USA” imports the chameleonic Matt Lucas and David Walliams to America in a Yank version of their no-holds-barred British sketch-comedy hit. Characters embodied by this twisted twosome include Bing Gordyn, the little-known eighth astronaut to go to the moon; Phyllis, who can’t help obeying the demented demands from her King Charles Spaniel; kindly elderly Mildred, who shares details from her drug-and-booze-filled past (“We didn’t KNOW it was bad for us”) with her grandson Connor; and argumentative hospital receptionist Carol Beer (“The computer says ‘no’”). There’s bad taste and outrageousness galore, and even more laughs.

“The Life & Times of Tim” (11 p.m., HBO): “The Life & Times of Tim” explores the wrong-headed world of a young office drudge with terminal passivity. The animation style on “Tim” is sufficiently bare-bones to make “South Park” look like “Shrek” being screened at an Imax. Tim subsists at a level of meaninglessness that would make any member of the “Seinfeld” crew seem like the Dalai Lama in comparison. Created by adman-filmmaker Steve Dildarian, it’s cringingly hilarious.