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8-26-2008

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September is just a couple of days away and that means that it's almost time for the new television season to start cranking out their usual fall crap while we hope that the shining lights from the previous season are still burning brightly.

Since last season basically sucked ass due to the writer strike, we may still be paying with lackluster offerings but, we'll see.

Other than many of my favorites coming back I haven't really looked at the new stuff.  There have been some advertisements for shows like "Eleventh Hour" and "The Mentalist" but the first just looks like another medical/police procedural while "The Mentalist" looks like a slightly more serious spin on the (probably) much better "Psych."

The trailers for "Heroes" are rockin', however, and we should get some interesting stories from shows that left us with cliffhangers like "NCIS" and, dare I say it, "CSI: Miami." Although, is it a good thing that I'm actually rooting for Horatio to be dead?

In the mean time I have to say that a little show on ABC Family called "The Middleman" has been absolutely brilliant this summer.  It has some of the smartest writing of any show around.  The pop culture references run deep in this show but even if you didn't know the font on the Clotharian nanobot bomb in this week's episode was written in Aurabesh, you could still appreciate the blatant Die Hard references sprinkled throughout.

The show is based on a graphic novel written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and stars Matt Keeslar as the Middleman and Natalie Morales as Wendy Watson, the newest addition to the Middleman team.  The undeniable hotness that is Morales is a definite plus to watching the show.

The band of friends around Wendy is full of great characters also, including roommate Lacey Thornfield (Brit Morgan) and neighbor Noser (Jake Smollett).  The Middleman office is run by a robot named Ida, played hilariously by Mary Pat Gleason.

The show has been running for a few weeks now but if you get a chance to catch it check out ABC Family Monday night's at 10.  Hopefully this will get picked up for a second season and I can guarantee when the inevitable season 1 DVD set drops, I'll be picking it up.