WHERE OUR TV FAVORITES LEFT US HANGING.It's been a long summer; we've all been besieged be·siege tr.v. be·sieged, be·sieg·ing, be·sieg·es 1. To surround with hostile forces. 2. To crowd around; hem in. 3. by distractions that might've made us forget what happened to our sundry heroes and heroines of our favorite shows at the end of last season. Never fear: Here is a reminder. ``GREY'S ANATOMY'' (ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , 9 p.m. Thursdays, starting Sept. 28): What didn't happen? Burke (Isaiah Washington) got shot in the hand. Izzie's (Katherine Heigl) boyfriend Denny died and she quit her job. Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Derek (Patrick Dempsey) landed in bed again, complicating, to put it nicely, her current romance with Finn (Chris O'Donnell). ``DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES'' (ABC, 9 p.m. Sundays, starting Sept. 24): Lynette (Felicity Huffman) discovers her husband has a child from a fling a dozen years back, while Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) discovers her husband having a fling in the present tense -- very tense, presently. On his way to propose to Susan (Teri Hatcher), Mike (James Denton) gets splattered by a car driven by Orson (Kyle MacLachlan), the guy getting cozy with Bree (Marcia Cross). ``LOST'' (ABC, 9 p.m. Wednesdays, starting Oct. 4): In exchange for his son and a boat to freedom, Michael (Harold Perrineau) betrays Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Sawyer (Josh Holloway) to the Others, who insisted they're the good guys. Meanwhile, there was a tantalizing tan·ta·lize tr.v. tan·ta·lized, tan·ta·liz·ing, tan·ta·liz·es To excite (another) by exposing something desirable while keeping it out of reach. suggestion that a conduit to the outside world still exists. Or not. Who knows with these jokers? ``CSI CSI Crime Scene Investigator CSI CompuServe, Inc. CSI Commodity Systems, Inc. CSI Commodity Systems Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) CSI Crime Scene Investigation (CBS TV show) CSI Christian Schools International : MIAMI'' (CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. , 10 p.m. Mondays, starting Sept. 18): Horatio (David Caruso) and Delko (Adam Rodriguez) head to Brazil to find the murderers of Horatio's wife. ``GILMORE GIRLS'' (The CW, 8 p.m. Tuesdays, starting Sept. 26): Lorelai, exasperated with Luke (Scott Patterson), fell into the arms -- well, let's not be so discreet; the bed -- of Rory's father, Christopher (David Sutcliffe), who is otherwise married. Rory's own romantic life is in flux, with her boyfriend (Matt Czuchry) in London. ``NCIS'' (CBS, 8 p.m. Tuesdays, starting Sept. 19): Gibbs (Mark Harmon) departed NCIS NCIS Naval Criminal Investigative Service NCIS National Coroners Information System (Australia) NCIS Nebraska Career Information System NCIS National Crime Intelligence Service NCIS National Coalition of Independent Scholars for a simpler life as a boat-builder in Mexico. (Then came that nasty election.) ``THE UNIT'' (CBS, 9 p.m. Tuesdays, starting Sept. 19): After allowing the French Foreign Legion to pursue a Yugoslavian war criminal in its own inept fashion, Yugoslavs infiltrate a dinner party among the Unit and their wives, and an orgiastic or·gi·as·tic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an orgy. 2. Arousing or causing unrestrained emotion; frenzied. gunfight ensues, wounding Jonas (Dennis Haysbert), not long after he learned his wife (Regina Taylor) lost their savings in a real-estate scam. ``THE OFFICE'' (NBC, 8:30 p.m. Thursdays, starting Sept. 21): Star-crossed Jim (John Krasinski) and otherwise-engaged Pam (Jenna Fischer) finally shared a meaningful kiss. ``HOUSE'' (Fox, 8 p.m. Tuesdays (until after the baseball season, when it reverts to its 9 p.m. slot): House (Hugh Laurie) was shot and hallucinated that a complex medical procedure could alleviate the pain in his leg but damage his perspicuity per·spi·cu·i·ty n. 1. The quality of being perspicuous; clearness and lucidity: "He was at pains to insist on the perspicuity of what he wrote" Lionel Trilling. 2. in diagnosing arcane diseases. In the first episode of this season, which aired last Tuesday, House's hallucination hallucination, false perception characterized by a distortion of real sensory stimuli. Common types of hallucination are auditory, i.e., hearing voices or noises and visual, i.e., seeing people that are not actually present. seems to be coming true. ``24'' (Fox, 9 p.m. Mondays, returning in January): After saving America yet again, Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) was kidnapped and beaten by evil-minded Chinese on a freighter heading toward Shanghai. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) The death of Denny (Jeffrey Dean Morgan Jeffrey Dean Morgan (born April 22, 1966 in Seattle, Washington) is an American actor. Morgan became well known in 2006 for playing three high-profile recurring roles simultaneously: patient Denny Duquette on Grey's Anatomy, patriarch John Winchester on ) devastates Izzie (Katherine Heigl), who quits her internship program in ``Grey's Anatomy.'' (2) Hugh Laurie may trade one pain for another in ``House.'' |
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