I WAS looking forward to...

Every Fall I look forward to premier week on TV. I try to get all dinner, homework, household chores, etc. taken care of each night of premier week so that I can jump on the couch, cuddle under a blanket and watch the highly tauted premiers.

This season, in particular, I WAS looking most forward to the spin-off series from Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice.

ICK!!!

It was like the writers thought they had a good idea because of Addison's popularity in Grey's, but she just isn't leading character material. Frankly, she's silly. The premise of the practice she joins is fairly un-realistic.The story lines were over-dramatic with the characters having the stupidest conversations over the bodies of a dying young women in labor and an old guy having a stroke during sperm donation. GROSS!...and sad.

The best acting came from Amy Breneman (sp?). She was great in Judging Amy and mediocre in this, but still the best character of the show by far. She plays a psychologist and her story line involved a woman who lost her marbles over the death of her child.

My husband and I were near giddy for the season premier of CSI: MIAMI. We made sure that we would NOT be disturbed. "Yes, you may watch it with us" we told our daughters. "No, you may not speak until a commercial" we commanded. After the first commercial break we thought that surely the good stuff was coming. Nope, never came. Boring as all get out. We just looked at each other with a "Is that all there is?" sort of disappointment.

So, I may be watching football this fall. No, I don't watch football.

I think I'll read.