This week’s "Damages" emphasized something we’ve known since Season 1. It’s all about Patty Hewes.

All Patty’s talk about redesigning her home and the decision being a big one couldn’t have been more obviously significant.

There’s no way that even the most casual of viewers could have missed the lingering shots of the small scratch Patty made when she threw a bowl at the wall and then the hole she broke open trying to figure out what lay behind it. Has even Patty realized that the wall she has built around her may have chased everyone she loves away? Does the dream of her desired horse sitting on the other side of that wall mean there’s a deeper need in Patty to find another version of herself?

By the way, those lingering shots on the wall are courtesy of Tate Donovan, who stepped away from Tom Shayes a bit to direct this episode.

Michael Hewes climbs the wall
Patty’s son, Michael, is turning out to be just like his mother: Manipulative. After all, very few people can get away with tricking Patty into believing a lie. And in the last episode, it was clear that Patty had figured out his deception.

Welcome to Season 10 of “Dancing With the Stars,” ballroom fans! And if this action-packed premiere was any indication of how this season is going to unfold, we’re in for a treat. I’ll admit I was a little dubious when first getting wind of who was going to be competing for the Mirrorball trophy this cycle. It seemed like a cast picked out from the odds-and-ends bin. But I have to say that this episode was one of the more enjoyable “DWTS” premieres I’ve seen in a while. No doubt some of it had to do with the fact that there were only 11 contestants this season, eliminating the need to split the women and the men into two separate nights and allowing the evening to progress at a nice, well-paced clip without dillydallying.

But a lot of it had to do with the cast itself. This evening of Viennese waltzes and cha-chas was packed with enough pleasant surprises, off-the-cuff moments and opening-night jitters to make us forget we'd already seen 27 pro dancers, 104 celebrities and 818 competitive routines before this night. And truly, I was entertained throughout. 

Plus, Monday night marked the debut of new co-host Brooke Burke! Who, as devotees already know, was the “DWTS” champ back in Season 7. As if to remind us of that, Brooke had her own, um, Mirrorballs displayed front and center on her sparkly dress. I like Brooke. She asked clear, concise questions and had a very pleasant demeanor, though she seemed to lack Samantha Harris’ shoulder-shimmying enthusiasm and impeccable posture. But perhaps that will come in time.

Of course, this is not to say this two-hour season kickoff didn’t have its shortcomings. First of all, my feelings are a little mixed about the new star holding tank. As lovely as it is for the stars to be there to witness and support their fellow contestants out on the dance floor, and as much as I love the term “celebraquarium,” it all seems a little “American Idol” rafter-esque to me. And don’t the contestants want to sit down after their performances?

Jack Bass was extra creepy and conniving for his "Gossip Girl" return Monday night -- did we really expect anything less? Chuck's nefarious uncle, as you may recall, has a large bone to pick with his nephew after his brother Bart bequeathed Bass Industries to the teenager last season. He manipulated Blair into doing God knows what in order to find the then-missing Chuck and was behind the scheme to shut down Empire Hotel's bar earlier this season. Last night, however, he really meant business.

Using his government connections (there was no doubt Jack had bribed Chuck's cop friend for that positive DNA test result -- who gives DNA results over text anyway?) and his knowledge of Chuck's history (of course, sexual harassment would be the charge to build a case against him; he's Chuck Bass!), Jack lured Chuck right into his trap. The poor guy naively believed his crooked lawyer that in order to save the hotel from scandal, he'd have to step back and hand over the hotel's operations to someone else. So for the final blow, Jack went straight for Chuck's weak spot: his mother issues. I guess it was too good to be true for Chuck's real mother, whom he thought was dead, to miraculously appear out of nowhere and want to be a part of his life after 18 years. Elizabeth was a sham doctored by Jack and now she's in control of the Empire Hotel. Though Jack was clearly behind the sexual harassment charges and the fake mother, I think someone else -- Georgina perhaps? -- had leaked the news to the press. We know she'll be back by season's end so it would be a fitting head start for her grand re-entrance.

Walton Goggins is back on FX.

And if you thought he couldn't do better than Shane Vendrell on "The Shield," well, he thought the same thing.

