Tonight’s one of those nights my digital recorders will be doing overtime.
NBC is doing a three hour Heroes extravaganza starting with a catchup lead-in at 8 p.m. and then two hours of new episode. After faltering a bit last season, I still have high hopes for Heroes to wow me in those two new hours.
Of course, while I’m watching all of that, I’ll be recording (or otherwise time-shifting) four other hours of TV shows.
Season premiers of two of my favorite sitcoms drop at 8 and 8:30 p.m. on CBS–The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother. And over on Fox there’s a new episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which has consistently kicked ass this season.
The 9 o’clock hour isn’t bad as I can take or leave Two and a Half Men (which was infinitely funnier in its first few seasons than it has been the last few times I watched it) and have very little interest in Worst Week.
At 10 p.m. the DVR will kick back in to see what Shatner and Spader are up to on the new season of Boston Legal. There’s some question as to if the show will continue to slide deeper into self-parody and lose what charm it has left, but I know it’ll still be worth it for those David E. Kelley character tirades on current issues. Having Denny and Alan argue during an election year should be interesting.
As we move into October (the “official” start of the new season), there are going to be more nights like this–with multiple hours accruing on the DVR and in my online viewing queues. It’s all part of the challenge of keeping up with what very well be my most time-consuming (and alternately inspiring and frustrating) hobby.
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