And They're Off...

So it's now September and the new Fall TV Season is just getting under way...

Here's a look at a few shows that have premiered so far:

Prison Break returns for a second season with the addition of William Fitchner as an FBI agent in charge of the manhunt for the "Fox River Eight". The show remains fun, wild and a bit off in its logic at times. But this is definitely a must see.

The show is followed by Vanished on Monday nights on Fox. I'm not sure about this show. Its about the disappearance of a Senator's wife. So far it seems like a bizarre cross between 24, Lost and quite possibly The Da Vinci Code. I don't want to like it (because I watch too many shows as it is), but there are many things I am liking about it (it's got that Robert Ludlum convoluted political plot I used to love). We'll see how this continues for the next few weeks and if anything airs opposite it that garners more attention from me (like NBC's Heroes...but that doesn't premiere until the end of the month...so this show will have had about 8 or 9 episodes before I make a final decision and by then it may be too late).

Tuesdays bring us the return of House which remains an amazing show. We also get Standoff which I have recorded but have yet to watch...which may be saying something. If I get around to it, I'll review it.

Wednesdays brings back Bones with a strange cast addition that has made me realize that the show was better when it was just Angel, Bones and her team. The new "boss/old flame" isn't holding me to the show as much (I found myself reading the paper while it was on in the background). Oh well.

This is now followed by Justice...which may as well just be called CSI: L&O as it's just the bastard love child of the CSI franchise and the Law & Order franchise. Coming from Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Victor Garber, this procedural law drama is interesting, but nothing new. I'll watch when I've got nothing else to watch or do. Of course, having it up against Criminal Minds and Lost means I won't be watching it much after the next two episodes...and that's fine by me.

For those of you needing a movie review, here a quick one...if you feel the need to see bad things happen to Lindsey Lohan for about 45 minutes or so, you may get a kick out of Just My Luck. Of course, I should probably get a kick just for having seen this (forgot it was on our Netflix list and somehow I wasn't paying attention when it made it to the top).

Lastly, I find myself watching a lot more news these days to counter the effects of watching too much children's TV. For most of the summer we were watching the same dozen or so episodes of Sesame Street over and over and over and over. You'd think that with 37 years of episodes that PBS could rag something older than 2 years ago out of the vaults. Thankfully, a few weeks ago they started airing new episodes and while we're seeing some repeated segments, the main "street stories" are new...and very funny...the best of these so far has been an amazing "parody" of the Elmo's World segment starring Cookie Monster (right down to the pet cookie in the fish bowl). In spite of easy repetition and unwarranted idiocy from people complaining the show is too liberal (if a six year old comments that there aren't enough white people on this show, then we can complain the show's too liberal...until then, you adults go back to destroying the world and stop complaining about things you have no real knowledge of), the show remains as fresh and as educational as it has ever been.

That's all for today.

Back soon with other things...well...soonish...

Be seeing you.