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This season of NBC's "Heroes" (9 p.m. EDT Mondays) hasn't begun to match the magic of the first season so far. Without a clear goal, aka "Save the cheerleader, save the world," all we have is a loose collection of spiritually lost superheroes looking for redemption. Hiro is screwing around in ancient times, Mohinder and Matt are spinning their superpowered wheels with their little adopted daughter, Ali Larter refuses to make herself scarce as promised, and that dorky post-kiss flying scene between Claire and her new boyfriend gave us a terrible flashback of "Superman's" Margot Kidder and Christopher Reeve, grinning at each other while taking a smooth-jazz soar through the atmosphere. But tonight, there's new hope for the heroic: Kristen Bell, who, thanks to the sad cancellation of "Veronica Mars," joins the cast as Elle, an evil operative for the Company who goes to Ireland looking for Peter.

-- H.H.

Also…

MTV takes another shot at a scripted series with "Kaya" (premieres at 10:30 p.m. EDT), which follows the ups and downs of a young lady rocker and her band. CW's "Aliens in America" airs at 8:30 p.m. EDT. "Weeds" airs at 10 p.m. EDT on Showtime.

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