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Welcome to CliqueClack’s guide for the 2009-10 fall season! Or, in the case of NBC, The Great Experiment. Now, if you didn’t realize it already, this fall season is going to be different from past years. First, there’s no ER, which will feel a little weird. Second, Lost will be ending its run in the spring of 2010. Third, American Idol will be without Paula Abdul. And finally, Jay Leno is going to come into your homes at 10 PM each night and try to convince you that scripted programming is dead.
Once this season pans out, that may or may not be the case on the big Four and a Quarter networks. With so many viewers moving to other venues of original, scripted programming like cable and the Internet, the networks are fighting for life … again. Well, NBC and ABC probably are: CBS and FOX are doing okay for the time being. So, the big question is whether or not they can come back with ambitious programs like Flash Forward, comedies like Hank and The Middle, which feature known stars, remakes like Parenthood and Melrose Place, and Chevy Chase?
Only time and ratings will tell. In the meantime, CliqueClack TV is here to present you with the most comprehensive premiere schedule on the Internet. Something that you will come back to time and time again to peruse in order to plan your day. Just be aware that dates and times of these premieres may change at the whim of a network executive with too much gas. Now, without further typing…
Guide Notes:
New series premieres in bold italic
* – denotes new time/day
? – asks why the f%*&k this show is still on the air
To Be Determined
3:00 and 4:00 The Tyra Banks Show(CW) – Season 4 premiere. First on CW. Airdate to be determined.
Monday, September 7th
Dinosaur Train (PBS) – Check local listings for times.
Electric Company (PBS) – Check local listings for times.
10:00 Durham County (ION) – The network’s first original drama
Tuesday, September 8th
8:00 90210 (CW) – Season 2 premiere
9:00 Melrose Place (CW) – Coming next season, remakes of Booker and The Heights.
10:00 Sons of Anarchy (FX) – Season 2 premiere
Wednesday, September 9th
8:00 America’s Next Top Model (CW) – Season 13 premiere
8:00 So You Think You Can Dance (FOX) – Season 6 premiere
9:00 Glee (FOX) – A feel-good show on FOX? Nah, can’t be! (here’s our preview of Glee‘s return)
9:00 Inside the NFL (Showtime)
10:00 Destination Truth (SyFy) – Season 3 premiere
Thursday, September 10th
8:00 The Vampire Diaries (CW)
9:00 Supernatural (CW) – Season 5 premiere
Friday, September 11th
10:00 20/20 (ABC)
Saturday, September 12th
8:00 COPS (FOX) – Season 20 premiere. Coming up this season — the 700th episode!
9:00 Robin Hood (BBC America) – Season 2 premiere
9:00 America’s Most Wanted (FOX) – Season 23 premiere
Sunday, September 13th
7:00 Football Night in America (NBC)
8:15 NBC Sunday Night Football (NBC)
Monday, September 14th
Dr. Phil (Syndicated) – Season 8 premiere. Check local listings for times.
Oprah (Syndicated) – Season 24 premiere. Check local listing for times.
The Rachel Ray Show (Syndicated) – Check local listings for times.
8:00 Lincoln Heights (ABC Family) – Season 4 premiere
8:00 One Tree Hill (CW) – Season 7 premiere
9:00 Gossip Girl (CW) – Season 3 premiere
10:00 The Jay Leno Show (NBC) – The start of The Great Experiment. Guest stars for the premiere include Jay Z, Kayne West, Rhianna, and Jerry Seinfeld.
Tuesday, September 15th
8:00 The Biggest Loser (NBC) – Weekly shows from 8-10 pm, followed by Jay Leno’s show. Yes, this is the new face of NBC.
Wednesday, September 16th
9:00 The Beautiful Life (CW)
Thursday, September 17th
8:00 Survivor: Samoa (CBS) – 19th season premiere
8:00 Bones (FOX) – Season five premiere. Here’s hoping Booth recovers from his coma.
9:30 Thursday Night Live (NBC) – Season 2 premiere. Not too sure what they’re going to talk about now that the election is over.
8:30 Parks and Recreation (NBC) – Season 2 premiere
9:00 Fringe* (FOX) – Season 2 premiere
9:00 The Office (NBC) – Season 6 premiere.
9:30 Community (NBC) – Chevy Chase returns to TV, and not in a talk show format! (Here’s a Guest Clack post about the show)
10:00 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX) – Season 5 premiere
Friday, September 18th
10:00 Crash (STARZ) – Season 2 premiere
Sunday, September 20th
9:00 Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO) – Season 7 premiere
10:45 Bored to Death (HBO)
Monday, September 21st
8:00 Dancing With the Stars (ABC) – Season 9 premiere. And … Donny Osmond!
8:00 How I Met Your Mother* (CBS) – Season … wait for it … 5 premiere.
8:00 House (FOX) – Season 6 premiere. Will House get out of the looney bin? Only a two-hour episode will tell.
