Scrubs returns on ABC with Courtney Cox as Dr. Maddox— the hospital's new chief—and a new batch of interns.

New Independent Lens film. "HELVETICA is a film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives."

Eleni Mandell plays singer/songwriter hotspot the Hotel Café in Los Angeles.

• Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (vinyl only, CD/download out 1/20) (Domino)
• The BPA - I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat (new project from Norman Cook, featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal) (Southern Fried)
• David Carbonara - Mad Men: Original Score, Vol. 1 (Lionsgate)
• Chatham County Line - Chatham County Line (produced by Chris Stamey) (Yep Roc)
• The Fireman (Paul McCartney/Youth)- Electric Arguments (vinyl double-LP) (ATO)
• The Gourds -Haymaker (Yep Roc)
• The King Khan & BBQ Show - Animal Party (EP, comes with 15-page coloring book) (Fat Possum)
• Erin McCarley - Love, Save the Empty (Universal Republic)
• Various Artists - Undone: A MusicFest Tribute to Robert Earl Keen (featuring Reckless Kelly, Cory Morrow and more) (Right Ave/Dickson Productions)

Reissues

• Ike & Tina Turner - The Collection (EMI Gold) (U.K. only)

Music DVDs

• Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing: Live in Germany 1979 (Select Canada)
• Charles Mingus Quintet - Live in Berlin 1972 (ImproJazz)

Music Books

• Appetite for Self-Destruction: the Rise and Fall of the Record Industry in the Digital Age - by Steve Knopper (Free Press)

Okkervil River performs on the Late Show on CBS. Ricky Gervais guests.

Broadcast Film Critics Association's Critic's Choice Awards will air. Past shows have been relatively accurate predictors of Academy Awards winners.

Eagles of Death Metal perform on The Tonight Show on NBC.

Guitar virtuoso Al Di Meola begins a U.S. tour in support of his new live album New World Sinfonia at Pittsburgh's Rex Theatre.

Kiefer Sutherland returns as Jack Bauer on Fox's 24.

Matt Dallas returns as the kid with no belly button on ABC Family's Kyle XY.