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I just caught the season finale of the 4400 (finally) a couple nights ago. Thank goodness for bittorrent. Now that I've got no more 4400 for another year, I'm looking forward to the next bunch of shows coming down the pipe.

Heroes (which I've blogged about before) looks really interesting. It starts on September 25th, and will air on Mondays on NBC. Sounds very similar to The 4400, but they've got a lot of leeway to take it in very different directions. The title makes it sound closer to a comic book superhero thing, which The 4400 certainly is not.

Linda and I just noticed last night that we had a copy of House on our TiVo - the second show this season. It looks like we missed the season premiere while our TiVo was out. House is a great show, but I won't be nearly as hooked on it as I am on many others. House airs Tuesdays on Fox.

Wednesdays are the big night. Next week, Jericho starts airing on CBS. It seems to center on the residents of a small town in Kansas after what appears to be a nuclear attack.

Things are quiet and peaceful in small-town Jericho, Kansas, but when a baffling explosion occurs in the distance, Jericho's residents are plunged into social, psychological and physical chaos. No one knows what to think, and fear of the unknown takes over the town, especially because its isolation cuts it off from outside help. When nearly everything they know seems gone, will the residents of JERICHO band together to face their unfamiliar and mysterious new world?

It could be very like Stephen King's The Stand. Hopefully it's good.

Jericho airs Wednesdays on CBS, but it's ABC that has all the shows that I'm really interested in. Foremost is Lost, starting October 4th, which I've been waiting a long time for. Finally, we get to see where Jack, Kate, and Sawyer are getting pulled off to. And please don't comment that I've ended every sentence in this sentence in a preposition - I already know.

Immediately following Lost is ABC's new show The Nine, which focuses on the lives of nine people who were all in a bank when the bank was robbed. Each episode will contain about ten minutes of flashback to the actual bank robbery, and we'll slowly learn more about the events of the robbery over the course of the show. Not sure if it'll be good, but I'm gonna give it a try.

When Lost goes on its mid-season hiatus November 15th, which is infinately better than the on-again-off-again thing it did last season, a show named Day Break will be replacing its slot on ABC. This one is really interesting. A cop is framed for murder, and runs. But then he wakes up the next day to find the day repeating, a la Groundhog Day. I'll be watching this one.

Lastly, the one I'm looking forward to more than any of these: Battlestar Galactica. Last season's finale blew my socks off. Love the show. SciFi is going to have a total of ten short webisodes available on their site by then - four are already up. I watched the first one, and by the time BSG goes live on October 6th, I'll be sure to have watched all of them.