Night over at Fox with the addition of Bones, which links as the lead-in to House to form not only a night of single-word dramatic titles but an evening of lead doctor characters for whom being likable is far down the list of priorities. "House" has the prickly, disconnected and world-weary Dr. Gregory House, and "Bones" has Dr. Temperance Brennan (played with sass and attitude by Emily Deschanel), a headstrong and very Type-A forensic anthropologist in D.C., who admits to having a better relationship with dead people than the living. While "Bones" has too much "X-Files" and "CSI" going in the pilot to feel completely original, it's nonetheless a taut, well-constructed, character-rich procedural with genuine potential.

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