2009 started off like many others, with unimportant programming limping along until mid-season replacements, Super Bowl commercials, and the dreaded American Idol. Here's to 11 more days of an AI-free national discussion. Sláinte!

WATCH

20/20 [10 PM, ABC] - Tonight's topic is "extreme motherhood" - serial surrogates, home births, taking care of fake babies, prolonged breastfeeding and women who get pleasure out of the pain of childbirth. If the contraceptive effects of NBC's The Baby Borrowers are starting to wear off, consider this another televised Norplant injection.

True Hollywood Story: Howie Mandel [9 PM, E!] - Having shown episodes of THS most of the day, E! gives us a new one featuring everyone's favorite hugging, fist-bumping host of Deal or No Deal. Spanning his stand-up, Bobby's World and hopefully his Howie Do It pre-production meetings, E! tells us about his struggles to overcome OCD and adult ADHD, his struggles to overcome OCD and adult ADHD and probably something about his germ phobia as it relates to his OCD and adult ADHD.

TiVo

Miss America: Countdown to the Crown [10 PM, TLC] - Since Discovery rearranged the furniture and made TLC into the dumping ground for various reality properties, we barely even check its lineup when flipping through the channel guide. But now that TLC has the Miss America pageant later this month, we'll give them a chance. This series documents the 52 Miss America hopefuls living together on the Queen Mary in the LBC and puts the ladies through challenges to test their "skills, style and smarts." That anyone thinks this will somehow generate interest in the actual pageant makes us laugh, but we vowed we'd watch TLC again, so sometimes people are wrong.

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FBI Files [9 PM, WE] - We could be mistaken, but we thought the WE channel was all about Women's Entertainment. Sure, women like shows about FBI investigations as much as men or other gender classifications, this seems as strange a fit as a national pageant being on TLC. Everything you every wanted to know about Gotti or the Unabomber or crazy mobsters is here for the watching, but we are worried about the encroachment of stale news programming like 48 Hours reruns on the channel that gives us Sex Change Hospital and Women Behind Bars.

To Be Fat Like Me [10 PM, Lifetime Movie Network] - This 2007 Lifetime Adapted Movie is based on a 2003 ABC News report in which a girl wore a fat suit to expose how rude society can be to fat people. Big Bang Theory foxy neighbor Kaley Cuoco stars as the fat-suited teen and Caroline Rhea plays her mother in this parable that straddles the line between advocating weight acceptance and judging the obese.