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So, basically, what are you watching in the coming months? Here's the new shows coming with descriptions ripped straight from TV.com because I want to. What sounds interesting of these, and what old returning favorites can you not wait to come back?
The Class (CBS) [Premiered September 18th/Mondays 8pm EST]- In this CBS comedy created by David Crane (Friends), and Jeffrey Klarik (Mad About You), a group of twenty-somethings who were third-grade classmates are reunited at a surprise party 20 years later. What will happen when they find out what each other's lives are like now?
The cast includes Jason Ritter as Ethan Haas, who planned the reunion of his fellow classmates, and who is crazy about his fiancé; Heather Goldenhersh as Lina Warbler, who truly believes in love, although she doesn't have that much luck in it; Lizzy Caplan as Kat Warbler, Lina's twin-sister, a cynical and sarcastical person; Jon Bernthal as Duncan Carmello, who still lives with his mother (Julie Halston); Sean Maguire as Kyle Lendo, a man that every girl had a crush during high school, but now he is living with his boyfriend Richie Velch. Jesse Tyler Ferguson portraits Richie, a unhappy man who's life hasn't treated him well since high school. Lucy Punch plays Holly Ellenbogen, a married woman who wants to have her revenge on Kyle. She's married to Perry Pearl (Sam Harris). Andrea Anders plays Nicole Allen, Yonk Allen's (David keith) trophy wife, who was once in love with Duncan.
Vanished (FOX) [Premiered August 21st/Mondays 9pm EST] - This FOX drama centers on the search for Sara Collins. She's the wife of Senator Jeffrey Collins. Sara vanishes and the FBI lead by Agent Graham Kelton is on the job, but before they can find her they need to find out who she really is.
The mystery surrounding the disappearance is seen through the eyes of the FBI, members of the family and a reporter trying to get the story of her career.
The search for Sara will expose many secrets. Nothing is as it seems. Everyone is a suspect because of their secrets.
Heroes (NBC) [Premieres September 25th/Mondays 9pm EST] - Heroes is a serial saga about people all over the world discovering that they have superpowers and trying to deal with how this change affects their lives. The relatable superheroes include Peter Petrelli, a 30-year-old male nurse who believes can fly, Diego Medina, a 28-year-old junkie who has the ability to paint images of the future when he is high, Niki Sanders, a 33-year-old Las Vegas showgirl who can do incredible things with mirrors, Hiro Makamura, a 24-year-old Japanese comic-book geek who literally makes time stand still, D.L. Hawkins, a 31-year-old inmate who can transport himself through walls, Matt Parkman, a beat cop who can hears other people's thoughts, and Claire Bennet, 17-year-old cheerleader who defies death at every turn. Not only are they discovering what having superpowers means to them but also the larger picture of where their superpowers come from. Eventually their superpowers draw them together when they try to evade the series' antagonist who wants to harness their super-DNA for himself. Their ultimate destiny is nothing less than saving the world.
Runaway (The CW) [Premieres September 25/Mondays 9pm EST] - Runaway deals with the lives and adventures of a family on the run as fugitives seeking to prove the innocence of the father, Paul Rader, after he is unjustly accused of murder.
Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip (NBC) [Premiered September 18th/Mondays 10pm EST] - So come take a fascinating look behind the scenes of Studio 60, a fictional sketch-comedy series on the NBS broadcast network. Problem is the series seems to be going down the tube fast. Everyone involved with the late-night dud seems to have one problem or another, including the current Executive Producer, who just had an on-air mental meltdown, and time is running out fast.
Enter the networks Chairman of the Board (Steven Weber), a new network president (Amanda Peet) looking to make her mark on the net. Her answer is move is to bring in a pair of fresh-faced writers (Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford) to try and save the series. Will it work?
Friday Night Lights (NBC) [Premieres October 3rd/Tuesdays 8pm EST] - Eric Taylor, a first-time high school football coach, finds himself helming a stellar team that has a real chance to make it to the top. The stakes are high, the reward is sweet, and the pressure is immense. Can Eric take his boys all the way while keeping their morale and morality intact?
Standoff (FOX) [Premiered September 5th/Tuesdays 9pm EST] - Matt Flannery and Emily Lehman are top-ranked crisis negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit who are trained to talk their way through volatile situations. They make an outstanding team professionally, but their relationship is a bit more precarious off the job. The series advances the fundamental idea that in life and in love "Everything is a negotiation."
The Knights of Prosperity (ABC) [Premieres October 17th/Tuesdays 9pm EST] - In this comendy, Eugene Gurkin (Donal Logue) has spent years dreaming of quitting his graveyard janitorial job and opening up a bar. But like a lot of people in this world he doesn't have enough money to make his dreams come true. But one night after catching an episode of MTV’s Cribs, Eugene recruits a group misfits to help him to carry out his plot to rob a plush celebrity apartment inhabited by the one and only Mick Jagger, but when you recruit a team as special as that one, you can expect some funny things to happen! Can this team be able to realize their goal or will they fail?
Help Me Help You (ABC) [Premieres September 26/Tuesdays 9:30pm EST] - Help Me Help You take a bunch of people who are all really messed up in different ways and put them in a room together to try and help each other out. he group leader, Dr. Bill Hoffman, is probably the craziest and most self-obsessed of all, but his patients would never know it because he hides behind his very respectable celebrity image as a bestselling author of phenomenally successful self-help books. The series explores the comical side of group therapy as members of the group apply the good doctor's advice to the real world with enthusiastic effort, until they begin to realize maybe Dr. Bill should be doing the heavy lifting along with them
Smith (CBS) [Premiered September 19th/Tuesdays 10pm EST] - This drama follows the adventures of a team of thieves who visit different cities to execute high-level crimes.
Jericho (CBS) [Premieres September 20th/Wednesdays 8pm EST] - After a nuclear disaster caused by several terrorist attacks destroys most of America, residents of a small Kansas town must come to terms with a new and very different reality.
30 Rock (NBC) [Premieres October 11th/Wednesdays 8pm EST] - Liz Lemon, played by Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey, is the head writer of the fictional TV show, 'The Girlie Show.' When her old boss dies and a new boss comes in, Liz must try to run a successful TV show without losing her mind.
Twenty Good Years (NBC) [Premieres October 4th/Wednesdays 8:30pm EST] - Twenty Good Years revolves around John Mason and Jeffrey Pyne, two polar opposites who disagree on just about everything. The only thing upon which they do agree is that they only have about twenty good years left to live. At John's birthday party, they both decide to spend their last good years doing things they've never done before.
Justice (FOX) [Premiered August 30th/Wednesdays 9pm EST] - Justice is a legal drama on FOX that revolves around the world of high-profile celebrity attorneys in the Los Angeles law firm of Trott, Nicholson, Tuller & Graves, who will go to any lengths to free their rich and powerful clients.
Day Break (ABC) [Premieres November 15th/Wednesdays 9pm EST] - Detective Brett Hopper is having a really bad day, accused of killing Asst. DA Alberto Garza. He has an alibi, but no one believes him. When he realizes that he has been framed, he tries to run away but has to stop when he learns that his loved ones are also in danger. But one morning, he wakes up and relives the same day over and over again. To stop this cycle, solve the mystery and have a normal life, he must find out who framed him.
Kidnapped (NBC) [Premieres September 20th/Wednesdays 10pm EST] - Timothy Hutton and Dana Delaney star in this thrilling drama as a wealthy and powerful New York couple whose teenage son has been kidnapped. With local law enforcement, the FBI, and a private negotiating team all working on the case, one might think the boy would be rescued in no time...but as the series unfolds, it becomes clear that this "perfect" family may be hiding a few dark secrets of their own.
The Nine (ABC) [Premieres October 4th/Wednesdays 10pm EST] - Nine people learn they share a common bond that was forged when they lived through a 52-hour hostage standoff during a bank robbery that changed their lives forever. Each episode will begin with a flashback that reveals another 10 minutes of the robbery that uncovers why and how these nine strangers remains linked to each others.
Freak Show (Comedy Central) [Premieres October 4th/Wednesdays 10:30pm EST] - Freak Show is the brain-child of David Cross ("Arrested Development") and H. Jon Benjamin ("Home Movies") and revolves around a group of people who are, well... freaks. They simultaneously perform as a side-show attraction and as superheroes that are (secretly) employed by the Pentagon to undertake low-priority missions.
