In tonight’s pilot for TNT’s new series Monday Mornings, based on Sanjay Gupta’s novel of the same name, there’s a doctor whose colleagues dub 007—because he treats his patients as if he has a license to kill. I wondered if, in his own experience as a neurosurgeon, Gupta had ever encountered a 007. “When I was training,” he told me last month for the Time Out Interview, “an attending, when he was particularly upset with a resident, he’d call that resident 007. It’s a harsh thing, because you’re training to heal people and help people, and then this guy’s essentially calling you a paid assassin. It stuck with me.” Another outtake from my phone conversation with CNN’s medical correspondent:

You’ve reported on high-profile health-related issues around the world: the Iraq War, tsunamis, hurricanes. What does visiting other countries in crisis situations illuminate for you about health and medicine in the U.S. as compared to other parts of the world?

As a journalist who reports on these things all over the world, the health and medical stories are universally understood. If you’re covering a war in the Middle East, people may not understand the geopolitics of what’s happening between Israel and Lebanon, but they do understand when bombs have gone off and people have been injured and now they’re trying to get those people care. It illuminates what’s happening in a place in a way that I don’t think anything else can. As far as health care overall, when I was in Haiti after the earthquake—you know, I go to places that are some of the most resource-deprived places in the world. Before the earthquake, fewer than 50 percent of the people had access to clean water in Haiti. You see why clean water has to be the starting point in these places. You cannot think about establishing new drug formularies and getting in CAT scan machines and radio surgery until you can figure out distribution of clean water.

Monday Mornings premieres tonight on TNT at 9pm.

While the Bears are on vacation, the team's home turf is being put to good use. Soldier Field has been converted into an ice hockey rink for the upcoming Office Max Hockey City Classic on February 17. The college double-header will feature Notre Dame vs. Miami (Ohio) and Minnesota vs. Wisconsin. The outdoor hockey matchups are the first to be held at the stadium. 

Prior to gameday, people can hit the ice in two public skates on February 2 and February 18. One caveat: You'll have to cop at ticket from one of the eight participating Office Max locations. These open skates are presented in partnership with the Chicago Park District. Other highlights at the winter festival include youth clinics, high school matches and tonight's Skate with the Greats fund-raiser. Fans can go for a whirl or chat with Blackhawks greats including Bobby Hull, Tony Esposito, Reid Simpson and Brian Noonan. Proceeds benefit Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana.

The series finale of 30 Rock airs tonight. Yes, Tina Fey's sit-com takes place in New York, but the show definitely has roots in Chicago. After all, Fey spent many years here performing and studying at Second City and iO (which she talks about in her book, Bossypants), and so did Fey's character, Liz Lemon. The show has made a ton of favorable Chicago shout-outs over the years, so we're hoping for at least one more in tonight's finale. But first, let's take a look at some of our favorite Chicago mentions throughout 30 Rock's run:

1. Liz Lemon does jury duty in Chicago

Midway through the series, we learn that Liz Lemon kept her voter registration/address info in Chicago because she didn't want to be taken off the mailing list for Chicago Pizza Explosion. When she comes to Chicago to serve on a jury, she gets out of it thanks to her Princess Leia outfit. The same gimmick doesn't quite work when she tries it in New York.

Today on Craigslist, one of the strangest "rooms & shares" ads I've ever seen popped up: a 29-year-old lesbian masseuse in Logan Square seeking a roommate for "a very unique living arrangement." And by unique she means sharing an apartment with two potbellied pigs "who will be an unavoidable part of your life."

"They are intelligent, sweet, and adorable, but they also behave like pigs and so anyone who lives here must understand how to interact with them properly. That I can teach you, but it requires a certain degree of confidence around animals. Franklin, the oldest, will bully you—they are herd animals and while I am ultimately alpha, he feels the need to climb the hierarchy. If you live here, logically you are in his herd, therefore he will challenge you every so often to establish who is where in the hierarchy. He can also be very sweet and cuddle with you on the couch while you watch your favorite show. The other one is an absolute sweetheart and will probably never challenge you."

So after Porky has established his dominance over you in the domestic power structure, you two can lay around rubbing snouts and watching Girls. To misquote Tarantino, that's one charming motherfuckin' pig! And the apartment, she says, is no pigsty.

"This is a great arrangement for someone who appreciates a clean environment. Despite stereotypes, the pigs are actually very clean and I take full responsibility for any messes they create."

You have to be cool with Pig Lady's pets, yet she isn't okay with you bringing a cat or dog into the situation. ('Cause a dog is a filthy animal?) Also, she doesn't ingest pork. But if you dig on swine, she adds, that's cool; you just can't eat her pigs.