Television
It's been an off year for irascible genius House (Hugh Laurie) and the brash medical drama, but both return to lively form this week in an episode which is extended by eight minutes.

Movies
Bolt (voice of John Travolta) was raised to believe he’s the superdog he plays in movies. But after he gets separated from his actress costar, Penny (Miley Cyrus) — and shipped to NYC by accident — he realizes he doesn’t have special powers, though he is no less a hero.

DVDs
Three megastars - fading action hero Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller, who also directed and cowrote), Aussie Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey, Jr.) and drug-addicted comic Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black) - go on location for a gritty Vietnam War movie in Tropic Thunder, on DVD this week.

Music
Don't expect Killers frontman Brandon Flowers to turn mushy now that he's a married dad. After two platinum CDs, his Las Vegas-based outfit mixes '80s-influenced synthesizer-fused rock with weighty storytelling to create Day & Age, their best effort yet.