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One of my favourite shows of the last few years is finally back for it’s fall season. Bones has returned for a forth season, and thankfully the premiere didn’t leave a bad taste in my mouth like the season 3 finale did (long story, maybe later).

For those that missed the premiere (and live in the US…sorry…’dem da breaks’, so to speak), check it out here on hulu.

And I have to apologize for the short posts lately, I’m gearing up for some serious posting in the very near future, but for now I thought I’d just spead a little anthropoligist, crime drama, comedy love. I Assure you, you don’t want to miss next week on TV Gawker, it’s gonna be an posting frenzy of epic porportion…and their will be ranting…oh yes…plenty of ranting. I look forward to the enevitable hate mail. But until then, enjoy the premiere of Bones!

There’s a new sitcom coming to the UK care of ITV2, called “No Heroics”. Essentially it’s a britcom about a few unknown superheroes and their relationships. Sounds a bit like the movie “Mystery Men” actually, with the main protagonists being unknown superheroes in a world full of people with super powers, and having their worst enemy be the most famous superhero in the world.

Here’s a preview to give you a little taste of what to expect.

Really not sure what to think at this point, it’s very strange…which could be good or bad. I’ll be sure to post a full review once it hits TV in a couple weeks, but until then, I just don’t know…

Just a quick post to let everyone know that TVSquad.com is doing another great giveaway contest. This time it’s a promo poster for HBO’s upcoming Vampire show, “True Blood”. I’m excited about this show, as should be apparent to anyone who read my preview of the pilot a while back.

All you have to do to enter is leave a comment there explaining what you’re looking forward to most about the show, so if you want a chance at a nice promo poster signed by most of the main cast, head over here and check it out.

Well, it’s official. Laurence Fishburne is joining CSI next season when William Petersen (Gil Grissom on the show) leaves.

I really don’t know about this. I was a fan of CSI in it’s first few seasons, but it started getting so repetitive and unoriginal that I lost interest. Recently I’ve been getting back into it a bit, especially during season 7 with the season-long story arc of the miniture killer, as it brought back a lot of what I liked about the first few seasons. Having every episode be indipendent is great, but there’s something about longer story arcs that tend to keep my interest more.

As for Fishburne’s character, he’s playing a college lecturer that joins the Crime Lab as a level-1 CSI, specializing in criminal psychology, who is fighting with some inner demons as he notices aspects of his own personality fitting with the profile of a killer. It sounds interesting, and I’m sure he’s up for the task, acting-wise (I mean…he’s MORPHEUS, he can do anything…right?), I’m just not sure how well he’ll fit in with the rest of the cast, and the feel of the show.

I guess only time will tell. I’ll be looking out of the premiere of season 9, that’s for sure.

That doesn’t look pleasant…

Coming to the Discovery channel in the fall, “Time Warp” is basically a show about a couple of MIT guys with a fancy (and admittedly, it’s pretty fancy) video camera that can take up to 20,000 frames of video per second, or to put it in layman’s terms….it can make EXTREMELY slow motion videos.

And that’s really the whole premise of the show. They take a few random things, like getting punched in the face, and they slow it WAY down to the point where it looks strange (and potentially cool). In the pilot episode they have a guy punched in the face, show what is happening to a wine glass as it shatters due to sound waves, show how a dog’s tongue works while it’s drinking, and do a couple of silly things with balloons just to show off how fast the camera is.

It was interesting I suppose, and maybe some of the future stuff will be cool to see, but it really didn’t grab me. They tried to keep things light with a bit of banter here and there (think “Mythbusters”), but failed miserably. That might be due to it being the pilot and they haven’t really found their groove yet, I don’t know, but it was a bit awkward from time to time…

Glass, bending and then shattering…really REALLY slowly.

All in all, if you want to see how strange things look when slowed down an insane degree, or enjoy things exploding, this may be a good show for you. There’s really not much else to it.

You can check out a video preview on the discovery.com website right over here to get a feel for the show, and they even have a forum setup to allow people to suggest things that they would like to see slowed down, so if you have an idea for them, head over here.

Hayes, known for the theme to the 70’s classic movie, “Shaft”, and more recently for being the voice of “Chef” on Comedy Central’s South Park, died yesterday. He was found colasped near a running treadmill and pronounced dead later yesterday afternoon.

I haven’t been keeping track of his career much since he left South Park a couple years back due to them making an episode that poked fun at the “Church” of Scientology, of which was a member, but I really didn’t see this one coming. Unlike Bernie Mac, who also died this weekend, Hayes was supposedly quite healthy. Harsh….very harsh.

When I first heard about CBS’s upcoming Investigative Drama, surrounding a man who uses his “razor sharp observation skills” to solve crimes and generally just annoy people around him by knowing things they don’t think he should, I thought to myself, ‘Oh, they’re ripping of USA Networks “Psych”‘.

And while it certainly seems to pull a lot of themes from “Psych”, it’s by no means a ripoff. It leans far more to the drama/investigation than the humour, though there still is a fair bit of humour injected into the show by way of the character interactions. This is especially apparent in the main character’s smart ass attitude towards…just about everything.

Patrick Jane’s last job…fake psychic.

I enjoyed the premiere episode, which should be hitting CBS on September 23rd. And if you want to avoid spoilers, I’ll just tell you that you should definitely check it out. The story and dialogue are interesting, the acting is well done, and the whole thing is just generally fun to watch. If on the other hand you want some details about the premiere, keep reading…
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tvjab has a great list of all the new shows hitting the small screen starting next month, check it out right here.

Some of the shows on the list we’ve covered here at TV Gawker already, like “True Blood“, “Fringe“, “Leverage“, and others.

We will also be having at least one new fall TV preview every Friday this month, starting tomorrow with a look at the upcoming CBS Cop Drama “The Mentalist”(think “Psych”, with slightly less sarcasm), as well as ongoing reviews once the premieres start rolling out.

I hadn’t heard much about Sci-fi channel’s “Eureka” over the last couple years, and hadn’t seen an episode until this weekend when I caught the premiere of season 3. I was pleasantly surprised with some fun (and at times downright silly) sci-fi shenanigans.

Essentially the show is about a town populated by insanely smart people who constantly come up with crazy high-tech inventions. It’s a “drama”, but a serious leaning to the comedic, and is just plain entertaining if you don’t mind a fair amount of separation from reality (and most sci-fi fans don’t).

I highly suggest you check it out if you haven’t already. Hulu.com is getting better and better at carrying new episodes of things these days, and I’m happy to report that “Eureka” is there, and I’ll include the premiere of season 3 below for anyone that doesn’t want to make that extra click…I know it can be hard

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog is back on Hulu.com, in one piece, with no international restrictions. So if you missed it the first time around….or just want to see it again without interruption….check it out!