SUNDAYS
DEXTER is still the king of the Sunday night TV for me. Michael C. Hall is phenomenal. How he didn’t get the Emmy, I’ll never know. I’m on the edge of my seat over every episode, and I just love the Bay Harbor Butcher storyline, and Lundy, and even Deb. I can’t wait to see who finds out Dexter’s secret first!!

Who is loving BROTHERHOOD as much as me? It’s such a gritty drama – it’s incredibly underrated. I’m obsessed!

I’m still getting a kick out of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES this season. The Halloween episode didn’t fail to delight. I like when a show gets back on track. Marc Cherry realized they went a little haywire, and he got them back on the train.

BROTHERS & SISTERS is one of my favorite shows on TV. There is nothing this Walker family can’t handle, and I’m just excited that the show isn’t afraid to cover controversial topics and show how a real family might deal.

So glad THE AMAZING RACE is back! And I’m beyond thrilled that Ari and Staella were the first two gone. What horrible people they appeared to be!

I’m mad at CBS for not having more of a promotional push for their 100th episode of COLD CASE The show is far superior to a lot of stuff currently on the air, and it was a charming little episode about a murder from the 30s.

I’m also sure to catch SHARK whenever I can. It’s on the TiVo and it makes for good need-filler-while-I’m-waiting-for-other-shows-to-come-on viewing.

MONDAYS
CHUCK is the only thing I watch week to week, consistently on time on Mondays. I just love Zachary Levi and Adam Baldwin. I think the writing has been a bit uneven, but Josh Schwartz promises the next few episodes is where it really comes into its own. I hope they can wow me and keep me watching, at least until they run out of new episodes due to the strike…

Is there no better character on TV than little Isabelle Hodes on WEEDS? She says what I’m thinking all the time. Her darling mother Celia is definitely number 2 on the list. And who else, besides me, is glad Conrad and Nancy finally knocked boots? I love the two of them. I hated when they were fighting!

Marshall and Lily getting married, Ted and Robin breaking up – these things could have ruined HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER but I feel like they’ve only made it stronger. This show has been a great ensemble piece so far this season, and I’m hooked!

TV Gods be damned, I like a Chuck Lorre show that airs on Monday nights on CBS. No, readers, not 2.5 Men, but the far funnier THE BIG BANG THEORY. I’ve been a fan of Johnny Galecki since back in the Roseanne days, and just love him in this show. And his cast of fellow geeks is just the stuff that comedy gold is made from.

Heaven help me, I’ve been watching THE BACHELOR. My TiVo picked it out for me, and decided that I would like it. Lo and behold, I’ve chosen my favorite (DeAnna) and can honestly say I can’t wait to see how it shakes out!

I’m done with HEROES unless they can wow me back into the sensationalism I felt towards it last year. It’s just not holding my interest enough. I turned it off tonight, y’all, in order to catch up on Journeyman from last week!

I’m still watching PRISON BREAK. It’s that easy to watch show that my dad and I enjoy watching together. I know they went the bad route, chopping Sarah’s head off, and all that, but it’s still a way to pass the time.

JOURNEYMAN has convinced me to stick with it. After the second episode, I wasn’t sure I could stay committed, but it keeps drawing me in, and I love every minute of it! Who else is sure that we’re headed for a Katie/Jack reunion in the future?

DANCING WITH THE STARS is not must-watch for me, but I have to say that if either Jane or Marie wins, I’m boycotting any and all future episodes.

Oh, and ALIENS IN AMERICA I’m glad you made it to iTunes so I can still catch up with you. You’re awesome.

Did CALIFORNICATION seriously get a season 2? Huh….

TUESDAY
With each episode of BONES, I fall a little more in love with this ensemble. Everyone in the cast adds something different, and I just can’t imagine someone missing, even Cam, who I was not excited about last season. What’s more, my favorite Geek from FREAKS AND GEEKS and Geeks is a series regular now. John Francis Daley on my favorite crime procedural? Count me in, indefinitely!

Is it just me, or is HOUSE kicking serious creative ass this year? I didn’t know how they were going to do it, once they wrote themselves into the “House doesn’t have a team” corner that we got at the end of last season, but damnit if I am not as hooked as ever! I like the newbies, and am excited to see what reality TV shows House throws in to whittle it down to [Spoiler Alert] new series regulars Olivia Wilde (13), Kal Penn (duh), and Peter Jacobsen (the plastic surgeon).

