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'Leverage'
(10PM, TNT) 1st season finale
If you've missed out on this drama starring Oscar-winner Timothy Hutton, here's the chance to catch a replay of the entire first season (10AM).

The marathon ends with the season finale, where Hutton's modern-day Robin Hood-ish Nate must reunite his merry band of men and women grifters to avoid jail. Nate's pals are all in hiding after their plan for revenge against the company that denied medical treatment for Nate's now-dead son went awry.

Nate has hatched a new, even bolder, scheme to get even with his nemesis Blackpoole (guest star Kevin Tighe), but the stakes for the new heist are even higher for him and the team: Either vengeance, or life-long jail sentences, are theirs.

'Scrubs'
(9PM and 9:30PM, ABC)
Tonight's episode is brought to you by the letter 'C,' as J.D. employs the help of some friendly neighborhood Muppets to try to teach his interns how to be compassionate with their patients.

Unfortunately, as sweet and furry as guest stars Elmo, Grover and trash can-dwellin' Oscar may be, it's not easy getting through to J.D.'s knuckleheads.

And, in the 9:30 episode, we may finally see a development that we've been expecting since the series first hit the airwaves on that other network: Dr. Cox considers taking on Dr. Kelso's old job as Sacred Heart Chief of Medicine.

'Presidential Inauguration'
(Check local listings for time and channels)
There'll be dozens of inauguration balls, parades and TV specials, but the main event -- leading up to the noon swearing in of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States -- begins at 10AM.

Evangelical pastor Rick Warren will deliver the invocation, civil rights leader Joseph Lowery will deliver the benediction and Yo-Yo Ma, Aretha Franklin and Itzhak Perlman will provide the celebratory tunes before Vice-President Joe Biden takes his oath.

He will be followed by Obama, who will take his oath of office from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, using the bible that Abraham Lincoln used at his 1861 inauguration ... a historical day indeed.

'Scrubs'
(9PM and 9:30PM, ABC) 8th season premiere
The quirky sitcom that never seemed to get any love from the Peacock network during its seven seasons on NBC has moved to ABC, where J.D., Turk. Dr. Cox and the gang are welcomed with back-to-back episodes.

That's not all that's changed, as the show, which had gotten bogged down with too much focus on matters outside the hospital, has returned to the scene of the doctors' funniest moments. There's also a new chief of staff -- played by guest star Courteney Cox -- whose cheeriness causes Dr. Cox to suspect she's not as nice as she appears to be.

No worries though ... Kelso's still hanging around Sacred Heart, and still causing grief for hapless Sacred Heart attorney Ted.