Til' Death (FOX) [Premiered September 7th/Thursdays 8pm EST] - In this new comedy, a pair of newlyweds, Jeff Woodcock (Eddie Kaye Thomas, American Pie) and Steph Woodcock (Kat Foster, Law & Order),who have been married 12 days, move in next door to a long-married couple. Eddie Stamm (Brad Garrett, Everybody Loves Raymond) and Joy Stamm (Joely Fisher, Desperate Housewives), who have been married for over 8,000 days, provide the younger couple with a surprising look at what their future might hold Til Death. Real-life husband & wife Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa are the show writers.
Ugly Betty (ABC) [Premieres September 28th/Thursdays 8pm EST] - Betty Suarez has always had one goal in life: to make it into the fashion industry. Despite being smart, hard-working, and productive, her dream has always been shadowed by the fact that she isn't the best looking young woman. However, she is now determined to do whatever it takes to fulfill that ultimate dream.
Happy Hour (FOX) [Premiered September 7th/Thursdays 8:30pm EST] - Henry Beckman had the perfect life, a great job, a perfect girlfriend and a sweet apartment - until Henry gets dumped by Heather, the girl he thought was “the one,” and he is now thrown into an apartment with a man who has his own surreal opinions on life and women, his new roommate, Larry Cone. Henry begins to rebuild his life and now want to find himself a job and a new love.
Shark (CBS) [Premieres September 21st/Thursdays 10pm EST] - Sebastian Stark, a charismatic, supremely self-confident defense attorney who, after a shocking outcome in one of his cases and a personal epiphany, brings his cutthroat tactics to the prosecutor's office as the head of the Los Angeles District Attorney's High Profile Crime Unit. A group of young prosecutors are about to have the learning experience of a lifetime because, though Stark is seeking to redeem himself, he has no intention of cooling his underhanded approach to cases just because he's now working for the "good guys."
Six Degrees (ABC) [Premieres September 21st/Thursdays 10pm EST] - They say that anyone on the planet can be connected to any other person through a chain of six people, which means that no one is a stranger... for long. In this hour-long drama from the producers of "Lost" and "Alias," six very different New Yorkers go about their lives without realizing the impact they're having on one another - yet. A mysterious web of coincidences will gradually draw these strangers closer, changing the course of their lives forever. Is it happenstance? Fate? Is there a greater force at work in our world, guiding us along and connecting our lives?
Men In Trees (ABC) [Premiered September 12th/Fridays 9pm EST] - Finding a good man in today's world isn't as difficult as some women think. They just have to watch out for the signs, and it's the job of Marin Frist (Anne Heche) as a relationship coach and best-selling author to help women to find the right men. She travels the U.S. to give women help about how to find the right guy, using her personal life as a model. Now that she has a fiancé, she just released her new book meant to help women find the right men for a great marriage. Before the wedding, she has one little conference in Alaska. On the plane, she discovers her love life isn't going that well at all as she finds out her fiancé has been cheating on her. She now has to forget everything she has learned about men and gain new knowledge about love and relationships.
The Game (The CW) [Premieres September 28th/Sundays 8:30pm EST] - Being the wife or girlfriend of a pro-football player might sound like a glamorous and stress-free existence, but Melanie Barnett (Tia Mowry "Sister, Sister") is about to discover the truth. When her boyfriend Derwin Davis (Pooch Hall, "Miracle's Boys") is chosen as the new third-string wide receiver for the San Diego Sabers, she decides to forgo Johns Hopkins Medical School to attend a local college so she can be with him. While Derwin worries about the plays on the field, Melanie learns how to deal with egos, groupies and image consultants.
Melanie quickly bonds with Tasha Mack (Wendy Raquel Robinson, "The Steve Harvey Show"), a single mother who is the manager of her son, quarterback Malik Wright (Hosea Chanchez, "For Your Love"). Taking control of his career to make sure he is getting the best deals and not getting the wrong women, Tasha is adamant that they will never be in the poor house again. Although Malik is a player on and off the field, he loves and respects him mom and encourages her to get back into the dating scene (as long as it is not someone he works with) to find happiness for herself after looking after him for all these years.
