Brand! New! Shows!

Sooo, much to the chagrin of my professors and probably-long-gone-by-now 4.0, I've been spending the past month nesting with the brand new beautiful TV show babies that the gods of television have been so good as to send me. This can probably explain the homelessness I was sure was awaiting me post-Egyptian civ two months ago. Maybe. Possibly. A little bit.

Of course, not to neglect my older children, I am still hopelessly devoted to and would do anything to protect How I Met Your Mother, Boston Legal (although I don't' like New-Guy-Who-Makes-My-Mom-Feel-Old-Because-He-Was-Young-And-Hot-On-Nightcourt-And-Now-He's-Old-And-Saggy, although we all know that that *is* a requirement for getting any on Boston Legal), and CSI:NY. Sadly, due to my tyrannical working system, I have been forced to put Numb3rs up for adoption because it is on far too late on a Friday night when I am already falling asleep (wow, I suck). Le anyhoodles...

But on to my new babies- CBS has given me Cane and the sadly premature and maybe braindead Big Bang Theory, which doesn't seem to have thought of any jokes beyond "OMG a physicist is in love with a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory! HA!!!"

(I'd just like to let my father know that as we speak, my geology professor is talking about freezing things en masse. I'm thinking of you, Daddy!)

Not that I'm going to stop watching. If I stuck through all 22 episodes of the gutwrenchingly awkward Studio 60, I'll stick with this.

CBS also has Cane, which is far better than Big Bang Theory. Sort of Godfathery, but not really, because they're not Italian, not mafia, and decidedly not looking like Al Pacino circa 1973 (*sigh*). But they're rich, ethnic, scary, and have already killed somebody who got in their way.

I love it.

I'm not so sure I'd leave my company in the hands of a refugee of vaguely ethnic background who married my daughter/sorta his sister (say it with me now..."eww"), but I guess if Obi Wan can give Leia to him (Hey! More incest!) I'd trust him too.

Except the ages bug me. The main couple, Jimmy Smits and Really Pretty Woman, are ostensibly married and she's knocked up ("What if someone hurts her to get to the family! NO!" said CBS writers), but she's like four, and he supposedly fled Cuba during the 1962 revolution (or, a LONG-ASS TIME AGO) when he was already 12.

Rock that cradle, Jimmy.

And they have a son who's joining the army already, so figure at least eighteen years. So she got married to her brother at puberty and started popping out kids. WITH HER BROTHER. *shivers*

Oh, and Daddy's dying and Skeevy-Brother-Whose-Name-Is-Totally-NOT-Fredo wants control of the company. Of course he does.

Over on ABC, I have Private Practice (which sucks as much as Grey's Anatomy and yet I'm just as incapable of not watching) and Pushing Daisies.

Oh. My. Lord. I flippin' *love* this show!!! It's cute and adorable and sweet and I really like the fact that they can't touch each other because it prevents the whole show from jumping the shark as soon as they jump into bed.

Also? Ned is ridiculously adorable.

Even if he's possibly gay. I don't care. Marriage of convenience works for me.

Going to check of Samantha Who? on Monday- missed the pilot but apparently it was awesome.

FOX has a lonely offering, but Back to You is quite funny enough to stand on it's own. They just have to stay away from the whole father/daughter thing too much, because that's getting old.

Patricia Heaton and Kelsey Grammer are freaking hilarious, and NotMiles and NotFrank and NotCorky and NotTed (Yep, I just switched classic shows. That's how cool I am!) are quite funny too.

But Kathleen, you ask (probably breathless), which one is your favorite? We must know what to watch!!!

Well, children, I'll tell you. If you only have time (or if you actually *do* your classwork...pssh) to watch one show this year, please, please, please watch Chuck on NBC.

Because it is, quite simply, my favorite new show, and possibly my favorite show ever (well, if we take HIMYM out of the equation), and YOU ALL SHOULD WATCH.

Really funny people, really funny stories now that we're past the "and then this happened..." stage, and easily taped and watched after HIMYM!!!

Also? Chuck is ridiculously adorable. (Also some gay talk on the IMDB page, but I refuse to believe it.) I find it amusing that they stick a rather good-looking person in ill-fitting clothes and go, "Look, now he's an underdog!!!" Oh, NBC. How simple you are.

I'm not sure, but I think my sister and I may have declared out love for the titular character at her birthday party after having lots of glasses of...apple juice. I think.

It makes me miss Less than Perfect. Did anyone else watch that show? Was it not da bomb??? (Yes, I just used "da bomb". That's how cool I am!!!)