By ROB OWEN, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

They're ba-aack.
Four years after their 2002-05 MTV series "The Osbournes" ended, the first family of celeb-reality TV returns to prime time with a Fox variety show of sorts.

As PBS's "Masterpiece Classic" continues to roll out films based on the works of Charles Dickens, attention turns to one of the author's less popular works, "Little Dorrit." Beginning at 9 p.m. EDT Sunday and continuing for the next four Sundays, "Dorrit" tells a Dickens love story with the timely themes of chronic debt and financial collapse.

As PBS's "Masterpiece Classic" continues to roll out films based on the works of Charles Dickens, attention turns to one of the author's less popular works, "Little Dorrit." Beginning at 9 p.m. EDT Sunday and continuing for the next four Sundays, "Dorrit" tells a Dickens love story with the timely themes of chronic debt and financial collapse.

Animation fans and anyone interested in what can influence artistic inspiration is likely to enjoy "Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood," a new half-hour documentary. It premieres at 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday on TCM and will be followed by hours of Jones' animated shorts.

Animation fans and anyone interested in what can influence artistic inspiration is likely to enjoy "Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood," a new half-hour documentary. It premieres at 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday on TCM and will be followed by hours of Jones' animated shorts.

Under gray skies, ethereal clouds cling to green mountainsides beneath their peaks. Whitecaps foam on the surface of the Columbia River. It's the kind of early March day that Edward Cullen might enjoy.

Even if "Twilight" means nothing to you beyond the time of day the sun dips over the horizon, there's plenty to recommend about the Columbia River Gorge, a breathtaking National Scenic Area east of Portland, Ore., that stretches for 80 miles from Troutdale in the west to The Dalles in the east.

Fox's "24" has run through a slew of American presidents, from saints (David Palmer) to scoundrels (Charles Logan), but President Allison Taylor is the show's first female president. With the show's 24-hour day still under way, she's already been through a lot.

In these days of overpaid, unethical business executives and economic meltdown, there's something cathartic about ABC's "Better Off Ted," a comedy with a jaundiced view of the American workplace and the very notion of "corporate responsibility."

Not many TV shows inspire this question of the program's creator: "Is the God in 'Kings' the God of the Holy Bible? And do the citizens of Gilboa read the same Bible we read?"