<p>I love The Closer and I also really liked Saving Grace. I agree w/cathymee that Earl was really good, but all in all I like CC better than them all.</p>
<p>It’s got a tough time slot against House, but I thought the premiere of Reaper was fabulous. Really funny, with serious overtones, just like Kevin Smith’s other work. I wish the “friend” was a little less of a Jack Black clone, and I hope the “girl” is less passive going forward, but minute-for-minute it’s hard to imagine it being better.</p>
<p>I enjoyed Big Bang Theory. A sitcom, but the humor is kind of different</p>
<p>Watched the Heroes premier and nearly screamed. ANOTHER new character in Mexico? I can’t keep straight all the characters we already have! And how does Clair’s dad afford such a gorgeous house on his salary as the assistant manager at Kinko’s? But I’m hooked anyway…</p>
<p>Looking forward to Friday Night Lights as well, which I hear will FINALLY be showing on Friday nights. Duh. Although all the “teenagers” on that show are clearly 25, which makes it a lot less creepy when a single mom of a 10 year old has an affair with a “high school” football player, who apparently is raising himself. Also Texas apparently has no drinking age, everyone offers these “teenagers” a beer wherever they go. But the acting is so good, and the interactions between well-developed characters is so real, that I pretend the Dillon Panthers are attending Dillon Jr college, not Dillon HS, and it all makes sense to me. I also like that the houses are realistic - even the nicest houses are 60’s-ish small ranch houses. A little taste of reality.</p>
<p>Love Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage and I love all the Bravo shows - Top Chef, Project Runway, love Tim Gunn, love Kathy Griffin. The older I get, the more I love the fluff.</p>
<p>CGM, when is Project Runway on? I Love that show, but I don’t watch a lot of TV. I’ll make it a point for that. The only PR episodes I’ve seen are on DVD and when they show a full season marathon on a special weekend or such.</p>
<p>A few months ago, I was a screener for some show- Big Whigs, or Big Shots, something like that. Has anyone else ever done this? You watch a show at a specified time on some weird channel, then someone calls you up and asks you 30 minutes of questions.</p>
<p>I love Project Runway too!! Love Heidi, love Tim. My husband is baffled by it all…lol!</p>
<p>I’m just sitting in limbo now that Henry VIII and Big Love are finished for the season. I have not watched Friday Night Lights, the series though. Is it as good as the movie? I grew up in small town Texas where h.s. football is the ‘be all end all’…and that movie was pretty darned accurate.</p>
<p>I’m biased because I’m in Maryland, but I just love Ace of Cakes on the Food Network. The way they make those cakes is fascinating and the requests people make crack me up. I had them do my D’s cake for her 16th birthday - before they got the television show and it was the talk of the party.</p>
<p>Whatever happened to that new series, “The Starter Wife”? (You know, the one starring the actress from Will and Grace—dang, her name somehow escapes me this instant!) I watched the first episode, which my sister had TIVO’d and loved it. But it seems to have disappeared after only the first episode. What’s with that?</p>
<p>I love Brothers and Sisters. Burn Notice looks pretty good, too. But I hate crime dramas, especially the one that insist on showing gory crime scenes and mangled corpses. Suspense turns me into a nervous wreck, and follows me into my dream life.</p>
<p>poetsheart,
The Starter Wife( with Debra Messing) was a miniseries, not a series, so it had to end. 
I liked it( Joe Montegna, mmmmm) .</p>
<p>Oh man, and I only saw the first episode! My sister thought she had her TV set to record all episodes, but apparently, it didn’t get that memo.:(</p>
<p>Hopefully it will be out on DVD soon. :)</p>
<p>I’m hooked on America’s Next Top Model too. A co-worker and I discuss who got voted off every Thurs. a.m. Also love The Closer. Since they showed new episodes all summer will there be more new ones for Fall? </p>
<p>I wasn’t so impressed with Private Pratice either.</p>
<p>Can’t wait to see House pick his new staff. I laugh at the House commercials.</p>
<p>Friday Night Lights is one of my very favs and DH likes it too. The problem with it being on Friday nights is that my senior S is actually playing football under the lights on Friday nights so I’ll miss the show (yah, for h.s football). I guess I’ll just have to tape and watch it on Saturdays.</p>
<p>Except for the usual complaint about 25-year-olds pretending to be 16, Friday Night Lights is a superb show. Or at least it was last season. Second seasons seem to be like second albums: you have years to prepare the first one, and get it just right, and not much more than weeks to do the second.</p>
<p>New Project Runway season hasnt started yet. If you need a Tim Gunn fix in the meanwhile he has a series on now same channel.Nice rapport with the individual woman he is “making over” and much less cruel than the other makeover shows.
So for now…in Tim’s words “carry on”…</p>
<p>New Project Runway season starts October 23rd…I’ll be there. Love the show. Enjoyed Top Chef this go 'round too (winner being announced this week). Tim Gunn’s new show is ok. Just ok. But I watch, and hope to learn. I also enjoyed Design Star this summer. Good pick for the winner. </p>
<p>I agree with whomever above said the older I get the lighter the show fare I enjoy.</p>
<p>FNL hopefully will have a good second season. I try not to get too involved in some shows anymore because the writing tends to go off the deep end and kill them so often. It will be interesting since those “kids” should for the most part be grads this year. </p>
<p>Like george on Grey’s. Here’s a character you want to like and they make him into an ass. Why? It doesn’t make me want to watch the show it makes me want to turn it off. </p>
<p>I’m not much into crime drama’s which seem to dominate the networks, I prefer comedy or sci fi or history channel.</p>
<p>I just happened to catch a really cute show tonight - Big Bang Theory. My D and I laughed out loud.</p>
<p>PackMom, don’t bother to tape FNL. Watch it online the next day for free at NBC.com. Limited commercials - saves you at least 15 minutes. I don’t think I actually saw FNL on TV more than once last year, but I watched every show online (no wonder it’s under the gun for low ratings!)</p>
<p>I was very unimpressed with Big Bang Theory’s premiere and wrote it off. Then I caught tonight’s episode almost by accident and couldn’t believe the improvement. Very funny and quirky. Then again, my tastes does run to escapist comedies with no redeeming value like Two and a Half Men and How I Met Your Mother.</p>