The first new show of the 2010 fall TV season, CW's Hellcats, shows up tonight. On cable, so does FX's Terriers. And accompanying them both, for the third straight year, is TV WORTH WATCHING's annual Fall TV Preview...
If you've been a regular at this site for a while, you know the drill. (And drill, this year, is especially apt, since the first series on list is a show about college cheerleaders.) If not , here it is: Click on the Fall TV Preview banner, and get transported to our show-by-show scouting report -- brief capsules, written by our TVWW editors and correspondents.
Take Hellcats, for example, premiering tonight (Wednesday) at 9 ET. A CW series about cheerleading? It's got to be a candidate for instant and fervent ridicule and outright dismissal, right? Not necessarily.
On the Fall Preview page, I call it "Not nearly as bad as I expected."
Diane Werts advises, "Don't hate them because they're beautiful. Don't hate them at all."
Bill Brioux, more pragmatically, says, "You knew Glee had to inspire some kind of spinoff."
And Eric Gould, the curmudgeon in this particular example, welcomes it with a cheer, but with a derisive one: "2-4-6-8, this-is-one-we-really-hate!!"
Then there's Terriers, and more than 20 other new fall shows -- all listed in order of premiere dates, and described by as many TVWW writers as want to weigh in... both before and after the premieres. As subsequent episodes become available, we here at TV WORTH WATCHING, like members of Congress, reserve the right to revise and extend our remarks.
Well, to extend them, anyway...
So for today, click HERE at take it away. And for later visits, just click on the home-page Fall Preview banner, which will remain in place until the last show premieres in October.
Please let us know what you think -- of the Fall Preview, and of the shows themselves, and which ones, through our descriptions and evaluations or the on-air ads, pique your interest...