The Friday fall season begins to take shape.

ABC launches its

evening of all-nonfiction fare, straddling the line between faux-reality and entertainment-enhanced "news." The entertaining ideas featured on "Shark Tank" (8 p.m., TV-PG) include a novel way of checking coats, a solution to bedbugs and a belt buckle that holds beverages. Classy.

The ethical-quandary version of "Candid Camera" continues on "Prime time: What Would You Do?" (9 p.m.), and "20/20" (10 p.m.) enters a new season with hosts Elizabeth Vargas and Chris Cuomo. Like nearly every network news magazine (with the notable exception of "60 Minutes"), "20/20" puts the accent on domestic terror, bringing us stories of wives and mothers as victims and occasionally victimizers. CBS' "48 Hours Mystery" does much the same thing on Saturday nights and is often the most watched program of the evening.

ABC has yet to announce the season opening story for "20/ 20," but when I last checked, the show's website featured the story "Did Mom Poison Child With Salt?" and, further down, a roundup of "20 Top Cat Videos on the Web."

---Fox gets half of its Friday night in gear as it airs a "bonus episode" of "Touch" (8 p.m., TV-14). The show starts its second season on Oct. 26.

This quasi-spiritual mystery series stars Kiefer Sutherland as an overextended single dad whose wife died on Sept. 11. His 11-year-old son, Jacob (David Mazouz), has a rare gift of seeing the hidden connection in random numbers. This leads them to intervene in the lives

of others while the rest of "Touch" explores seemingly sacred links between strangers a world apart.

"Touch" may celebrate a certain brand of Hollywood uplift, but it's difficult to avoid the feeling that Fox doesn't share the love. "Touch" debuted on a Wednesday last January, then vanished for three months or so and limped through its first half season. Now it returns, rather unheralded, and lands like a dead mackerel in the coldest time slot of the week. Without an "X-Factor" or something popular to remind folks of its existence, it's less than likely that "Touch" will catch fire.

"Fringe" returns to the schedule on Sept. 28. I can't imagine it will get much of a boost from the orphaned "Touch," but then again, this is supposed to be the show's final season.

---Mischa Barton ("The O.C.") stars in the 2012 thriller "Cyberstalker" (8 p.m., Lifetime Movie Network). A full 13 years after her parents were murdered, Aiden (Barton) discovers that not even a witness protection program can defend her from a creep armed with

sophisticated technology.

---The political takes a back seat to the personal and the paranoid as Kane's symptoms leave him unable to distinguish hallucinations from reality on "Boss" (9 p.m., Starz, TV-MA).

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

---The 2012 Style Awards (8 p.m., Style) celebrate style on the Style Channel.

---"Need to Know" (8:30 p.m., PBS) travels to Pakistan to investigate the effect of American drone attacks on the local population.

---"Great Performances at the Met" presents "Gotter dammerung (Twilight of the Gods)" (9 p.m., PBS), the fourth and final opera in Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle.

---"Eden Eats" (10 p.m., Cooking) samples the cuisine of Salt Lake City.

CULT CHOICE

A cosmetic company's quest for a youthful elixir has monstrous

results in director Roger Corman's 1959 shocker "The Wasp Woman" (3:30 a.m., TCM).

SERIES NOTES

---A vintner looks at the other side of the grape on "Undercover Boss" (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

---Henpecked Chris wants to go on a date on "Guys With Kids" (8 p.m., NBC, r, TV-PG).

---Modeling in Santa Monica on "America's Next Top Model" (8 p.m., CW, TV-14).

---Ryan wants to separate group life from real on "Go On" (8:30 p.m., NBC, r, TV-PG).

---A successful businessman dies in surprising circumstances on "CSI: NY" (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

---News about Juliette's ailment on "Grimm" (9 p.m., r, NBC, TV-14).

---Brennan falls under suspicion in a murder case on "Bones" (9 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14).

---Time to call Langley on "Nikita" (9 p.m., CW, r, TV-14).

---An investor cashes in his chips on "Blue Bloods" (10 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

LATE NIGHT

---Rebel Wilson, Brad Wollack, Kerri Kenney-Silver and Josh Wolf appear on "Chelsea Lately" (11 p.m., E!, r).

---Howard Stern and Jason Aldean appear on "Late Show With David Letterman" (11:35 p.m., CBS, r).

---Jay Leno welcomes Adam Levine, Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Grace Potter on "The Tonight Show" (11:35 p.m., NBC, r).

---Hugh Laurie, J.J. Abrams and Grizzly Bear are on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" (12:35 a.m., NBC).

---Craig Ferguson hosts Tom Lennon and Brit Marling on "The Late Late Show" (12:35 a.m., CBS).

Kevin McDonough can be reached at kevin.tvguy@gmail.com.