TVSquad

• At 8, ABC has a new Supernanny, followed by new episodes of Ugly Betty and 20/20.
• PBS has a new Washington Week at 8, then new episodes of NOW and Bill Moyers Journal.
• MyNetwork TV has a new Smackdown! at 8.
• HGTV has a new Divine Design at 8.
• Nickelodeon has two new episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants at 8, then two new episodes of The Penguins of Madagascar.
• At 9, USA has a new Monk, followed by a new White Collar.
• Travel Channel has two new episodes of Ghost Adventures at 9.
• Also at 9: HBO2 has a Bored To Death marathon.
• At 10, Food Network has a new "best of" Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.
• At 11, VH-1 has a new Storytellers with Foo Fighters.

Check your local TV listings for more.

After the jump, the late night talk shows.

There's a long-standing tradition of porting successful animated movies to ongoing television series, with mixed results. DreamWorks recently delivered the manic Penguins of Madagascar, and now Nickelodeon is bringing Kung Fu Panda to the screen as a series. Think about this: Penguins is bringing 13 million viewers a week. Granted, they're 2-11 years old, but it's still a pretty impressive number. I expect Panda can bring even bigger numbers. Certainly my son will be thrilled. Now he'll have two reasons to watch Nick (he's in love with iCarly).

He dragged me to the movie, and I was ready to write it off as horrible before it started because I didn't like the title. It was a little too goofy. But the movie was infectious in its joy. The expanded cast of characters leaves to a great deal of potential, and the panda Po himself is so ridiculous as a kung fu master you can't help but enjoy it. And now I can force him to stop watching the horrible Skunk Fu! to get his anthropomorphic martial arts fix.