This fall TV season features vampires, geeks, time travel, musicals, the return of an enhanced woman and the devil himself. Each fall season, a couple series emerge as the most talked about and most celebrated shows on television -- last year, it was Heroes and Ugly Betty and this year my prediction is that Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, Reaper and Chuck will be the shows that grace magazine covers in the months ahead.
Confused about what to watch this fall? Here's a handy guide to what's new and what may be worth that golden Tivo season pass. After all, our viewing time is precious, is it not?!
* ABC Fall Series *
Big Shots
Premiere: September 27
Season Pass Worthiness?: Try it first before committing.
Big Shots revolves around four successful men who find comfort in their friendship as they try to navigate their way through love, life and the competitive business world. Think Desperate Housewives for men.
Dirty Sexy Money
Premiere: September 26
Season Pass Worthiness?: Worth a pass!
Years ago we had Dynasty and this fall, a new family charges in and promises to rival even good ole Alexis Carrington. The Darling family has it all -- money, power and privilege, and Nick George is determined to never succumb to that lifestyle when he takes over for his father as the Darlings personal attorney. When the family patriarch passes away, it's up to Nick to keep the family empire running and the naughty Darlings in line.
Private Practice
Premiere: September 26
Season Pass Worthiness?: Worth a pass!
Sick of dealing with her ex-husband and ex-lover, Addison Montgomery leaves Seattle Grace behind and heads to beautiful Los Angeles and joins a private practice with her old med school friends. Will Addison finally find true love and figure out a way to have a baby before it's too late?
Pushing Daisies
Premiere: October 3
Season Pass Worthiness?: Worth a pass!
Perhaps one of the most-anticipated series in a long time centers around a man named Ned who has the unique ability to bring things back from the dead. When he resurrects his former love, he learns that if he ever touches her, she'll die all over again without the possibility to be brought back to life.
Women’s Murder Club
Premiere: October 12
Season Pass Worthiness?: Try it first before committing.
This series based on James Patterson’s bestselling novels, revolves around four women in four different fields of law enforcement (a detective, a district attorney, a medical examiner and a reporter) who work together by pooling their resources to help solve crimes in San Francisco.
* CBS Fall Series *
Cane
Premiere: September 25
Season Pass Worthiness?: Try it first before committing.
This series focuses on the power struggle between two Cuban-American families in the sugar and rum business. As greed, love, lust and the quest for power fuels these two families, the conflicts within the families is where the real drama lies.
Moonlight
Premiere: September 28
Season Pass Worthiness?: Worth a pass!
The ever-famous movie Producer Joel Silver brings to the small screen this series that sounds oddly familiar to the WB's Angel. After being turned into a vampire 60 years ago by his new wife, Mick St. John has resisted the lure of the flesh by helping the helpless humans. After spending his undead life doing good, Mick decides the time is right to pursue a real relationship - can he find the right woman?
Viva Laughlin
Premiere: October 18
Season Pass Worthiness?: Try it first before committing.
This interesting and highly entertaining drama centers around a man who is determined to open a casino in Laughlin, Nevada. When his financing falls through, he is forced to make a deal with a questionable casino owner. Further complicating his life is a murder investigation and a demanding family.
* NBC Fall Series *
Bionic Woman
Premiere: September 26
Season Pass Worthiness?: Worth a pass!
Jaime Sommers is back and as technologically enhanced as ever in this remake from the 70s. In this version, Jaime Sommers works as a bartender who gets into a near-fatal car accident. The only way to save her life is an amazing surgery using top-secret technology - but it will cost her more than she may be willing to give in the long run. Will she be able to use her powers for good while paying back the enormous debt?
Chuck
Premiere: September 24
Season Pass Worthiness?: Worth a pass!
This dramedy centers around a computer geek named Chuck Bartowski who becomes the CIA's most important agent when he accidentally opens a top-secret email full of government secrets, which somehow downloads into his brain. Can the CIA protect him from terrorists before they can access the tremendous amount of government knowledge from Chuck's brain?
Journeyman
Premiere: September 24
Season Pass Worthiness?: Worth a pass!
This mystery-drama revolves around a newspaper reporter named Dan Vasser who suddenly begins to travel through time to change the lives of those around him. When his travels reunite him with his long-lost fiancée Livia, life with his present-day wife get very interesting.
Life
Premiere: September 26
Season Pass Worthiness?: Try it first before committing.
After spending years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Detective Charlie Crews manages to return to the police force and gets a second chance at pursuing the life that was yanked away from him years ago.
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