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Thursday

8 p.m. on NBC

The Office: Bad news: A shipment of paper watermarked with an obscene image is sent out. Worse news: A high school has issued prom invitations on the pornographic paper. Good news: This is hilarious to watch, as Michael (Steve Carell) tries to cover the company's you-knowwhat with the media while Jim and Andy (John Krasinski, Ed Helms) deal with the school's angry principal. Rainn Wilson also stars in "Product Recall."

Friday

7 p.m. on NBC

Miss Teen USA 2007: Here she is ... no, wait, that's a different pageant. This one, kid cousin of Miss USA and Miss Universe, is for a younger class of beauty queen - 15 to 19 years old. Pasadena, Calif., hosts this year's pageant, which culminates in the crowning of a new Miss Teen USA by outgoing titleholder Katie Blair of Montana. Before that, though, the contestants will have to impress the judges with their beauty, brains and personality.

Saturday

9 p.m. on ABC

Masters of Science Fiction: Mutants need love, too. Harlan Ellison co-wrote the screenplay for this new adaptation of his short story "The Discarded." John Hurt, Brian Dennehy and James Denton lead the cast in a seriocomic tale of a group of people exiled from Earth because of a disease that has caused them to become hideously mutated. When an emissary arrives to tell them their help is needed back home, they seize the chance to make a deal.

Sunday

7 p.m. on NBC

NFLPreseason Football: Preseason or not, there'll be no brotherly love in the Steel City tonight when the Philadelphia Eagles take on the Pittsburgh Steelers. And without a comeback season from the Eagles' Donovan McNabb and the Steelers' Ben Roethlisberger, neither quarterback will feel any love from his respective fans. Can Roethlisberger open up the offense without tossing interceptions? We'll see, just like McNabb will find out if his injury-plagued body holds up.

Tuesday

7 p.m. on CBS

NCIS: Disability? What disability? A blind man (guest star John Billingsley) inadvertently takes a photo of a petty officer's murder. That's about all the evidence that Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and his team have, but the photographer, being blind, has keener senses of hearing and smell than most sighted people, and he proves to be a big help re-creating the crime scene. Michael Weatherly also stars in "In the Dark."

Wednesday

8 p.m. on FOX

Bones: What's next - "wax on, wax off"? After an inappropriate shooting incident, Booth (David Boreanaz) must see an FBI-appointed shrink (Stephen Fry), who puts him to work building a barbecue grill. With Booth out of commission, Bones (Emily Deschanel) teams up with a new FBI partner, Special Agent Sullivan (Eddie McClintock), to investigate the death of a young woman who became alligator chow. The gator, however, isn't the killer.