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Omigod people! A genuine Christmas miracle happened on the latest "Project Runway"!? Didja see it? Wasn't it awesome? Let's discuss.

Sorry for the day late post, but it was a hectic weekend, and we just couldn't bear having to recount the tragedy that was this week's "Project Runway" without at least one good night's sleep behind us.

Previously on "Project Runway" the models were forced to kowtow to the fashion whims of a celebrity. Thank god THAT'S over with!

The loss of Simone in last week's episode of "Project Runway" leaves us with one local left to root for. (Although as Rita pointed out in her recap of the show, Jack went to U.C. Berkeley, so that kind of counts. But we'll see how well Chris does before we set our sights on him...)

The only locals we're following right now are on the fabulous "Project Runway," but after last week's episode, we're going to have to get rid of that 's' in "locals." Read on.

If you're a fan of "Project Runway" you probably know that season four premieres tonight on Bravo at 10 p.m. (And if you're not a fan, what is wrong with you!) We'd be watching not matter what, but we are doubly excited about this season because there are two--TWO!--designers from San Francisco competing this time around.

It was week on "The Bachelor" which is always good for a laugh. Or a cringe. And Brad's visit to Walnut Creek to meet Sheena's parents was mainly in the cringe-worthy department. The day started with Sheena's parents dragging her and her bachelor behind their boat in an inner tub. Which, you know, fine. Some people like that kind of thing. But then Sheena's mother started talking about astrology and the stars and how Brad and her husband are the same sign and the big dipper can be seen from their jacuzzi and she knows Sheena is the one and she couldn't take her eyes off of Brad's eyes and both his eyes and Sheena's eyes together are "Wow!" and she and her daughter are totally ready to commit to marriage.

Last week on "The Bachelor," Sheena-From-Walnut-Creek was granted a coveted one-on-one date with Brad-the-Bachelor, and it turned out to be the date in which Sheena got to choose her evening gown from a roomful of mannequins, ate dinner amongst balloons and a string symphony, and was given a pair of diamond earrings (which she got to keep). But the highlight of the evening, for us, was when Sheena walked down the stairs in her new gown, and proceeded to fall on her ass. Not that we have anything against her; she's one of the least annoying of the girls, although she does have a tendency to go into a high baby talk when she's around Brad. (Uh-oh. Shades of Trista there!) In the end, she was given one of the final roses, which means this week she will be taking Brad to meet her family (presumably in Walnut Creek).

Let's start with "The Next Iron Chef." For the challenge ("Resourcefulness") the chefs were broken into teams by last week's winner Chris Cosentino, of local restaurant Incanto, and the teams then selected secret ingredients for their teammates. The challenge wasn't a team challenge, though, so there was much crying of "sabotage" when the chefs got to their outdoor, charcoal grill-equipped location and saw their ingredients.

Looks like there's one more fall premiere to deal with tonight on CBS, and boy howdy, is it a doozy. It's called "Viva Laughlin," and it premieres at 10 p.m. before moving to its regular timeslot this Sunday at 8 p.m.

We lost a geek last week, but we still had a local bachelorette to root for along with a "dream date" to our fair city on "The Bachelor"!

The remaining fall TV premieres are trickling in, with two bowing tonight. The first is another in a string of current shows to be set in our fair city. It's called "Women's Murder Club" and it premieres on ABC at 9 p.m. Has anyone seen Angie Harmon running around town sporting a badge? If not, it's probably because like so many other San Francisco shows, much of it is actually filmed elsewhere. Based on a series of books by James Patterson, the show focuses on Harmon, who plays a local police lieutenant who likes to solves murders with her girlfriends in her spare time. Well, with the murder rate in this city what it is, it's no wonder she has to recruit her friends for help. We haven't actually had the privilege of watching the pilot yet, but the fact that it is creeping into the fall line-up a few weeks late, and on a Friday night, is not a good sign.

While the number of ladies on "The Bachelor" was cut down considerably at last week's rose ceremony, there are still way to many women to keep track of. Thankfully we only need to focus on Sheena, Queen of Walnut Creek. There was a bit of excitement in the house when some chick apparently fell down some stairs and Sheena found her and called the paramedics. Needless to say, she didn't go on the group date to the beach, but Sheena did, and she did nothing of note the entire time, while other girls demanded body shots and sped into the ocean topless. But boring must turn the Bachelor on as he ended up giving Sheena a rose.