Welcoming Melanie and Derwin to the San Diego Sabers family is interracial couple Kelly (Brittany Daniel, "White Chicks") and Jason Pitts (Coby Bell, "Third Watch"). Kelly, who always receives flack about marring her African-American husband, is the typical supportive NFL trophy wife, but as a result of meeting Melanie and Tasha, she is empowered to explore the other aspects of her life. Although her husband is a star player, he is also a notorious cheapskate and demands that the family be extremely frugal.
As Melanie adjusts to her new lifestyle, she gets a play-by-play account of the lives and relationships among NFL wives, girlfriends and mom/managers who use their best "game" help their men stay on the field and on their arm.
Brothers & Sisters (ABC) [Premieres September 24th/Sundays 10pm EST] - Brothers & Sisters is a drama from executive producers Ken Olin and Jon Robin Baitz. The LA-based Walker family is an ordinary American family. The adult siblings -- Sarah Whedon, Tommy Walker, Kevin Walker, Justin Walker, and Kitty Walker -- try to live up to their parents' expectations. Alongside their mother Nora Holden, Nora's brother Saul Holden, Sarah's husband Joe Whedon, Tommy's wife Julia Walker and mysterious Holly Harper, the Walkers struggle through their everyday lives.
Dexter (Showtime) [Premieres October 1st/Sundays 10pm EST] - Based on Jeff Lindsay's novel "Darkly Dreaming Dexter," this new crime thriller tells the story of a strange man named Dexter Morgan. Once an abused and abandoned child, Dexter is now a successful forensics pathologist...but lurking just beneath his charismatic personality is a terrible truth. Dexter has corralled his innate homicidal urges into a closely guarded second career: He hunts down and brutally murders those vicious criminals who have managed to avoid the clutches of the law.
These aren't all the new fall shows, just the most popular ones. I've seen most of these new shows already, or at least enough to form opinions on them.
Yes, I'm a TV nut, it's my second favorite medium of entertainment after music and before movies. But again, what are you watching this Fall?
The Class (CBS) [Premiered September 18th/Mondays 8pm EST]- In this CBS comedy created by David Crane (Friends), and Jeffrey Klarik (Mad About You), a group of twenty-somethings who were third-grade classmates are reunited at a surprise party 20 years later. What will happen when they find out what each other's lives are like now?
The cast includes Jason Ritter as Ethan Haas, who planned the reunion of his fellow classmates, and who is crazy about his fiancé; Heather Goldenhersh as Lina Warbler, who truly believes in love, although she doesn't have that much luck in it; Lizzy Caplan as Kat Warbler, Lina's twin-sister, a cynical and sarcastical person; Jon Bernthal as Duncan Carmello, who still lives with his mother (Julie Halston); Sean Maguire as Kyle Lendo, a man that every girl had a crush during high school, but now he is living with his boyfriend Richie Velch. Jesse Tyler Ferguson portraits Richie, a unhappy man who's life hasn't treated him well since high school. Lucy Punch plays Holly Ellenbogen, a married woman who wants to have her revenge on Kyle. She's married to Perry Pearl (Sam Harris). Andrea Anders plays Nicole Allen, Yonk Allen's (David keith) trophy wife, who was once in love with Duncan.
Vanished (FOX) [Premiered August 21st/Mondays 9pm EST] - This FOX drama centers on the search for Sara Collins. She's the wife of Senator Jeffrey Collins. Sara vanishes and the FBI lead by Agent Graham Kelton is on the job, but before they can find her they need to find out who she really is.
The mystery surrounding the disappearance is seen through the eyes of the FBI, members of the family and a reporter trying to get the story of her career.
The search for Sara will expose many secrets. Nothing is as it seems. Everyone is a suspect because of their secrets.
