2011-2012 Fall TV Season Premier Dates

[boyhangover]

MONDAY
CBS
How I Met Your Mother (9/19)
2 Broke Girls (9/19)
Two and a Half Men (9/19)
Mike & Molly (9/26)
Hawaii Five-O (9/19)

NBC
The Sing-Off (9/19)
The Playboy Club (9/19)

FOX
Terra Nova (9/26)
House (10/3)

ABC
Dancing with the Stars (9/19)
Castle (9/19)

CW
Gossip Girl (9/26)
Hart of Dixie (9/26)

TUESDAY

CBS
NCIS (9/20)
NCIS: Los Angeles (9/20)
Unforgettable (9/20)

NBC
The Biggest Loser (9/20)
Parenthood (9/13)

FOX
Glee (9/20)
New Girl (9/20)
Raising Hope (9/20)

ABC
Last Man Standing (10/11)
Man Up! (10/18)
Dancing with the Stars (9/20)
Body of Proof (9/20)

CW
90210 (9/13)
Ringer (9/13)

WEDNESDAY

CBS
Survivor: South Pacific (9/14)
Criminal Minds (9/21)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (9/21)

NBC
Up All Night (9/14)
Free Agents (9/14)
Harry’s Law (9/21)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (9/21)

FOX
The X-Factor (9/21)
I Hate My Teenage Daughter (11/23)

ABC
The Middle (9/21)
Suburgatory (9/28)
Modern Family (9/21)
Happy Endings (9/28)
Revenge (9/21)

CW
H8R (9/14)
America’s Next Top Model (9/14)

THURSDAY

CBS
The Big Bang Theory (9/22)
How to Be a Gentleman (9/29)
Person of Interest (9/22)
The Mentalist (9/22)

NBC
Community (9/22)
Parks and Recreation (9/22)
The Office
(9/22) Whitney (9/22)
Prime Suspect (9/22)

FOX
The X-Factor results show (11/3)
Bones (11/3)

ABC
Charlies Angels (9/22)
Grey’s Anatomy (9/22)
Private Practice (9/29)

CW
The Vampire Diaries (9/15)
The Secret Circle (9/15)

FRIDAY

CBS
A Gifted Man (9/23)
CSI: NY (9/23)
Blue Bloods (9/23)

NBC
Chuck (10/21)
Grimm (10/21)
Dateline (9/23)

FOX
Kitchen Nightmares (9/23)
Fringe (9/23)

ABC
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (9/25)
Shark Tank (TBA)
20/20 (9/16)

CW
Nikita (9/23)
Supernatural (9/23)

SATURDAY
CBS
Rules of Engagement (9/24)
Comedytime Saturday Crimetime Saturday 48 Hours Mystery (9/24)

NBC
Encore Programming

FOX
Cops (9/10)
Encore Programming

ABC Saturday Night Football (9/3)

SUNDAY

CBS
60 Minutes (9/25)
The Amazing Race (9/25)
The Good Wife (9/25)
CSI: Miami (9/25)

NBC
Football Night in America (9/11)
NBC Sunday Night Football (9/11)

FOX
The Simpsons (9/25)
Allen Gregory (10/30)
Family Guy (9/25)
American Dad (9/25)

ABC
America’s Funniest Home Videos (10/2)
Once Upon a Time (10/23)
Desperate Housewives (9/25)
Pan Am (9/25)

[Michael24]

Returning Shows I'll Be Watching:
Two and a Half Men*
The Big Bang Theory
Blue Bloods
Family Guy

* I can't imagine this show being half as good without Charlie Sheen, but I imagine I'll watch at least the season premiere, especially since Leonard and Sheldon from TBBT may cameo since there are rumored to be appearances by other Chuck Lorre characters.

New Shows I'll Try Out:

The Playboy Club
Terra Nova
Unforgettable
Person of Interest (If this is the one I'm thinking of. Will have to double check.)
Pan Am

[boyhangover]

Returning Shows I'll Be Watching:
Two and a Half Men*
The Big Bang Theory
Blue Bloods
Family Guy

* I can't imagine this show being half as good without Charlie Sheen, but I imagine I'll watch at least the season premiere, especially since Leonard and Sheldon from TBBT may cameo since there are rumored to be appearances by other Chuck Lorre characters.