"[Michael] Chiklis and I have had many conversations about Vic Mackey and Shane Vendrell and thinking, well, that was it," Goggins said. "It happens once in an actor's career and you can celebrate it and continue to work but you'll always have that one thing. Once in a lifetime. To get the opportunity to sit at the table again with a character that I can't wait to show up to work for is one of the greatest gifts in my life, certainly. And to be back on my network, my home, that's a rarity for an artist and it was just too good to pass up."

To think he almost did.

To read a feature about Goggins' new role on "Justified"--and why he almost let someone else play the religiously converted white supremacist Boyd Crowder--go here.

--Maria Elena Fernandez (follow me on Twitter @writerchica)

Photo: Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder on "Justified." Credit: FX

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When we last left Nurse Jackie, her drug-supplying pharmacist boyfriend went to her husband’s bar while she was back at the hospital stealing drugs from the machine that recorded every transaction. Oh, and there was a rat in there too. Right? 

Then Monday night, after a bittersweet reunion with that “Nurse Jackie” theme song (I always get lulled into it and then assaulted by the second half), Nurse Jackie returns lounging on the beach. What? Were you expecting some consequences? How soon we forget.

Lux (Brittany Robertson), Cate (Shiri Appleby) and Baze (Kristoffer Polaha) finally got all their issues out into the open in this heart-wrenching and sweet hour. Things started off cute and playful with Cate and Ryan (Kerr Smith) talking her cold feet and his hot legs while they're sleeping. The sleeping theme continued with a shot of Lux sleeping with Bug (Rafi Gavron). After last week's reveal that Lux isn't a virgin, I was surprised to see that Baze wasn't keeping better whereabouts on her, but apparently, he's “too busy sleeping with Cate's sister to notice anything.”

Currently, Lux is giving Baze the “a cold whole body” because she's angry with him, but don't worry. That's all going to change at least five times within the hour. Lux flip-flops between parents like she does between boys. She sneaks out late at night to help Bug with his new job handing out fliers at a nightclub. Seriously, how many people does it take to do that? She gets caught breaking curfew, leading her social worker to move up Cate and Baze's family evaluation. They now have less than a week to make things right and present a united front. As much as Lux is angry with Cate and Baze, she doesn't want to get sent back to foster care either.

Cate tries to get Lux to forgive her for the Tasha thing by getting Bug a job at the radio station. His lack of a high school degree, experience and a resume – she really should have typed one up for him – kills any chance of that. Now, Lux is angry with Cate again for promising something and not delivering on it. I appreciate that life is messy and even though you want parents, you don't always get the perfect ones. Still, I really wish Lux would start to cut Cate and Baze some slack. She needs to stop being surprised when they screw up.

Tonight as a special treat, we will offer our summary and analysis of "24" on a segment-by-segment basis.

4 a.m. --  4:12 a.m. A car driven by Kayla, the daughter of Kamistan President Omar Hassan, has exploded inside CTU headquarters and disabled their systems although all the main characters have survived. "Tell them to use a pen and a damn legal pad," CTU chief Brian Hastings barks to Dana Walsh about how to proceed. Jack Bauer calls a buddy at the National Security Agency and has him shut down all the bridges and tunnels in and out of the city. That means for once neighborhood folks will be able to get a seat at their favorite Lower East Side bar.

Meanwhile the IRK terrorist group thinks the coast is clear. "CTU is blind, deaf, and dumb," proclaims one operative. The IRK, led by Samir and Tarin -- the turncoat aide to President Hassan and Kayla's lover -- are  trying to get their weapons-grade uranium into the city to launch a dirty bomb. Bauer and Ortiz are in hot pursuit, but drive right into an ambush in Brooklyn and, of course, did not ask for any backup. They get caught up in a shootout with some IRK terrorists. Samir and Tarin escape by boat with the uranium and are headed back to the city.

4:16 a.m. -- 4: 23 a.m. Hastings is getting the lowdown on the bomb. Three are dead and more wounded inside CTU. Meanwhile, the NSA has arrived and doesn't want to play ball with CTU when it comes to doing repairs. Can't imagine why the NSA doesn't think CTU is up to the task.

Chloe starts hassling Hastings about sending a team out to look for Bauer and then, using all her Chloe charm, starts to pester the NSA about its efforts to repair the computer systems. "Forgive me if I don't bow to your expertise," an NSA agent barks at Chloe. Desperate, Chloe calls Renee, who is hanging out at Jack's apartment. Apparently her meds have kicked in because she barks at Chloe to make the NSA listen to her and then she reaches into one of Jack's gym bag and grabs a gun. Looks like it's her turn to rescue Jack, who is still being pinned down by sniper fire.

4:28 a.m. -- 4:35 a.m. Dana Walsh huddles with the pesky probation officer who is still trying to get ahold of video that would show her knucklehead ex-boyfriend ripping off a NYPD storage facility. She tells him the bomb wiped out the video servers and he says he's heading back to Little Rock. Let's hope so.

Chloe tries again with the NSA, but her winning personality doesn't work so she, uh, pulls a gun on them and forces them to leave so she can try to fix the computers. "If you don't leave right now, I will shoot you," she barks. Back at the docks in Brooklyn, Bauer and his team have managed to put together a piece of armor to make their way across the dock. Unfortunately, one of his team screws up and gets shot. Agent Owen (remember him?) risks all of their lives by trying to rescue him and gets himself severely wounded in the process. The man he was trying to rescue is dead.

4:39 a.m. --  4:46 a.m. Kayla has returned to her parents. "You were right," she tells her father. At CTU, Hastings goes in to try to stop the postal O'Brien. "She's gone off the deep end," Hastings says. Of course, we all know Chloe will end up being right. Just once, wouldn't it be nice if she was wrong? Dana could have helped Chloe convince Hastings she knows what she's doing but chooses not to do so. Hmm. What's up with that? Nonetheless, Hastings decides to give Chloe 10 minutes to get the systems back online.

4:50 a.m. --  5:00 a.m. Surprise! Chloe got the systems back up. In Brooklyn, poor Agent Owen didn't make it. I feel bad for Owen. He was a true innocent. Bauer and Ortiz are pinned down by snipers. Renee shows up out of nowhere to save the day, but not before Bauer gets shot. That's right, after Bauer is down but not out. 

Bauer getting shot might have been a good spot to end the episode, but we get one more Dana Walsh scene with the parole officer who just won't go away. So she goes Godfather on him and garrotes him. And then, the big shock, she's working with the IRK!!! Well, that's good news because now at least we know sooner or later her character will bite the dust.

-- Joe Flint

Photo: Chloe takes matters into her own hands. Credit: Fox Broadcasting

I'd almost forgotten what it was like to have the whole gang together for one storyline, so it was nice to be reminded of that with everyone celebrating Lily's (Alyson Hannigan) birthday. Almost the entire episode featured the group of five hanging out in just one room with requisite flashbacks and flashforwards. But there was an interloper among the group: Ted's (Josh Radnor) date, Amanda (Brooke Nevin), also known as the Shedder and Skank. Take your pick.

Marshall (Jason Segel) had planned the perfect black tie birthday dinner at home for Lily, so she was upset when Ted brought a random girl to their intimate evening. It wasn't the first time either, Lily reminded him as she flipped out her photo album for a walk down Random Skank Lane and a game of Name That Skank. Has the word “skank” ever been uttered more in one half-hour? Lily loves her staged group photo. In a flashback that probably took place shortly after “Duel Citizenship,” she even went so far as to sit Marshall between a kissing Robin (Cobie Smulders) and Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) because she knew they weren't going to last and didn't want their coupledom preserved in the photo. So you can only imagine how angry she got every time Ted's random date ended up in their group photo. Someone needs to introduce Lily to PhotoShop. Just cut that skank out with the skank removal tool.

But the worst was when Marshall went to Paris to visit Lily while she was studying abroad and Ted decided not only to tag along, but also bring Karen (Laura Prepon). Karen, if you don't remember from last season, was Ted's college girlfriend, whom Lily and Marshall hated. She confessed she'd slept with her professor on the plane, making for one of the most excruciating flights ever and completely ruined Lily and Marshall's reunion. After two months of no sex, Marshall was really looking forward to the trip, but Karen forced Ted to bunk with him post-breakup while she roomed with Lily. It was a pleasant surprise to see Prepon, but she wasn't the only familiar girlfriend from Ted's past that made a surprise appearance. Anne Dudek also returned as Natalie, the sock monkey-loving girl who kicked Ted's rear all the way back in Season 1 after he dumped her for the second time. Marshall was forced to comfort her after the breakup as he was for all of Ted's girlfriends and he'd had enough of it.

