Watching We Are One, the inaugural celebration concert in Washington on HBO, I kept thinking of transformation. Not “change,” that politically-charged-to-the-point-of-meaninglessness concept, but rather the way that great (and even not-so great) American songs (and even not American songs) evolve over time.

Take the opening performance …

As part of my day of service to the nation, I will post a Big Love Watch later this morning, but as I wrote below, I’m only one man, so I’m officially throwing open this post for discussion of last night’s United States of Tara debut, Flight of the Conchords’ return, the Obama concert (which I may also post on in a bit) or the NFL …

Just in time for tonight’s season premiere of Flight of the Conchords, time.com has posted the FOTC feature I wrote for the print magazine, based on a set visit last fall and having seen the first three new episodes. Bret really was duct-taped to the apartment door, though I believe he had some type of pedestal foot support.

And if you …

If you’ve watched last night’s return episode of Battlestar Galactica, and are the kind of person who is reading a TV blog on the weekend, then you are probably the kind of person who will want to jump over—like now—to Mo Ryan, who has an exhaustive interview with Ron Moore on “Sometimes a Great Notion,” plus the writers and director.

Spoilers for the midseason premiere of Battlestar Galactica after the jump:

Time for a housekeeping note. As my TV review this week notes, America’s programmers this month, the bastards, are debuting or returning too much good TV to the schedule. I feel a little like one of the patrons in the SNL Limits of the Imagination sketch about the “all-you-can eat” restaurant where the customers are force-fed.

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This Saturday around 4 p.m., I’ll be appearing at New York’s Paley Center in a panel about Lost, for which I have terrifyingly been misidentified as a “Lost expert.” (Without Lostpedia at my fingertips, I would be nothing.) We have a good panel, though, and besides a 30-minute preview of the season 5 premiere, the Paley Center will …

Brief takes on The Office and 30 Rock coming up after the jump: 

I’ll be posting a quick hit on last night’s The Office and 30 Rock a little later this morning, but with all the new product coming on TV this week and weekend, I never got around to watching William Petersen’s final episode on CSI. Your dissection—or thoughts on any other TV last night—welcome.

I did, however, finally watch this …

…so it had that going for it. Otherwise, George W. Bush’s farewell address was a bit of a strange creature, with its tone at odds with its agenda. Message-wise, it was of a piece with the contentious last press conference Bush held this week, where he defended his record and tried to bat down notions that his administration had failed, …

There is, as I like to say, a lot of TV on television this month. In this week’s TIME, I have an omnibus review of Lost, Friday Night Lights, Trust Me, Lie to Me, Big Love and, reprinted below, this weekend’s debut of United States of Tara: