As recently as the San Diego Comic-Con, Darabont seemed on board with the show, but apparently something changed. Current talk is that Darabont’s right-hand man, Glen Mazzara, who has experience running THE SHIELD, will replace Darabont on the day-to-day duties. While Darabont appears to still be involved in the dead, his role has been scaled back, according to most online reports.

Why? Because the Fox sci-fi drama from Lost creator J.J. Abrams has moved to Fridays on the Fox schedule and is actually seeing its ratings improve to the point that Fox boss Kevin Reilly is talking optimistically about a fourth season. That’s great news considering the show is finally finding its grove, moving beyond its “weird crap of the week” roots and evolving the mythology of the show into something that’s become darn entertaining.

The complexity of the Olivia-Peter relationship has improved immensely, and now drives the show. The duality of the two worlds is intriguing and makes for some electric viewing. I had little hope for this show and stopped watching mid-way through the first season. Now that I see it’s surviving and is also flourishing creatively, I’m back, and I’m watching. With interest.

Wonder Woman is currently a pilot for NBC next season; Kelly is already calling the Peacock home for his well-received-so-far new legal drama, Harry’s Law. And though that show contains Kelly’s signature flaw of unlikely jury verdicts that serve the storyline rather than reality, he’s injected humor and wackines back into his work, rather than the dreary political rants that dragged down his last ABC project, Boston Legal.

No such worries with Wonder Woman, which will focus on super-deeds more than courtroom antics.

Some in the industry thought the show wouldn’t be able to top its season four audience featuring a critically-acclaimed performance by John Lithgow; but this season, featuring star turns by Jonny Lee Miller and Julia Stiles, has managed to pull off that very feat.

It’ll be interesting to see how things shake out to set the stage for season six.

Caprica was an appealing prequel to the smash-hit reboot of Battlestar Galactica. It tells the tale of how the Cylons came to be.

Stamos should prove a worthy rival to Schuster; even if he plays the role with a hint of villainy and is closer in age to Sue Sylvester than Emma, he still comes off with the charm of a guy who’s spent hours in the gym after downing some particularly effective vitamin supplements.

Could a sing-off between the two suitors be far behind? This is Glee… what do you think?

While there is no need for wedding accessories for any of the kids on the show yet, a seventh season comes as welcome news to those who appreciate the show’s fine mixture of supernatural chills and real-world criminal menaces.

Although not as sparkling and witty as Fox’s BONES, MEDIUM is nevertheless a solid favorite for my wife and I, so we’re certainly glad to hear the show will be back for another season.

But some harmless comedy depicting the prophet Muhammad in a bear costume? Apparently that’s too risque for the Comedy Central “liberals when its convenient.” While Trey Parker and Matt Stone were unafraid when they created last week’s episode in question, it was the network that wimped out, bleeping out all references to the Islamic prophet, and even a “teachable moment,” end-of-show speech by Kyle about standing up to bullies.

Gutless, really… and doubly-ironic since failing to stand up to Islamic extremist bullies is exactly what Comedy Central is guilty of. I guess the moral of this story is, maybe Christians and Jews wouldn’t be quite so picked-on if they engaged in even a fraction of the terrorism they get accused of by Comedy Central…

…but at least Comedy Central’s actions speak louder than words when it comes to which “terrorists” they really fear.

That’s pretty impressive; even more impressive than Acnepril, and it shows that there is still some appetite in the country for heady, historical programming rather than a lot of tawdriness of the Desperate Houswives variety.

Perhaps there’s hope for the culture yet!

However, new showrunner Steven Moffat, who penned a well-received parody of Doctor Who about 10 to 15 years ago, when the show was on hiatus, has proven to be adept at drawing some of the top talent available to work on the re-configured show.

As everyone who follows Doctor Who knows by now, tenth doctor David Tennant is out, as are all of the companions that befriended the Doctor during Tennant’s run. In are new, eleventh doctor Matt Smith and an all-new companion, portrayed by Irish actress Karen Gillen, who will be known by the name Amy Pond on the show.

Smith’s Doctor is a dapper dresser more in the mode of Tennant, rather than an eccentric dresser in the mode of fourth Doctor Tom Baker or many of those who followed him. At least he won’t ruin the nice dramatic tone of the new show by carting around used golf balls or something wacky like that!

Anyway, in addition to Gaiman, some other talent Moffat has snagged for the new series of Doctor Who includes director Richard (Love Actually) Curtis, as well as Torchwood writers Chris Chibnall and Toby Whithouse. Still, in most people’s books, Gaiman is the biggest “get” of the new season.