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The fall season’s rookie class seems weaker than the last few years with only a handful of new shows worth watching. Perhaps this is a good thing since there was too much to watch last year. Of course that was quickly remedied when 75% of the new shows were yanked off the air within 3 months of their pilot. Criteria to make it on The Watch List: 1. No half hour comedies. Those typically bore me to tears. Good for when you’re making dinner or something and dont want to be distracted by anything good. 2. No soaps. Unless its the one that the wife wanted to watch and now I watch it more than her. 3. Action is good. Weird is sort of good. SciFi is real good. Different is very good. 4. No cop/law shows, or CSI and its spinoffs. Unless its good, but thats rare.

The new shows on The Watch List:
Chuck - [Comedy/Action][Anticipation level 9] I’ve read “Alias meets 40 Year Old Virgin” in multiple places and it really does seem to fit. Chuck is a Geek Squad type employee who accidently gains access to all our government’s secrets and is paired with the tv-typical secret agent hottie who kicks all sorts of ass eight days a week. Plus its got Adam Baldwin who was great in Day Break.

Journeyman - [Drama][Anticipation level 4] This one could be really good or really bad but its going to take a few episodes to figure that out. Its got the nice post Heroes time slot so that should give it an audience and buy it some time to keep that audience. Journeyman is about a guy who seems to randomly travel through time to when a past girlfriend was alive and he intends to fix things this time. I have to admit the preview is a little confusing.

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