TV tonight: 'Bones,' '90210'
Bones
Fox, 8 ET/PT
Bones hits the 150th episode mark with this unusual and unusually strong episode told from the point of view of the 14-year-old victim. A psychic (a sweet turn from Cyndi Lauper) insists the child's soul is unwilling to cross over, which spooks some of the team and eventually intrigues them all. Happily, the hour is entirely ghost-free — no flickering lights, no levitating objects — and what could have been a corny gimmick gives rise instead to a well-told, cleverly shot, ultimately touching outing. Even at 150, there's life in those old Bones yet.
90210
CW, 8 ET/PT
90210 has its own milestone tonight, reaching the 100th episode mark, an achievement that would carry more weight were it not happening on a network that lets even the most minimally watched shows run on. This is, after all, an outlet that's allowing the justifiably axedEmily Owens, M.D. — a show where the constant drip, drip, drip of dialogue is akin to water torture — to complete a 13-episode run. So there's that.
The Mob Doctor
Fox, 9 ET/PT
CW isn't the only network to let the not-so-dearly departed live on. Fox is doing the same for its now-canceled Doctor, a move that smacks less of viewer service than corporate amortization. Still, if it takes airing all 13 episodes to convince Hollywood that combining a medical show with a mob drama is a ridiculously bad idea and spares us any further attempts, then so be it. The reward will be worth the pain.