Series Premiere

Sit Down, Shut Up

FOX | Sunday | 8:30p

Several of Arrested Development's cast give voices to the characters of Mitch Hurwitz's animated high school comedy.

Movie Premiere

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

CBS | Sunday | 9:00p

The story of Irena Sendler (Anna Paquin), a polish Catholic social worker, who hid thousands of Jewish children by placing them with Christian familes during World War Two.

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Grey Gardens

HBO | Saturday | 8:00p

The 1973 documentary about Little Edie (Barrymore) and her mother, Big Edie (Lange), having been made into an award-winning Broadway play of the same name, is again dramatized as a film for HBO.

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The Cougar

TV Land | Wednesday | 10:00p

Vivica A. Fox hosts this dating reality show which has a group of men in their 20s battling for the affections of 40-year-old Stacey Anderson.

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Parks and Recreation

NBC | Thursday | 8:30p

The mockumentary comedy follows the life of Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), a Parks and Recreation employee.

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Harper's Island

CBS | Sunday | 10:00p

A group of friends at Harper's Island for a wedding are slowly being murdered one by one.

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Southland

NBC | Thursday | 10:00p

John Wells' latest drama for NBC focuses on the lives of the Los Angeles police department.

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The Unusuals

ABC | Wednesday | 10:00p

Vice cop Casey Shraeger (Amber Tamblyn) is transferred to a quirky and sometimes unusual homicide squad.

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Rescue Me: Season Five

FX | Tuesday | 10:00p

The delayed-by-the-writer's-strike fifth season, which includes a guest appearance of Michael J. Fox, finds 9/11 continues to play a part in the lives of the firefighters at 62 Truck.

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Surviving Suburbia

ABC | Monday | 9:30p

Bob Saget is back on ABC as a father of two kids living in the suburbs with his wife.

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In Treatment: Season Two

HBO | Sunday | 9:00p

Season two finds Dr. Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne) moved into a new office in Brooklyn after his divorce and with a new batch of patients.

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The Tudors: Season Three

Showtime | Sunday | 9:00p

The third season finds Henry preparing to marry his third wife, Jane Seymour, followed by Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard.

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Pedro

MTV/Logo | Wednesday | 8:00p

Before he wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk, Dustin Lance Black wrote this movie about Pedro Zamora, the HIV-positive member of the first season of the Real World.

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Cupid

ABC | Tuesday | 10:00p

Cupid, last seen in 1998 with Jeremy Piven as the Roman god of love, returns this time with Bobby Cannavale in the title role.

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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

HBO | Sunday | 8:00p

Jill Scott leads the HBO adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's detective novels set in Botswana.

Miniseries Premiere

Little Dorrit

PBS | Sunday | 9:00p

The BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' serial novel about Little Dorrit, who lived most of her life in debtors' prison with her family, airs as part of Masterpiece Classic season.

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In the Motherhood

ABC | Thursday | 8:00p

The comedy based on a web serial and real life stories; Cheryl Hines, Megan Mullally, and Jessica St. Clair are mothers with very different parenting methods.

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Party Down

Starz | Friday | 10:30p

The Starz comedy explores the lives of six waiters working for a catering company in Los Angeles.

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Better Off Ted

ABC | Wednesday | 8:30p

Ted starts having doubts about working in the research and development department of Veridian Dynamics, where anything can happen, from weapons made from pumpkins or employees being used as test subjects.

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Kings

NBC | Sunday | 8:00p

An idealist young farmer turned soldier (Chris Egan) finds himself involved with the royal court of Gilboa when he saves the king's (Ian McShane) son.

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Chopping Block

NBC | Wednesday | 8:00p

Gordan Ramsey's former boss Marco Pierre White gets into the cooking reality TV business with a team competition to win $250,000 to open a restaurant.

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Castle

ABC | Monday | 10:00p

A mystery novelist (Nathan Fillion) seeks inspiration for his next book by shadowing NYPD detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic).

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Breaking Bad: Season Two

AMC | Sunday | 10:00p

Walter (Bryan Cranston) and his ex-student Jesse (Aaron Paul) find their drug dealing threatened by Walter's DEA brother-in-law and the local druglord.

