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This is going to be a two-fer post since there are a bunch of new shows starting this week! On Monday, both Castle and House have season premieres. Let me just say that I’m glad House has moved to Mondays because Mondays have been pretty light for a few years now, especially since CSI: Miami took a headfirst dive in quality and storylines.

House, M.D.

Gregory House (played by Hugh Laurie), the doctor many love to hate, whose brusque attitude and disregard for rules in favor of solving the problem of diagnosing patients, is headed to a mental hospital. At the end of last season, House hallucinated not only the presence of his best friend’s dead girlfriend, but also an entire sexual relationship with his boss. At the end of the season finale, House was checking himself into the hospital while doctors Cameron and Chase finally were married after a short disagreement over her dead husband’s sperm. The show has seen some upheaval since the change-up in House’s assistants (and the subsequent departure of Kal Penn to work for the Obama administration), so it will be interesting how the show takes on the very real mental illness of a man who always seemed to have some kind of issues.

Will Cuddy and House actually sleep together? Will House ever be more sane? What will happen to Wilson? Will 13’s MS continue to be problematic or will there be some miraculous treatment?

Also check out the preview site that has been established for the show at SnakesOnACane.com

Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Robert Sean Leonard, Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer, Peter Jacobson, and Olivia Wilde

Airs: Mondays, 8pm ET, season premiere on September 21 on Fox

Castle

Castle was a midseason introduction for last year’s TV season and tracks Richard Castle, a crime novelist who helps the local police solve crimes, often referring to his ideas of what would make a good story. Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) is his unwilling (at least initially) partner. At home, he has an eccentric mother (Susan Sullivan) who is an actress, life coach…and there’s-no-telling how many other things, and a daughter (Molly C. Quinn) who is perhaps more responsible and often acts like the parent in their relationship. The relationship with his daughter makes me smile and I hope that Season 2 brings some more interaction between those two, for sure!

As part of the ramp-up to Season 2, ABC has been promoting Heat Wave, a novel by the fictional Richard Castle, and which will be available on September 29.

Stars: Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Susan Sullivan, Molly C. Quinn

Airs: Monday, 10pm ET, season premiere on September 21 on ABC

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I’m a little bit late adding this post since the season premiere of Fox’s Bones was on this past week, but I’ll post anyway. For some reason, I really enjoyed this promo video for the new season of Bones:

The ongoing question entering Season 5 of Bones is if/when Bones & Booth (played by Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz) will finally both admit that there’s something more going on between them. At the end of last season, we saw a season finale in an alternate reality that turned out to be a result of Booth having brain cancer.

And another promo for the season opener:

Stars: Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, TJ Thyne, Tamara Taylor, and John Francis Daley

Airs: Thursdays at 8pm ET on Fox

About: Emily Deschanel plays Dr. Temperance Brennan (aka “Bones”), a wickedly smart and uncannily funny forensic anthropologist who often is unaware of popular culture or the nuances of humor. David Boreanaz plays her partner, Seely Booth, an FBI agent who often trusts his gut but has grown to understand, or at least appreciate, how Bones uses evidence and her team of scientists to help solve murders. Booth is often in charge of keeping the “squints” (scientists) on task and in line with FBI rules and procedures. Brennan and Booth both seem to have feelings of some sort beyond mere partnership but the show has yet to unite them except in last season’s alternate-reality episode. The show is based loosely on a series of successful novel by Kathy Reichs, and Reichs is one of the producers for the show. As in the novels, Brennan, like Reichs, is an author and Brennan’s books’ main character is Kathy Reichs (talk about some going in circles in the head!)

Next up in my fall new TV show preview is CBS’s new medical drama, Three Rivers, which takes places in Philadelphia and centers on the country’s preeminent transplant hospital – organ donors, recipients, and the surgeons and staff of the hospital. I’m interested to see how the characters and plot lines compare with other successful medical dramas – I think most would agree that ER, House and Grey’s Anatomy take some different (sometimes polar opposite) approaches to the drama, (some medical and some not-so-much) so I’m curious where on the spectrum Three Rivers will fall.

Stars: Alex O’Loughlin, Katherine Moennig, Daniel Henney, Justina Machado, Christopher Hanke, and Alfre Woodard (whom you might remember from Desperate Housewives).

Airs: Sundays, 9pm ET, premieres October 4.

First up is a series starring award-winner Julianna Margulies, whom I fell in love with in the early years of ER. Like any good plot, The Good Wife begins with scandal, and Julianna Margulies (playing Alicia Florrick) has to figure out how to pick up the pieces after her husband Peter (played by Sex & the City’s Chris Noth) is arrested for involvement in a lurid sex & corruption scandal. Alicia was top of her law school class at Georgetown, and returns to practicing law after 13 years. The show is co-produced by brothers Ridley Scott & Tony Scott (who co-produce Numb3rs, another show I’ve recently discovered and have been catching up on – gotta love nerds and using math or science to do something fun!)

The Good Wife premieres on September 22 on CBS and airs Tuesdays at 10pm.

Will you watch The Good Wife? Any other shows that you’re looking forward to?

Fall means lots of good things: cooler weather, gorgeous scenery as the leaves change, college football, long-sleeved shirts, men in sweaters….and the return of network television.

Fall wouldn’t be complete without the introduction of a number of new television series and the networks have me excited this year. This is the first post in a series over the next couple of weeks about the upcoming fall TV season. I’m sure some of the new shows I’m planning to tune in for (or DVR, because life isn’t complete without a DVR!) will tank – it’s inevitable. But hopefully some of them will live up to the expectations. Stay tuned for initial impressions on these new shows as well as some dish now and again on returning shows I’m sticking with.

Are there any shows you’re really looking forward to? Any that you’ll be avoiding?

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