What to Watch Monday, Sept. 1

'Gossip Girl'
(8PM, The CW) 2nd season premiere
What Nate Archibald did on his summer vacation: Hooked up with Serena van der Woodsen.

Or so everyone thinks. Actually, the pals have just pretended to be dating while summering in the Hamptons so that no one will suspect what -- or rather who -- Nate's really been doing. Meanwhile, Serena spent the summer pining for Dan, who's been entertaining a revolving door of girls in the city, while sis Jenny was interning for Blair's mom.

And about Miss Waldorf ... she's returning from Europe with a big surprise for would-be boyfriend Chuck, and, as we'll soon learn, that surprise will have a surprising connection to ... well, we'll let that be a surprise.


'Gossip Girl'
(8PM, The CW) 2nd season premiere
What Nate Archibald did on his summer vacation: Hooked up with Serena van der Woodsen.

Or so everyone thinks. Actually, the pals have just pretended to be dating while summering in the Hamptons so that no one will suspect what -- or rather who -- Nate's really been doing. Meanwhile, Serena spent the summer pining for Dan, who's been entertaining a revolving door of girls in the city, while sis Jenny was interning for Blair's mom.

And about Miss Waldorf ... she's returning from Europe with a big surprise for would-be boyfriend Chuck, and, as we'll soon learn, that surprise will have a surprising connection to ... well, we'll let that be a surprise.

'Prison Break'
(8PM, Fox) 4th season premiere
Yes, Sarah's alive! But that doesn't mean there's a happy ending; Michael and Linc are forced to begin another wild chase to try to bring down The Company.

'Republican National Convention'
(10PM, ABC, CBS, NBC)
Dubya, the First Lady and Veep Dick Cheney kick off the 39th RNC in St. Paul.

'One Tree Hill'
(9PM, The CW) 6th season premiere
Last season's finale cliffhanger leads to Lucas and Peyton heading off to Vegas to get married ... or is that just one of this season premiere's many dream sequences?

'Raising the Bar'
(10PM, TNT) series premiere
Who woulda thunk Zack Morris would end up working first for the NYPD, and now as a public defender?

'The Middleman'
(10PM, ABC Family) 1st season finale
Wendy is transported to an alternate universe in an episode titled 'The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome.' There's no way that can't be great.

'The BFFs of BH'
(12AM, SOAPnet) 24-hour marathon
Just in time for tomorrow night's new '90210' premiere, SOAPnet unspools a day of the original series, including the two-hour pilot (12AM), Brenda and Dylan's spring dance romp (5AM) and subsequent pregnancy scare (6AM), Dylan dumping Brenda for Kelly (3PM) and, a true classic, "Donna Martin graduates!" (5PM).

'Scrubs'
(4PM, TV Land) marathon
The looniest docs since Hawkeye left the 4077 join TV Land's line-up with a seven-hour marathon that includes the pilot (4PM), the famous musical episode (4:30PM) that reveals "Everything Comes Down to Poo" and Turk's classic Poison dance in "My Half-Acre" (9:30PM).


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