Boston Legal -- and this upcoming season will be the last
The Closer with Kyra Sedgwick (I like the way they try to vary the episodes with character-centric stories, one for Pope, one for Provenza, one for Sanchez, etc. -- rather MPI-ish by making the supporting characters more than just supporting but allowing them to be personalities in their own right. And I LOVE the way her POLICE skills won over all the nay-sayers on her squad. I LIKE seeing someone who is GOOD at what she is supposed to be in the show.)
Saving Grace with Holly Hunter (though she's starting to disillusion me, she is a bit of a slut, and she's too thin for her age, and she's so self-destructive [I KNOW! -- she's SUPPOSED to be] but I don't have a lot of interest in her self-implosion -- I'd rather see more on the police investigation part of the story. You don't see or believe why she is so popular with her police squad, you don't see that she's THAT good a cop -- okay, occasionally but that doesn't seem to be the theme, more the side plot -- and it's supposed to be at least a semi-cop show -- I want to see more cop work -- as in The Closer or Monk)
House
Monk
Psych
In Plain Sight -- I started this because of how I like all the other USA "Characters welcome," but her family is barely above trailer trash, and there's too much emphasis on this (she isn't Mary Tyler Moore, or Tim Allen, so who cares about her dysfunctional family?) so it's not a "can't miss," more of a "if there's nothing else on."
Becker with Ted Danson, if I can find it. It doesn't seem to have a regular schedule, and I don't know if I'm watching old repeats! But it's got a clever, good ensemble group a la M*A*S*H*, Taxi, WKRP in Cincinnati, MTM, and Cheers.
Not much on the major networks, is there . . . . .?
golf
Oh, and how clould I forget "Scrubs"? We are a little late her on Mars, but season 7 starts next wednesday night.
