I've been a bit of a sloppy blogger lately (and with this extremely annoying "Your HTML is not well formed" error it's not getting any easier to write one! I wish they would fix that sometime SOON.) There are some new series on and I think I checked all of them out. Dirt – Sounded quite promising, but I stopped after 4 episodes. Interesting idea of showing a character with a mental disorder. Good cast, but with a bad script/storyline. So. Not for me. Blood ties – Worst idea ever. And I am not even going to mention Buffy or Angel in the same blog. I liked Angela’s Eyes better and that got cancelled. Pretty sure this will be too… Raines – horrible. Illogical and boring (A detective talking, and seeing, dead people? Yeah, sure they’d let him keep his job..). I tuned out after 15 minutes. If it’s still on in 6 weeks I’ll check the latest episode…but I doubt I’ll have to. October Road (ABC) – Hmm.. more serious, with an OK story/somewhat interesting characters so far. I’m still looking for an Everwood/quilty pleasure substitute but I don’t think this is it…and I’m not sure if I’m going to watch this. The Riches. I’m not a big Eddie Izzard fan, but I do like these series. Quite entertaining, still (I’ve seen all episode so far). He’s gonna get fired though ;) (I think). Andy Barker PI – er.. nope. Not funny, and not working. Drive. The idea of a road-race series didn’t appeal to me. I don’t find risky driving that amusing. (Which is why I wish they immediately stated there were to be no violations of any rules…but I’m 5 minutes in and someone’s racing over the hard shoulder.) I’ve got the first two episodes, but 20 minutes in (yes I can type and watch TV at the same time) I’m already tempted to shut it off. Very unbelievable that all these people would just drop their lives like that and join a GAME to win 32 million dollars. But it’s not boring (yet?) and the actors are good. So I’m watching episode 2 , but I’m likely to tune out after that. Painkiller Jane. I don’t like SciFi. But it’s well acted and there is a nice combination of voice over and visual effects, so for someone who likes it this might be worth watching So in short – a lot of new, but bad, series. Which means I don’t have to worry about cramming them all into my TV watching schedule.