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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and his little friends want you to know that Mother Nature is going through hard times.

Cooper's new two-part documentary, "Planet in Peril" (7, 10 p.m., CNN), tries to provide a better understanding of the Earth's present state.

I love Anderson - his cute outfits, silver hair and piercing gaze - so watching him try to expose environmental evil-doers pleases me no end.

Even tromping around in muddy water, the guy manages to look fashionable and professional.

Cooper is joined by CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta and Animal Planet host and wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin.

Their 13-country trek kicks off in the back alleys of Bangkok's JJ market, a major center of the black market animal trade. Steve Galster, co-founder of the conservation group Wildlife Alliance, says that he'd confiscated more than 17,000 wild animals, including a thousand crocodiles and six tigers, two tons of body parts and two tons of bush meat.

Cooper and Corwin join Galster as he and Thai police prepare for another raid on illegal traders. Nailing the traders' booties to the wall proves difficult, but my man Cooper gives it the old college try.

From there, they move on to efforts to save other endangered species including the grey wolf in Yellowstone National Park, a wounded tiger in Cambodia's Bokor National Park and a young elephant whose foot had been nearly ripped by a poacher's snare.

The deforestation occurring in Madagascar is particularly disheartening because the island is home to so many undiscovered species.

It's not all gloom and doom, thank goodness, as the group also explains a lot of the positive steps that are being taken to heal Mother Nature.

Save the trees. And the tigers. And the wolves. And the ocean. And all the icky insects in what's left of the Madagascar forest.

"Boston Legal" (9 p.m., KOAT-Channel 7) changed things up a bit this year by bringing in senior partner Carl Sack (John Larroquette) from the New York offices. He's there to keep the office in tow and monitor the never-dull Denny (William Shatner).

Good luck with that. No one controls Denny Crane, not even Denny Crane.

Tonight, a woman (Mare Winningham) asks for Alan's (James Spader) advice on how to kill the man who murdered her daughter but was acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.

Alan's also busy with former flame Lorraine (Saffron Burrows), who tries to help him overcome deep-rooted childhood fears that cause him to speak gibberish whenever she's around.

Meanwhile, newbie Katie (Tara Summers) and socially inept Jerry (Christian Clemenson) try to overturn a child-molester-registry law to save a falsely accused client.

This show may be a whole lot of things - crazy, over-the-top and weighted down with too many cast members - but it's never dull.