Tonight's premiere of the Raleigh episodes of "Antiques Roadshow" features North Carolinians with a variety of treasures and heirlooms to show off. And you never know -- you just might see your neighbor waltzing through with a $40,000 doo-dad.

The episode has everything from pottery and paintings to Civil War relics and yes, even the "million-dollar jade."

Sadly, that now-famous jade, which was given an original appraisal of $700k to $1.07 million, fell far short of that dollar amount when sold at auction in October. The jade is from the 18th Century Qianlong Jade Collection.

We sing about it, we write about it, we just plain desire it.

Some even think we can find it by watching TV. Next to the meaning of life, we most want to know how to be happy.

Tonight at 10 (!) on UNC-TV, PBS begins a three-part documentary exploring happiness called "This Emotional Life."

(Each episode is two hours long, so you might want to set the DVR.)

Hosted by Harvard professor Daniel Gilbert, the documentary examines why happiness is so elusive, using a mix of science and personal stories.

We learn the brain science behind different facets of happiness.

PBS's hit series "Antiques Roadshow" filmed three episodes in Raleigh this past summer, breaking all kinds of records and even making one person a millionaire.

We're now very close to seeing those episodes air.

The first installment will air Monday night (January 4) at 8pm on UNC-TV, and the other shows will air on the next two Monday nights. 

To get you primed for the premiere, here's our summer coverage of "Antiques Roadshow."  In addition to the millionaire jade story, we talked to a guy with a chair from the original "Planet of the Apes" movie and a family with ceremonial spears, and I even got my mules appraised. Luci Chavez also wrote about an Apex woman with a historic family heirloom.

We'll have more on the "Antiques Roadshow" premiere on Monday. 

Adam's Rib (10pm, TCM) - The 1949 classic about a husband-and-wife team of lawyers (Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn) who take opposite sides in the case of a woman (Judy Holliday) who tried to kill her husband.

Lockup: Colorado Extended Stay (10pm, MSNBC) -  A new episode of this popular MSNBC series looks at "love in prison and its consequences." That could be interpreted a couple of different ways...

Austin City Limits (Midnight, UNC-TV) - Canadian indie-rock band Arcade Fire plays from their second cd, "Neon Bible." It's a repeat, but it's still Arcade Fire.

Chapel Hill author Kate Betterton will discuss her novel "Where the Lake Becomes the River" today on "NC Bookwatch" on UNC-TV.

Betterton's book is about an artist in Mississippi who passes up college to care for her mother, and finds herself taking a chance that lands her in the middle of the Civil Rights movement and in the middle of an unexpected romance.

Betterton won the 2008 Novello Literary Award for "Where the Lake Becomes the River." 

"NC Bookwatch" airs at 5pm on UNC-TV. 

UNC-TV debuted a new channel over the weekend.

UNC-EX is their new Explorer Channel, which features outdoor adventure, science, nature, history, and culture programming. The channel debuted on Sunday.

An example of the programs which will air include  the cooking show "Lidia's Italy" (Lidia Bastianich is shown at left), the adventure show "Globe Trekker," and science programs like "Nova" and "Nature."

The channel will also air UNC-TV original programming such as "Exploring North Carolina" and "North Carolina Weekend," as well as special documentaries like Ken Burns' "National Parks" series.

The channel is offered free of charge to over-the-air viewers as well as to subscribers to digital cable. 

Also on Sunday, the UNC-ED  channel (available only to digital subscribers) was renamed UNC-MX. The "MX" signifies a "mix" of programming for adults, from public affairs shows to how-to and more.

UNC-EX airs locally on channel 4.3 or if you have cable, channel 203.

Raleigh author Alexandra Sokoloff will discuss her new thriller "The Unseen" this afternoon on "NC Bookwatch" on UNC-TV

The heroine of Sokoloff's book is a Duke University psych professor who is shaken by a precognitive dream and becomes obsessed with files from the famous Rhine parapsychology experiments, which took place at Duke and attempted to prove the legitimacy of ESP.

Along with another Duke professor and a pair of Duke students, the protagonist moves into an abandoned mansion to replicate the investigation, unaware that the last group of scientists to do so ended up either insane or dead.

My favorite Frontline producer Ofra Bikel has a new film on tonight at 9 on UNC-TV.

(Extra programming note: on UNC-ED "Endgame" repeats at 9 tonight.)

Bikel lives in New York's Upper East Side, one of the ritziest neighborhoods in the country.

She figures that the recession's impact is not really being felt there.

Until she talks to Deborah Boles, the owner of Deborah Hair Design, Bikel's longtime hair salon.

As my mind goes, I hope one of the memories I keep is of the day Nelson Mandela was released from his South African prison.

It was such a powerful moment in history; a time when an elegant and noble man embodied a nation on the verge of becoming greater.

"Endgame" (UNC-TV, 9 tonight) explores the work that lead to
that moment. It dramatizes the secret talks between ANC leaders and Afrikaners as they moved toward a peaceful resolution to the end of apartheid.

On tomorrow's episode of "This Old House," viewers will get a look inside the Raleigh home of architect and author Sarah Susanka (left), a well-known proponent of "Not So Big" home design.

The featured remodel on the show is a modest 1915 Dutch Colonial Revival in Newton Centre, Mass., and the owners want to update the home but don't want anything extravagant.

So while general contractor Tom Silva and master carpenter Norm Abram stay behind in New Centre to work on the house, the show's host, Kevin O’Connor, travels to Raleigh to get ideas from Susanka.

"This Old House" airs on UNC-TV on Saturdays at 4:30pm.