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Ashes to Ashes

BBC America | Saturday | 9:00p

The American remake of Life on Mars only made it to one season, but the original spawned a sequel with DI Alex Drake waking up in 1981 (with many of the people Sam Tyler met in 1973) after being shot in 2008.

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Reaper: Season 2

CW | Tuesday | 8:00p

Sam is still hunting souls for the devil with the help of his friends Ben and Sock.

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Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

NBC | Weekdays | 12:35a

Jimmy Fallon takes over for Conan O'Brien as NBC shuffles its late night talk show roster in 2009.

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Jesse Stone: Thin Ice

CBS | Sunday | 9:00p

The fifth in a series of movies based on Robert B. Parker's book series about a small town New England police chief (Tom Selleck).

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America

Lifetime | Saturday | 9:00p

In the movie based on E.R. Frank's novel, Dr. Brennan (Rosie O'Donnell) helps 17-year-old America (Philip Johnson) come to terms with his past before he is "aged out" of the foster care system.

Special Premiere

The Black List: Vol. 2

HBO | Thursday | 8:00p

HBO returns with another volume of the Black List, wherein a variety of famous black people speak about their experiences in this world.

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Taking Chance

HBO | Saturday | 8:00p

In this movie based on the real events, Kevin Bacon is Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a marine faced with the duty of escorting the body of a killed-in-action soldier back home to the United States.

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Mistresses

BBC America | Friday | 8:00p

The drama focusing on four friends who are tempted into affairs with other people is already on season two in the UK, and an American remake is in the works.

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Oliver Twist

PBS | Sunday | 9:00p

Masterpiece focuses on Oliver's family in this latest adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel about the orphan (William Miller) who joins a gang of pickpocketers led by Fagin (Timothy Spall).

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Eastbound & Down

HBO | Sunday | 10:30p

Will Ferrell coproduces this comedy about a baseball player returning to North Carolina who finds a job as a gym teacher.

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Dollhouse

Fox | Friday | 9:00p

Echo (Eliza Dushku) and her fellow "actives" are implanted with temporary personalities and hired out by rich clients.

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Looking for Lincoln

PBS | Wednesday | 9:00p

Henry Louis Gates Jr. hosts this documentary that looks beyond what we have learned in history class about president Lincoln.

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Important Things With Demetri Martin

Comedy Central | Wednesday | 10:30p

The Daily Show's Demetri Martin debuts his own sketch-comedy show.

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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

PBS | Monday | 9:00p

The documentary about the assassination of the 16th president of the United States based on James L. Swanson's book, "Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer," airs as a part of PBS' American Experience series.

Miniseries Premiere

XIII

NBC | Sunday | 9:00p

In this miniseries, based on the graphic novel by Jean Van Hamme, a man with no memory (Stephen Dorff) is the prime suspect in the assassination of the first female American president.

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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

TNT | Saturday | 8:00p

The life of the Presidential Medal of Freedom neurosurgeon and author Ben Carson (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is explored.

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The Exterminators

A&E | Wednesday | 10:30p

Billy Bretherton and his family run a pest control business in the Louisiana bayou.

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Medium: Season Five

NBC | Monday | 10:00p

Allison DuBois (Patricia Arquette) continues to see visions and tries to stop the deaths she sees as the fifth season begins.

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The Trials of Ted Haggard

HBO | Thursday | 8:00p

Alexandra Pelosi follows up on Colorado pastor Ted Haggard's life after he was kicked out of his church for buying drugs and being involved with a male prostitute.

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Trust Me

TNT | Monday | 10:00p

When their boss (Jason O'Mara) dies, best friends and ad executives Mason (Eric McCormack) and Conner (Tom Cavanagh) find their friendship becomes more uneasy in light of Mason's promotion.

Miniseries Premiere

The Last Templar

NBC | Sunday | 9:00p

The theft of an artifact related to the Templars brings archaeologist Tess (Mira Sorvino) and FBI Agent Reilly (Scott Foley) together as they search for the item.

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Loving Leah

CBS | Sunday | 9:00p

Based on the stage play of the same name, Jake (Adam Kaufman) returns home when his brother dies unexpectedly. He meets his brother's wife (Lauren Ambrose) and they fall in love.

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Prayers for Bobby

Lifetime | Saturday | 9:00p

Based on true events, the suicide of her gay son spurs Mary (Sigourney Weaver) to change and become a LGBT advocate.

