Upon seeing Josh's overview of fall television, I realized that I needed to compile my own. I've never really gotten interested in Boardwalk Empire, Sons of Anarchy, or Breaking Bad, but I think the shows that I do watch comprise more than enough.
We'll no longer be watching House since the series is over. Part of me will miss that one, but it was time for it to end. Terra Nova, on the other hand, I'd have liked to see continue. Oh well. Touch and Person of Interest are still on, but we've grown bored of them in my house and stopped watching after a few episodes.
NBC has the first airing program. Their new show Revolution first airs on September 17th, less than a month from now. The show makes me think very much of the TV show Flash Forward, which never lived up to its promise - the book was fantastic. In Revolution, the conceit is that the planet's electricity has stopped working. People need to learn how to get by. And apparently, the electricity having gone out is some kind of conspiracy. It sounds very much like the book Black Monday. I don't expect great things from this show, but I may watch anyway.
On September 27th, The Big Bang Theory begins its sixth season. Linda and I were late to the party on this show, and we are now about four episodes from the end of the fifth season. We should be caught up just in time. We don't watch many other sit-coms. None, in fact. But this one is fantastic.
September 28th is when Fringe returns. Season three of Fringe remains some of the best television I've seen in my life, and so I hope that this final season of Fringe is as good as I imagine. The new plotline involves humans from the distant future travelling back in time to enslave the current human population - a fairly drastic departure. But I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
John Noble's Walter Bishop is a mad scientist every bit as good as Christopher Lloyd's Dr. Emmett Brown and Jeffrey Combs's Dr. Kevin Burkhoff, which is (to me) really saying something. And Anna Torv is a fantastic actress. I'm very excited to see more Fringe.
On September 30th, Showtime brings us new seasons of two shows: Firstly, Dexter. While the first two seasons of Dexter were amongst the best televison I've ever seen, subsequent seasons have been just good. Dexter remains one of my favorite shows, but I no longer rank it as highly as Fringe. Homeland, on the other hand, is amazing. I love this show. If you don't know what Homeland is about, click this link and read what I wrote about it back in January.
Arrow is a CW show that I hadn't heard about until Josh mentioned it. On October 10th, this superhero-themed TV show about Green Arrow begins. Personally, I tend to get Green Arrow and Hawkeye confused. I suppose that saps my geek cred. Anyway, I'll watch Arrow, but I don't have much in the way of expectations.
Lastly, AMC's The Walking Dead on October 14th. Linda won't watch this one, so I generally end up watching it alone. It's good to see the group finally get off that farm - things needed to shake up a bit. We'll see what this coming season brings. It could be good, or it might grow stale. Only time will tell.