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Plan your week in entertainment


Plan your entertainment for the week with these highlights and pop-culture milestones.

MONDAY, 1/13

Watch: The winter TV season shifts into high gear tonight with the return of Hart of Dixie, How I Met Your Mother and 2 Broke Girls.

TUESDAY, 1/14

Read: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children became a runaway hit in 2011; the second novel begins in 1940, picking up where the first book ended. Ransom Riggs' Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children is out today.

WEDNESDAY, 1/15

Watch: American Idol is back with a new judging panel — Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban and Harry Connick Jr. — and Randy Jackson returns as the new in-house mentor. Idol XIII kicks off tonight at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.

THURSDAY, 1/16

It's the biggest morning in movie land! Find out who will be up for the year's top awards in Hollywood when Oscar nominations are announced bright and early today.

FRIDAY, 1/17

Watch: Here's a movie the entire family can see. In the animated 3-D flick The Nut Job, Will Arnett voices Surly, a mischievous squirrel, who finds himself on a hilarious adventure after he plans a nut store heist with his rat friend Buddy.