Welcome back, Gossip Girl fans! If you weren't still basking in your Labor Day vacation last night, then you too watched the awesome and mostly hilarious premiere episode of season two like I did. True to form, the writers of Gossip Girl packed in a whole lot of plot, and the back-and-forths were at times mind-boggling. After covering the slow, deliberate Mad Men line delivery, it was a jolt to the system to hear these kids talk a mile a minute.

I would do a bit of season one recapping here, but the first three minutes of last night's episode were pretty darn comprehensive, so let's skip it and get to the good stuff. Blair's new man! Nate's Summer fling with a married lady! Dan's writer's block (try not to laugh) and new nickname courtesy of Gossip Girl herself! Jenny's internship and inexplicably awful Devil Wears Prada boss! Chuck's Chuckness! Ready, set, read more

ABC, NBC, and CBS all have coverage of the 2008 Republican Convention. Check your local listings for specific times.

• Fox has a repeat of House
• NBC is new with America's Got Talent and Dateline
• CBS has a repeat of NCIS and is new with Big Brother
• ABC has a repeat of Wipeout and is new with Wanna Bet
• The CW has the series premiere of 90210
• FX has the season premiere of The Shield
• MTV has Making the Band and From Gs to Gents
• VH1 has I Love Money
• Lifetime is new with How to Look Good Naked
• Bravo is new with Million Dollar Listing
• ABC Family is new with The Secret Life of the American Teenager and Greek
• Comedy Central is new with The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report
• Sci Fi is new with Eureka
• Oxygen is new with Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency
• Late-night highlights include Nicolas Cage, Anna Torv, and Terrence Howard on Late Show With David Letterman on CBS, Russell Brand, Eva Longoria Parker, and Ingrid Michaelson on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC, and Jarod Miller, Jason Lezak, and Ra Ra Riot on Late Night With Conan O'Brien on NBC

Last night's episode of Mad Men was a lot of things: illuminating, kinky, awkward, frustrating, and heartbreaking. I guess same old, same old for this show — but something about last night was a bit more intense, a touch more raw than the previous episodes this season. Maybe we're just at a place in the story arc of all the characters where, as Bobbie put it, "the gloves come off."

A lot of the characters in the Mad Men universe had moments of self-reflection: Don at the end of the episode, after another intense encounter with Bobbie, gazing at himself in the mirror; Pete taking a good look at himself in his own mirror after a night with a model. Meanwhile, Peggy's professional journey still captivates me, as she continues to face challenges as an up-and-coming woman at the office.

The part of Peggy's story that gives me chills is watching how ambitious she is becoming while knowing that, to some extent, she's not quite right in the head — or, at the very least, has experienced some emotional trauma we haven't seen her cope with yet. And this episode also had me laughing at the funny, old-fashioned terms people used for bras (like "brassiere")! So much to talk about, so let's start chatting — just read more

Labor Day weekend officially signals the close of the Summer box office season, and this year's ended on, as Variety described it, "a whimper" as opposed to a bang. Tropic Thunder landed in the top spot for the third weekend in a row, pulling in an estimated $14.3 million over four days. The second spot went to Babylon A.D. which earned an estimated $12 million. The Dark Knight came in at No. 3, surpassing the $500 million mark on Sunday.

Traitor starring Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce opened this weekend and came in fifth place with $10 million, just behind The House Bunny, which came in No. 4 with $10.2 million.

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