If you're into any of the innumerable and ridiculous Reality TV shows out there (OK, I admit, I might watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an affliction, I know!), or sitcoms that have been made twenty times over - this is not the piece for you.

Likewise, if you're in the UK this does not apply. Sorry folks, I am sure there are plenty of new shows over there that I would wish for, if I knew about them. However, if you want to read a bit on a few of the shows I think I might venture a gander at in the States this coming fall, read on!

(Also, I'm a geek. You've been warned.)

New Shows that we're excited about:

True Blood- HBO

This is an HBO series, and I've only just got HBO at home, so I'm really psyched.  It's based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris.  Anna Paquin is the main star of the show, along with a bunch of folks I've never heard of, like Stephen Moyer and Sam Trammell. Also, it's created by the same guy who created Six Feet Under.

Fringe - FOX

Shades of X-Files? Seems like that's the buzz. Created by the same guy behind Lost?  OK, I'll give it a shot.

Kath & Kim - NBC

OK, this definitely isn't my usual fare, but I have an odd fondness for both Molly Shannon and Selma Blair.  It's based on an Australian series (gee, what isn't recycled from elsewhere these days?), about a mom and her self-centered grown-ass daughter who moves back in.  It's a sitcom.  The pictures I've seen look extremely '80s in a strange kind of "not quite in the same timeline as reality" way.

My Own Worst Enemy - NBC

Does anyone else remember Christian Slater from Heathers?  Yanno, dreamy and crazy? Is nostalgia for that sweeter time enough reason to watch a TV show about a guy who apparently has dissociative identity disorder (aka multiple personalities)?

For the most part, some of the bigger shows like Heroes are returning, and the rest of the "new shows" seem to be just more of the usual-- sitcoms, procedurals.  Lawyers and cops and doctors, oh my. *Yawn*