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Are you tired of the sum­mer reruns of every­thing? Me too! Ready to plop your behind on your couch instead of lay­ing on the beach? Me too! Wait a minute, on sec­ond thought…

Well either way, luck­ily, I have the scoop on when our favorite time-wasting, bore­dom bust­ing favorites will be back on the tube.  Get out the Dor­ti­tos, your Snug­gie and fuzzy slip­pers folks — and don’t for­get to make sure your DVR is ready either!

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If you were lucky enough to go to the CW Upfronts, you got a chance to see some clips of their new fall shows. The only one I am semi-interested in, how­ever, is the La Femme Nikita reboot sim­ply called “Nikita”.

The series stars Mag­gie Q as the lead hero­ine, who is a spy and assas­sin gone rogue and out to bring down her for­mer agency, Divi­sion. The series also stars Shane West (ER), Melinda Clarke (The O.C., The Vam­pire Diaries) and Lyn­dsy Fon­seca (Katie in Kick Ass).

Nikita pre­mieres at 9PM Thurs­days this fall after The Vam­pire Diaries. Take a look at what is in store — will you be watching?

Sadly, it’s that time of year again. The time of year where TV net­works are decid­ing what shows they are going to axe, and what shows they are keep­ing around for another season. Unfortunately folks, pre­pare to wait for most of the out­comes as the Net­work Upfronts are in mid-May.

Sev­eral of our faves have already got­ten the green light, and the happy news of no pink slips for their cast and crews. Oth­ers, not so lucky — hav­ing got­ten the hatchet already. I am going to break down what we know so far for you, so put down the Zoloft and shot­guns please.

Pick­ups already announced:

Super­nat­ural, The Vam­pire Diaries, Smal­l­ville, Fringe, Com­mu­nity, The Office, 30 Rock, Parks and Recre­ation, Mod­ern Fam­ily, The Mid­dle, The Amaz­ing Race, Sur­vivor, The Big Bang The­ory, How I Met Your Mother, Fam­ily Guy, Amer­i­can Dad, The Cleve­land Show, Bones, Glee, The Simp­sons, Fri­day Night Lights (this will be the last sea­son), NCIS:Los Ange­les, Law & Order, Nurse Jackie and United States of Tara, Castle.

Shows  already can­celled:

24 , LOST (we already knew this was the last sea­son), ‘Till Death, Past Life, Dollhouse, Hank and Three Rivers. (I must say, I have no idea what some of these even are, so oh well.)

Every year, E! Online’s Kristin Dos San­tos holds a “Save One Show” Cam­paign which allows read­ers to vote on the one TV show they want to see live to fight another day. (Usu­ally, the win­ner does end up get­ting picked up.) I highly rec­om­mend that you go and vote, like I did already (for Chuck!!) This shows on life sup­port this time around are as follows:

Acci­den­tally on Pur­pose (CBS),  Bet­ter Off Ted (ABC),  Cas­tle (ABC),  Chuck (NBC),  Flash­For­ward (ABC), The For­got­ten (ABC),  Ghost Whis­perer (CBS),  Heroes (NBC) , Human Tar­get (Fox), Life Unex­pected (The CW), Medium (CBS),  Mel­rose Place (The CW),  Mercy (NBC), Numb3rs (CBS), One Tree Hill (The CW), Par­ent­hood (NBC), Scrubs (ABC), Sons of Tus­con (Fox), Trauma (NBC) and V (ABC) .

Head to the poll to read more: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b173297_save_one_show_on_get_in_here_vote_people.html#ixzz0jfjBz9mG

As MTR’s res­i­dent TV won­der­girl, I have been keep­ing you all up to date on the fastly approach­ing Smal­l­ville movie event. Today, I have a new trailer for you, which brings back J’onn J’onzz (Mar­t­ian Man­hunter) and Green Arrow, and fea­tures Hawk­man, Star­Girl and Doc­tor Fate.

Are you going to watch or set your DVR’s? Feast your eyes on the trailer and comment:

Being the TV lover that I am, I fig­ured I would share some of our favorite show’s mid-season return dates with you.