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The Electric Company

PBS | Friday | Varies

The 1970s children's show returns for a new generation.

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Lost: Season Five

ABC | Wednesday | 8:00p

The answers to when/where did the island go and how Locke died are to be revealed this season as the show approaches the end of the series (slated for 2010).

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Lie to Me

Fox | Wednesday | 9:00p

Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) and his fellow specialists help discover if suspects are lying.

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Wuthering Heights

PBS | Sunday | 9:00p

The latest adaptation of the doomed romance between Catherine (Charlotte Riley) and Heathcliff (Tom Hardy).

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Big Love: Season Three

HBO | Sunday | 9:00p

The Henricksons return for a third season, and Bill (Paxton) may be ready for wife number four.

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Flight of the Conchords: Season Two

HBO | Sunday | 10:00p

The Conchords struggle in New York as their manager forms a new band.

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United States of Tara

Showtime | Sunday | 10:00p

Tara (Toni Collette) and her family try to cope with her dissociative identity disorder (formally called multiple personality).

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Secret Diary of a Call Girl: Season Two

Showtime | Sunday | 10:30p

Billie Piper returns for a second season in the life of Belle, the London call girl.

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Friday Night Lights: Season Three

NBC | Friday | 9:00p

The football drama based on the movie of the same name returns to NBC for another season (it also premiered on DirecTV in October).

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The Beast

A&E | Thursday | 10:00p

Patrick Swayze is a veteran FBI agent training his rookie partner in the art of deep undercover work.

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24: Season Seven

Fox | Monday | 8:00p

Jack Bauer returns from Africa (24: Redemption) to find himself defending his actions before Congress.

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Howie Do It

NBC | Friday | 8:00p

Howie Mandel's latest show sees him pulling pranks on unsuspecting people.

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13: Fear Is Real

CW | Wednesday | 8:00p

Contestants try to conquer their fears in the bid to win $66,666 in this Sam Raimi-produced show.

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Damages: Season Two

FX | Wednesday | 10:00p

Ellen seeks revenge by working undercover for the FBI in the second season as someone (William Hurt) from Patty's past returns.

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Homeland Security USA

ABC | Tuesday | 8:00p

The work of officers of the Department of Homeland Security is seen in this documentary series based on a similar show in Australia.

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The Old Man and the Storm

PBS | Tuesday | 9:00p

The Frontline documentary follows 83-year-old Herbert Gettridge, a carpenter seeking to rebuild his house damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

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Scrubs: Season Eight

ABC | Tuesday | 9:00p

The wacky doctors of Sacred Heart move to a new network.

Miniseries Premiere

The Story of India

PBS | Monday | 9:00p

In the six-hour long series, Michael Wood's guides viewers to the history of the beginning of human settlement in India to the country that exists today.

Movie Premiere

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

PBS | Sunday | 9:00p

Thomas Hardy's novel is adapted once again with Gemma Arterton as the title character.

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Game Show in My Head

CBS | Saturday | 8:00p

The hidden-camera gameshow involves contestants performing various tasks with strangers on the street to win up to $50,000.

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Momma's Boys

NBC | Tuesday | 10:00p

The latest dating show has three eligible bachelors looking for love with the help of their mothers.

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CBS | Thursday | 9:00p

Gil Grissom is ready to move on as season nine of the long runing series introduces Dr. Raymond Langston (Laurence Fishburne) to the Las Vegas crew.

Movie Premiere

The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice

TNT | Sunday | 8:00p

Flynn the librarian is once again trying to find an artifact, this time the Judas chalice, which can bring the dead back to life.

Miniseries Premiere

House of Saddam

HBO | Sunday | 9:00p

The four-hour miniseries dramatizes the period from Saddam's coup in 1979 to his capture in 2003.

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Leverage

TNT | Sunday | 10:00p

Timothy Hutton is an ex-insurance investigator leading a group of specialists to right wrongs caused by a variety of corrupt people and companies.

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Spectacle: Elvis Costello With...

Sundance | Wednesday | 9:00p

The Sundance channel brings Costello to TV with a new talk show featuring mainly musicians as guests.

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Shatner's Raw Nerve

Biography | Tuesday | 10:00p

Shatner returns to television, this time as a TV host for his new talk show on the Biography channel.