Tonight's lone premiere is a show we have such little interest in we didn't even bother to check out the pilot when it was available for free online. It's called "Life is Wild" and it premieres at 8 p.m. on the CW. We really have nothing more to say about it, and in fact, the main purpose of this post is to make sure everyone knows about the premiere of "I Love New York 2" on VH-1 tomorrow at 9 p.m. As you may recall, New York did not find true love during the first season of her "Flavor of Love" spin-off, since Tango dumped her for making fun of his mother. Poor, crazy New York. Will she find her soul mate this time around? Of course we can't know that for sure, but our bets are on Midget Mac.

The season premiere of "Friday Night Lights" comes to NBC tonight at 9 p.m. and since it first aired we've hoped that it would eventually get moved to Fridays. Not because we think it's a good night for the show (or any show, for that matter) but because we're slightly anal and it annoyed us that a show with "Friday Night" in the title did not, in fact, air on Friday nights. But we're going to admit something else here: we aren't actually big fans of the series. Yeah, yeah, it's basically blasphemy to admit that since almost every TV fan or critic out there were basically falling all over themselves with praise for it last season. So let us explain. Firstly, the show is shot in an exceedingly annoying jerky-cam style that they tried to pass off during the first episode as being the result of a "documentary film crew" following the football coach around all year; they basically dropped this notion by the second episode, and yet, the shaky-cam remains. And it remains extremely distracting.

We've mentioned before that the only "Law & Order" we watch is "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," and the main reason for that is our imaginary boyfriend Vincent D'Onofrio is on it. So you can imagine we were a little worried when the fate of the show was up in the air at the end of last season. It had something to do with the franchise not pulling in the numbers it used to, and production costs needing to be cut. (Of course it should come as no surprise that the shows aren't as big in the ratings as they used to be since you can basically turn the TV on at any time of day and find an episode playing on one of any number of stations.) But apparently a compromise was reached wherein new episodes of "C.I." will air on USA first, and then will be repeated on NBC at some as-yet-to-be announced time in the future. SO! You can catch the season premiere of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" tonight on USA at 10 p.m.

Tonight's big premiere is the quirky comedy "Pushing Daisies" which premieres at 8 p.m. on ABC. There are a lot of big names associated with this dramedy, including executive producer Bryan Fuller, whose previous shows include "Wonderfalls" and "Heroes." Director Barry Sonnenfeld also produces, and directed the pilot. Lee Pace stars as a piemaker who can bring the dead back to life if he touches them. Problem is, if he touches them again, they're dead for good. Bring in a dead first love, and you can see where that could get tricky. And, because every show on TV has to involve some element of crime or procedurals, the piemaker uses this gift to help solve murders.

OK, we're kind of loathe to even mention one of tonight's series premieres because it is that infamous sitcom that's based on a series of Geico commercials. We're speaking, of course, of"Cavemen", and it premieres on ABC at 8 p.m. Now, the last time a TV sitcom was based on a series of commercials, the result was "Baby Bob," so we can't blame people and their knee-jerk reactions to this. That trailer up there isn't helping much, either. We will, however, withhold judgement until we actually watch it, but will note that one of the actors playing a caveman is Nick Kroll, who is usually pretty damn funny on "Best Week Ever," and we also kind of liked his sketch comedy series "Human Giant" on MTV...Whether that has anything to do with the quality of this show remains to be seen.

Let's start with "Beauty and the Geek," and our rubberband-loving local Josh. Last week ended with the shocking addition of a new team featuring a male beauty and a female geek. First order of the night: pool party! And it was really boring! Let's move on to the challenge, which required the geeks to rap and the beauties to debate about current political topics. Apparently Josh's rap was so bad they didn't even bother to show more than a few seconds of him forgetting the words and jumping around on stage. Needless to say, his team did not win that challenge. As for the debating bit, his Betty Boop partner Hollie debated on the pro side of the Alaskan Arctic Refuge oil drilling debate arguing that cars can't run on canola oil, or whatever it is "hippies think we can run cars on." His team didn't win that one either, (the male beauty did). But it's all good, because they weren't picked to go through the elimination test, so Josh is around for another week.

