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Well, the networks have announced their fall TV schedules (here's a good one-stop site where you can look at all of them), so I've done my regular lookthrough for new shows that grab my attention, as well as watching out for moves of old shows.

Of renewals, Veronica Mars is the only one that really concerned me, it was on the bubble and I'm glad it's coming back, even if I haven't yet seen season 2 yet. Other shows on my watch list that are returning either were pretty well guaranteed or I don't care enough about even if they might be mildly interesting. Some shows are moving around on the schedule, but I think I can make it all work.

New shows, however, two of my early 'this show could be cool, pay attention' shows made it. Heroes about ordinary people discovering they have superhuman powers. Here's a semi spoilery outline listing the cast of characters including their abilities. Looks like a good cast and I have a good feeling about this one.

Also new there's Jericho about a small town in America cut off from the rest of the country after some kind of nuclear apocalypse. Jericho stars Skeet Ulrich, the male Johnny Depp, who was in Miracles.

Of minor interest due to casting, from Firefly both Gina Torres and Adam Baldwin have series on the slate. Gina Torres is in the FOX hostage negotiation drama Standoff, which doesn't sound terribly interesting to me, and Adam Baldwin is in an ABC midseason replacement show Day Break, which is about a person who relives the same day over and over again. So like Groundhog Day, only stretched out into a whole series, and a drama. I don't think Baldwin plays the rerunner. Dunno how good that show can be, the format seems like it could get old very fast. Oh, and of course Inara will be on Stargate SG-1 this season in a recurring role, so the Firefly cast is doing fairly well.

Sadly a noshow on the schedule was Untitled Zombie Project, a proposed one hour drama about survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Mmmmm, zombies. But I guess the world's just not ready for a weekly zombie TV series. Yet.

Of course all of this doesn't count the cable networks, but since I'll usually have to wait a while or download to get them anyway, I don't have to worry about them.

So, here's my breakdown night by night (for fall): ( Read more... )

So, on Saturday I bought my first bag of chips since April 1st. It wasn't the first I'd eaten since when out for a family thing there were chips, but still, phase 1 has succeeded. Next time around will probably be more difficult since it'll be one month rather than 15 days. Still... it wasn't really that hard. Sure, there were times I wanted something to munch on, and had cravings, but never a moment where I actually thought about going to get some even though I'd decided not to have any. So, it seems, my 'addiction to chips' was only metaphorical after all.

And Dream Foo - Full of Zombies. Like, Zombies everywhere. It was a small town, and at first I was out and about, but finally as the zombies started getting more numerous I sought refuge in a house with a woman who had somehow escaped it. Next thing I remember is like thousands of zombies pounding on the door, and about to break through, but we'd somehow found or developed a weapon. We were running through the house and zapping them - any of the zombies hit by the zap ray just turned to dust, and we had to kill hundreds like that (including a giant zombie millipede) before we drove them out of the house again. Finally some days later we heard voices outside, and so opened the window and found that everybody was normal again, there was a cure, and somehow the cure involved us, something we'd done before the zombie plague was overwhelming, I guess. I think it was actually something the woman did, rather than anything I did. After a brief period of quarantine to make sure we weren't carrying anything that could reignite the zombie plague, there was a big parade with speeches. I woke up before I got to mine, thankfully.

This was entirely Lost related (the TV show), but here goes..
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I'm sure you're all aware that the risk of an outbreak of zombies is at an all time high. Don't fret:

http://www.zombiehunters.org/

Edit: Also, just for fun:
A Cthulhu Action Figure!
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