Fall Premiere Week - Monday
The official start of the new TV season begins tonight, although many shows premiered weeks ago, including the best new show of the season: HBO’s True Blood. There’s really nothing exciting about Monday night.
ABC has two hours of Dancing with the Stars followed by Boston Legal.
CBS premieres what is slowly becoming one of its creatively strongest comedy lineups in decades, save for the grueling Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory. Last year I mocked How I Met Your Mother. I won’t be making that same mistake twice. The best buzz of any new sitcom surrounds Worst Week, an Americanized version of a BBC series.
Closing out CBS’s night is CSI: Miami.
FOX already premiered its lineup of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Prison Break. Yes, Prison Break is still on the air somehow. I have no idea what the show is about.
NBC turns over its entire night to three hours of one of last season’s worst shows: Heroes. Here’s what I said back in January:
Forever the example of a show that doesn’t learn from its own mistakes, Heroes took a steaming dump, in the form of reverse character development, on viewers this season. The lackluster first season finale led into a boring second season that culminated in nearly every character reverting to their original state. Even the characters that die can come back to life. There are no consequences whatsoever. The conclusion to the second volume basically ended where the first volume began. Nothing happens on this show. The acting is atrocious and it’s the worst written show on television.
The first hour of tonight’s “three hour Heroes event” is just the stars of the lame duck series celebrating their over-hyped success. Several main characters died at the end of last season. I’m willing to bet they are somehow revived.
Next week NBC has Chuck and the new Christian Slater vehicle My Own Worst Enemy premiere.
The CW has new episodes of Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill.