Premieres...Sweet, Sweet Premieres

THANK GOD...at last the new season of TV begins. Although I loved seeing new episodes of Rescue Me and The Closer over the summer, I've been going nuts without Grey's Anatomy, House, Family Guy, and...wait, that's not very many shows at all. That my friends, is the scary state of TV these days. Is there hope for a fuller TiVo schedule this fall? Let's take a peak at what's to come.

I've alreay seen Studio 60 (could you ooze anymore of your neurotic personality off the page, Sorkin?), Smith (cool cast, and feature-like), Shark (another variation of the crooked lawyer switching to the good guys' side), and Jericho (dear God, the cheese...the cheese! But the beginning mushroom cloud business is terrifying if you like that kind of panic attack after your dinner). All of which I'm willing to give another shot, but don't hold out much hope for giving any of them the season pass thumbs up. I'm further ahead on the Fox shows since they start so early. My friend's hubby is the EP and director on Justice...which is glossy and fun and you just gotta love Victor Garber. And Standoff is growing on me, but the jury is still out on that one...there were some seriously huge "OH NO THEY DID'INT" moments.

So what's next? The only thing I'm truly looking forward to is Grey's Anatomy's premiere on Thursday. And, I'm not excited about whether or not Meredith will pick McDreamy or McVet, I could actually care less. I'm just happy to have all the characters and some of the best ensemble writing on TV back. A lot of my writer friends think Grey's has hit their second season slump already, and maybe it has. However, no other show on TV makes me look forward to a certain day of the week more than Grey's. I love reading the writers' blogs, love reading the TWoP snarky recaps, I love the music, and I love the over the topness of it all. Bring it on...Seriously.

My new discovery (hello, where the frack have I been) is the fabulous Battlestar Galactica. This show can make anyone a sci-fi geek because it's just so completely addicting and well made. Everything is there: A slightly dirtier, believable world of Galactica...not the typical glossy, high tech sci-worlds of other shows. And then there's the sex...and not just run of the mill tv sex but some seriously hot cylon/human sex. And then there's the complexity of the relationships between the characters...father/son, commander/subordinate, chief/groundlings, cylon/human, lover/co-worker, etc. And the atmosphere is incredibly charged...which is eerily reminiscent of the post-9/11 politics and panic when terrorism invades a culture. Battlestar does this a million times better than the forced and cheesy panic seen in Jericho.

And now, what's left...I'm going to give Brothers and Sisters, What about Brian, the Nine, Heroes, and I'm sure something else I'm leaving off the list. But the moral of this story is I LOVE NEW TV!!!