It almost seems as if the new fall television season hasn't started. There's just so little new material to interest me, and even many of the existing shows I've been watching don't seem to appeal to me. I tried to watch Flash Forward but lost interest after the first five minutes. I did watch the pilot of Eastwick but doubt I'll watch any more episodes; there's just too much male-bashing going on.

There's still one or two shows I've yet to see, but the following is based upon what I expect to be my current fall viewing schedule. I'm leaving out Jay Leno only because I'm likely to watch it off and on, catching it when it's convient as I did when he was on the Tonight Show. I watched the current Tonight Show over the summer but I'm more likely to watch instead. Pretty much all the shows I watch are recorded first.

Monday

8pm Heroes

9pm Trauma

I can't say if I'll stick with Heroes. I watched the pilot and it wasn't that bad. And considering there's no competition at that time I'll likely keep watching it. And there appears to be only 13 episodes this year, so it's not going to be a full year commitment.

I've yet to watch Trauma which premieres tonight. It's one of the few new shows I've any interest in. I'm hoping it's going to be like a modern Emergency, although I don't expect anywhere near the amount of action the previews make it out to have. And I'm not interested in medical dramas right now, so I might not watch past the pilot.

Tuesday

8pm NCIS

9pm NCIS:LA

NCIS:LA may be the only new show I watch. While it's not as strong as NCIS, it's not unwatchable either. And NCIS has been starting to slip in the writing lately, but it's still a strong show. It's uncertain as to whether Ziva will return to the team (after the season premiere), although I wouldn't mind a new face. The whole Ziva/Tony thing is getting tired.

Wednesday

8pm Bones

Wednesday seems to be the lightest night of the week so far. Bones is airing on a Canadian station a day earlier than the US so I'll likely watch it then.

Thursday

(8pm Bones – if I miss it on Wednesday)

9pm Supernaturual

9pm Fringe

10pm The Mentalist

Supernatural and Fringe are both airing at the same time, so I'll likely do some time shifting or tape one off-air. Although I've yet to watch last week's episode of Supernatural so there's still a chance I'll drop it. I wasn't too keen on it after last year, although that might partially have been because I was watching so much. This year is much lighter so I might have the time for it.

Friday

8pm Smallville

Like Supernatural I was going to drop it, although with it switched to Fridays there's nothing to really interfere. Although like Supernatural, I've still yet to watch last week's episode which was the pilot. And I tend to watch a lot of recorded stuff on Fridays so I wouldn't miss it.

Last year was initally suppose to be it's last year. And when last season ended this year was suppose to be it's last year. But now they are saying that it might not be. It's appearent that they're just going to run it into the ground. If it really was it's last year I would have cause to watch, but otherwise no. What I might do is to skip it and if it does turn out to be it's last year I catch up over the summer.

I'm not listing Saturday and Sunday because I tend to watch a lot of recorded stuff then, like movies and stuff I may have downloaded. I also spent the summer catching up with Legend of the Seeker, so I might get back into watching that show when they air new episodes.

So that gives me about 9 or 10 shows to watch this year, which is about half of what I tried to follow last year. And of those, four of them I'm likely to drop. Fortunately, I've got a lot of recorded stuff to catch up on or watch again.

With the exception of The Mentalist and whatever Leno episodes I catch at 10pm, prime time this year seems to be only two hours long. I lost interest in medical shows after ER went downhill and with the two NCIS, Bones and The Mentalist I don't need any more cop shows. Even Fringe is something of a cop show.

At least one of the shows I would be watching, Chuck, won't be starting until after Christmas. By then Heroes should be finished. There was also another new show this season that won't be starting until then, although I can't say whether I'll watch it until I see it. I'm also able to get RTN off-air at times and there's a few older shows on it I find interesting. Although I have seen practically all of them, even if it was years ago.

Overall, I don't expect to be spending any less time watching things, although I expect I'll be watching much more video than TV. I do have at least one show each night to watch. And I am managing to catch up on stuff I expected to watch over the summer but I still have a large backlog. There's been a lot of movies that have come out in the past couple years I've yet to see. And with a new computer I now want to spend time tranferring video tapes I've bought and stuff I've taped over into a digital format. So I doubt I'll be bored.