SVU is the only LAW AND ORDER version that I care to watch. If only for the Benson/Stabler/will they/won’t they-ness of it all. I love the entire cast, but I have to say, if I was going to pick one thing to harp on, it’s the addition of Chester Lake. No offense to Adam Beach, but he wasn’t needed.

WEDNESDAY
I feel like PUSHING DAISIES was created just for me. Like a love letter to the attention I paid back in the day to gone-but-never-forgotten Wonderfalls. I could go one for hours about the love I feel for this show, but let me just say, if it was a person, I think I’d marry it.

GOSSIP GIRL is my number 2 show on Wednesdays. It’s a nice break to reality to watch these extremely over the top teenagers get away with too much stuff that I’d never even thought of trying in high school.

Addison Montgomery was my favorite character on Grey’s Anatomy. Ironically enough, she’s my least favorite character on PRIVATE PRACTICE. I wish I loved this show like this show could be loved. It’s got the makings of amazing-ness with the cast they’ve assembled. I’d like to see them get there. Fingers crossed. I’m holding out hope until David Sutcliffe shows up – hopefully he can inject some much needed life into it!

DIRTY SEXY MONEY, one of my favorite pilots of the year, has not yet disappointed me. I’m as addicted now as I was when it first began circulating. Peter Krause is so great, and I have to give major props to Billy Baldwin and Donald Sutherland for kicking serious acting tail.

I worried Damian Lewis’ ticks on LIFE would make me not want to watch it. Boy was I wrong. I am hooked on his crazy neuroses, and his fruit addiction. Life is a nice way to end a Wednesday viewing schedule!

THURSDAYS
Where would I be without THE OFFICE? I love this show. I love the cast. I love the writers. I love this show. We’re only going to lose 8 of the 30 episodes due to the strike, should the strike continue for too long. That’s not too bad! I am so glad that I gave the American version of this show a chance way back when. I also feel like, because I spent a weekend with these folks and some of the most diehard fans, the show has a whole new meaning and I love it even more!

GREY’S ANATOMY is a sinking skeletal ship of the fabulousness we once knew and loved. I think it’s trying to float again, and I will be there to crack a bottle of champagne on the hull when that happens. Enough with the metaphors. The show I used to worship is not the same as it was. And believe it or not, I’m in the minority that likes George and Izzie. There’s just something off about the whole thing. Any ideas?

Anyone else feeling like 30 ROCK is a smidge less funny than it was last year? I’ll give it another shot, but I’m not sold.

If you work at a fashion magazine, you’d think someone would pluck your eyebrows, UGLY BETTY I work in market research, and I still know that you have to have it done! I’m loving the Hilda/Justin storyline, I’m over the Alexis is a better daughter than Daniel is a son storyline, and I’m not sure I’m rooting for Henry and Betty as much as I was, now that I’ve met awesome!Gio the sandwich maker ha!

I love WITHOUT A TRACE, I’m so invested in the Sam and Jack storyline that I thought I was going to vomit, watching Sam tell Jack about the being pregnant. I only hope that they bring real life daddy Adam Kaufman back to the show to play the show!daddy to Sam’s kid. He’s cute ha. Was anyone else secretly hoping that Sam was lying to Elena when she said the father was no one Elena knew? I was hoping Sam and Jack had one last fling and ended up with a baby. I’m so soap opera!

BIG SHOTS I’ve watched you one time. Rob Thomas, step up, help the show soon before Vartan is left jobless. Again. Thanks.

I’m so glad that SCRUBS is back. The final season, and it’s still making me laugh out loud. I’m going to miss the Sacred Heart gang!

I’m not watching ER but I’d like to, now that Reiko Aylesworth is recurring for a bit. I miss Michele Dessler. Why couldn’t she have miraculously survived the bomb blast?

FRIDAYS
I love MEN IN TREES. ABC has certainly treated it shoddily, but it’s so adorable that it’ll bounce back! Who doesn’t love Elmo, Alaska?

When did Fridays at 9 become the time to watch? FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, my favorite show of all time (and that’s saying a lot, considering previous title holders Veronica Mars and Arrested Development), is just so good. I’m in love with every storyline, yes, even the murderous one. I love every character, yes, even Buddy Garrity. There is just something so real about this show and so painful, and horrible, and gritty, and I’m just so emotionally drained after watching it, and it makes me think and I love every minute of it.

WOMEN’S MURDER CLUB came as a big shocker for me. Huge Angie Harmon fan, sure, but never did I expect to be hooked on her show!

