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It's Friday August the 18 around 9:19AM and

The Glory of Fall... Television

Fall premieres.. ahhh... how long I have waited. While I will admit that I find Big Brother and some of the other summer shows strangely compelling, at no point have I ever duped myself into believing that they are actually 'good'. So for anyone else out there waiting for the fun to begin, here's some of the awesomeness that'll come your way starting as early as next week.

Returning Shows

Prison Break - Monday August 21, 8pm - After what can definitely be classed as the longest prison break ever, Wentworth Miller and the boys finally broke free of Fox River Penitentiary and will spend this season on the lam. Look forward to a savvy agent who may be able to give old Wenty a run for his money in the smarts category.

Survivor - Thursday September 14, 8 pm - Yeah, ok, so it's season 13 and we're over it. The only thing is that Jeff Probst is so freaking good at his job. He handles tribal council like a surgeon wields a scalpel. Amazing!

House - Tuesday September 5, 8 pm - What the hell is up with Fox? They sucked for years and now they have all these fabulous shows. Who can resist the cranky Dr. House? Odds are that the loss of his cane this season won't make him any more happy, but let's face it, we love to be miserable with him.

Lost - Wednesday October 4, 9pm - I only discovered this show this summer on DVD, and now I am hooked. This is one show that is definitely worth the effort of following a complex plot.

New Shows - This category is a lot harder to predict because you never know what tripe the networks will come up with to placate us for the upcoming season. Here are a couple that look like they should be pretty good anyways...

Shark - Thursday September 21, 9 pm - Helllooooo??? James Wood is in this. How cool is that?

The Nine - Wednesday October 4, 10 pm - Another show from ABC with a massive cast and an ex-Party of Five actor. The formula seems to work for them, so I'm not going to knock it.

Until then, we'll all just have to cling to the scraps of summer television - thank god they've managed to schedule it so that most of the finales wrap before the good stuff gets underway. In the meantime there's still Tommy Lee and Julie Chen to keep us gaping at the idiocy. I guess summer programming is kind of like a train wreck that way; you know it's wrong, but you can't stop staring.