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Last week, ABC debuted Big Shots, a show about the relationship problems of a group of heterosexual alpha males. Tonight, it debuts Carpoolers, a sitcom about the relationship problems of a group of heterosexual beta males.

You’re better off with the betas. True to its name, the show is about four white-collar guys …

Premiere Week II continues. Your thoughts on the Aliens in America debut, the Everybody Hates Chris season premiere, or any other matters televisual welcome. No comment too big, no comment too small!

First it was Hugh Laurie, then it was Damien Lewis–now Brits are even impersonating American newscasters! BBC America launches BBC World News America tonight, at 7 p.m. E.T. Watch your back, Jim Lehrer!

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read this post until you have tested how easily a paper towel dispenser rips off a wall.

HBO / Doug Hyun

If you’re still watching TMYLM–statistically you’re not but I’ll keep posting, like the Omega Man talking to himself–you’ll notice that there’s less and less sex in every episode of My So-Called Sex Show. …

Friday Night Lights goes back to school this Friday. NBC Photo: Bill Records

Aaron Barnhart and I do not call each other up and plan what to write about any given day, what to wear (he’s better dressed than I am) or anything else. But the same morning that I used my Aliens in America review to confess that I never felt the Summer of …

Kalyan, left, and Dan Byrd. Marcel Williams/ The CW

Tonight, The CW debuts Aliens in America, which I gave a brief plug in the current issue of Time. A lot of advance raves have compared the show with The Wonder Years. I didn’t, perhaps because, apparently unlike every other TV critic in America, I was never that crazy for The Wonder …

Randy Tepper / Showtime

Only one network debut this weekend (Moonlight), but consider this your all-purpose thread for it and the various returning-show debuts. Did Dexter live up to expectations? Did Moonlight live down to them?

SPOILER ALERT: This post reveals developments on last night’s Meerkat Manor–although, if you watch Meerkat Manor, you probably already have a fairly good guess what those developments were.

ANIMAL PLANET

Last night, lovers of the Animal Planet hit nature show / reality soap opera Meerkat Manor said goodbye to the show’s star, Flower, …

Photos: Randy Tepper; Claire Folger/Showtime

New-fall-season triage has kept me from watching all four episodes of Dexter that Showtime sent. But the first episode finds Michael C. Hall in spellbinding form as the serial-killer-killing-serial-killer, under growing pressure as his secret comes closer to being exposed, and finding …

According to the new brain trust at NBC, this

plus this

…equals this:

To wit: Variety is reporting that Ben Silverman at NBC has greenlighted a remake of Knight Rider, in the form of a two-hour backdoor pilot to be directed by Doug Liman. But with transformers! Yes, says the trade mag, “The thinking is that smallscreen f/x …