Talk about crazy – a vampire lives and fights crime in LA with a sassy blonde reporter, and a witty best friend vampire. MOONLIGHT is my sleeper hit of the season. Sure, it’s campy, and the acting it as wooden as the stakes that paralyze the vampires, but I can’t get enough. Did I mention Jason Dohring? Because yeah, Logan Echolls is a super hot 400 year old vampire.

What about you all? What did I miss (there’s a lot of TV I’ve already given up on), what are you watching? Let’s hear it!

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Last week, the fledgling network’s first primetime offerings – FASHION HOUSE and DESIRE – aired their finales, wrapping up those pesky loose threads and giving viewers the kind of satisfying ending one fears ABC’s LOST may never provide. And the day after those dramas wrapped, two new soaps – WICKED, WICKED GAMES and WATCH OVER ME – began to unfold their allotted 65 episodes… after which two more telenovelas will take their place.

But are MyNetwork’s offerings worth tuning in for?

That depends entirely on your tolerance for – or love of – the genre. It seems that the network has come up with what would appear to be a winning format: Every 13 weeks, two new and distinct telenovelas premiere, each aimed at a slightly different audience. Kicking off the night at 8 p.m./ET is WICKED, WICKED GAMES. Like its predecessor, FASHION HOUSE, this is a camp-lover’s delight, with star Tatum O’Neil (an Oscar winner, as the ads will incessantly remind you) chewing scenery with a vigor unmatched since Faye Dunaway’s infamous turn as Joan Crawford in Mommy Dearest. Following at 9 p.m./ET is the slightly more grounded WATCH OVER ME, in which a body guard falls for his beautiful ward while her powerful beau oversees a virus-filled lab you just know is going to be trouble somewhere down the line.

In other words, between the two dramas, there’s something for everyone.

Each series airs five nights a week, and both offer recap shows on Saturday evening which are designed to help both new viewers and those who may have missed an episode keep up with the action. After all, five nights a week isn’t exactly casual viewing.

MyNetwork seems to have learned from the early missteps of FASHION HOUSE, which relied far too heavily during its first few weeks on flashbacks which proved tedious to those tuning in every day but essential to the more casual viewer. This time around, both WICKED and WATCH offer several minutes of recap before each episode and enough deftly handled exposition to cover what’s come before.

Each show has its strengths… and its weaknesses. On WICKED, David Smith’s charming performances and mile-deep dimples are reminiscent of a young Tom Everett Scott while his on-air brother Jack Krizmanich gives a devilish performance which is too often overlooked because of his alter ego’s incredibly annoying hairstyle. Storyline wise, this is classic soap, with O’Neil’s crackpot Blythe scheming to bring about the total destruction of a man she loved and lost 25 years earlier. Who, exactly, she’s always talking to via her web cam seems a tad unclear.

WATCH, meanwhile, has a slightly more complicated plot with a larger cast (made up of enough former daytime soap stars to keep any fan of that medium playing the “Hey, didn’t he play” for quite some time) who handle the material with varying degrees of success. Most charming is Jamie Alexander, who lights up the screen and immediately wins us over… this despite the fact that her character, Caitlin, is cheating on her good-guy boyfriend with her very-married boss. Unfortunately, she and some of the other secondary characters often outshine the sometimes painfully wooden actors populating the triangle which is the main focus of the series.

In fact, if MyNetwork’s primetime sizzlers have had one problem in common, it is in casting the female romantic leads. During HOUSE’s run, Natalie Martinez’ Michelle showed all the emotional depth of a dishtowel, while DESIRE’s Michelle Belegrin (Andrea) displayed only slightly more range (although, truth be told, she did grow more appealing over time). This time around, WATCH presents us with the stilted performance of former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres as Julia Rivera, while WICKED so far seems to be fairing much better thanks to Jessie Ward and Kate French as sisters Emma and Brooke Crawford.

Where MyNetwork’s shows excel is in the plotting. Unlike their daytime drama counterparts, these are soaps which focus on romance and character development as opposed to the often insipid antics which pass for entertainment on the afternoon sudsers. In fact, the execs in charge of daytime’s troubled shows would be wise to seek out and hire the scribes cranking out MyNetwork’s superiorly plotted presentations.

In the end, MyNetwork’s efforts are to be applauded. Nowhere else will viewers find a steady stream of original programming, five nights a week, 52 weeks a year. The fact that the programs offered also happen to be both wildly addictive and, at least in the case of WICKED, aware of the fact that it falls into the “so bad it’s good” category, only helps. And if nothing else, there’s a certain comfort in knowing that in 13 weeks, everyone will walk away satisfied.