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- Our zombie friends and alive friends are back on The Walking Dead.
It’s that time of the year, folks: time to curl up on the couch with a blanket and your best guy or girl and start placing bets on how long the shitty new network sitcoms will last. (I’m giving Bad Judge three episodes—prove me wrong, Kate Walsh.) But it’s not all bad—in fact, a few new shows look downright promising—and if it turns out they suck, at least some of our old tried-and-trues are returning.
Honorable mentions: Jane the Virgin, Monday, October 13, 8 PM on CW A quirky comedy about a virgin whose gynecologist accidentally artificially inseminates her with her boss’s sperm sample, which was taken without consent by his wife. Anything that sounds that much like it was made up by a 12-year-old girl who’s just getting heavy into the novels of V.C. Andrews has to be a little bit good.
State of Affairs, Monday, November 17, 9 PM on NBCI thought we, like as a society, were on the same page about Katherine Heigl, a page we all ripped from our entertainment books and tossed into the roaring fireplaces in our living rooms. NBC has begged to differ by giving Heigl her very own hour-long drama about a tough CIA analyst named Charleston Tucker (great name, guys) who’s bent on locating the terrorists who killed her manfriend, who also happens to be the president’s son. Fundamentally, I’d love to support anything that features the wonderful Alfre Woodard as the president, but too many other things prevent State of Affairs from being salvageable, among them that it’s called State of Affairs, a name so generic I nodded off just typing it. Also the pandering tagline: “All the president’s men are nothing compared to her.” I think I’ll get my girl power elsewhere. —Gwynedd Stuart