Thurs­day, Jan. 14
Com­mu­nity returns at 8PM on NBC — If you haven’t watched this com­edy star­ring Joel McHale of “The Soup”, I HIGHLY rec­om­mend it.
Fringe is back at 9PM on FOX

Sun­day, Jan. 17
The new show Human Tar­get pre­mieres at 8PM on FOX — This looks like a pretty cool show. I will def­i­nitely be check­ing it out.
24 has a 4-hour, 2-night pre­miere that starts at 9PM on FOX

Thurs­day, Jan. 21 is a big night for me per­son­ally — my DVR will be work­ing over­time:
New CW hit show The Vam­pire Diaries is back at 8PM — Not as much of a chick show as you may think — give it a try.
Both Super­nat­ural (CW) and The Office (NBC) return at 9PM
Burn Notice returns at 10PM on USA

Fri­day, Jan. 22nd
Smal­l­ville returns at 8PM on the CW (Also, the Absolute Jus­tice TV Movie is Feb­ru­ary 5th.)

Wednes­day, Jan. 27th
Psych is back at 10 PM on USA

Tues­day, Feb. 2nd
LOST comes back for it’s final sea­son on at 9PM on ABC

Thurs­day, March 18th
Flash­For­ward returns at 8 PM on ABC

Tues­day, March 30th
V finally returns at 10 PM on ABC — ABC had given us a few episodes to get into and then yanked it until March — bas­tards. Can’t wait to get back into it.

Also, per­haps of inter­est,  the Doll­house Series Finale is Jan­u­ary 22nd at 9PM on FOX — I never watched this show, but it had a cult fol­low­ing that said it was good. If you were a part of that cult, I am sure this date is of inter­est to you.

If there are any other shows you are inter­ested in know­ing about, please let me know and I will do my best to get you a date.

Slightly off topic, I have read that things are look­ing pos­i­tive for a 10th sea­son of Smal­l­ville as well as a 6th sea­son of Super­nat­ural. Let’s see how this pans out, but I would be happy for both.

We are fastly approach­ing Smallville’s two-part Jus­tice League episode enti­tled “Absolute Jus­tice”, and the pre­views are in full swing on The CW. Take a look at what’s in store for our favorite res­i­dents of Metropolis…

I, for one, am look­ing for­ward to see­ing how the Smal­l­ville writ­ers pull this off. Any­one else? Catch the “Absolute Jus­tice” episode on Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 5, 2010, but don’t for­get, new episodes return prior to that on Jan­u­ary 22nd at 8 pm EST.

Some of you may have read my ear­lier post on Smallville’s upcom­ing 2-part Jus­tice League themed episode. Word is that this is no longer the case — the CW has decided to make it a 2 hour MOVIE!!! The title for the flick?? Smal­l­ville: Absolute Jus­tice. (It has a nice ring to it, huh?)

Addi­tion­ally, the movie will debut yet another char­ac­ter known in the DC Uni­verse — none other than Hawk­man (yay)!

The actor that has signed on to play Hawk­man is Michael Shanks — some of you may know him from Star­gate SG-1, but I know him from his 4-episode arc as Vic­tor on Burn Notice.  Check out the first pic­ture of our artificially-winged friend:

Nice pants guy…

FYI - The air­date for Smal­l­ville: Absolute Jus­tice has been changed from Jan­u­ary 29 , 2010 to Feb­ru­ary 5, 2010. (Boo.)  

Lastly, I have also read that Pam Grier will be join­ing for mul­ti­ple episodes play­ing the won­der­fully bad Amanda Waller. (Hmmm..not too sure about that.) Yummy tid­bit:  Waller was ranked as IGN’s 60th Great­est Comic Book Vil­lain of All Time in 2009. I’d say Grier has some cracked eggs to fill. What do you think??

Credit once again goes to Michael Ausiello for the scoops… http://ausiellofiles.ew.com

I swear to you, this is not a girly show, (even though I watch it, I am a girl, and  it is on The CW — which I under­stand is a red flag to any­one with the male anatomy.)  Super­nat­ural debuted on Sep­tem­ber 13, 2005 and is now cur­rently in it’s fifth sea­son. It was cre­ated by the fan­tas­tic Eric Kripke, who is also cred­ited as Exec­u­tive Pro­ducer, along with Joseph McGinty Nichol, whom we all know bet­ter as McG.

Per­son­ally,  I believe this show is get­ting bet­ter and bet­ter with each pass­ing sea­son. Kripke had orig­i­nally stated he had a Five-Year Plan for the show, and envi­sioned wrap­ping it up in Sea­son 5 (Boo). How­ever, I think we will be see­ing more of it due to a loyal  and grow­ing fan base, which is awesome  (Yay).

