Bones (8pm, Fox) - An escaped convict's remains are found in a residential sewer pipe, but the team find evidence that a murder occurred inside a prison.

NCAA Championship (9pm, CBS) - The championship game in New Orleans.

American Masters: Margaret Mitchell (9pm, UNC-TV) - "Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel" profiles the author who blazed trails as one of Georgia's first female newspaper reporters and the author of "Gone with the Wind." Mitchell (left) funded the education of the South's first black doctors with her "Gone with the Wind" money. Includes reenactments based on her letters and remarks by friend Sara Mitchell Parsons and prominent authors such as Pat Conroy and Pearl Cleage. At 10 p.m., a second episode of "American Masters" will focus on Harper Lee, whose childhood in Monroe, Alabama, provided the inspiration for her classic 1960 novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." (Photo courtesy of the Atlanta History Center)

Castle (10pm, ABC) - A Scotland Yard detective works with Castle and Beckett to solve the murder of a British model whom he knew personally. Meanwhile, Lanie advises Beckett to stop stalling and pursue Castle romantically.

Smash (10pm, NBC) - A top-tier star is sought for the musical, and Eileen wants Tom to come up with a new name for the show.

Intervention (10pm, A&E) - In the 12th-season finale, a mother and former model battles a daily dependence on alcohol, and a once-promising cellist now smokes PCP.

Lost Girl (10pm, Syfy) - Bo and Dyson portray a married couple at a country club to help a friend from Kenzi's criminal past.

Here's the schedule and channel lineup for Thursday and Friday's NCAA Regional Semifinal games:

Thursday
7:15 p.m. CBS - Wisconsin vs. Syracuse
After conclusion CBS - Cincinnati vs. Ohio State
7:47 p.m. TBS - Louisville vs. Michigan State
After conclusion TBS - Florida vs. Marquette

Friday
7:15 p.m. CBS - Baylor vs. Xavier
After conclusion CBS - Kentucky vs. Indiana
7:47 p.m. TBS - UNC vs. Ohio
After conclusion TBS - NC State vs. Kansas

NOTE: Both of the local games (UNC and NC State) will air on TBS, which means folks will need cable, satellite, or a streaming account with the NCAA to watch. WRAL, the Triangle CBS affiliate, says local stations are no longer part of the decision-making process over how NCAA games are distributed. The assignments are determined by CBS Sports and Turner Sports.

Watching NCAA basketball games this year will be about like last year -- all the games spread out over CBS, TBS, TNT, and truTV. 

Here's the post we put together last year. That explains the whys and hows of CBS's coverage partnership with Turner Sports, and I think most of it still applies. You should be able to find the schedule of games at CBSsports.com or at NCAA.org.

The game allotment is the same as last year. CBS will air 26 games this time, including the Final Four and the national championship game. TBS will air 16 games, TNT will air 12 games, and truTV gets 13, starting with today's games opening matches.

How to find the cable channels:

Watching NCAA tournament games will be a little different this year.

In a move to keep March Madness out of the hands of ESPN, CBS last year partnered with Turner Broadcasting System on a $10.8 billion deal which keeps the tournament in their control through 2024.

That deal also means that this year, many of the tournament games will be played on Turner cable channels instead of on CBS. That's both good and bad for basketball fans.

Chuck (8pm, NBC) - The spies regroup after learning it was a villainous operative responsible for the death of Shaw's wife, not Sarah. They set out to find the evildoer, but Chuck worries over Shaw's mental state.

Life Unexpected (8pm, The CW) - Cate, Baze, and Lux go on a road trip to track down Cate's long lost father (Peter Horton). 

NCAA Basketball Championship (9pm, CBS) - It's the championship game between our hometown ACC champs Duke and the home court-advantaged Butler bulldogs. Can Duke do it?!

Castle (10pm, ABC) - While investigating the death of a museum curator believed to have been the victim of a mummy's curse, Castle (Nathan Fillion, left) channels Indiana Jones and peeks at forbidden artifacts, then worries he too will fall prey to the curse. 

Damages (10pm, FX) - Patty's star witness (Tobin's illegitimate daughter) is arrested, forcing Patty to make an unusual deal with the DA or else be removed as the lawyer for Tobin's victims. Also, Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson) shoots his mouth off and reveals a little too much about his past. 

Nurse Jackie (10pm, Showtime) - Dr. Cooper is named one of the Top 25 doctors in New York City by New York magazine, and Grace's obnoxious friend walks in on Jackie snorting drugs.

NCAA Basketball Final Four (6pm, CBS) - Butler vs. Michigan State and Duke vs. West Virginia. Get your Blue Devil on!

The Ten Commandments (7pm, ABC) - Four hours of Cecil B. DeMille's epic story of the life of Moses. Starring Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, and Anne Baxter.

Amish Grace (8pm, Lifetime Movie Network) - A repeat of last week's debut, which was the highest-rated movie ever on Lifetime Movie Network. 

The Wanda Sykes Show (11pm, Fox) - Wanda's guests are Drew Carey, Wendy Williams, Craig Ferguson, and Erykah Badu. 

Austin City Limits (Midnight, UNC-TV) - Last Saturday Wilco was live in Durham. Tonight they are in your living room thanks to a 2007 repeat in which the band sings songs from their cd, "Sky Blue Sky."

The last entry I made on the NCAA tourney was risky.

I told people to look at my picks and laugh until they cried, but I also said we'll see who's really laughing and crying in the end.

I said my bracket strategy was backward and that if it worked it would be the funniest thing to happen since Hank Haney said he could fix Charles Barkley's golf swing.

I did take a blow to the chin in Memphis' misfortune with Missouri. I had them in the championship game, sure. And yeah, I had UNC losing to Oklahoma — more of a hope than anything when you want nothing but the worst team making it further down the line to face your pick for the national champion.

After Saturday the story will unfold. It's yes or no, apples or oranges. I had Michigan State making it as far as they now have, but with Villanova as my Cinderella pick to win it all, I now need Michigan State to do serious work out there this weekend.

The beauty in the brackets is always the double-whammy in a loss or win. If Michigan State and Villanova were to win, my bracket could be one of the best around simply because only a handful of self-proclaimed "stategic" people like me don't have UNC in the championship. What's good for me is another's pitfall.

I still don't understand how I've not heard from at least one person who thinks their bracket is the best there is — I've been asking to hear from all for the last couple weeks. But the more I think about it, it is a brave step. I felt like the least bright crayon in the box for posting my sweet sixteen and great eight picks, but only until a good majority of them came true and my to-be national champs steered clear of two rounds of trouble.

Good luck to everyone this Saturday. I know I'll need it, and would imagine there are others out there that need it too.

The headline says it all.

I'm about to tell you my not-too-shabby, soon-to-be ugly bracket picks, and yes, I'm asking for you all to let me know how good you're doing up to this point in the NCAA tourney.

So far I've heard nothing, so I've only come to one conclusion — no one knows I'm interested in finding out. That's got to be the only answer, because there's no way people can stop talking about their brackets this time of year.

I'll give you a hint at why you might laugh at my bracket. I don't have UNC in the Final Four. I don't have Pitt in the Final Four. I don't have UConn in the Final Four and I don't have Louisville in the Final Four. Get the picture? I've got Michigan State, Memphis, Oklahoma and Villanova as the last teams standing.

I've still got 12 of my sweet 16 left, seven of my great eight, and all of the Final Four are still alive, as are my two final contenders and national champs. Like I said, my bracket doesn't look too bad, not just yet anyways.

Think you've got the ultimate winning combination? I'm trying to write about it, so don't be shy, give me a shout!