The Help guide to Thursday TV: Bones, A Workplace Customer, A Rustic Christmas, and much more!

Bones Always a well known (if sometimes contentious) subject during my Request Matt forum, Fox's Bones refutes any notion that it is heart is not in the best place within this week's ultimately touching episode (9/8c). Rob Waite (forever Papa Walton to a lot of us, though nowadays also known as Jethro's father on NCIS) constitutes a welcome return as Booth's grandfather, bearing some uncomfortable news which has the pregnant Bones (Emily Deschanel) wondering just how to achieve to a closed-off Booth (David Boreanaz, who's in especially fine form). "I ought to have the ability to help Booth, should not I?" she frets to some supportive Angela. It can be her pregnancy the body's hormones and also the irritatingly swelling breasts, but Bones relaxes her guardedness enough doing guy with an emotional rough patch that invokes reminiscences both good and bad. For this week's situation, which returns Tina Majorino as gung-ho Agent Shaw - who'd do anything whatsoever to thrill Booth - let us just say it gives new meaning towards the publish office's "dead letter" operation. Piecing together this puzzle means assembling an appearance discovered in multiple shipping boxes - yet another day at work for that squints.Want more TV news? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!ER's Maura Tierney returns to NBC's Thursday evening selection - going to Work (9/8c) because the wife of enigmatic new Boss Robert California (James Spader), who's searching to locate a role for his spouse at Dunder Mifflin. Elsewhere on NBC's comedy selection: Leslie continues trial on Parks and Entertainment (8:30/7:30c) Shaun and Shirley synergy to seize control from the school's foosball table on recently christened TV Guide Magazine "fan favorite" Community (8/7c), while Annie makes matters worse when she attempts to hide the truth that she broke Abed's Dark Dark night DVD as well as in a bizarre preview of sorts to impending midseason changes, Chelsea Handler visitors like a counselor on Whitney (9:30/8:30c) within an episode entitled "Up Through The Night." Since you may often hear, Whitney is going to be vacating Thursdays within the year, changing with Up Through The Night and developing a brand new Wednesday block with Are You Currently There, Chelsea? - which might be a moot question if these shows don't pull how much they weigh inside a typically hard time period for NBC.A couple of musical notes: It is a double elimination on Fox's The X Factor (8/7c), meaning regardless of how it plays out, a minumum of one from the "women" or "men" is going to be removed from Simon Cowell's or L.A. Reid's teams - maybe one from each if Josh Krajcik, the final (and finest) from the elders, handles to outlive (though he battled on Michael Jackson evening having a bad, and badly overproduced, number). And knowing from individuals amusing cutaways Wednesday evening towards the bored-searching Jackson kids within the audience, if sour-faced little Blanket Jackson had his way, everybody could be going home. ... Noticeably missing in the X Factor ranks is anybody in the country persuasion. Therefore if that's more for your taste, ABC obliges with CMA Country Christmas (9/8c), a 2-hour holiday music hootenanny featuring The American Idol Show alums Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina and Kellie Pickler, together with this type of-listers as Belief Hill, Martina McBride, Kaira Paisley, Keith Urban - as well as in a jerk towards the box office, Vince Gill inside a duet using the Muppets' Miss Piggy.Among popular features of World Helps Day-related programming: Logo design starts a 2-evening presentation from the brilliant Cinemax miniseries version of Tony Kushner's epic Angels in the usa (10/9c concludes Friday at 10/9c), featuring Al Pacino and Meryl Streep among an amazing ensemble. ... Showtime's focal point inside a evening of Helps-related documentary programming is Have a Child Alive With Alicia Secrets (9/8c), where the music performer brings five contest those who win to Nigeria to go to sites in which the "Have a Child Alive" foundation provides health care and moral support to children and families impacted by Aids/Helps.Implies that demand to become taken moderately: TLC discloses the effects to be billed with D.U.I. (9/8c) inside a new COPS-like series shot in Oklahoma, where police crack lower on drunk motorists, who cameras follow-through area sobriety tests through arrest and sentencing. ... Discovery stories the Weed Wars (10/9c, simulcast on Discovery Fit & Health) on the planet of medicinal marijuana, following the employees of Concord, CA's Harborside Health Center, referred to as "the country's biggest medicinal cannabis dispensary," serving 94,000 patients. Snoop Dogg works the series' original title track towards the surprise of simply no one.What exactly else is on? ... It's less than as legendary or as enjoyable as Rudolph, which once more demonstrated a rankings champion for CBS the 2009 week, however the 1970 Rankin-Bass Father Christmas Is Comin' to Town (ABC, 8/7c) is tonight's bid for classic-cartoon supremacy, with Fred Astaire narrating and Mickey Rooney supplying the voice from the youthful Kris Kringle, who memorably knots using the odious Burgermeister Meisterburger. ... OWN's Documentary Club presents One Lucky Elephant (9/8c), that is really concerning the unlucky Flora, an orphaned African elephant who had been adopted and trained with a circus owner who eventually realizes he or she must look for a home on her after she retires. Much easier in theory. ... Tonight's Mentalist repeat from last season on CBS (10/9c) is notable because of its guest turn by Morena Baccarin, so terrific on Showtime's Homeland this year, being an alluring matchmaker who Patrick Jane thinks might have killed her husband.Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!