Monday, Nov. 9
8/7c
How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
Ted, Marshall and Lily work together to get Barney and Robin to break up. Alan Thicke guest-stars as himself.
One Tree Hill (CW)
In an episode directed by series star Sophia Bush, devastating news threatens to derail Brooke and Julian's fairy-tale romance. Millie's downward spiral jeopardizes her relationship, her job and her life.
9/8c
Gossip Girl (CW)
Leighton Meester's new single "Somebody to Love" (with Robin Thicke) is featured in the episode. All-girl rock band Plastiscines perform.
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House
8/7c Fox
House returns from his three-week baseball break, rested if not quite ready. (He doesn't have his medical license back yet.) He'll be at a medical conference on pharmacology with Cuddy and Wilson when his snoop, Lucas (Michael Weston), unexpectedly shows up. Back at the hospital, tonight's mystery disease has befallen a partying teenage girl whose appendages have swollen for no apparent reason. She also can't distinguish between fact and fiction.
Read on for previews of How I Met Your Mother, CSI: Miami, Lopez Tonight and How the Beatles Rocked the Krelmin.
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There were a lot of dirty tricks on TV this week. Jo Reynolds (Daphne Zuniga) cajoled poor Riley into posing topless on Melrose Place. House and Foreman conducted an autopsy on a living person. Gossip Girl's Chuck kissed a guy because of Blair's deception. CSI: Miami's Eric Delko tricked us all by slinking off into the night with barely any explanation. Welcome to this week's Top Moments: Dirty Tricks Edition.
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Castle
10:02/9:02c ABC
She's a hard-nosed detective. He's a charmingly irreverent crime novelist. Surely this partnership can't last for long. Or can it? After all, the show is premised on their unlikely pairing. Things could change tonight, however, when Debi Mazar dances her way onto set to play Castle's agent and she brings with her an offer that may be too good for him to pass up. The catch? It could mean the end to Castle's days of derring-do as Beckett's partner, and that would certainly be a crime.
Read on for previews of Bud Greenspan Presents: Beijing 2008 — America's Olympic Glory, House, The Big Bang Theory and CSI: Miami.
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Hayden Panettiere and Madeline Zima's same-sex lip-lock might have titillated fanboys, but the buzzed-about kiss did not draw in many new Heroes viewers.
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