Winter Olympics (NBC) - Depending on the channel you're watching, games are starting around 2pm with ski jumping, speed skating, and women's hockey. Later in primetime, Apolo Ohno skates and there's also men's downhill skiing (the fastest) and women's moguls. (Unofficial race of the day will be if I can get a new HD Plasma purchased and set up at my house in time for downhill. Wish me luck!). For a full list of Winter Olympics events on all channels today, check out NBC's interactive schedule here.

House (6pm Bravo) - A "House" marathon on Bravo starts at 6pm and goes to 2am. If you're not into the Olympics, there are worst ways to burn a day.

Pit Boss (10pm, Animal Planet) - Actress Linda Blair helps Boss Shorty Rossi after he rescues ten puppies.

House (8pm, Fox) - In this special all-about-Cuddy episode, Lisa Edelstein finally gets her chance to shine, and to show viewers there's more to her life than just being a hardass hospital administrator in low-cut blouses who takes too much crap from House. Actually, that is pretty much what her life is like (that, plus a hot younger boyfriend) but at least we get to see it all from her perspective, and not through the leering eyes of House. 

Chuck (8pm, NBC) - Agent Shaw (Brandon Routh) pairs Chuck with Hannah (Kristin Kreuk) so that he can team up with Sarah. Oooph! Also, Morgan and Ellie begin to snoop into Chuck's secret world. 

Bachelor (8pm, ABC) - Jake is down to four women and tonight we get hometown visits. 

Damages (10pm, FX) - Patty must keep a top Tobin witness from fleeing the country, and Ellen learns a dark family secret.

Kell on Earth (10pm, Bravo) - Kell pulls off a successful presentation for a new client, but Fashion Week is starting to rattle Stefanie.

Castle (10pm, ABC) - A popular former pro baseball player is murdered during a goodwill trip to Cuba, and Joe Torre (left) makes an appearance as himself (or as Beckett calls him, "Joe Freakin' Torre!").

Chuck (8pm, NBC) - Chuck heads to France for his first solo assignment, but he tangles with a menacing passenger on the plane. Brandon Routh and Stone Cold Steve Austin (left) guest star.

House (8pm, Fox) - House tries to make amends to a medical school colleague he wronged.

Life Unexpected (9pm, The CW) - Social workers evaluate the homes of Cate and Baze to see if they'll make suitable guardians for Lux. Also, Cate's bosses pressure her to publicly deny she has a daughter.  

Damages (10pm, FX) - In the season 3 premiere, Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) represents people cheated in a Bernie Madoff-type Ponzi scheme, while Ellen works in the DA's office. You'll be hooked in the first five minutes. The season features Lily Tomlin, Martin Short, and Campbell Scott. 

How I Met Your Mother (8pm, CBS) - CBS comedies return tonight, and HIMYM brings it with their 100th episode, in which Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) has to choose between giving up his trademark suits and getting a girl he wants (Stacy Keilber). It features the cast in a musical number called "Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit" and has guest stars Rachel Bilson and Tim Gunn.

House (8pm, Fox) - "House" was originally slated to return with new episodes on January 25, but returns early just to mess with "Chuck," which is debuting in its regular time slot tonight. In addition to the usual case ("It's not lupus."), House and Wilson vie for the attention of a neighbor, and Taub and Thirteen try to play a practical joke on Foreman.

Chuck (8pm, NBC) - Chuck has to protect a visiting dictator, played by Armand Assante, and he needs Awesome's help to get the job done.

Antiques Roadshow (8pm, UNC-TV) - The second episode filmed in Raleigh. Read all about it.

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I don't put a lot of stock in the "People's Choice Awards," but it's still worth noting the winners from last night's show.

"Glee" won Favorite New Comedy and "Vampire Diaries" won Favorite New Drama. "House" was also a big winner, snatching both Favorite TV Drama and Favorite TV Actor in a Drama for Hugh Laurie.

Check out the full list of TV winners below:

House (8pm, Fox) - House regains his license to practice medicine and begins forming his "dream team" at the same time he's helping a porn star suffering from eye pain. 

The Prisoner (8pm, AMC) - The third and fourth installments of AMC's retelling of the 1960s cult TV hit. 

Gossip Girl (9pm, CW) - Blair impresses her classmates by getting Lady Gaga (right) to sing at a private concert. Gaga (I call her Gaga) performs her new single, "Bad Romance" dressed in red sequined gown with a 35-foot chiffon train. 

Big Bang Theory (9:30pm, CBS) - All the guys go camping except for Sheldon, so when Penny injures her arm, Sheldon has to take care of her.

Jay Leno Show (10pm, NBC) - Tonight Jay has the lycanthropic half of Tay-Squared on.

House (8pm, Fox) - "House" returns tonight after a few weeks off. The team tries to help a partying team with swollen appendages who won't (and later can't) tell what happened to her. And House tags along with Cuddy and Wilson to a pharmacology conference.

How I Met Your Mother (8pm, CBS) - Barney and Robin go through a rough patch, and Lily enlists Canadian Alan Thicke to help break up the couple.

Cake Boss (10pm, TLC) - A massive cake is created for the U.S. Air Force. 

Lopez Tonight (11pm, TBS) - It's the debut of another new talk show, this one from George Lopez. Lopez is the first Hispanic performer to star in a major English-language late-night TV talk show. Lopez says he wants his show to be inclusive and spontaneous, so he's done away with the standard pre-show interview. I will say that his first guests are bigger than Wanda's first guests: tonight he welcomes Ellen DeGeneres, Eva Longoria Parker, and Kobe Bryant. Carlos Santana performs. 

House (8pm, Fox) - Tonight we'll see the fallout from the death of the murderous African dictator played by James Earl Jones in last week's episode. Chase and Foreman must make an official report on the man's care and death, which was intentionally caused by Chase. 

Gone Too Far (10pm, MTV) - This is the premiere of a documentary series by Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein (left), who died of an accidental drug overdose back in August. In this episode, Adam travels to his hometown of Philadelphia to stage a surprise intervention with a 23-year-old heroin addict who refuses to go into rehab.

The Rachel Zoe Project (10pm, Bravo) - It's literally the finale for season two, and it's a good thing because Rachel is literally so stressed out about her next fashion shoot that she literally wants to kill herself. If she survives that, Rachel is still literally going to die if bratty Taylor decides to quit her job, because Taylor leaving is literally the worst thing that could happen to anyone in the entire world. Literally. And just the thoughts of that happening make Rachel literally fall ill. 

Over at sister blog Happiness is a warm TV, we have a note about Lisa Sanders, a Yale doctor, who is coming to speak at UNC Chapel Hill.

Sanders is the technical advisor for the "House" television series.

Check it out.

Dr. Lisa Sanders, a Yale School of Medicine internist and technical
medical advisor on Fox's hit show "House," will speak at UNC on
Wednesday.

"House," which debuted in 2004 and stars Hugh Laurie, was
inspired by Sanders' monthly New York Times Magazine column
"Diagnosis," which Sanders had been writing since 2002. Sanders met with show creator and writer David Shore to develop the storyline for the pilot, and still consults with the show's writers and producers at the beginning of each season.