Heroes (NBC) [Premieres September 25th/Mondays 9pm EST] - Heroes is a serial saga about people all over the world discovering that they have superpowers and trying to deal with how this change affects their lives. The relatable superheroes include Peter Petrelli, a 30-year-old male nurse who believes can fly, Diego Medina, a 28-year-old junkie who has the ability to paint images of the future when he is high, Niki Sanders, a 33-year-old Las Vegas showgirl who can do incredible things with mirrors, Hiro Makamura, a 24-year-old Japanese comic-book geek who literally makes time stand still, D.L. Hawkins, a 31-year-old inmate who can transport himself through walls, Matt Parkman, a beat cop who can hears other people's thoughts, and Claire Bennet, 17-year-old cheerleader who defies death at every turn. Not only are they discovering what having superpowers means to them but also the larger picture of where their superpowers come from. Eventually their superpowers draw them together when they try to evade the series' antagonist who wants to harness their super-DNA for himself. Their ultimate destiny is nothing less than saving the world.
Runaway (The CW) [Premieres September 25/Mondays 9pm EST] - Runaway deals with the lives and adventures of a family on the run as fugitives seeking to prove the innocence of the father, Paul Rader, after he is unjustly accused of murder.
Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip (NBC) [Premiered September 18th/Mondays 10pm EST] - So come take a fascinating look behind the scenes of Studio 60, a fictional sketch-comedy series on the NBS broadcast network. Problem is the series seems to be going down the tube fast. Everyone involved with the late-night dud seems to have one problem or another, including the current Executive Producer, who just had an on-air mental meltdown, and time is running out fast.
Enter the networks Chairman of the Board (Steven Weber), a new network president (Amanda Peet) looking to make her mark on the net. Her answer is move is to bring in a pair of fresh-faced writers (Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford) to try and save the series. Will it work?
Friday Night Lights (NBC) [Premieres October 3rd/Tuesdays 8pm EST] - Eric Taylor, a first-time high school football coach, finds himself helming a stellar team that has a real chance to make it to the top. The stakes are high, the reward is sweet, and the pressure is immense. Can Eric take his boys all the way while keeping their morale and morality intact?
Standoff (FOX) [Premiered September 5th/Tuesdays 9pm EST] - Matt Flannery and Emily Lehman are top-ranked crisis negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit who are trained to talk their way through volatile situations. They make an outstanding team professionally, but their relationship is a bit more precarious off the job. The series advances the fundamental idea that in life and in love "Everything is a negotiation."
The Knights of Prosperity (ABC) [Premieres October 17th/Tuesdays 9pm EST] - In this comendy, Eugene Gurkin (Donal Logue) has spent years dreaming of quitting his graveyard janitorial job and opening up a bar. But like a lot of people in this world he doesn't have enough money to make his dreams come true. But one night after catching an episode of MTV’s Cribs, Eugene recruits a group misfits to help him to carry out his plot to rob a plush celebrity apartment inhabited by the one and only Mick Jagger, but when you recruit a team as special as that one, you can expect some funny things to happen! Can this team be able to realize their goal or will they fail?
Help Me Help You (ABC) [Premieres September 26/Tuesdays 9:30pm EST] - Help Me Help You take a bunch of people who are all really messed up in different ways and put them in a room together to try and help each other out. he group leader, Dr. Bill Hoffman, is probably the craziest and most self-obsessed of all, but his patients would never know it because he hides behind his very respectable celebrity image as a bestselling author of phenomenally successful self-help books. The series explores the comical side of group therapy as members of the group apply the good doctor's advice to the real world with enthusiastic effort, until they begin to realize maybe Dr. Bill should be doing the heavy lifting along with them
Smith (CBS) [Premiered September 19th/Tuesdays 10pm EST] - This drama follows the adventures of a team of thieves who visit different cities to execute high-level crimes.
Jericho (CBS) [Premieres September 20th/Wednesdays 8pm EST] - After a nuclear disaster caused by several terrorist attacks destroys most of America, residents of a small Kansas town must come to terms with a new and very different reality.
30 Rock (NBC) [Premieres October 11th/Wednesdays 8pm EST] - Liz Lemon, played by Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey, is the head writer of the fictional TV show, 'The Girlie Show.' When her old boss dies and a new boss comes in, Liz must try to run a successful TV show without losing her mind.