 Man, that was kind of a dark hour of "Chuck," wasn't it? So dark, in fact, that I'm not sure how to feel about it. I get that the episode is taking its place as the darkest hour before the dawn, but, lordy, that one had some pretty grim stuff going on underneath the surface of it. Now, this is somewhat alleviated by the Buy More story being pretty funny (and uses the now-nongovernment employee Casey very well) and  because this is "Chuck," and you have to know that all will be goodness and light within a couple of weeks. But at the same time, this is a dark story about how willing you are to sell your soul to keep a job you don't particularly want but don't know how to define yourself without. (And that's a topic that'd oddly apropos in this economy, no?)

My biggest issue with this episode is one of those dreaded plot holes that I bring up every so often. As I said to a commenter last week, I'm fine with plot holes if I don't think of them while watching, but you have to swallow a pretty big one to buy this storyline at all. The issue at hand here is that Gen. Beckman says that if Chuck passes his final test -- which involves both completing a difficult solo mission to out a mole and then killing the mole -- he will become a "real spy." ("Chuck" is rather too enamored of the word "spy," which it says at every given opportunity, and the use of "real spy" just feels more goofy than it should most of the time.) If he doesn't, well, he'll be released to his pre-national security life. He'll head back to the Buy More and not have to worry about working with the government anymore. 

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The Early Show Author Ellie Slott Fisher. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today Jennifer Love Hewitt; Jane Krakowski. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

Good Morning America Greg Kinnear; Eric Stonestreet; author Dr. Louann Brizendine. (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Live With Regis and Kelly Mark Harmon; David Cook performs; Irina Shabayeva. 9 a.m. KABC

The View Justin Bieber; Greg Kinnear. (N) 10 a.m. KABC

The Doctors A face-lift. (N) 11 a.m. KCAL

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RUMER HAS IT: Jessica Lowndes, left, and Rumer Willis in a new episode of "90210" at 8 p.m. on KTLA.

SERIES

Solving History With Olly Steeds: Steeds travels to the Devil's Island Prison in French Guiana and tests first-hand whether great escapes could be possible (7 p.m. Discovery).

American Idol: The top 11 perform (8 p.m. Fox).

Parenthood: Adam and Kristina (Peter Krause, Monica Potter) resort to questionable tactics as they investigate Haddie's (Sarah Ramos) secret relationship and Jabbar (Tyree Brown) has an accident under Crosby's (Dax Shepard) watch in this new episode (10 p.m. NBC).

Independent Lens: The new documentary "Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas)" investigates what happens to deportees who are sent back to their homeland (10 p.m. KCET).

What would the week be without "Glee" news?

The much-ballyhooed all-Madonna episode of the Fox phenom is still a month away, but the soundtrack for the episode is available for pre-ordering on Amazon.

Although Amazon listed the seven tracks featured in the episode, they knew better than to tell us Gleeks who is singing what -- though we do know a few selections. Not to brag, but I completely called "4 Minutes" being on the show, "naturally because Will (Matthew Morrison) is the resident Justin Timberlake at McKinley High." While there is a lot of standard fare in the selections, I am excited another one of my favorite Madonna tracks made the cut, "What It Feels Like for a Girl." Though given Ryan Murphy spilling the beans and saying there would be 10 songs in total, we're a little confused as to what happened to the other three... 

In another smart move, the album won't be available until April 20, the same day the episode airs.

Check out the track list below:

1. "Express Yourself"
2. "Borderline" / "Open Your Heart"
3. "Vogue"
4. "Like a Virgin"
5. "4 Minutes"
6. "What It Feels Like for a Girl"
7. "Like a Prayer"

At $7.99, will you be buying the EP? And of course, catch the sneek peek below -- we know you've seen it a million times already. Discuss.

-- Gerrick Kennedy (Follow me on Twitter @GerrickKennedy)

[Update: 3:30 pm - If I ever worry that no one's reading my posts, all I need to do is make some mistakes. Thank you to the commentor that pointed out I'd called Lester Cletus and Tim the Bear nearly every other name that starts with T. My supportive, loving reader also said that "American Dad" wasn't just off this weekend due to "Sons of Tucson" but off for the rest of the season. I'm fearfully looking into it, but either way, we won't be seeing the Smith family anytime soon.]

