Fall TV Premieres: Thursday Night

The Fall TV Premiere week continues tonight with three favorites returning for their new season and one series premiere. Thursday night is a night to watch great shows throughout the networks.

CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (CBS 9:00 PM): Season 10 starts with Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox) returning to the hit series for five episodes. Also look out for promotions for Nick Stokes (George Eads) Dr. Ray Langston (Laurence Fishburne) as they hunt for a new serial killer, Dr. Jekyll.

FLASH FORWARD (ABC 8:00 pm): Joseph Fiennes stars as FBI agent Mark Benford in this Sci-Fi drama. The show is about what happens when Earth blacks out for two minutes and 17 seconds and all the survivors of this disaster return with the ability to see their lives six months later in time.

GREY'S ANATOMY (ABC 9:00 pm): Entering it's sixth season, Grey's Anatomy focuses on Izzie (Katherine Heigl) beating cancer but she comes down with an even more debilitating malady: survivor's guilt as she becomes a wreck by the death of George (T.R. Knight).

THE MENTALIST (CBS 10:00 pm): The second season starts with the arrival of a roadblocking rival Agent Same Bosco (Terry Kinnet) gets in the way of the California Bureau of Investigation consultant Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) and snatches the case of the serial killer who murdered Jane's wife and daughter.

All hours are based on Eastern Time.

Fall TV Premiere Week - Tuesday

On this second day of the new Fall TV Premiere Week we have several favorites coming back to our TV screens along with a couple of new ones.


Here are today's premiere:

8:00 pm
NCIS on CBS
Opportunity Knocks on ABC

9:00 pm
The Mentalist on CBS

10:00 pm
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on NBC
Without a Trace on CBS

My "Top TV Pick" for today is: THE MENTALIST

It stars Golden Globe Award nominee Simon Baker as Patrick Jane, an independent consultant with the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI), who has a remarkable track record for solving serious crimes by using his razor sharp skills of observation.

Within the Bureau, Jane is notorious for his blatant lack of protocol and his semi-celebrity past as a psychic medium, whose paranormal abilities he now admits he feigned. Jane's role in cracking a series of tough high-profile cases is greatly valued by his fellow agents. However, no-nonsense Senior Agent Teresa Lisbon openly resists having Jane in her unit and alternates between reluctantly acknowledging Jane's usefulness and blasting him for his theatrics, narcissism and dangerous lack of boundaries.

Lisbon's team includes agents Kimball Cho, Wayne Rigsby and rookie member Grace Van Pelt, who all think Jane's a loose cannon but admire his charm and knack for clearing cases.

(All times are based on Eastern Time zone)