8:00 Heroes (NBC) – Two-hour, season 4 premiere
8:30 Accidentally on Purpose (CBS)
9:00 Two and a Half Men (CBS) – Season 7 premiere
9:30 Big Bang Theory* (CBS) – Season 3 premiere
10:00 Castle (ABC) – Season 2 premiere
10:00 CSI: Miami (CBS) – Season 8 premiere
10:00 Madventures (Travel) – An actual travel show on the Travel Channel? Get out!
Tuesday, September 22nd
8:00 NCIS (CBS) – Season 7 premiere
9:00 NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)
10:00 The Forgotten (ABC)
10:00 The Good Wife (CBS) – The return of Julianna Margulies
10:00 The Naughty Kitchen With Chef Blythe Beck (Oxygen) – And you can all get your minds out of the gutter with that title.
Wednesday, September 23rd
8:00 The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS) – Season 5 premiere
8:00 Mercy (NBC) – It might be me, but this show really belongs on Lifetime. (Here’s our preview post on the show.)
8:30 Gary Unmarried (CBS) – Season 2 premiere. Hey, the show isn’t half-bad!
9:00 Criminal Minds (CBS) – Season 5 premiere
9:00 Law & Order: SVU* (NBC) – Season 11 premiere.
9:00 Modern Family (ABC) – All-star cast, including Ed O’Neil and Julie Bowen, give this comedy a chance (Check out our preview post on this show.)
9:30 Cougar Town (ABC) – Courtney Cox’s new comedy. (Check out our preview post on this show.)
10:00 Eastwick (ABC) (Check out our post about this show.)
10:00 CSI: NY (CBS) – Season 6 premiere
Thursday, September 24th
8:00 Flash Forward (ABC) – Another series full of mysteries. How long before people’s heads begin to explode? (Check out our review of the pilot script and preview of the pilot episode.)
9:00 Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) – Season 6 premiere
9:00 CSI (CBS) – Season 10 premiere
10:00 The Mentalist* (CBS) – Season 2 premiere
Friday, September 25th
8:00 Ghost Whisperer (CBS) – Season 5 premiere
8:00 Smallville (CW) – Season 9 premiere
8:00 Brothers (FOX) – One-hour series premiere.
8:00 Law & Order* (NBC) – Season 20(!) premiere. And, maybe its last.
9:00 Medium (CBS) – Season 6 premiere (1st season premiere on CBS)
9:00 Dollhouse (FOX) – Season 2 premiere. Yes, I’m being serious!
10:00 Numb3rs (CBS) – Season 6 premiere
Saturday, September 26th
10:00 48 Hours Mystery (CBS) – Because there isn’t enough crime on the CBS schedule.
11:30 Saturday Night Live (NBC) – Season 35, which may have been about 15 seasons too long. Allegedly, Megan Fox will be host. So, if the show sucks, at least we can look (leer) admiringly at her.
Sunday, September 27th
7:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC) – Season 10 premiere. Prepare for tissue stocks to skyrocket.
7:00 60 Minutes (CBS) – The whopping 42nd season premiere.
8:00 The Amazing Race (CBS) – 15th season premiere
8:00 The Simpsons (FOX) – The big 2-0 for this long-running animated comedy.
8:30 The Cleveland Show (FOX) – After a year of promotion this show finally gets its chance.
9:00 Desperate Housewives (ABC) – Season 6 premiere
9:00 Family Guy (FOX) – Season 8 premiere, which is supposed to be their Empire Strikes Back parody. But, it’s only a half hour. Hmm…
9:00 Dexter (Showtime) – Season 4 premiere.
9:30 American Dad (FOX) – This fifth season(!) premiere ends the first week of “Seth Sunday” on FOX.
10:00 Brothers & Sisters (ABC) – Season 4 premiere
10:00 Cold Case (CBS) – Season 7 premiere
10:00 Californication (Showtime) – Season 3 premiere
Monday, September 28th
8:00 Lie to Me* (FOX) – Season two premiere
9:00 Trauma (NBC) – ER with more explosions. (Here’s our preview post on the show.)
Tuesday, September 29th
8:00 Shark Tank (ABC) – The press release says “in-season premiere,” which means it’s either a continuation of the summer run or the beginning of season two.
9:00 Dancing With the Stars the Results Show (ABC)
10:00 The Hills (MTV) – Season 5 premiere
Wednesday, September 30th
8:00 Hank (ABC) – Kelsey Grammer’s new sitcom
8:30 The Middle (ABC) – Patricia Heaton’s new comedy
To Be Determined
3:00 Let’s Make a Deal (CBS) – Hosted by Wayne Brady
Thursday, October 1st
10:00 Private Practice (ABC) – Season 3 premiere
Friday, October 2nd
8:00 Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Cartoon) – Season 2 premiere
8:30 ‘Til Death* (FOX) – Season 4 premiere. Though, I have a feeling they’ll be burning off a number of season three episodes as well.
9:00 Stargate Universe (SyFy) – Eh, I don’t know about this one.
Sunday, October 4th
7:00 America’s Funniest Home Videos (ABC) – Holy frak! This is the show’s 20th season. I wonder if Bob Saget will make a cameo.
