PASADENA, Calif. -- Last month after a press conference for PBS's "Faces of America" (8 tonight and airing Wednesdays through March 3, WQED) a few reporters approached host Henry Louis Gates Jr., to ask about that beer summit last summer between the Harvard professor/TV host, the cop who arrested him for entering his own home and President Barack Obama. (Today)

This season of "American Idol" is one for the books, and we're not talking about the "Pants on the Ground" phenomenon. Personnel shake-ups have turned attention to the judges. (Today)

NEW YORK -- Jay Leno has a message for David Letterman: Thanks. Mr. (Today)

LOS ANGELES -- The job of Dodge City peacekeeper is proving to be one of the most desirable assignments around. (Today)

Take the procedural, case-solving elements of "House" and "Lie to Me," add "X-Files"-like skeptic-believer tension and mix in a generous dollop of reincarnation hokum and you'll get a pretty good sense of Fox's "Past Life." (Yesterday)