TV... oh how many hours have been wasted watching you!

TV's Fall line-up actually looks pretty good. Which is usually a bad sign for me.
Whenever I like new shows they always tend to get cancelled... Moonlight, Pushing Daisies, My Own Worst Enemy (although I do like Christian Slater's new show The Forgotten), The Black Donnellys, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (which ironically was replaced BY The Black Donnelly's), DayBreak (the Taye Diggs ABC show before he was put on Private Practice), Eli Stone, Trust Me, Traveler, Dark Angel... you get the idea.
*side note... I'm not really sure if it's getting picked up for a 2nd season, so I don't know if I should put Mental here with the cancellations, or over in the "good luck" categories below...
Basically, any show that I liked and required any semblance of intelligence to watch it... it gets cancelled within the first 2 years... And if they don't get cancelled, something happens that makes me not really care about the show anymore, such as Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Smallville, and Heroes - sure I still WATCH them, but I could easily do so on the internet, whatevers.
However, if I jump on the bandwagon after a show established itself, it seems fine. My current “established” shows are: The Office, NCIS, Criminal Minds, How I Met Your Mother, Two & a Half Men, Hells Kitchen, Mythbusters, Big Brother , and the age-old The Simpsons (which I phase in and out of throughout its 20-years).
So, in hopes to at least remember the titles in the future if my curse continues to thrive… I would like to wish good luck to my shows entering their junior and sophomore seasons: The Big Bang Theory (OMG hilarious!), Castle (Such great chemistry, Nathan Fillion is brilliant), Fringe (intense and humorous – LOVE IT), and Dollhouse (Dark Angel meets My Own Worst Enemy meets Joss Whedon’s genius). Here’s hoping you don’t stop at 2 years (or 3 with BBT)…
And now for the newbies this season - here's hoping they get at least ONE season under their belt: Accidentally on Purpose (great comedic timing, Jenna Elfman still has it if you ask me), The Forgotten, Hank (poor Kelsey Grammer is still trying to recreate the success of Frasier...), The Middle (not terribly funny, but it is amusing), and Flash Forward (AWESOME pilot! Here's hoping it's the "New Heroes"...).
I'd also like to comment about the show Merlin even though it was only a summer-season show and is no longer on. It was awesome and I'm hoping it got enough buzz to come back, and not just over the summer. Same goes for the quirkey office show Better Off Ted. Those summer seasons are way too short. For instance, I also watch My Boys and it feels like there is only like 9 shows every “season”… if they are going to do that, couldn’t TBS have like 2 or 3 “seasons” each year, like how America’s Next Top Model and Survivor have multiple “cycles” per year?
Well, anyway, there we have it, the list of the shows that I love right now. Quick recap? Sure!
-How I Met Your Mother
-Accidentally on Purpose
-Two & a Half Men
-The Big Bang Theory
-Castle
-Heroes
-NCIS (trying to give the Los Angeles spin off a chance, but the magic just isn’t there)
-Hell's Kitchen
-The Forgotten
-Hank
-The Middle
-Criminal Minds
-CSI (mainly the NY version, although I used to be a fan of the original)
-Mythbusters
-FlashForward
-Grey’s Anatomy
-Fringe
-The Office
-Dollhouse
-Smallville
-Desperate Housewives
-The Simpsons
-Merlin (summer show)
-My Boys (summer show)
-Big Brother (summer show)
-I Survived a Japanese Game Show (summer show)
-Wipeout (summer show)
-Better Off Ted (summer show)

Oops… tis TV watchin’ time! Byes…