Fall lineup set to impress audiences
I love the fall. Time to buy books, start classes and stir up life on campus again. So you ask, why exactly do I love the fall?
With this decade’s writers’ strike over, this fall’s television season written by eagerly back-to-work writers now making slightly more money doesn’t look likely to disappoint.
Some shows jumped into their seasons during the summer, including Showtime’s comedic drama, “Weeds.” Season four brings the Botwin’s out of the “little boxes” riddled town of Agrestic and into the California coast town of Ren-mar. Completely shifting a show’s setting is usually a television taboo, but producer Jenji Kohan seems to have pulled it off beautifully. Nancy and the rest of the characters have set into their quirks and are funnier than ever despite the lack of the well-loved theme from previous seasons.
J.J. Abram’s new series scientific drama “Fringe,” like “Cloverfield” and “Lost” before it, has been picking up hype since its announcement in January. The 2-hour $10 million pilot was aired in full to limited audiences at Comic-Con this summer and a spin-off comic is set to release two weeks before its official air date. Whether “Fringe” will live up to its creator’s other works is still up for grabs. “Fringe” premieres Sept. 9 at 8 p.m. on Fox.
Everyone’s favorite paper company is back in its fifth season to pick up the awkward comedy and drama left over from last season. Check out the staff of Dunder-Mifflin, Scranton at 9 p.m. on NBC, Sept. 25. While the drama from last season seemed a little out of place, the characters of “The Office” are facing new challenges to make uncomfortably awkward.
The fourth season of CBS’s hit sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” premieres Sept. 22 at 8 p.m. The show is set to pick up even more viewers after Neil Patrick Harris’ stint of Internet fame over the summer as the anti-heroic star in cult hit master Joss Whedon’s internet series, “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.”
The CW’s teen-drama “Gossip Girl,” based on the books by Cecily von Ziegesar, has received unusual success amongst pre-teen viewers and has quickly become one of the biggest guilty pleasure shows next to “The Golden Girls.” Set and filmed in New York City, “Gossip Girl” follows the “scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite.” Starring Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, and Penn Badgley, the second season of “Gossip Girl” premieres Sept. 1 at 8 p.m. on The CW. I’ll admit it: I watch it and I’m not proud of it.
After an epic end-of-season death, Fox’s critically acclaimed medical drama about an anti-social doctor, “House M.D.” will continue into its fifth season this year. After failing to snag the Golden Globe for “Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series,” it begs the question of whether or not “House” has jumped the shark. While I think it came dangerously close in its third season, the fourth raised the bar, introducing new characters, putting old characters in completely different roles and pushing House’s sarcasm and wit to its brink. Tune in on September 22 at 8 p.m. to see if Hugh Laurie and cast can hold their own.
NBC’s highly over-rated super-hero-powered drama, “Heroes” will start its third season entitled “Villains” in light of a terrible second season cut short by the strike. While it was well-hyped in its first season, it failed to live up to it. With a cast too large and sporadic, plot lines that trail and fade, and cheesy writing made worse by overacting, the series’s only saving grace is Milo Ventimiglia’s shirtless scene in the trailers which reveal little except a couple of new cast members and yet another cheesy tagline. The third season of “Heroes” premieres on Sept. 22 at 9 p.m. on NBC.
While fall is when the bulk of the new seasons start up, many shows with shorter seasons will be starting in January. Some much-anticipated series, including “Lost,” Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse” and the concluding season to “Battlestar Galactica,” are all set to premiere in January.
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