The New York Times-20080128-What-s On Tonight

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What's On Tonight

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8 P.M. (CW) GOSSIP GIRL REVEALED Gossip Girl, whose first season ended after its 13 completed episodes ran out, returns to the schedule on a new night with a rebroadcast of the pilot and DVD-style extras -- cast interviews, deleted scenes, soundtrack information -- in a 90-minute special. (Left, Blake Lively as Serena.)

8 P.M. (13, 49) ANTIQUES ROADSHOW In the first of three episodes taped in Orlando, Fla., Mark L. Walberg, the show's host, and Arlie Sulka, an appraiser, visit nearby Winter Park and the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art to look at works by Louis Comfort Tiffany. At the Orange County Convention Center, experts offer their assessments of a photograph signed by the cast of Bonanza, a Tiffany vase and a collection of etchings and drypoints by James McNeill Whistler.

9 P.M. (CBS, NBC, Fox, ABC, MyNetwork TV, 13, CNN, C-Span, C-Span 2, FNC, MSNBC) STATE OF THE UNION President George W. Bush addresses Congress and the nation.

9 P.M. (History) CITIES OF THE UNDERWORLD Don Wildman, right, continues his journey to the center of the Earth -- O.K., it just feels like he's going there -- in the second season of this series that ventures hundreds of feet beneath the streets of some of the world's great cities. First stop: Jerusalem, whose foundation harbors a hidden occult city built by the Knights Templar and a hiding place for the Dead Sea Scrolls. At 10 Ancient Discoveries begins a new season with a visit to the bottom of the ocean in Mega Structures of the Deep.

9:30 P.M. (HBO) IN TREATMENT Gabriel Byrne plays Paul Weston, a psychotherapist and family man who appears successful but whose professional and personal lives are on the rocks. This new series, broadcast Monday through Friday for nine weeks -- yes, a 45-episode season -- follows Paul's weekly sessions. Monday nights belong to Laura (Melissa George), a beautiful anesthesiologist who talks about the real motivations for her sordid encounter with a stranger at a bar -- not least, her infatuation with Paul. Other patients: Blair Underwood as Alex (Tuesdays), Mia Wasikowska as Sophie (Wednesdays) and Josh Charles and Embeth Davidtz as Jake and Amy (Thursdays). Friday nights bring Paul's sessions with his own therapist, Dr. Gina Toll (Dianne Wiest), with whom he has more than a little history. Michelle Forbes is Kate, Paul's long-suffering wife.

10 P.M. (MTV) MAKING THE BAND 4 The band mates -- Michael, Robert, Brian, Willie and Qwanell -- move back into the penthouse and prepare to record their debut album. But in a surprise move the men will have to compete against the female pop group Danity Kane, the winners of Making the Band 3, who will also live in the apartment while they work on their own album. And their boss, Diddy, wants to see who will finish first.

10 P.M. (Travel) ANTHONY BOURDAIN: NO RESERVATIONS Greece supposedly has the healthiest diet. Mr. Bourdain journeys from Crete to Ithaca to figure out whether it's fact or myth. KATHRYN SHATTUCK

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