Fall TV Preview: Sunday

First time the new TV season rolls around while I'm doing my blog. I'm not going to break down every show just the one's I deem worthy. I'll have two categories: Worth Checking Out and Required Viewing.

Let's start with Sunday a day that's mostly meant for football and hangovers in my house. I try to keep the required TV viewing to a minimum but sometimes the TV God's defy me. Thankfully this looks like a light night for me.

Worth Checking Out:
The Simpsons-7pm CST/FOX: For me the show has been on a bit of down turn the last 4 or 5 years but then again it's been on for 18 seasons. Occasionally they still hit the mark so if you're watching FOX and the game shuts off maybe stick with Homer and see what happens. Perhaps with the movie on the horizon we'll see another creative rebirth.

Sunday Night Football-7pm CST/NBC: I was always a huge fan of NBC's football coverage when I was a wee lad cheering for AFC powerhouses like Dan Fouts and the Chargers or Mark Duper and the Dolphins. However that's also the last time anyone was watching NBC Sports coverage. Aside from the Olympics, NBC is clearly in 4th when it comes to broadcast networks and sports. So they put all their money into the NFL, hired away Al Michels, John Madden and the entire Monday Night production team. I for one will be watching depending on the match up. When Sunday nights were on ESPN the game was often a mismatch or a snoozer, obviously NBC is hoping their match ups payoff.

Required Viewing:
Amazing Race 10- 7pm CST/CBS: One of my favorite reality shows and one of the rare ones that does not need cheap gimmicks to keep it fresh. While I've never been overseas I love to watch the travel and cringe when a contestant gets all ugly American. After last fall's horrible family edition the show has returned to it's regular format and last spring's show was solid. No reason we should expect any less this year.

Family Guy-8pm CST/FOX: When Family Guy rose from the ashes I was in heaven. Finally a show that deserves a 2nd chance and gets it. The results from the first year and a half were a little mixed. All of the episodes were watchable but some of them lagged quite a bit. Still with Seth McFarlene supposedly focusing more on Family Guy and less on American Dad you best line up in front of the TV and enjoy the Griffins.