New Shows and Old Shows

So the fall television season is now in full bloom.  The old shows are trying to keep viewers while the new shows are fighting to gain viewers.  The Office and Heroes both had very good premiere episodes while some surprise old shows did very well.  Supernatural a Sci-FI esque show on the CW shocked and actually brought in some fairly big numbers for the channel.  

Heroes started the season with the third volume of the show entitled Villains.  In the episode Hiro Nakamura found himself battling someone who may be able to match his ability to manipulate time.  Peter comes back from the future to stop his brother Nathan from telling the world about them but by shooting him he causes the future to alter.  Sylar attacks the ward where they keep the dangerous "heroes" and frees them before being caught himself.  

In the first episode of The Office, the company is in a battle to see which branch can lose the most weight.  Angela and Dwight continue their affair with only Phyllis knowing about it.  Pam starts taking design classes in New York City, while Jim tries to face not having her around.  And a surprise ending including a cast member coming back to the Office.  Michael continued his efforts to date Holly.  

Some new shows really started out very well.  The best so far is the FOX hit Fringe.  Fringe is being created and produced by JJ Abrams who have made the shows Lost, Alias, and the X-Files.  The show focuses on a detective who is called in to investigate weird occurrences.  She is helped by a doctor who worked on cases such as these earlier in his career before being put in a mental institute.  His son helps an extremely intelligent kid who has gotten into some trouble.  Joshua Jackson of Dawson's Creek fame plays the son and really brings humor to the show.  Fringe is very X-Files esque show which really captures the audience and holds in attention.  

Some other New shows that are doing well are 90210 on The CW and a show that may be a surprise is Crusoe based on the book.  Old shows that start soon which are worthwhile are Chuck and Pushing Daisies.  It will be interesting to see what will happen after the messiness that was last year with the writers strike.  There are few new shows and some shows from last year that barely made the grade, cruised into the season to fill slots.  

episodes of fringe can be viewed on fox.com/fringe