A mother's sudden paralysis during a indoor rock-climbing incident leaves her daughter injured, and House's new team looking for a cure. Meanwhile, House organizes his new recruits' Secret Santa gift exchange... with a few twists of his own.

American Idol continues their quest to find the next singing superstar. Watch as thousands of hopefuls go before the judges in hopes of making it to Hollywood from Omaha, NE.

In this week's episode, one team retaliates after being called lazy by another team, and the willpower of the contestants is put to the test during a soda temptation. Then the game is changed forever - for trainers and contestants - after a dramatic escalator challenge.

While Cheryl is still out of town, Jim is having hard time dealing with Ruby's girl problems, so he assigns Dana to help her. However, when Dana tells Ruby to go out on a date with an older guy, Jim if forced to intervene, as he, Dana and Andy end up following Ruby to her date.

A look into the restoration of the Parthenon by the Greek government, dating back 25 centuries as secrets are revealed of how the temple was built. Includes remarks from Acropolis Restoration Project architect Manolis Korres; University of Florida art history professor Barbara Barletta; University of Bath architecture and civil engineering lecturer Mark Wilson Jones; and University of Pennsylvania Greco-Roman architecture expert Lothar Haselberger.

In this flashback episode, memories are looked back upon. Lucas surprises Peyton in Los Angeles and they talk. He asks her something and is left with a surprising answer. Meanwhile, Nathan's temper triggers up after a guy reminds him of his cheating in high school basketball games.

Mike Rowe gets dirty in Oregon making cedar shakes and shingles.



Then he jumps on a Coast Guard ship in the San Francisco Bay to clean dirty buoys.

Laird fears losing his sex appeal at the office when he learns that another man has been dubbed the "handsomest man". Marmaduke has the hots for a girl tagged on his mom's flipper houses.

When there are no parking spots available at the carpool lot, Laird decides to take a handicapped spot and forces Gracen to pretend he can't walk to his office. When a parking attendant discovers the hoax, the guys not only lose their carpool privileges, the bad karma keeps on coming - Gracen refuses to ride with Laird, and Laird is accused of sexual harassment by Aubrey's favorite babysitter.

Alex is a navy pilot who entered therapy due to a mission that went awry in Iraq. Alex talks to Paul about his service in Iraq and a heart attack he suffered while exercising.

Christian attempts to cope in the aftermath of a death. Colleen feels threatened when another talent agency shows an interest in Sean's acting career. The docs operate on a young man with disturbing wounds from his honeymoon.

Does life exist on other planets? Astrobiology is a visionary new science that searches for life in space by combining the disciplines of astronomy, biology and geology. How did life evolve on Earth? What will life look like on other planets? These and other pertinent questions will be answered by a diverse group of scientists.

Tonight, presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.



Jon begins tonight's show with a review of President Bush's final State of the Union address. Some of the highlights include Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush's red dress, Bush allowing us all to become deciders once again, and finally, the coup de gras, Dick Cheney smiling. Finally, the governor of Kansas provides the Democratic response which asks Bush to join them and for all of us citizens to sleep well.

Leslie holds a short memorial service in the Greens & Grains bread isle where his father passed on. He comes to the realization that he has no one to pass his legacy on to if he passes away himself. Naturally he chooses Carl as heir. Leslie quickly becomes over involved in Carl's life causing an unfortunate series of events for the whole staff.

Tonight Stephen welcomes music critic Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century.`



Also Stephen talks with Marvel Comics Editor-in-chief Joe Quesada about the new Captain America, Stephen's run for President in the Marvel U and the upcoming Secret Invasion storyline.



Jon Stewart stops by to help Stephen in his feud with Conan O'Brien as to who made Mike Huckabee.

Chad struggles with his battle with Gantenbainne Mosqueda, until his Right arm takes it true form. Chad starts to gain the advantage and speed and starts to beat Gantenbainne Mosqueda, until he releases and Chad gets his newly powered up left arm and beats Gantenbainne Mosqueda in one hit. Until Nnoitra appears.

An architect plans to build a new house for his family using only white materials. He ends up using stuff more commonly used in commercial buildings.

A soldier from 1918, being kept cryogenically frozen by Torchwood, is being woken up for one day each year. But something's different this year. His time is colliding with ours, and he needs to go, although Toshiko isn't so sure whether she wants him to...