“Sons of Tucson” continues its visit to the Sunday night Fox lineup, so once again the MacFarlane block is incomplete. This week, “American Dad” sits it out on the bench, leaving “The Cleveland Show” and “Family Guy” to pick up the slack of offensive, nonsensical and at times confusing humor we come to expect before we start a new workweek. Luckily, they didn’t disappoint.

Down on Stoolbend, Cleveland follows in the path of so many married men before him and lets himself go. His late-night pork-and-beans feasts and belched greetings are starting to wear thin on Donna, so he decides to make things right by finally taking his new wife on a honeymoon to New York City. Just the two of them. Plus Coach McFall. It was his idea, and he needs to reconnect with lost love Tyne Daly. Oh, and Lester, because he’s driving. And Tim the Bear for some apparent reason. Plus Holt. And the kids sneak along as well. So basically, everyone.

This season's breakout hit is CBS' reality series "Undercover Boss."

Renewed recently for a second season, the TV show sends chief executive officers to learn from their underlings how they can improve their companies.

Changing the companies is no easy task, and even more challenging is showing it in a quick-turnaround TV show, executive producer Stephen Lambert said.

"For our filming purposes, when the boss comes to headquarters and meets with the senior management team, there’s a limited amount they can work out and articulate on how they’re going to make changes," Lambert said. "The big systemic changes are things that need thinking through. And in some cases the companies are still thinking things through. It doesn’t mean that it’s not going to happen, but the more immediate thing is to tell a co-worker they’ve been working alongside that 'I’m the boss, and you’ve been doing a fantastic job, and I want to thank you in a certain way.'"

To read a feature about how those employees are being rewarded, go here.

-- Maria Elena Fernandez (follow me on Twitter @writerchica)

Video: "Undercover Boss" episode: Igor Finkler, a night driver at 7-Eleven, shows the boss the ropes and winds up with his own franchise. Credit: CBS

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“You should never trust family photos. They are designed to be deceiving,” Mary Alice affirms as a montage of photographs of the Van De Kamp family fills the screen.

Photos, like families, are indeed deceiving. The great thing about photos is you can just change the pose and snap another one, yet families are forever. But as the women proved on this week's episode, like a bad photo, families can be corrected with a new pose and the bright flash of the camera's bulb.

Although the episode moved along a number of storylines -- Sam becoming an official Van De Kamp, Preston and Irina’s unexpected nuptials, Katherine and Robin exploring their relationship and, of course, setting up the end of the Bolen’s season-long mystery -- there was one distraction that lingered in each household.

The housewives' complete control and dominance and their need to control their children took center stage. Now this isn’t the first time that I have noticed this ongoing theme. It seems to be the foundation for Lynette’s character, but it works given her "I wear the pants in this house" attitude. And, frankly, I’ve always liked it about her character, considering Tom’s lackadaisical approach to parenting and how close Lynette mirrors the everyday, hard-working mom who wears a million hats.  And this theme has been constant in the Van De Kamp family for good reason. Bree always had her work cut out for her, especially in the early seasons, when Danielle and Andrew needed less silver-spoon treatment and more rusty belt.

 

Johnny Weir was minding his own ice-skating business when TV producers James Pellerito and David Barba approached him after the 2006 Olympics. They wanted to do a movie or a TV show about the young American athlete who has won over audiences with his charisma, flair and style, as well as his skills on the ice. They wound up doing both.

Weir agreed to be followed by cameras, reasoning that "I'm gonna be crazy whether there's a camera here or not, so let's film it," he told The Times during an interview in Los Angeles after the Vancouver Olympics ended.

So, for the last four years, cameras have been trailing Weir and collecting footage for his 2009 Sundance Channel movie, "Pop Star On Ice," and his current Sundance Channel TV series, "Be Good Johnny Weir."

The TV series ends its first season Monday night in an episode that will include footage from the Vancouver Olympics. Although no decision has been made about a second season, Weir said he hopes there will be one.

In the following video, Weir discusses how the TV show was created, how he felt when he first watched it, and his (scary) manager Galina.

In this video, Weir talks about the prospects of a second season for "Be Good Johnny Weir."

