Summer is officially over and the fall season has started with the returning of some very cool TV series. Lets do a recap!
Returning Series:
Smallville - Season 7 premiered on 27/9/07 (US)Title: Bizarro
Synopsis: Clark (Tom Welling) confronts Bizarro, the last wraith from the Phantom Zone, and the ensuing fight causes the dam to break and a torrent of water rushes towards the land. Lex (Michael Rosenbaum), having just been arrested for Lana's (Kristin Kreuk) murder, is submerged under water in a patrol car, but is saved by a mysterious young woman. Lois (Erica Durance) manages to pull Chloe (Allison Mack) to safety but her cousin is pronounced dead at the hospital. The same woman who saved Lex reappears at the Kent farm and is revealed to be Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) A.K.A. Supergirl, Clark's cousin from Krypton. We will get to know Kara in the next episode aptly titled; KARA (4/10/07)
House M.D. - Season 4 premiered on 25/9/07 (US)Title: Alone
Synopsis: Your fav ill-mannered, self-centred doctor is back... and without his team. Foreman & Cameron resigned and Chase was fired in the season 3 finale. Season starts with a young woman named Megan Bradberry is buried beneath a collapsed building. Severely injured, her face almost unrecognizable, Megan is rushed to a hospital, where she undergoes a tracheotomy and is placed on a ventilator. Cuddy is puzzled by one aspect of the case: Megan is suffering from an unexplained fever. House isn’t interested in the case, as he doesn’t have a team. When Cuddy orders him to take the case, House says he’ll do it on his own, provided she goes away for a week if he makes the correct diagnosis. As House mulls over the facts in Megan’s case, he talks out loud, as if his team was in the room with him. He then bounces ideas off the janitor, Leon, and eventually concludes that the fever was triggered by an infection. Dressed in a lab coat, Leon accompanies House to Megan’s room and his hilarious antics continues.
Prison Break - Season 3 premiered on 17/9/07Title: Orientacion
Synopsis: A woman known as Susan B. Anthony does her make-up before a vanity, and uses the make-up to cover deep scratches on her face. Lincoln begs a clerk at the American Embassy to get Michael out of Sona. The clerk tells Lincoln that “the worst of the worst” are inside Sona. The prisoners rioted so badly, that the guards pulled out and left the prisoners to fend for themselves. The man looks Lincoln in they eyes, “Whatever goes in…never comes out. Unless it’s dead.”
Lost - Season 4 will premiere on February 2008 (Technically not Fall)It was announced when season 3 concluded that Lost will carry on for 3 more seasons and to meet the targeted 3 season timeline, there will be only 18 episodes for each remainder season.
Heroes - Season 2 premiered on 24/9/07Title: 4 months later
Synopsis: Four months after the events of the showdown between Sylar and Peter, new Heroes emerge. Season starts in a semi-empty lecture hall in Cairo, Egypt, Dr. Mohinder Suresh lectures on his theories of advanced human evolution and a virus that strips these people of their abilities. Afterwards, a man named Bob, who can turn metals into gold, offers Suresh a research position with the Company. Suresh accepts. It turned out that he and HRG is cooking up a plan to bring the company down. We are also introduced to Maya and Alejandro from Honduras, Matt Parkman passed his detective exam and currently taking care of Molly in Suresh's Apartment in Brooklyn where Molly keep having this dream that an even more powerful hero is watching her in her sleep. Hiro is stuck in feudal Japan and met with his hero, the sword weilding samurai Kensei Takezo who happens to be an English dude! Oh, and his father (played by George Takei) is killed somewhere mid-episode. Oh and Claire has a new boyfriend who can fly!!
New Series:
Bionic Woman - Season 1 premiered 26/9/07Episode 0: Pilot
Synopsis: A re-imagining of the popular 1970s TV series about improving a human woman with cybernetic implants. The story focuses on a brilliant college drop out, Jamie Sommers played by Michelle Ryan, trying to take care of her rebellious deaf sister, played by Mae Whitman, after the death of their parents. Her love interest, a college professor of Bio-Ethics played by Chris Bowers leads a double life and works for a secret government agency capable of improving humans with specialized nanites and bio-synthetic organs/appendages. The first attempt at doing so failed when the prototype Sarah, played by Katiee Shackoff, grew too powerful to control and decided she no longer wanted to be a lab rat and revolted. Using her military background, she managed to force her way out of the facility after killing many scientists. Sarah would latter lead to the near death of Jamie by driving a semi into her car. The crash killed the unborn baby within her, fathered by the professor. Through the work performed by the professor and the agency, he managed to save Jamie's life by giving her a new arm, leg, eye, ear, and replacing most of her blood with the nanites, giving her great regenerative abilities. Originaly, Jamie rejects her implants angrily. The man in charge of the facility, played by Miguel Ferrer, reminds her that most of her now multi-million dollar body is owned by the government and that she could, at any moment disappear from the world. Jamie manages to leave and unknowingly has a chat at the bar in which she works with Sarah. The implants begin to activate and Sarah introduces herself as the version before her. After an attempt on the Professors life by Sarah, the two have a large battle which exposes both of their weaknesses. Jamie decides she will work for the agency and help it with its missions but on one condition: she still has control over herself and isn't owned by anyone.
Reaper - Season 1 premiered 25/9/07 - a project Kevin SmithEpisode: Pilot
Synopsis: A twenty-something slacker works as a bounty hunter for the devil. For the first 20 years of his life, Sam (Bret Harrison, "The Loop," "Grounded for Life") wondered why his parents went so easy on him. Whether it was school, sports or career choices, Sam's mom (Allison Hossack, "Falcon Beach") and dad (Andrew Airlie, "The L Word") always let him get by with the least possible effort. As a result, Sam skipped college, took a dead-end job at the local Work Bench home improvement store and now wastes endless hours playing video games. Everything in his slacker world changed the day Sam turned 21 and discovered the ungodly reason his parents let him slide: they sold his soul to the devil before he was even born. When Satan himself (Ray Wise, "24," "The Closer") drops by to personally explain that Sam must now serve as his bounty hunter, tracking down evil souls that have escaped and returning them to Hell, Sam refuses to accept his bizarre fate. After getting just a glimpse of Satan's temper, however, Sam realizes that breaking a deal with the devil has consequences that are very, very bad. Still, Sam is fascinated by the devil's charm and his flattering insistence that Sam is full of untapped potential. Armed with a constantly changing series of vessels -- starting with a Dirt Devil mini-vacuum -- to collect the escapees, Sam finds that his new line of work is dangerous and frightening, even with the goofball help of his friends and co-workers Bert "Sock" Wysocki (Tyler Labine, "Boston Legal," "Invasion") and Ben (Rick Gonzalez, "Coach Carter"), along with Sock's former-girlfriend-turned-paralegal, Josie (Valarie Rae Miller, "Dark Angel"). Sock has been Sam's closest friend and slacker role model for many years and was the first person Sam turned to with the news about his gig with the devil.
More to come!
