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TVGuide.com Says You’re Excited About These Shows. Is It Right?

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TVGuide.com has put out its list of the most anticipated new fall TV shows of 2011, according to a survey of its users. The first three are unsurprising, unsurprising and—yeah, I guess a little surprising. At #1: Terra Nova, of course. Because dinosaurs. At #2: Ringer, of course. Because Sarah Michelle Gellar. (TVGuide.com is a publication on the Internet.)

At #3: NBC’s remake of Prime Suspect. Which I’m not surprised to see on the list, but I am surprised to see this high.

This is no knock on the show (I’ve seen an early version of the pilot, which, while probably not something I would watch weekly, is a pretty good start for a character-based procedural). But I would figure the American audience for the original Prime Suspect to be intense but still relatively small—and they may not like the liberties taken by the adaption, which is more like The Closer than the original in tone—whereas among the general TV audience, I’d have expected a higher showing for, say, Person of Interest, which just trails it on the list, or X Factor, at #6.

That said, I’m not accounting for how forcefully NBC is promoting Suspect; since I watch so much on screeners or TiVo, for instance, I can go weeks without seeing an NBC commercial.

Another caveat is that TVGuide.com’s 10 most anticipated shows are all broadcast network series, so I’m not sure they even included cable shows for consideration. Personally, I’m anticipating Homeland and (for better or worse) American Horror Story more than any of these.

But I’m paid to anticipate these shows. More important: after a summer of network promotions, what fall shows are you looking forward to most? Let’s make our poll even more unscientific than TVGuide.com’s!