TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE

"Army Wives" season finale, 7 p.m., Lifetime. If you can excuse the overwrought cliffhanger at the end, this is a terrific hour. It wraps up a season filled with passionate and interesting characters. The unit is being deployed. That will dispatch the husbands of Denise (Catherine Bell), Pamela (Brigid Brannagh) and Roxy (Sally Pressman). Others face separation, too. Claudia Joy (Kim Delaney) is nudging her daughter to college; Roland, the show's token Army husband, is divorcing. And Marilyn is leaving her angry husband and running off with a decent chap. It's a crowded hour that becomes overcrowded in the final minutes. We'll try to overlook that final excess.

"Teen Choice Awards," 8 p.m., Fox. Expect lots of bright faces. Hilary Duff and Nick Cannon host with music by Kelly Clarkson and Avril Lavigne.

OF NOTE

"The Kill Point" opener, noon, Spike TV. This beautifully crafted pilot film set up a hostage impasse, with strong characters on each side, led by Donnie Wahlberg as the police negotiator and John Leguizamo as the leader of the robbers. The rest of the series reruns today, leading into the new and final chapter at 6 p.m.

Football, 2 p.m., NBC. The Philadelphia Eagles meet the Pittsburgh Steelers in a pre-season game.

Matilda (1996), 8 and 10 p.m., ABC Family. Danny DeVito directed this film beautifully and co-starred alongside his wife, Rhea Perlman. The Roald Dahl story has a smart kid (Mara Wilson), surrounded by foolish, selfish grown-ups.

"Desperate Housewives," 8 p.m., ABC. Here's yet another rerun of one of the show's better episodes with a hostage crisis at the grocery store.

"Cold Case," 8 p.m., CBS. In a rerun, a man says he's going to kill one registered sex offender a day, until someone finds the person who raped and killed his son.