The main char­ac­ters of the series are broth­ers Dean and Sam Win­ches­ter. The guys have fol­lowed in their father John’s line of work – that being Hunters of demons and the para­nor­mal (bet­ter than sit­ting in a cubi­cle all day?? –You be the judge.) Amidst all this hunt­ing, we get great snarky lines and comedic gold – which in my opin­ion are one of the best ele­ments of this show. Another is the music –  “Carry On Way­ward Son” by Kansas starts off many of the episodes, and it gets stuck in my head every time. Dean’s black ’67 Chevy Impala has been dubbed by fans the “Metal­licar” for pete’s sake! With great writ­ing and exe­cllent sto­ry­line con­sis­tency,  this is truly one of the most under­rated shows on the tube right now.

In a nut­shell, Sea­sons 1–3 have revolved around the broth­ers learn­ing more about their work while sav­ing peo­ple from super­nat­ural beings — we have seen Ghouls and Gob­lins, Trick­sters, Shapeshifters, Paris Hilton, etc. Obvi­ously, there have also been major plot points, most of which I don’t want to ruin. Exam­ples are Sam devel­op­ing psy­chic abil­i­ties that prove to be more than that of John Edward, or Dean mak­ing a deal with a demon named Lilith to save his brother, giv­ing him one year to live before being dragged by Hell­hounds to Hell.

Sea­son Four was all about Heaven vs. Hell – Sam and Dean have to work with Angels, the most impor­tant being Castiel,  to stop Lilith’s plan of break­ing the 66 seals of Hell — which would let Lucifer walk free on Earth. Not a good thing. Well, with him being an Angel and all, Castiel (played by Misha Collins) had pre­vi­ously res­ur­rected Dean from Hell with the intent for him to stop her from break­ing these seals. Sam also dis­cov­ered he has a demonic side and kind of gives in to it by becom­ing strung out on demon blood (Super­nat­ural crack) in order to become strong enough to defeat Lilith once and for all. This, my friends, does not go as planned.

Sea­son Five’s cur­rent sto­ry­line revolves around The Apoc­a­lypse. Sam and Dean are in a race to try and defeat Lucifer (see, I said it didn’t go as planned) and not end the world. There have been some major rev­e­la­tions, which I will not spoil, that are lin­ing up to make this sea­son the best one yet. If you have never watched Super­nat­ural, check you local list­ings, and  I urge you to get Sea­sons 1–4 on DVD and catch up.

We all know the CW’s Smal­l­ville as a guilty plea­sure to many comic book fans (whether or not you want to admit to tun­ing in, I understand). As we wind down the ninth sea­son, (which is pos­si­bly the last, although I per­son­ally think it may go one more), I expect the sto­ry­lines to be kicked up a notch…more so than the “Dooms­day” episodes of last sea­son. I am sure all of you are eager to see “The Red/Blue Blur” stop being emo and start get­ting  “Super”.  (As do I — the  trench coat has got to go – give me some blue and red span­dex and a cape already!!)

Well, I read today about a two-part episode enti­tled “Soci­ety” slated to come our way in Jan­u­ary 2010. It is being writ­ten by comic book writer Geoff Johns. (Hmmm…you may know him from some guys called the Green Lantern and The Flash.) Johns is no stranger to Smal­l­ville - he also wrote Episode 8x11 called “Legion”, where he intro­duced us to Cos­mic Boy, Sat­urn Girl and Light­ning Lad from the Legion of Superheroes.  

I think I can speak for many when I say that we all look for­ward to new DC char­ac­ters drop­ping into Metrop­o­lis, so these two episodes are kind of important. Thus far, sea­son 9 has given us the likes of Major Zod, Met­allo and Roulette, and another appear­ance from the Toy­man. Now “Soci­ety” is going to mark the arrival of the Jus­tice Soci­ety - more specif­i­cally mem­bers Hawk­man, Doc­tor Fate, and Star­girl. Also, it has been revealed that they are bring­ing back a fan-fave char­ac­ter which you may remem­ber — J’onn J’onzz a/k/a the Mar­t­ian Man­hunter (played by actor Phil Mor­ris). We last saw the Man­hunter mak­ing the ulti­mate sac­ri­fice by fly­ing an injured Kal-El into the sun, giv­ing up his own pow­ers to restore Kal-El’s. I for one like the Man­hunter, and I hope we are going to see him in his true form at least once.

So the ques­tions — are you happy to see Mar­t­ian Man­hunter again? How about the arrival of the Jus­tice Soci­ety?? Do you feel that Smal­l­ville has done a good job of bring­ing the DC Comics to life on the small screen for the past nine sea­sons?? Sound off below.…and tune in for the “Soci­ety” episodes…I think it’s going to be good.

Credit for the scoop goes to http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/10/26/smallville-scoop-martian-manhunter-returns/