Every year around this time, I get a list of the new season TV schedule for all five networks, and sort through it so I can determine what I’m going to watch, old and new, on each night of the week. Sir Monkeypants makes fun of me for this, because it is sad and pathetic, but I am a stay-at-home-mom now, so it’s either this, or even more talking about High School Musical and what the girls are wearing on Hi-5 these days. Consider yourself warned before you snicker behind your newspaper, smart guy.
Anyway, here’s my schedule.
Sundays: I had a bad breakup with Desperate Housewives last year, and my new love Grey’s Anatomy has been moved from this night, creating a black hole that will gladly fill up with Sunday Night Football. Luckily CBS has moved The Amazing Race to Sundays at 8pm (returns Sept. 17) so I will have a little something to fill the void.
Mondays: We’re already watching, and totally engrossed in, season 2 of Prison Break, on at 8pm. We’ll probably PVR How I Met Your Mother at 8:30pm (returns Sept. 18) as we watched it in reruns this summer and laughed on a pretty regular basis. At 9pm, I might check out Heroes (debuts Sept. 25), a new show about people who develop superpowers in an X-Men kind of way. At 10pm…I’ll probably be in bed. But my devoted PVR will be recording Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip (debuts Sept. 18), the new show by Aaron Sorkin. I adore Sorkin and I’d follow him anywhere, and the teasers for this show already have me panting with anticipation.
Tuesdays: VERONICA MARS, at 9pm, returning Oct. 3. Watch it or we may no longer be friends. I’ll also probably check out Friday Night Lights at 8pm (debuts Oct. 3), and I’m already PVRing House at 9.
Wednesdays: Despite recent backlash, I’m still totally committed to Lost at 9pm (returns Oct. 4).
Thursdays: I still love Survivor (returning to its 8pm time slot on Sept. 14). However, the press can’t stop talking about Ugly Betty, which will be airing in the same time slot, starting Sept. 28. I know I won’t be able to resist the lure of Jeff Probst but I might PVR Ugly Betty so I can stay up on the chitchat. At 9pm, it’s Grey’s Anatomy all the way (starting Sept. 21). Six Degrees — a new show about six NYC strangers whose lives intersect in interesting ways — looks interesting enough that I’ll try to catch the first few episodes, starting Sept. 21.
Fridays and Saturdays are PVR catchup days…and maybe I’ll endeavor to leave the house from time to time, too.
TurtleHead 
What you folks can’t see is this colour coded giant wall chart that she has going on in the office. It’s 4 feet by 3 feet with all of the days of the week. Red squares for drama, blue for comedy, she has a black outline for things that I want to watch that she doesn’t.
There’s a priority resolution scheme for everything running down the right hand side. Just in case the networks decide to show everything at once she’ll be able to immediately refer to her chart and tell you which two things we should watch/record live. And which two things we’ll be able to record later on a timeshifting channel.
Wow, is truly my sister. 🙂