In wishing you all a hearty welcome back to TV or Not TV this week I almost feel as though I’m saying it to TV in general.

For someone who writes about television this week is just an incredible week. No matter what night you turn the TV on (well, except for poor Friday and Saturday nigt… the red-headed step children of TV viewing) there is something to watch. Comedy, drama and pure trash await you at ever turn.

You know what, I’m so excited about this week let’s just get to the good stuff!

MONDAY

CBS – 8:30 PM: There was a very sublte moment in the season finale of last year’s How I Met Your Mother where womanizing Barney had a brief longing look at Robin, whom he had slept with a few episodes before. Wait, wasn’t this Ted’s story about how he met the mother of his kids? Aw heck, who cares, Neil Patrick Harris steals the damn show anyway.

NBC – 9:00 PM: If you attended Comi-con this year and sat in on the Heroes panel than you already saw what everyone else has been waiting anxiously to see. The show’s creator, Tim Kring, promises the pace will be faster, the action bigger, and he’s actually learned from the mistakes of the past. I’m in.

TUESDAY

FOX – 8:00 PM: Tonight on House the quirky Doctor and his team have to figure out why different recipients of organs from the same donor are all dying. I only bring this up because the life they are trying to save is played by Felicia Day from The Guild and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

NBC – 8:00 PM: If you caught the season premiere last week of The Biggest Loser: Families than you saw that two of the dads in the families are so unfit that they are limited in exercise/participation. Tonight that continues and the contestants face the dreaded week 2 of weigh-ins, which typically have been incredible small compared to the week prior.

SCIFI – 9:00 PM: The ads for tonight’s episode of Eureka describe it as the mid-season finale. Normally this would be the time we were saying bye-bye to the show for another year, so it’s exciting to hear that in January we’ll start to see new episodes. If you’ve followed the show than tonight is clearly a must-see night. If you haven’t followed it I’d recommending tuning in at 8 PM instead and watching the previous week’s episode before this one.

CBS – 9:00 PM: Tonight we get to find out what it is like when you pull the comedy out of USA Network’s Psych with the premiere of The Mentalist.

WEDNESDAY

FOX – 8:00 PM: Tonight on Bones former lab man Zack pulls a Hannibal Lecter and helps the crew from his psychiatric ward on their current case.

NBC – 8:00 PM: We finally get to see how the new Knight Rider holds up in its regular one hour format. Here is hoping it comes off much better than last year’s Ford commercial disguised as a show.

CBS – 8:30 PM: Gary Unmarried premieres and I’ll be watching to see if it is better than the preview lead me to believe.

NBC – 10:00 PM: Season of 2 of Lipstick Jungle is here, and men across the nation will find something else to watch right now.

THURSDAY

NBC – 8:00 PM: The Good: My Name is Earl is back and Earl is actually working from his list again. The Office follows at 9 and has plenty of potential to bring us lots of laughs. The Bad: Both shows are an hour tonight and these one hour episodes always feel about 22 minutes too long instead of 22 minutes more funny.

ABC – 8:00 PM: Ugly Betty is back and I’ve still got my Man Card as I have yet to see a single episode. Lindsey Lohan will be reprising her roll from the end of last season, but it’s still not enough to get me to finally tune in.

CW – 8:00 PM: If you watched the season premiere of Smallville last week than you are probably wondering, like I am, why the show came back for another season and we’re having to wait for Reaper to get it’s mid-season time slot. Me thinks things do not bode well for the CW.

NBC – 10:00 PM: It is the beginning of the final season of ER. I can’t beleive this show has been around for a year longer than I’ve been married.

FRIDAY

PICK A NETWORK – 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific: For the first time in a long time I’m actually excited to see a Presidential Debate. Too bad they can’t just settle things the right way: Thunderdome!

Sorry, the networks don’t know how to recover from this so there’s just nothing else to really talk about for this day. I do find it funny that Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare is on the Independant Film Channel tonight. Didn’t see that one coming.

SATURDAY

NBC – 8:00 PM: If you missed the season premiere of Heroes than you get a second chance tonight. Hopefully it was so good you just had to come back for seconds tonight.

TLC – 10:00 PM: I love the way that Trading Spaces sounds more like an episode of Dr. Phil lately. Tonight two sisters will vie for mommy’s affection as they try to renovate two rooms.

SUNDAY

ABC – 9:00 PM: OK, go ahead and revoke that previously mentioned Man Card. I’ll be sitting there at 8:59 PM anxious to see what is going on tonight on Desperate Housewives.

SHO – 9:00 PM: Thank gosh there is such thing as a DVR because I’d have hated having to choose between the ladies of Wysteria Lane and my favorite sociopath Dexter.

ABC – 10:00 PM: My wife will be excited that Brothers & Sisters also returns tonight. By this time I’ll be watching Dexter.

– Will Wilkins never actually had a Man Card.

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