Are you ready to rock?
Nothing sells tickets like controversy, and the “2006 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony” (9 p.m., VH1) has its fill. Taped last week at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the fete featured the inclusion of Black Sabbath, Blondie, Miles Davis, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Sex Pistols into the musical pantheon.
This year’s contretemps surround the inclusion of jazz great Miles Davis and the tardy and perhaps reluctant recognition of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath. For years, Osbourne has griped that snobby critics have excluded Sabbath and have looked down on their music as well as their fans.
At the same time, the inclusion of Miles Davis seems entirely critic driven. The musician, who died in 1991, may have embraced the spirit and amplified electric sound of rock and funk, but can he be considered a rocker? Have the people who voted him in actually listened to his live 1975 “Agartha” album in the past 20 years?
Not all of the women featured in “The Real Housewives of Orange County” (10 p.m., Bravo) are housewives. And it’s hard to accept them as entirely “real.” Not when the words “80 percent of the women I know have plastic surgery” can be heard during the show’s credits.
Other highlights
Two team members vanish on “NCIS” (8 p.m., CBS).
The remaining 11 perform on “American Idol” (8 p.m., Fox).
Back-to-back “Gilmore Girls” (WB) feature cameos by Carole King (8 p.m.) and Sherilyn Fenn (9 p.m.).
A rescue mission hits a snag on “The Unit” (9 p.m., CBS).
On back-to-back episodes of “Sons & Daughters” (ABC), a problem loan (9 p.m.), Cameron tries to shake his negative aura (9:30 p.m.).
Cult choice
A teen (Leelee Sobieski) feels terrorized by her adoptive parents and their posh modern pad in the 2001 thriller “The Glass House” (9 p.m., Oxygen).