Oh happy (upcoming) day! Not only has my favorite current FOX show, Fringe, been renewed for another season, but also Leonard Nimoy is set to guest star on next Tuesday’s season finale. He’ll be playing the heretofore unseen head of Massive Dynamics (read: rather mysterious with a pinch of evil). Anyway, the point is that I can’t frickin’ wait. Oh, and when is everybody planning on hitting up the new Star Trek. We’re going this weekend — so no...

So it was a long, cruel summer, and though I thank BBC America and the Olympics for tiding me over with Dr. Who, Spaced, Torchwood, Skins, and all the synchronized diving I could stand, I’m more than happy to welcome the Fall TV schedule back into my life. Here’s the Bad News: The new kids shows pretty much all look like they suck — with just a handful of exceptions. Here’s the Good News: A ton of our favorite shows are coming back, and with full seasons this time! And here’s the Even Better News: For the next few weeks, I’m going to be giving you DVR alerts either one or two days beforehand, so that you don’t miss a moment of the shows you should be watching (read: the shows I think you should be watching). That all said, here’s your first DVR Alert: Monday, September 22nd Heroes, NBC, 9-10pm: Okay I know that the second season of Heroes was a let down, and that the Latina hero was annoying, and that the black girl hero was underused, and that they split up Masi Oka and his sidekick, and that the flying guy was enh, and that they just didn’t seem to know what to do with by beloved Kristen Bell of Veronica Mars fame. But I’m hoping that Tim Kring has hired some writers that can actually do romance and that they find some kick-ass use for the black girl hero and make the Latina hero stop whining and tell the flying guy to go away and make sure that Masi Oka is never taken from his sidekick again. Do we think it will happen? The Big Bang Theory, CBS, 8pm: My little sister, the chemical engineer actually introduced me to this...