9:00 Three Rivers (CBS) – The return of Alex O’Loughlin
9:00 The Next Iron Chef (Food)
Monday, October 5th
7:00 Sherri (Lifetime)
7:30 Rita Rocks (Lifetime) – Season two premiere
Wednesday, October 6th
9:00 Scare Tactics (SyFy) – Season 2 premiere
Thursday, October 7th
10:00 South Park (Comedy Central) – Season 13 premiere
Friday, October 8th
10:00 TOSH.0 (Comedy Central) – New episodes from this summer’s premiere.
Friday, October 9th
10:00 Sanctuary (SyFy) – Season 2 premiere
Monday, October 13th
10:00 Disaster House (DIY) – Houses are wrecked to show the wear and tear that are inflicted upon them over the years. Obviously small children that are full of sugar are involved.
Wednesday, October 14th
10:00 Nip/Tuck (FX) – Season 6 premiere
Thursday, October 15th
9:30 30 Rock (NBC) – Season 4 premiere. And you thought Studio 60 would have been the show that came out the winner.
Friday, October 16th
8:00 Supernanny (ABC) – Oy!
8:00 Ugly Betty* (ABC) – Two-hour, season 4 premiere
Sunday, October 18th
8:00 Occupation (BBC America) – American release
11:00 The Venture Bros. (Cartoon) – Season premiere
Friday, October 23rd
9:00 Southland* (NBC) – Season 2 premiere.
10:00 White Collar (USA Network) – Tiffany Theisen!
Wednesday, October 28th
Friday Night Lights (DirecTV) – Season 4 premiere
Tuesday, November 3rd
8:00 V (ABC) – Yet another remake on the fall schedule (Here’s our preview post about the show.)
Saturday, November 7th
11:00 The Wanda Sykes Show (FOX)
Monday, November 9th
11:00 Lopez Tonight (TBS) – Another weeknight talkshow
Clacked by Richard Keller 
on Aug 25, 2009 @ 11:00 EST5EDT
So ER dies and a half dozen other medical show pop up to take it’s place? I’ll stick to House and Scrubs.
*POST AUTHOR*
Sure. There’s ‘Mercy’, which is ‘ER’ without the fast-paced action, and ‘Trauma’, which is ‘ER’ with plenty of explosions. Probably should’ve kept ‘ER’ with a new cast. It would have brought in more viewers.
Not a big deal but Rihanna is spelled with two N’s. (Jay Leno item)
You forgot Greek Season 3 starts August 31 on ABC Family.
The establishment likes to hate on or super-awesome shows. They’re the only ones who lose out! ;)
Great Work Rich.
Could you maybe add a timezone to the Calendar? Currently it’s at GMT +0 which results in all the items showing up at the right time as long as you live at the US East Coast – resulting in all 8pm shows to show up in my calendar as starting at 2am (which is technically right since EST is 6 hours behind) but I wonder if that would adjust to the “right” times, meaning they’d show up at 8pm, if a timezone is added to the calendar.
I’m using Google Calendar for this by the way and just wanted to point out that you can simply add this calendar as a friend’s calendar in Google calendar.
Calendar! ;-)
Again, awesome… calendar. Thanks a ton :-)
great stuff, thank you :)
So, what I am seeing here is that NBC traded in a bunch of old shows for new ones that are the same as the ones they cancel except they get rid of the good ones like “ER” and “Life” why can’t they just leave things alone.
Greet Googlie Mooglie! This week, the sh*t really hits the fans. Television is going to be a BIG week for me . . . and this is just the start of the season.
Just for fun, I decided to share my television schedule for this week. And mind you, I’m still living in the Stone Age with my trusty VCR. Here goes . . .
09/20 Sun.
HIST Holy Grail in America; Pawn Stars
09/21 Mon.
NBC Heroes
ABC Castle
ION Durham County
HIST Clash of the Gods
09/22 Tues.
CBS NCIS; NCIS: Los Angeles
Get Mom to record . . . Warehouse 13
ABC The Forgotten
HIST The Universe
09/23 Wed.
CBS Criminal Minds; CSI: NY
Get Mom to record . . . Ghost Hunters; Destination Truth
HIST Nostradamus Effect; Mysteryquest
09/24 Thurs.
CW Vampire Diaries; Supernatural
CBS The Mentalist
ABC.com or Hulu.com FlashFoward
FOX.com or Hulu.com Fringe
NBC.com or Hulu.com Parks and Recreation; The Office; Community
09/25 Fri.
CW Smallville
USA Monk; Psych
FOX.com or Hulu.com Dollhouse
Get Mom to record . . . Ghost Whisperer; Medium; NUMB3RS
Please keep this going! I use it all the time to see what shows I missed yesterday… then watch them online! :) Thanks for all your hard work. Take care.
I might be dense (out of the loop?), but I don’t understand why NCIS on 10/27/09 was a rerun? I thought the new season had started! Will someone, please, enlighten me? Thanks.
If you look at the whole schedule this week, a lot of shows are taking a week or two off before November Sweeps start. Its standard fare.
Thanks! I guess I “should” have thought of that! Makes sense.