9pm, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Hallmark
A dentist is murdered by the mother of one of his patients (that must have been a seriously bad filling), and Goren and Eames follow the evidence trail to a company that seems to have been the target of a criminal conspiracy involving contaminated mouthwash.
• catch it again tomorrow night, 8pm
9pm, The Mentalist, Five
Patrick is confronted with someone who knows almost as many tricks as he does when a medium is implicated in a wealthy woman’s death, and the case brings up some extremely painful memories about his wife and son.
• catch it again, Sunday, 7pm on Five US
9pm & 10pm, Bones, Sky1
Bones adds body-snatching to her CV this week when she thinks a recently deceased colleague was actually murdered; and then in the second of tonight’s episodes an old pal of Booth flies in from Toyko to investigate after his sister’s head is found on a spike. You’ll be impressed by Angela’s gender-defining methods.
• catch it again, Friday, 9pm & 10pm on Sky2
9pm, My Name Is Earl, E4
Eighties soap queens Morgan Fairchild and Joan Van Ark guest-star as two of Joy’s new neighbours who turn to Earl to help them with their guilt-based insomnia after he accidentally blinds one of their dogs with his car exhaust fumes.
• catch it again at on E4+1, 10pm/Saturday, 7pm
9pm & 10pm, ER, More4
It’s another double bill, and the second one is the one you’ve all been waiting for, as George Clooney finally reprises his role as delectable Doug Ross, now based in Seattle alongside wife Carol (Julianna Margulies). Back in Chicago, Morris gets a shock when his cop girlfriend is admitted to the ER.
• catch it again at on More4+1, 10pm & 11pm/Monday, 12m’t & 1.00am
10pm, Californication, Fiver
David Duchovny returns as the womanising author Hank, but he’s going to have to curtail his wild ways now he’s back with Karen, and she’s already setting new limits, starting with a vasectomy. Ouch!
• catch it again on Wednesday, 10pm
10pm, Grey’s Anatomy, Living
Madison is still in Seattle, and she and Derek clash over the treatment of a patient. Elsewhere, Faye Dunaway guest-stars as a veteran surgeon who gets on the wrong side of Cristina. That is one seriously immovable forehead, Faye!
• catch it again on Living+1, 11pm/Living+2, 12m’t/Wednesday, 8pm
11pm, Brothers & Sisters, More4
The Walker kids try to prevent Nora finding out about Tommy, but they haven’t reckoned on their weasely new half-brother. He may look as if butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth, but I suspect he has inherited his father’s devious ways.
• catch it again on More4+1, 12m’t
