TV Tonight (1/8)

ABC: Just for Laughs (NEW) (1hr), According to Jim (NEW), Carpoolers (NEW), Cashmere Mafia

CBS: NCIS, People's Choice Awards (NEW)

NBC: The Biggest Loser: Couples (NEW), Law & Order (NEW)

FOX: Bones, House

CW: One Tree Hill (NEW), One Tree Hill (NEW)

Courtesy Dave Kent @ The New 93.9 KISS FM, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill NC!

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TV Potpourri

Showtime's hit series Dexter is moving to the CBS Television Network. Well, sort of. The series, which stars MICHAEL C. HALL as a police forensics examiner who moonlights as a serial killer, just wrapped up its second season on Showtime. Beginning Sunday, February 17th, CBS -- which owns Showtime -- will air all 12 episodes of Dexter's first season. It replaces the JAMES WOODS legal drama Shark, which will return later in the year. This marks the first time a full season of a top cable drama series will be shown on network television. It's yet another programming move by a TV network anxious for fresh shows in the face of the ongoing writers strike...

There could be another Mole sighting on ABC this summer, thanks to the continued scramble for new content as the WGA strike wears on. According to Variety, ABC is resurrecting the reality series, even though it hasn't aired in four years. However, the new edition will not feature celebrities, as the previous two seasons had. CNN's ANDERSON COOPER and TV personality AHMAD RASHAD, who each hosted two seasons of the show, aren't expected to return...

If One Tree Hill fell in a forest...

When we last saw the men and women of One Tree Hill, they had just graduated high school. Tonight, they find themselves in the real world on the fifth-season premiere of the CW drama. The two-hour episode skips past their college years and examines how Lucas, Peyton, Brooke and the others are adjusting to adult life. And as you may have heard, KEVIN FEDERLINE will make guest appearances this season as a rock musician. One Tree Hill returns at 8 p.m. Eastern time.

By the way, the CW and Macy's are currently holding a contest in which fans can win a walk-on role on One Tree Hill. You can learn all the details at www.cwtv.com/thecw/macys.

Then there's the People's Choice...

The 34th annual People's Choice Awards will present a new format tonight on CBS. Much like the Golden Globes, the event was forced to shake things up due to the ongoing writers' strike, announcing last month that winners would pre-record their acceptance speeches. The ceremony, which has now been dubbed a "magazine show," also solicited questions from fans to be answered by nominees. QUEEN LATIFAH is slated to host the telecast.

The People's Choice Whatever-They-Are broadcast, honoring fan favorites in music, movies and TV, airs on CBS tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern time.

Nice Globes!, part trace!

There won't be any Golden Globes ceremony on NBC this year. After last-ditch talks with the striking Writers Guild of America union fell through, organizers of the awards event announced the glitzy ceremony would be replaced with an hour-long press conference broadcast live by NBC News.

Look for that at 9 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday, January 13th.The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which is responsible for the Golden Globes, was forced to alter the event after all 72 of this year's nominated actors expressed solidarity with the striking writers through the actors' union, the Screen Actors Guild, and announced they wouldn't cross the picket line.

In announcing the switch to a bare-bones press conference to hand out awards in 25 categories, Hollywood Foreign Press Association president JORGE CAMARA said, quote, "We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will not take place this year and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating 2007's outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television."

By using a press conference format and billing it as an hour-long NBC News report, award organizers and NBC had hoped some nominees would reconsider participating. Writers in NBC's news division are not represented by the Writers Guild of America, so technically, participating stars wouldn't be crossing the WGA picket line.

TV Tonight (1/7)

ABC: Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann (NEW), October Road (NEW)

CBS: How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Rules of Engagement, CSI: Miami

NBC: American Gladiators (NEW), Deal or No Deal (NEW), Medium (NEW)

FOX: BCS Championship Game: LSU vs. Ohio State

CW: Everybody Hates Chris, Aliens in America, Girlfriends, The Game

Courtesy Dave Kent @ The New 93.9 KISS FM, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill NC!

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TV Hodgepodge

The CW network is spreading word that it's moving Gossip Girl to a new night. The freshman drama will move from Wednesday nights to Monday nights, beginning on January 28th. Also on the CW's revised midseason schedule is the second season of the reality series Pussycat Dolls Present, debuting on February 18th. This time, the show will put together a new band called GIRLICIOUS...

Actor AUSTIN NICHOLS pleaded guilty last week to a misdemeanor charge of driving while visibly impaired, stemming from an incident in Jackson, Michigan last August. The 27-year old Nichols, whose credits include Deadwood and John From Cincinnati, paid a one-thousand-dollar fine...

Without a Trace actress POPPY MONTGOMERY and boyfriend ADAM KAUFMAN welcomed their first child on December 23rd. Their new son is named JACKSON PHILLIP KAUFMAN. Kaufman has appeared several times on Without a Trace, which stars Montgomery as FBI agent Samantha Spade...

Former Bewitched actress ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday. She died in 1995 at age 62...