•If you're willing to suspend disbelief and give in to the silliness, Bones(Fox, 8 ET/PT) offers one of its most entertaining episodes as the team sneaks a co-worker's corpse out of his funeral coffin to prove he was murdered. There's actually a decent mystery at the story's center, but the obvious appeal is the inappropriate behavior.

•NBC's summer experiment The Philanthropist (10 ET/PT) ekes its way to its finale with a trip to Haiti. Nothing much new the networks have tried has gotten much traction this summer, in part because the shows haven't been very good, but also because viewers see these offseason months as a time when cable puts its best foot forward, and broadcast doesn't. If the networks want to change that perception, they're going to have to work harder, and spend more, than they have so far.

•It's goodbye Cowboys, hello Bengals on HBO's football series Hard Knocks as it launches again with Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Cincinnati Bengals (10 ET/PT). Before Bengals fans rejoice, keep in mind that even the best reality/documentary shows depend on drama. Since they can't (or at least shouldn't) script it, they must rely on the participants to create it. Which means being chosen may be less of an honor than you might hope.