Tonight's premieres are all on the CW, starting with "Everybody Hates Chris" at 8 p.m. Chris Rock himself will be making his first on-screen appearance on the show about his childhood, guest starring as a guidance counselor at his middle school. Which is to say, he will be starring as his own guidance counselor. Uh...we think.

Tonight's most exciting season premiere is probably the return of "Dexter" on Showtime at 9 p.m. The show, starring Michael C. Hall as a forensics expert who is also a serial killer (who only kills other serial killers), was both disturbing, funny, and oddly touching last season, and we're curious to see what this season will bring since Dexter has done away with his nemesis. Of course, the revelation of who that nemesis really was has opened up some interesting possibilities. We could take this opportunity to rant about Comcast and their ridiculous pricing schemes, and how getting Showtime would add another 60 bucks a month to our already astronomical cable bill...but we won't. We'll watch the premiere for free on Yahoo! and then rely on the Internets and friends with Showtime to watch the rest of the season. Screw you Comcast! (The premiere of "Brotherhood" follows at 10 p.m.)

Friday! The night before the night when no one watches television!

Thursday is almost as bad as Monday when it comes to overcrowded primetime line-ups. We'll start with ABC and the "Ugly Betty" premiere at 8 p.m.

We're going to start with NBC and the series premiere of "Life" at 10 p.m. because everybody's favorite bumblebee Jennifer Siebel is in it! (See above.) She's only in the episode briefly, at the very beginning, playing the lead character's ex-wife, but she's supposed to be in at least two more episodes this season. However, we don't know if we'll be able to invest the time in this show because we really kind of hated the pilot. They're obviously going for a "House" vibe here, even going so far as to cast a Brit (Damian Lewis) in the lead role as a cop who spends 12 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. After he's cleared of the crime, he's released and goes back on the job with a fat settlement and a weird penchant for fruit. He's supposed to be this odd, brilliant, "zen" cop, but he really just comes off as someone who likes to stand uncompfortably close to people when he's talking to them. There's just nothing about this show that separates it from every other procedural out there. Also? We're getting tired of all the fake American accents on TV right now. See: "House," "Journeyman," "Cane," "Moonlight," "Viva Laughlin" and...

First off, yes, the season premiere of "House" is on Fox tonight at 9 p.m., preceded by the season premiere of "Bones" at 8 p.m. And no, we don't watch either one of those shows. And yes, we understand a lot of people are crazy about "House." But no, we still aren't going to watch it.

Oh lordy, but Mondays are going to be a crowded night of television. Let's go through tonight's premieres network-by-network, starting with ABC.

As was pointed out by a reader last week, we do have a local geek representing the Bay Area on "Beauty and the Geek" this season. His name is Josh Bishop-Moser and he's a Mechanical Engineering major at U. C. Berkeley and president of the Rubberband Club. (We can't find a MySpace page for him; could he possibly not have one??) Unfortunately, we had to sit through 45 minutes of the two-hour premiere before we even got to see him, but compared to some of the other geeks, he's kind of cute. Except for the weird widow's peak 'do. And the hairy back. He introduced himself to the roomful of beauties (one of whom agreed he was cute), told them he was the president of the rubber band club, and then did a William Tell trick by shooting a plastic cup off of one of the girl's heads. He's definitely geeky, but at least he could take out a bully with a well-aimed rubberband.

Tonight's Fall premieres contain only one show we'll actually be watching (see above). But let's start with some of the shows we won't be watching.

The only premiere tonight is yet another season of "Survivor," and this time it's "Survivor: China," which is kind of cool, we guess, although we always seem to prefer the seasons that are set on those Blue Lagoon-ish tropical isles....And we really don't have much more to say about it except, once again, there are no locals to root for. (Maybe they were getting tired of the Bay Area dominating the game. CHICKENS!) So, instead, here's a clip featuring previous local "Survivor" winner Yul Kwon talking about Asian male stereotypes with Aasif Mandvi and the Chronicle's Jeff Yang.

Abandoned kids, wannabe models, sitcom groaners, socialite teens, and a screaming Brit. It must be Wednesday!