We’ll review all of our old favorites, as well as a few new ones. Look for premiere reviews of Ringer, The Secret Circle, Person of Interest, Terra Nova, Grimm, Once Upon a Time, and American Horror Story as they air. For now, all we're promising are the premieres. After all, these new shows might be as much fun as a pop quiz.
And yes: this will be on the final exam.
Saturday, August 27th
- Doctor Who: Woo-hoo! Or is it, woo-Who? Here's Paul's review of the mid-season premiere, "Let's Kill Hitler."
Tuesday, September 13th
- Ringer: Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as a woman who, after witnessing a murder, goes on the run, hiding out by assuming the life of her wealthy identical twin sister – only to learn that her sister's seemingly idyllic life is just as complicated and dangerous as the one she's trying to leave behind. On the CW. Here's Billie's review of the premiere.
Thursday, September 15th
- Vampire Diaries: Here's Josie's review of the premiere, "The Birthday."
- The Secret Circle: Orphan Cassie Blake moves in with her warm and loving grandmother Jane in the beautiful small town of Chance Harbor, Washington - the town her mother left so many years before - where the residents seem to know more about Cassie than she does about herself.When her new friends explain that they are all descended from powerful witches, and they've been waiting for Cassie to join them and complete a new generation of the Secret Circle, Cassie refuses to believe them - until Adam shows her how to unlock her incredible magical powers. On the CW. Here's Josie's incredibly negative review.
Monday, September 19th
- Castle: Nathan Fillion!
- Hawaii Five-0
- How I Met Your Mother
- 2 Broke Girls: 2 Broke Girls is a comedy about two young women waitressing at a greasy spoon diner who strike up an unlikely friendship in the hopes of launching a successful business - if only they can raise the cash. With Kat Dennings. On CBS.
Tuesday, September 20th
- Glee: Here's Harry's review of the Season Three premiere, "The Purple Piano Project."
Wednesday, September 21st
- Revenge: It's supposed to be based on The Count of Monte Cristo? (I watched the first 15 minutes. Terrible, terrible.)
Thursday, September 22nd
- Charlie’s Angels: I’m not going to tell you what this is about.
- Person of Interest: Person of Interest stars Jim Caviezel, Emmy Award winner Michael Emerson and Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson in a crime thriller about a presumed dead former-CIA agent, Reese, who teams up with a mysterious billionaire, Finch, to prevent violent crimes by using their own brand of vigilante justice. Using state-of-the-art surveillance technology, the two work outside of the law, using Reese's adept skills and Finch's unlimited wealth to unravel the mystery of the "person of interest" and stop the crime before it happens. On CBS.Here's Gus's review of the premiere. Welcome, Gus!
Friday, September 23rd
- Nikita
- Fringe: Reviews by Josie Kafka. Here's the premiere: "Neither Here Nor There."
- Supernatural: Reviews by Billie Doux. Here's the premiere: "Meet the New Boss."
- A Gifted Man: A Gifted Man is a drama about a brilliant, charismatic surgeon whose life changes forever when his deceased ex-wife begins teaching him the meaning of life from the "hereafter. On CBS.Here's Billie's review of the pilot.
Sunday, September 25th
- Boardwalk Empire
Monday, September 26th
- Gossip Girl
- Terra Nova: From executive producers Steven Spielberg, Peter Chernin, Brannon Braga, René Echevarria, and Aaron Kaplan comes an epic family adventure 85 million years in the making. Terra Nova follows an ordinary family on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with the majority of plant and animal life extinct. The future of mankind is in doubt, and its only hope for survival is in the distant past. On Fox. Here's Billie's review.
- Hart of Dixie: Fast-talking New Yorker and brand new doctor Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson!) has it all figured out—after graduating top of her class from medical school, she'll follow in her father's footsteps and become a cardio-thoracic surgeon. But when her dreams fall apart, Zoe decides to accept an offer from a stranger, Dr. Harley Wilkes, to work with him at his small practice in Bluebell, Alabama. On the CW.
Saturday, October 1st
- Bedlam (BBC America)
- Merlin (SyFy and BBC)
Sunday, October 2nd
- Dexter: Reviews by Billie Doux.
- Homeland. With Claire Danes. On Showtime.
Wednesday, October 5th
- American Horror Story: From producer Ryan Murphy, AHS tells the story of the Harmon family: Vivien (Connie Britton) and Ben (Dylan McDermott) and their teenage daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga). They've got plenty of family problems, but their newest one is that they have moved into a straight-up haunted house. And it's not pleasantly haunted by friendly ghosts that look like Casper, either. It's haunted by demon-y looking things, and it may possibly cause you to hallucinate, and it has a history of not just spooking but downright ... well, devouring the people who live in it. On FX (which is now coming to a province near you). Reviews by our newbie, maxpower03.
Friday, October 7th
- Sanctuary
Sunday, October 16th
- The Walking Dead: Reviews by Dr. Nana Mom.
Sunday, October 23rd
- Once Upon a Time: From the inventive minds of Lost executive producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis comes a bold new imagining of the world, where fairy tales and the modern-day are about to collide. With Jennifer Morrison. On ABC. Here's Gus's review of the pilot, which was delightful.
Friday, October 28th (the premiere dates for Grimm and Chuck were just recently pushed back.)
- Grimm: Remember the fairy tales your parents used to tell you before bedtime? Well, those weren't stories, they were warnings. Detective Nick Burkhardt thought he was ready for the grim reality of working homicide in Portland, Oregon. That is, until he started to see things... things he couldn't quite explain. After a panicked visit from his only living relative, Nick discovers the truth about his visions: he's not like everyone else, he's a descendant of an elite group of hunters known as "Grimms" who are charged with stopping the proliferation of supernatural creatures in the world. On NBC. Here's Josie's review of the pilot.
- Chuck
All blurbs adapted from the websites for each show, except the American Horror Story blurb, which is modified from an NPR preview article that contains minor spoilers. ... Read full post
