Fall TV, Part II

A few more networks have rolled out their fall lineups in the past few days.

Here are some of the highlights:

Fox will be airing a show called Back To You, starring Kelsey Grammer as a newscaster trying to rebuild his career.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that his character is going to be a stuffy, uptight guy that talks with a partial British accent. Just a guess. We'll have to tune in to find out.

CBS is using its new show Viva Laughlin to revive the prime-time musical genre, which we all know died with Cop Rock a few years ago. But this is a musical mystery, not a musical cop show, so I'm sure it will work this time.

CBS will also be introducing a show called Moonlight, which features a vampire investigator who "uses his vampire senses to solve crimes."

I wish I were making this up.

One bright spot for me is news that the CW network is going to have a show from the creators of The O.C. which focuses on "privileged prep school students in Manhattan."

As I've written before, no one does brooding teen drama like the CW. I like this show already.

Noticeably absent from this year's lineup were new shows featuring limping doctors like those on CSI, ER and House.

Limping doctors appear to be more prevalent on prime-time TV than in the general population, which leads me to believe that pretending to be a TV doctor must be very hard on the legs.

But now they seem to have cured that phenomenon because, like I said, no new shows with limping docs.

So there you have it. Although the fall offerings look a little rough at this point, I don't underestimate my own ability to get sucked into watching pure garbage.

For that reason, I'm reserving the right to post again this fall raving about the musical mystery show and that awesome vampire.