-- Maria Elena Fernandez and Denise Martin (follow us on Twitter @writerchica and @denisemartin)

Photo: Johnny Weir performing at the Vancouver Olympics: Credit: Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times

Videos credit: Maria Elena Fernandez



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It's rare that I get sent a link by more than one or two of you. I'll occasionally see something on one of the "Lost" links sites I read and then also get a link to it from one of you, but for the most part, you guys will send me a link or I'll see something online I like and then I'll link to it here.

However, this week, no fewer than eight of you sent me a link to this video of various "Lost" cast members saying, "Mmmm ... cake." (As per usual, Michael Emerson takes the crown here by being vaguely creepy about even the prospect of delicious desserts.) My colleague Maria Elena Fernandez learned from ABC that these were filmed as promos for Wichita-based affiliate KAKE back in 2008 (though it took even ABC a while to figure out what they were, at first), but that doesn't make this any less weird or funny. Thanks to all of you who linked me!

Now, obviously, everyone loves Michael Giacchino's great score from "Lost," but did you know Amazon has collected many of the actual songs the show has used as well and put them up in a handy list? If, while you're sitting in your cubicle or working out, you want to pretend you're stuck on the Island, you can't do much better than pick up some of these songs. It helps that almost all of them are great songs.

The crux of any great television show is that it will inevitably reach that point where it begins to compete with itself, its splendid past and the lofty expectations spawned from its own brilliance. This is where AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” which premiered its third season on Sunday night, has now arrived.


Coming off a spectacular second season that ended on an audaciously bold note – two planes colliding in mid-air, the crash caused in no small measure by the prior actions (and inactions) of our protagonist – Sunday’s season premiere had a certain slowness to it, an easing back in, that was for the most part smartly crafted and well executed. That’s the beauty of this show: it often moves at its own measured pace, challenging the viewer to remain patient. And then it rewards that patience with certain scenes or episodes that completely ratchet up the intensity. When those moments finally arrive, they usually do so with a thump rather than a thud.


Which brings us to Sunday. Most of it I loved, especially the way in which the show eased us back into the lives of our main characters in the aftermath of the air disaster. For a while there, they weren’t so talkative. But really, after something like that, what was there to say? And so we watched as Walter White (Bryan Cranston) lit match after match, flicking each into his pool. We watched him light up a pile of drug money, too, only to rethink this mid-burn. Later, he stared at a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. In these moments, we didn’t need words to know what was being said, and “Breaking Bad” has always been smart enough to recognize this.

Joan of Arc or Noah's Ark?

If there was ever a leg of "The Amazing Race" that was somehow made for me, it was this one as the teams found themselves in the Champagne region of France, the birthplace and source of all true champagne.

The seven remaining teams embarked this week on a route that included the towns of Reims and Epernay and pointed out some major issues with the local tourism board, which repeatedly send teams to the wrong location.

But that's not the only reason why it wasn't quite champagne dreams this week for the contestants, as one team nearly wrecked its car, another headed to the wrong location twice, and one couple spent the entire leg bickering. (One guess on who that would be.) 

Throw in confusion about the difference between Joan of Arc and Noah's Ark, some language barriers, and blatant naivete, and you have the makings of a fantastic episode filled with thrills, spills and chills.

I thought this episode definitely played up the drama not just because of the picturesque location but also because it underpinned that adage that anything is possible on the race.

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The Early Show Edie Falco. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today Tyler Perry and Janet Jackson; Vicky Ward; Stacy Morrison; Lucy Liu; Sheryl Crow. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

The View Miley Cyrus; Justin Bieber. (N) 10 a.m. KABC

The Doctors Anti-aging ice pop; Pretty Skin Diet; nonsurgical face-lift; reducing fine lines and age spots. (N) 11 a.m. KCAL

Martha Stewart Chef Pierre Schaedelin. (N) 2 p.m. KNBC

The Bonnie Hunt Show Niecy Nash ("Dancing With the Stars"); Stana Katic ("Castle"). (N) 3 p.m. KNBC

Oprah Winfrey Husbands' secret lives. 3 p.m. KABC

Dr. Phil A woman obsessed with making her 3-year-old daughter a star. (N) 4 p.m. KCBS

The Ellen DeGeneres Show Pierce Brosnan; Betty White; Melanie Fiona performs. (N) 4 p.m. KNBC

The Tyra Show Children and teenagers who assault their parents. (N) 4 p.m. KTLA

The Dr. Oz Sho Cancer; skin lesions. (N) 5 p.m. KTTV