Bones (8pm, Bones) - Brennan is shot while working late at the lab, but her condition is further complicated by logic-defying visions of her deceased mother. Meanwhile, the team's investigation

The Carrie Diaries (8pm, CW) - Carrie reconnects with an old friend who invites her to his mom's dinner party. Meanwhile, Mouse is anxious about reuniting with Seth, so she turns to Walt for advice.

The Following (9pm, Fox) - Maggie plots Hardy's demise and Paul reveals Emma's secret plan. Also, more of Hardy (Kevin Bacon, right) and Claire's history together is recalled (along with some of Hardy's Great Moments in Drunkenness).

2 Broke Girls (9pm, CBS) - Max and Caroline meet rapper 2 Chainz when they fly on a private jet with him to a music awards show in Los Angeles.

Monday Mornings (10pm, TNT) - The doctors try to convince a 13-year-old-girl with a brain tumor to have surgery one last time. Elsewhere, Ty reaches out to Tina for support after losing a patient, and Buck resorts to bullying tactics in a case involving a potential organ donor.

Castle (10pm, ABC) - Castle and Beckett investigate the homicide of an emerging reality star who was part of the cast of "The Wives of Wall Street."

Inside Comedy (11pm, Showtime) - In the Season 2 premiere, host David Steinberg interviews Bob Newhart and Louis C.K..

The Carrie Diaries (8pm, CW) - Carrie attends a Halloween bash in the city and brings Walt along, while Maggie and Mouse go to Sebastian's Halloween party in order to keep tabs on him.

How I Met Your Mother (8pm, CBS) - Barney discovers a lost episode of a behind-the-music show that features Canadian teen singing sensation Robin Sparkles (Cobie Smulders, right) and includes a new video and another intriguing revelation from her past.

The Following (9pm, Fox) - Hardy and the team try to predict the actions of one of Carroll's followers. Meanwhile, Paul has difficulty controlling his jealousy over Emma and Jacob's relationship, and the origin of Hardy and Carroll's relationship is revealed.

Bunheads (9pm, ABC Family) - Fanny is angry after Milly starts to dictate how she should run an upcoming dance recital. Also, Scotty and Michelle go on a road trip that involves a surprise detour.

Monday Mornings (10pm, TNT) - A new drama executive produced by David E. Kelley and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, about the personal and professional lives of doctors at a Portland, Ore., hospital. In tonight's premiere, Jorge Villanueva (Ving Rhames) treats a car-crash victim and Dr. Ty Wilson helps a young boy with a soccer injury. Read Adrienne's "Monday Mornings" review.

Castle (10pm, ABC) - Castle and Beckett discover evidence that links a senator to a young woman's murder.

Somehow David E. Kelley -- from "Picket Fences" to "The Practice" to "Boston Legal" -- can make a show work despite itself. Overly dramatic speeches, weird cases, provocative topics, hammy acting, dream sequences, broad characters, pure wackiness; in the hands of others, those elements would sink a show. But Kelley knows how to hone it all into something extremely watchable.

And the producer/writer/show creator does it again with "Monday Mornings" (10 tonight, TNT), an hour-long medical drama that engagingly examines the lives and learning experiences of a neurosurgeons and other doctors at fictional Chelsea General.

The title refers to the '311' conferences the surgeons have on Monday mornings, when doctors' patient care is examined by their peers. Dr. Harding Hooten (Alfred Molina with his true English accent) takes the lead at those meeting, calling doctors to a stage where they stand behind a podium and explain a case. Hooten, the chief of surgery, applauds the successes and lacerates them for errors. Those errors can be medical or personal.

Also leading the staff is Dr. Jorge Villanueva (Ving Rhames), compassionate and wise. The talented staff includes haunted hotshot Dr. Tyler Wilson (Jamie Bamber); Dr. Tina Ridgeway (Jennifer Finnigan), Wilson's close, ahem, confidante; Dr. Buck Tierney (Bill Irwin), a jerk of a transplant specialist; Dr. Sung Park (Keong Sim), brilliant and abrasive; intense and lonely Dr. Sydney Napur (Sarayu Rao), and resident Dr. Michelle Robidaux (Emily Swallow).

With Molina and Rhames as the vets, the show gets solid footing. Rhames can be hammy in roles, but he isn't on "Monday Mornings." Instead, he tones it down, plays it straight and is funny and compassionate. Molina, too, executes wonderfully. Irwin brings layers to being unlikeable. The most troubling character is Sim's; he speaks like an Asian Tonto, and in true Kelley fashion, he's often mocked for it and given lines like "stuck between a rock and an eight ball." Some will find it offensive (and probably implausible that he works at the hospital), yet as the episodes continue (I saw the first three), the character becomes less of a caricature.

While we see a lot of interesting cases and interesting, quirky patients, what makes the show sail are the examinations of the cases at the Monday morning meetings. Here, even happy endings can reveal a doctor's flaws -- an inflated ego, an insensitivity to a patient's family member, a disregard for ethics. It's powerful to see flaws that have life and death consequences explored.

Kelley came to this work through a novel by CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta (who also produces and co-wrote some episodes). It's a perfect match; Kelley loves hot button issues and health care is hot, and stuff like race and class fall nicely into its realm. So "Monday Mornings" should give us plenty to talk about Tuesday mornings.