Twenty Good Years (NBC) [Premieres October 4th/Wednesdays 8:30pm EST] - Twenty Good Years revolves around John Mason and Jeffrey Pyne, two polar opposites who disagree on just about everything. The only thing upon which they do agree is that they only have about twenty good years left to live. At John's birthday party, they both decide to spend their last good years doing things they've never done before.
Justice (FOX) [Premiered August 30th/Wednesdays 9pm EST] - Justice is a legal drama on FOX that revolves around the world of high-profile celebrity attorneys in the Los Angeles law firm of Trott, Nicholson, Tuller & Graves, who will go to any lengths to free their rich and powerful clients.
Day Break (ABC) [Premieres November 15th/Wednesdays 9pm EST] - Detective Brett Hopper is having a really bad day, accused of killing Asst. DA Alberto Garza. He has an alibi, but no one believes him. When he realizes that he has been framed, he tries to run away but has to stop when he learns that his loved ones are also in danger. But one morning, he wakes up and relives the same day over and over again. To stop this cycle, solve the mystery and have a normal life, he must find out who framed him.
Kidnapped (NBC) [Premieres September 20th/Wednesdays 10pm EST] - Timothy Hutton and Dana Delaney star in this thrilling drama as a wealthy and powerful New York couple whose teenage son has been kidnapped. With local law enforcement, the FBI, and a private negotiating team all working on the case, one might think the boy would be rescued in no time...but as the series unfolds, it becomes clear that this "perfect" family may be hiding a few dark secrets of their own.
The Nine (ABC) [Premieres October 4th/Wednesdays 10pm EST] - Nine people learn they share a common bond that was forged when they lived through a 52-hour hostage standoff during a bank robbery that changed their lives forever. Each episode will begin with a flashback that reveals another 10 minutes of the robbery that uncovers why and how these nine strangers remains linked to each others.
Freak Show (Comedy Central) [Premieres October 4th/Wednesdays 10:30pm EST] - Freak Show is the brain-child of David Cross ("Arrested Development") and H. Jon Benjamin ("Home Movies") and revolves around a group of people who are, well... freaks. They simultaneously perform as a side-show attraction and as superheroes that are (secretly) employed by the Pentagon to undertake low-priority missions.
Til' Death (FOX) [Premiered September 7th/Thursdays 8pm EST] - In this new comedy, a pair of newlyweds, Jeff Woodcock (Eddie Kaye Thomas, American Pie) and Steph Woodcock (Kat Foster, Law & Order),who have been married 12 days, move in next door to a long-married couple. Eddie Stamm (Brad Garrett, Everybody Loves Raymond) and Joy Stamm (Joely Fisher, Desperate Housewives), who have been married for over 8,000 days, provide the younger couple with a surprising look at what their future might hold Til Death. Real-life husband & wife Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa are the show writers.
Ugly Betty (ABC) [Premieres September 28th/Thursdays 8pm EST] - Betty Suarez has always had one goal in life: to make it into the fashion industry. Despite being smart, hard-working, and productive, her dream has always been shadowed by the fact that she isn't the best looking young woman. However, she is now determined to do whatever it takes to fulfill that ultimate dream.
Happy Hour (FOX) [Premiered September 7th/Thursdays 8:30pm EST] - Henry Beckman had the perfect life, a great job, a perfect girlfriend and a sweet apartment - until Henry gets dumped by Heather, the girl he thought was “the one,” and he is now thrown into an apartment with a man who has his own surreal opinions on life and women, his new roommate, Larry Cone. Henry begins to rebuild his life and now want to find himself a job and a new love.
Shark (CBS) [Premieres September 21st/Thursdays 10pm EST] - Sebastian Stark, a charismatic, supremely self-confident defense attorney who, after a shocking outcome in one of his cases and a personal epiphany, brings his cutthroat tactics to the prosecutor's office as the head of the Los Angeles District Attorney's High Profile Crime Unit. A group of young prosecutors are about to have the learning experience of a lifetime because, though Stark is seeking to redeem himself, he has no intention of cooling his underhanded approach to cases just because he's now working for the "good guys."
