Fall TV takes a fall

To be honest, I was slightly disappointed with the television premieres this season, both of returning and new shows.

Perhaps the best part about the fall television line-up is ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.”

The live show is sure to entertain every week.

Already there has been one spill on the dance floor in the middle of a performance (courtesy of “Beverly Hills 90210” actress Jennie Garth), and just last week, singer and performer Marie Osmond melted into a puddle as she fainted just after her samba.

It was priceless. Not only does the show provide slapstick falls and laughs, but it displays extremely talented dancing celebrities, like Spice Girls Mel B and race car driver Helio Castroneves.

ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” ended with a bang last year, but has yet to recapture its spark this season.

The storyline of two best friends falling for each other is a romantic cliché, but Izzie Stephens (Katherine Heigl) and George O’Malley (T.R. Knight) just don’t seem like a plausible couple to me.

Maybe the new relationship will grow on me, but for now they seem more like brother and sister than lovers.

I expected NBC’s fan-favorite “Heroes” to start the season with a shocker or some sort of jolt, but it really just fizzled.

Nothing interesting happened in the season premiere, with the exception of the last few minutes when Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia) was found in an otherwise empty storage container in a shipping yard in Ireland.

Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka), my favorite character, is stuck in 17th-century Japan helping his childhood hero Takezo Kensei repair the “past,” which for them is the present and future.

While the following “Heroes” episodes gradually became more interesting, I fear that the show may end up like the last season of “LOST” – and lose me as a viewer. For now, though, it has me hooked.

The new CW show “Reaper,” about a young man named Sam (Bret Harrison), whose parents sold his soul to the devil and who must now capture souls that have escaped from hell, is a comedy that sometimes misses the mark.

I continue to watch, though, because best-friend sidekicks Bert “Sock” Wysocki (Tyler Labine) and Ben (Rick Gonzalez crack me up.

The most disappointing show this year has to be the much-anticipated “Pushing Daisies.” The ABC dramedy has been picked up for a full season, which was a decision that left me scratching my head.

Maybe I was expecting too much because the same creators of the new show also created the underappreciated Showtime gem “Dead Like Me,” which was cancelled too soon.

“Daisies” features Ned (Lee Pace), who can raise people from the dead with one touch. The catch is that if he touches them again, they die forever.

Sounds interesting, right? That’s what I thought, but the season premiere was predictable and tried too hard to be quirky. I tried to stick around to see how the story would unfold, but it was just too painful to continue watching.

Overall, this season has been a real bummer, but mid-season replacements are just around the corner.