Fall Premiere Week - Thursday
ABC has Ugly Betty and the two-hour premiere of Grey’s Anatomy. Life on Mars, based on the BBC show of the same name premieres in a few weeks. It is described as such: “A modern police detective wakes from a coma to find himself working as a cop in 1973, and must readjust to life even as he seeks a way back to his future.”
CBS launches the seventeenth season of the show that started the whole reality craze: Survivor: Gabon. I watched Survivor years ago but haven’t looked at it since. The only way I’ll ever watch it again is if they ditch the beach scenarios and throw a bunch of people in the arctic. Now that would make for some interesting television.
CSI and new show The Eleventh Hour premiere in a few weeks, after the vice presidential debates. William Peterson is leaving the top-rated crime drama and being replaced by Lawrence Fishburn. The Eleventh Houris described as such: “A top biophysicist is called in by the government to investigate unusual scientific happenings at the 11th hour.” Invigorating….
NBC has two new episodes of My Name is Earl followed by the hour-long season premiere of The Office. Closing out the night is the fifteenth and final season of E.R.
New comedy Kath and Kim premieres on Thursday, October 9. It is described as such: “A comedic look at the contentious relationship of a dysfunctional mother-daughter duo and their adventures in middle-class suburbia. This American remake is based on the Australian show of the same name.”
30 Rock, the two-time Emmy winner for best comedy series, returns Thursday, October 30. Until then, thirty minute additions of Saturday Night Live focusing on the presidential election and featuring “Weekend Update” will fill in.
As always, Fox is irrelevant on Thursday nights.
The CW has Smallville and Supernatural.