Bones

BONES

Network: FOX

Airs: TUES 8:00PM

Grade: B

Yet another sassy-large-breasted-female-communing-with-the-dead procedural, "Bones" is forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brenneman, played with a nice mixture of pluck and bombast by Emily Deschanel (sister to Zooey, as if the billboard-sized blue eyes didn't give it away). A part time crime novelist and full-time "squint," as her FBI field agent counterpart Seeley Booth (a studly, relaxed David Boreanaz) refers to her and her colleagues, Emily is a genius at gathering clues from long-decomposed human remains to solve the crimes that killed them.

Will they have a tempestuous past? Will Booth lure her into the field with him? Will the attraction still be there? Is the Pope Austrian?

Set in a landmark-free and vaguely Canadian-looking Washington D.C., the pilot is shot and paced with all the slick, artful quirkiness of an HP TV spot by wunderkind TV director Greg Yaitanes (SCI FI's Dune). And while the machinery of the plot's central mystery may be in need of some higher grade fuel, the basic elements are in place for a satisfying first season.

Which isn't to say this show is a sure hit. Far from it. Even the American public has a saturation point for big boobs and decomposing bodies.