I tried to program my tivo to record

several of these shows, but in each and

every case, it knew nothing about it.

It cannot find these shows in the schedule.

I wonder why this would be. I get

100 channel comcast cable.

Darooha, most of these shows won't start until mid-September, when the new TV season kicks off. Check your Tivo in a few weeks.

I just looked up "Daybreak" and it doesn't premier until November 15th - it will be a while before this shows up on anyone's Tivo schedule. I assume most of the others start around the same time - would have been nice to have a premier date column!

I am very happy to see this original premise brought to TV.

Like Blocker's "Hitman" series, Dexter is a guy with a unique, almost moral outlook on life. He is a psychopath, well aware he is different from most of his fellow humans, but with a mission his cop foster father instilled in him: he only kills people who hurt or kill children.

Also, he is a very funny guy.

Have you ever seen so many big-time movie actors with new TV dramas in the same season? Looks like Heather isn't the only one who believes we're in a Golden Age of television.

It also looks as if the networks are throwing huge amounts of dough at dramas -- hoping to come up with the next CSI, Lost, 24, or House? It seems like overkill, but if 3 or 4 great and successful shows happen to emerge from all that, I'm sure it'll be worth it for them.

To think, with the rise of reality TV 6 or 7 years ago, some were predicting the eventual demise of the 1 hour drama; television writers were fretting they'd become obsolete. Now there's an absurd quantity of new shows aspiring to some level of quality. (I guess CSI and Lost changed everyone's perspective.)

When you add HBO (amazing batting average -- Deadwood, The Wire, The Sopranos, CYE, and Six Feet Under all are/were great shows), Showtime (really hitting its stride now with a couple of excellent shows in Weeds and Brotherhood), SciFi, FX, USA, and TNT to the equation -- no wonder so many people don't have time to go to the movies anymore. How much filmed fiction can people absorb?

Personally, I'm usually only good for 5 or 6 shows a week at most. Lost, The Office, 24, American Idol, The Wire, and something else this Fall... any of those new shows have to be at least that good, in my mind, to be worth the time invested.

Since I am apparently unable to comment on the poll, I apologize to all those seeking comments on this article.

RE: the poll and the emmys

Boston Legal is a DRAMA? I would totally have voted for each and every nomination it gots had it been listed under comedies.

Pap and balderdash; Roman Circuses to keep you from thinking about what is happening to the American Republic and to global industrial society.

Smash your TV, stop watching this crap! It is all intended to dull your wits and turn your brain to mush...

"A hero who delights in torturing and murdering people? Thrillingly perverse, but who has the stomach for it?"

Um....the same 34% of the American public who still supports the present regime?

I for one may check out Heroes, but beyond that I really don't care about any of those being offered. I'm still attached to too many of my old shows to care about any of these new ones and there is only so much TV I can watch.

For those who don't happen to know, you can watch the pilots of Kidnapped and Studio 60 if you have Netflix, so I guess that's a good way to find out if you even want to bother sticking those on your DVR before the season starts.

If we want to talk about good dramas and maybe it's already been discussed on this site, but has anybody been catching in syndication Da Vinci's Inquest? It's a great lil' Canadian import and I'm always drawn to watch it. I'm sure the Canadians here know it better than us, but I think it puts CSI to shame.

Thanks to Heather I went through the new season maze in

seven minutes. I will audition six of the entries.

I know Anne Heche and Claista Flockhart are grade B talents, but I would

trade 72 Celestial virgins for those two.