It's the most wonderful time of the year!

No, I'm not talking back-to-school. I don't care about the crisp fall weather or the turning leaves. I'm not a football fan (hockey is my game). I love this time of year because it means the new TV season is starting at last. Yippee!

I have written before about my enthusiastic appreciation for all things television. And there is nothing I love more than the fresh slate of a new crop of programs. Except maybe all my old favourites coming back for another season.

I picked up Community and Parks and Recreation over the summer, so I'm all set for sitcoms and am probably watching more of them than I ever have before. Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory are both on the bubble since they got a little repetitive for me towards the end of last season, so if either Up All Night or The New Girl turn out to be awesome, they might get the axe. I will watch How I Met Your Mother until the end of time, because I love that show even though it's not what it once was.

Dramas, though, I'm a little short on. I watch and love Castle, and all my friends watch that too so it's a good one for post-game Twitter discussion. But I'm short on the long arc shows that I love so much. My favourite kind of TV show is one that requires you to watch every week and sends you immediately online to analyze within an inch of its life. I've watched plenty in the past—Lost, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, and Veronica Mars are among my most obsessive—but they all seem to have ended or been cancelled in the last few years.

So I'm giving a bunch of new ones a whirl to see what sticks. I watched the pilot of Ringer the other night (residual Buffy love) and I'll give it a week or two to find its feet. I've set my PVR for Pan Am and Terra Nova—the former because I like Mad Men and Christina Ricci, the latter because I think my husband will like it too and shows we both watch are few and far between. I'm hoping at least one of them is worth over-analyzing on the internet, because my post-Lost world is sadly devoid of obsessive dissection.

What are you watching this fall?

– Sarah

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