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• At 7, Nickelodeon has two new episodes of BrainSurge.
• At 8, ABC has How The Grinch Stole Christmas, then Shrek The Halls and a new Find My Family.
• NBC has a new Heroes at 8, followed by new episodes of Trauma and The Jay Leno Show.
• FOX has a new House at 8, then a new Lie To Me.
• The CW has two new episodes of One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl.
• TLC has two new episodes of Little People, Big World, then a new Cake Boss.
• Food Network has a new Christmas edition of Good Eats at 8, followed by Wintertime Treats Unwrapped.
• Also at 8: TCM has The Lady From Shanghai, then Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
• At 8:30, ESPN has Monday Night Football, the Patriots vs. the Saints.
• At 9, USA has a new Monday Night RAW.
• At 10, Lifetime has two new episodes of Rita Rocks.
• Bravo has a new Million Dollar Listing at 10.
• History Channel has two new episodes of Pawn Stars at 10.
• There's a new Three Sheets on Fine Living at 10.

Check your local TV listings for more.

After the jump, the late night talk shows.

The first network for kids has had some cult classics on their hands. Recently, however, they really haven't released anything remotely memorable, even in the minds of our easily amused, sugared-up youngins.

That's because they have really strayed from the genre that made them so great: game shows. Strayed really isn't a strong enough word. Replace strayed with "shunned with the fervor of an Amish elder who spots a member of his ordnung waiting in line for the new Palm Pre."

Thankfully, the network has learned from their mistakes and re-animated the ghosts of their most classic game shows with Brainsurge.