SEASON PREMIERE: Bill Maher returns tonight to start Season 12 of his always provocative, almost always quotable live talk show. Among his guests: James Carville and Mary Matalin, the married political odd couple who, near the end of the show, will be seated for once on the same panel.

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HELIX By David Bianculli

Ron Moore of Battlestar Galactica continues his new variation on Outbreak and The Thing, and tonight the plot thickens. So do the remains of some of the alien-infected bodies, which are positively viscous – while the ones who are infected yet alive, they’re less viscous than vicious.

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LIFETIME'S 'FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC' BETTER THAN MOVIE VERSION By Jonathan Storm

The first cinematic version of Flowers in the Attic, in 1987, was so bad. The second one, televised Saturday at 8 p.m. ET on Lifetime, is better, thanks to three beautifully cast pros...

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AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Part 2 of 2. In last night’s two-hour Part 1 of this show’s Season 13 premiere, American Idol already put its best foot forward, replacing last year’s ego-driven angst (Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey) with Harry Connick Jr.’s playful self-deprecation. Both he and returning judge Keith Urban joke about how most contestants focus only on Jennifer Lopez, returning for a second Idol judging stint – but this trio seems to get along nicely, with Connick alread

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COMMUNITY By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guest star is Walton Goggins, the Justified star who already has proven his willingness to take daring chances in his knockout recurring guest role on Sons of Anarchy. On this NBC sitcom, he plays a man with a plan – a plan that just might shake up the status quo of this loose-knit, and just plain loose, community-college group.

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30 FOR 30: "THE PRICE OF GOLD" By David Bianculli

Hard to believe, but it was 20 years ago this week that the build-up to the Olympic Games made front-page headlines worldwide – because one U.SA. ice skater, Nancy Kerrigan, was attacked after practice, her right knee clubbed by an unknown assailant. The attack, it soon was uncovered, was a plot by Jeff Gillooly and his friends to incapacitate Kerrigan – because she was seen by them as the main competition for another U.S. skater, Tonya Harding, who was Gillooly’s ex-wife. This

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PARENTHOOD By David Bianculli

After calling an end to her impending marriage, Amber (Mae Whitman) runs away from home – and that’s only one of the dramatic twists and turns in tonight’s episode.

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THE SPOILS OF BABYLON By David Bianculli

In this week’s episode of this multi-part miniseries spoof, Cynthia (Kristen Wiig) becomes jealous because Devon (Tobey Maguire), having returned from the war, has brought with him the new love of his life: Lady Anne. Cynthia greets Lady Anne stiffly, but not as stiffly as Lady Anne greets Cynthia. That’s because Lady Anne, as few people seem to notice, is a mannequin.

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AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Superstitious types may worry that Season 13 of this long-running Fox competition reality series comes burdened with an ill omen, numerically speaking. But what it’s unburdened by is the caustic bickering, and bitching, by last year’s mismatched female judges, Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey. They’re gone, as is now-retired original judge Randy Jackson. But Season 13 has two experienced judges in the saddle – not only returning, amiable Keith Urban, bu

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MODERN FAMILY By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode is full of guest stars, including Jesse Eisenberg as Mitchell’s new neighbor, and Jane Krakowski as a rival mom who faces Gloria (Sofia Vergara) in a game of… dodgeball?

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