February 8, 2006

"The 48th Annual Grammy Awards" (8 p.m., WWJ-TV, Channel 62, CBS). Beat temptations. Kanye West, Mariah Carey and John Legend, each with eight nominations, lead the Grammy pack of favorites in live, music-drenched ceremonies from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The special attractions? Mary J. Blige performing a duet with U2. Very cool. And an all-star tribute to Sly and the Family Stone. Super cool. Dance to the music!

No funny bone?

"Bones" (9 p.m., WJBK-TV, Channel 2, Fox). We’re not too sure about skeletons in Dr. Temperance (Bones) Brennan’s (Emily Deschanel) closet. But the feisty forensic anthropologist and her FBI agent partner Seely Booth (David Boreanaz) have a workday world filled with skeletal remains. And that includes the decomposing corpse of a lonely, comic-book-obsessed teen in tonight’s whodunit case. OK, Bones and Booth, commence witty bickering.

Look out for the Others

"Lost" (9 p.m., WXYZ-TV, Channel 7, ABC). Flashback City. Tonight’s voyage into character revelation features moody macho man Sawyer (Josh Holloway). He’s the interested, bemused bystander as prickly tensions escalate among Jack, Locke, Kate and Ana Lucia. Also, there are growing fears that the scary Others may have returned after Sun (Yunjin Kim) is victimized by a botched kidnapping attempt. Just another hunky dory day on this pleasant little tropical island.

Veronica’s whodunit

"Veronica Mars" (9 p.m., WKBD-TV, Channel 50, UPN). Take the money and run. So who’s the clever thief responsible for pilfering all the proceeds for the senior class trip that are in Veronica’s (Kristen Bell) possession during Neptune High’s Winter Carnival? That’s the whodunit puzzle for the night. Meanwhile, back at the tangled season-long mystery of the school bus crash, Keith (Enrico Colantoni) has some uncomfortable questions for baseball idol Terrence Cook (Jeffrey Sams) about his possible connection to that unsolved tragedy. This is still the best show with a high school setting since "Freaks & Geeks."

Kathleen vs. Sam

"Law & Order" (10 p.m., WDIV-TV, Channel 4, NBC). Homicide High School. Kathleen Turner struts her guest-starring diva stuff as a high-powered defense attorney. She’s the advocate for a privileged, trouble-prone teen who’s suspected in the strangulation murder of a smart Hispanic classmate. It seems the murder victim was selling test answers and doing term papers for the private school’s wealthier students. Legal eagle Rebecca Shane (Turner) and ADA Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) will no doubt exchange a few sharp words.

So let’s get the snarky courtroom party started.

Han Solo goes ’Daily’

"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" (11 p.m., Comedy Central). America’s favorite fake newsman, Jon Stewart, welcomes ridiculously handsome, well-preserved Hollywood superstar Harrison Ford for a bit of Q&A repartee.

When it all began

"Alias" (12 midnight, TNT). Blast from the spy babe past. In an encore of the series pilot, we meet Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) as her grad student secret life as a globe-trotting spy is about to get crazy, tangled and touched by tragedy. It’s also time for first encounters with designated dreamboat Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan), complicated pops Jack Bristow (Victor Garber) and sneaky Arvin Sloane (Ron Rifkin), the Mr. Sinister of the sleek, darkly amusing spy thriller.