New Shows I'll Try Out:

The Playboy Club
Terra Nova
Unforgettable
Person of Interest (If this is the one I'm thinking of. Will have to double check.)
Pan Am

Person Of Interest is the first of two JJ Abrams shows. This one has Michael Emerson. I forgot to make it bold but I do want to watch Unforgettable as well. I also want to watch Pan Am. It looks amazing. Playboy club not as much.

[Michael24]

Just checked, and I was mistaken. I was thinking of A Gifted Man with Patrick Wilson and got my titles mixed up. I'm not a fan of Abrams, so I'll skip Person of Interest.

The Playboy Club I'll just be superficially checking out for the T&A factor. But I'm also a sucker for period pieces, too.

[boyhangover]

I hadn't even heard anything about Gifted Man. I liked Wilson in Watchman and Hard Candy but I can't bring my self to care about House Meets Everwood. Person Of Interest is probably gonna suck but I'm gonna give it a shot. Alcatraz is what I am looking forward to.

I'm gonna be watching the New Girl as well. I love Zooey Deschanel. Her sister not so much.

[Legato]

I'll be checking out Pan Am as I'm a sucker for shows/films based in the 60's.

[Tuan]

It's nice to see Gellar back as the last time I saw her was Buffy, which seems like forever. I hope the show's good.

[boyhangover]

So The New Girl is now on Hulu like 7 days early. Watching it now. Edit review time. So I expected her to hook up with Deputy Leo from V-Mars just because he was the one guy I recognised in the trailer but now it looks like she is going to be hooking up with bartender guy. He's not unattractive and he seems like the most likely candidate for her. Also, all groups of friends should have the douchebag jar

[Libaax]

Terrra Nova
New Girl
The Homeland
Person of Interest


Look most promising to me.

[Dreadstar]

I may turn on 2 and a Half Men out of curiosity since they dumped Charlie (which I told you guys was a done deal while everyone was saying he'd still come back). Kutcher lends a completely different spin to it.

Terra Nova gets my attention and a shot.

Body of Proof is a maybe.

Suburgatory could either be fun or make me want to murder the nearest smart-ass teenager, who knows. It gets a watch.

2 Broke Girls is on the borderline. I find Denning equally as watchable as annoying.

Grimm is a must see for me.

And Pan Am rounds out my list for pure curiosity.

[maczero]

Grimm is a must see for me.

I just read the description for Grimm. Supposedly it's a police procedural based on Grimm's Fairy Tales. The main character sees suspects as animals. Are these hallucinations or is this meant to take place in a supernatural setting?

[Dreadstar]

I just read the description for Grimm. Supposedly it's a police procedural based on Grimm's Fairy Tales. The main character sees suspects as animals. Are these hallucinations or is this meant to take place in a supernatural setting?

I don't know if any of that is important to know before turning on the first show and figuring out what kind of perspective they're going for. It could turn out to be the absolute worst idea since Cop Rock.

[maczero]

I don't know if any of that is important to know before turning on the first show and figuring out what kind of perspective they're going for. It could turn out to be the absolute worst idea since Cop Rock.

For me, it's two different genres. If he's just imagining this stuff, then it's not really a fantasy/sci-fi show which is what I'm interested in.

[brundlefly]

There are a handful of new fall shows that I am quite interested in checking out:

Homeland (Showtime)
Boss (Starz)
Hell on Wheels (AMC)
American Horror Story (FX)
Person of Interest (CBS)
Terra Nova (FOX)

Plus I'm likely to check out an ep or two of 2 Broke Girls, just to leer at Kat Dennings for a bit.

I'm torn on Grimm. It could turn out to be entertaining, but could also end up being stupid-terrible like the similarly-themed Demons on BBC.

[Dreadstar]

For me, it's two different genres. If he's just imagining this stuff, then it's not really a fantasy/sci-fi show which is what I'm interested in.

Well, if it's important to you to know for sure before you even turn it on, OK.

Me, not so much. I'll turn it on. I'll find out. I'll decide whether to watch it any further.

It's a good system for me, really.