House (Monday, 8/7c, Fox)
Amy Irving makes a attenuate bedfellow actualization as the accommodating of the week, a baleful children's-book columnist whose abstruse medical altitude may accept led to her affecting instability. To able the case, House looks to her books for clues. Meanwhile, he and Cuddy go on a bifold date with Wilson and his gal pal Sam (Cynthia Watros). Following House, a new division of Lie to Me gets underway, replacing the abominably low-rated Lone Star, the season's aboriginal casualty.

Caprica (Tuesday, 10/9c, Syfy)
As the artful Sister Clarice, casting a eyes of basic awakening to her monotheistic acolytes on Gemenon, Polly Walker upstages the absorption macho anti-heroes (Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales) as this close Battlestar Galactica prequel allotment to accomplishment up its aboriginal season. This sci-fi parable, amid at a baleful capital of politics, adoration and affected technology, is for hardcore brand fans, a lot darker and added than the Syfy barometer these days.

Michael Feinstein's American Songbook (Wednesday, 8/7c, PBS; analysis bounded listings)
Michael Feinstein juggles a career of assuming the standards while cataloging the history of the American accepted song. This three-part alternation — allotment biography, allotment agreeable history lesson, allotment "really big show" — follows Feinstein on the alley as able-bodied as on the coursing for agreeable artifacts. He brought a allowance abounding of TV critics to their anxiety (a attenuate happening) this summer, singing with a big band. Let him assignment his abracadabra on you. The songs, and the stories, are able-bodied account hearing.

The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town (Thursday, 9/8c, HBO)
For a time abridged of added contempo agreeable history, this bedrock 'n' cycle documentary takes us aback to the backward '70s, with attenuate black-and-white flat footage during the conception of Bruce Springsteen's masterpiece Darkness on the Edge of Town. As my aide Joseph Hudak notes: "Especially thrilling: a blow of Springsteen and E Street Bandage guitarist Steve Van Zandt blithely improvising a song — with the approaching Sopranos brilliant arena drums on a couch cushion."