Six Degrees (ABC) [Premieres September 21st/Thursdays 10pm EST] - They say that anyone on the planet can be connected to any other person through a chain of six people, which means that no one is a stranger... for long. In this hour-long drama from the producers of "Lost" and "Alias," six very different New Yorkers go about their lives without realizing the impact they're having on one another - yet. A mysterious web of coincidences will gradually draw these strangers closer, changing the course of their lives forever. Is it happenstance? Fate? Is there a greater force at work in our world, guiding us along and connecting our lives?
Men In Trees (ABC) [Premiered September 12th/Fridays 9pm EST] - Finding a good man in today's world isn't as difficult as some women think. They just have to watch out for the signs, and it's the job of Marin Frist (Anne Heche) as a relationship coach and best-selling author to help women to find the right men. She travels the U.S. to give women help about how to find the right guy, using her personal life as a model. Now that she has a fiancé, she just released her new book meant to help women find the right men for a great marriage. Before the wedding, she has one little conference in Alaska. On the plane, she discovers her love life isn't going that well at all as she finds out her fiancé has been cheating on her. She now has to forget everything she has learned about men and gain new knowledge about love and relationships.
The Game (The CW) [Premieres September 28th/Sundays 8:30pm EST] - Being the wife or girlfriend of a pro-football player might sound like a glamorous and stress-free existence, but Melanie Barnett (Tia Mowry "Sister, Sister") is about to discover the truth. When her boyfriend Derwin Davis (Pooch Hall, "Miracle's Boys") is chosen as the new third-string wide receiver for the San Diego Sabers, she decides to forgo Johns Hopkins Medical School to attend a local college so she can be with him. While Derwin worries about the plays on the field, Melanie learns how to deal with egos, groupies and image consultants.
Melanie quickly bonds with Tasha Mack (Wendy Raquel Robinson, "The Steve Harvey Show"), a single mother who is the manager of her son, quarterback Malik Wright (Hosea Chanchez, "For Your Love"). Taking control of his career to make sure he is getting the best deals and not getting the wrong women, Tasha is adamant that they will never be in the poor house again. Although Malik is a player on and off the field, he loves and respects him mom and encourages her to get back into the dating scene (as long as it is not someone he works with) to find happiness for herself after looking after him for all these years.
Welcoming Melanie and Derwin to the San Diego Sabers family is interracial couple Kelly (Brittany Daniel, "White Chicks") and Jason Pitts (Coby Bell, "Third Watch"). Kelly, who always receives flack about marring her African-American husband, is the typical supportive NFL trophy wife, but as a result of meeting Melanie and Tasha, she is empowered to explore the other aspects of her life. Although her husband is a star player, he is also a notorious cheapskate and demands that the family be extremely frugal.
As Melanie adjusts to her new lifestyle, she gets a play-by-play account of the lives and relationships among NFL wives, girlfriends and mom/managers who use their best "game" help their men stay on the field and on their arm.
Brothers & Sisters (ABC) [Premieres September 24th/Sundays 10pm EST] - Brothers & Sisters is a drama from executive producers Ken Olin and Jon Robin Baitz. The LA-based Walker family is an ordinary American family. The adult siblings -- Sarah Whedon, Tommy Walker, Kevin Walker, Justin Walker, and Kitty Walker -- try to live up to their parents' expectations. Alongside their mother Nora Holden, Nora's brother Saul Holden, Sarah's husband Joe Whedon, Tommy's wife Julia Walker and mysterious Holly Harper, the Walkers struggle through their everyday lives.
Dexter (Showtime) [Premieres October 1st/Sundays 10pm EST] - Based on Jeff Lindsay's novel "Darkly Dreaming Dexter," this new crime thriller tells the story of a strange man named Dexter Morgan. Once an abused and abandoned child, Dexter is now a successful forensics pathologist...but lurking just beneath his charismatic personality is a terrible truth. Dexter has corralled his innate homicidal urges into a closely guarded second career: He hunts down and brutally murders those vicious criminals who have managed to avoid the clutches of the law.
These aren't all the new fall shows, just the most popular ones. I've seen most of these new shows already, or at least enough to form opinions on them.
Yes, I'm a TV nut, it's my second favorite medium of entertainment after music and before movies. But again, what are you watching this Fall?
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The premise might be the same thing but the shows will not be at all. Both look like fun.
