Erm... it's ALL crap?

that looks like a shit tornado.

You didn't call anyone a slut! Oh well, guess I can wait a week or two til you check out the shows some more. Cmon girl, we need you to do this to show us how much better you are than this trailer trash reality stuff, this actressy bullshit, these uneducated skanks. It's all about you Heath! Lolz!

She has gotten a LOT better in the last six months or so. True, she snarks like a gay hairdresser about this list of TV shows, but she hasn't yet learned the Doogie Howser Rule.

The concept of Doogie Howser, M.D. sounded lousy. But when the pilot was actually broadcast, the show looked much better. And Neil Patrick Harris turned out to be a better actor than anyone expected, even as a very young man. The show went on to be a respectable hit for ABC. The Howser Rule is: never levy severe judgment on a show before you see what the actors, directors and writers do with the concept. Summary judgment before the finished product appears is often wrong and always cruel.

And Havrilesky admitted that she hadn't seen most of the finished pilots yet. (She also may not know that the "pilot" episodes of series are sometimes not the first ones that air; sometimes a later, finished and more polished show will be run first.)

So don't be nasty to Havrilesky when she doesn't deserve it. Holaamigo, you're acting like the old, inexperienced Havrilesky and that's just plain tragic.

It's strange that no review that I've read has identified 'The 11th Hour' as a remake of a not-very-exciting BBC series starring Patrick Stewart.

If ever a new show suffered from preview overkill, "Raising the Bar" is it. From the wind-blown hair of the star, Mark-Paul Whatever, to the scenery chewing of the rest of the cast, this looks like one of the worst shows ever. I'm, like, going to skip it.

This is actually season 2 for a Lifetime-sortof show that was a whole lot of fun to watch.

I don't give a hoot for the rest of them....

Cheers

Hardly seems fair for Alan Ball to be on that list. He deserves to head a much smaller 2nd list of new dramas that actually have some promise. I'd add Sons of Anarchy and Fringe to that list.

90210? Knight Rider? Good Lord -- those shows were crappy the first time around.

Simon Baker and Rufus Sewell are talented actors; it's a shame to see them stuck in what seem like just 2 more mostly generic CBS procedurals. The Mentalist might have some promise if they're carefully ambiguous about the whole psychic thing.

Alan Ball is talented, and I will definitely be giving True Blood a chance this fall. Also: I have loved Simon Baker since The Guardian, which was actually a pretty good show.

Ahh grasshopper,

You purpose in life, clear now, it is.