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I don't worship Jon Stewart and didn't like his version of The Daily Show. From all accounts he's an admirable person and I happen to agree with his politics, but his constant mugging and face pulling wasn't funny to me and undercut his message.

All righty, @TaraS1. They sound kinda boring but I added them to my queue ... my enjoyment or lack thereof is now on you!

A few shows sound slightly promising -- and I will duly trudge through all of them in hopes of finding a small diamond -- but I didn't stick with a single new show from last Fall, so odds aren't good. Instinct: I enjoy Alan Cummings but serial killers are my least favorite killers, so it's a lot to ask. The Orville might be okay, just because I generally like sci fi. Bad title, though.

Here's where things stand for the broadcast networks. From TV By The Numbers: ABC The Crossing: Refugees seek asylum in a small town — although they say they’re fleeing a war in the United States that hasn’t actually happened yet. Steve Zahn, Natalie Martinez and Sandrine Holt star in the show from creators Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie (Scorpion, Revenge). Deception: When an illusionist (Jack Cutmore-Scott) loses his career to scandal, he finds a way to redeem himself — via the FBI. The bureau recruits him to stage tricks that help catch criminals. Chris Fedak (Chuck, Forever) created the show. For the People: A legal drama set in the U.S. District Court in New York City follows lawyers both in and out of the courtroom. It comes from Shondaland and Scandal writer-producer Paul William Davies. The Good Doctor: A young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome (Freddie Highmore of Bates Motel) joins the staff at a hospital where he has to prove he’s capable of caring for patients despite being unable to read social cues. Based on a Korean show; House creator David Shore and Hawaii Five-0’s Daniel Dae Kim are executive producers The Gospel of Kevin: Jason Ritter stars as a rootless guy whose life changes when a celestial being tasks him with a mission that could possibly save the world. Agent Carter’s Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters are the creators. Inhumans: The Marvel title about a group of alien-human hybrid beings comes to TV (and IMAX theaters for the first two episodes). Anson Mount (Hell on Wheels), Serinda Swan (Graceland), Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones), Ken Leung (Lost, The Night Shift), Isabelle Cornish and Eme Ikwuakor lead the cast. The Mayor: A young rapper (Brandon Micheal Hall) runs for mayor of his hometown as a way to boost his music career. Then he wins and has to figure out how to govern. Yvette Nicole Brown, Lea Michele, Bernard David Jones and Marcel Spears also star. Splitting Up Together: Adapted by Suburgatory creator Emily Kapnek, the show stars Jenna Fischer and Oliver Hudson as a couple who reignite their relationship when they get divorced. Diane Farr, Bobby Lee and Lindsay Price also star. Untitled Zach Braff (formerly Start Up): A journalist (Braff) decides to leave his stable job and start his own business. Inspired by the podcast StartUp, the show comes from former Scrubs writer-producer Matt Tarses. Braff also directed the pilot. CBS Instinct: A former CIA operative (Alan Cumming), now a professor, is drawn back toward his old life when the NYPD asks him for help catching a serial killer. The show is based on a forthcoming book by James Patterson. SEAL Team: Follows an elite unit of Navy SEALs as it plans and executes dangerous missions. David Boreanaz (Bones) stars along with Max Theriot, Neil Brown Jr., A.J. Buckley, Toni Trucks and Jessica Pare; Ben Cavell (Justified) is the creator. SWAT: A sergeant with the LAPD’s Special Weapons and Tactics unit (Shemar Moore, Criminal Minds) is torn between loyalty to his team and the people he grew up with in Los Angeles. Shawn Ryan (Timeless, The Shield) is executive producing the show from writer Aaron Thomas (CSI: NY). Wisdom of the Crowd: A tech entrepreneur (Jeremy Piven) creates a crowdsourcing app to help solve his daughter’s murder and hopes to revolutionize law enforcement in the process. Richard T. Jones, Jake Matthews, Blake Lee, Natalia Tena and Monica Potter also star. 9JKL: Mark Feuerstein created and stars in this show in which he plays a guy living in the New York apartment where he grew up — with his parents (Linda Lavin and Elliott Gould) in the apartment on one side and his brother and sister-in-law (David Walton, Liza Lapira) and their baby on the other. By the Book: Based on A.J. Jacobs’ book The Year of Living Biblically, it stars Jay R. Ferguson (The Real O’Neals, Mad Men) as a man who decides to live strictly by biblical rules, which turns out to be harder than he anticipates. Me, Myself & I: The single-camera show tracks the life of one man over 50 years: as a teenager in the early ’90s, a 40-year-old in the present (Bobby Moynihan) and as a 65-year-old in 2042 (John Larroquette). Dan Kopelman (Galavant, Malcolm in the Middle) created it. Young Sheldon: A Big Bang Theory spinoff following the life of the preteen Sheldon Cooper (Iain Arimtage, Big Little Lies) growing up in Texas. The cast also includes Zoe Perry (Scandal) as Sheldon’s mother, Lance Barber as his dad and Raegan Revord and Montana Jordan as his siblings. The CW Black Lightning: The network’s fifth DC superhero show centers on Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams, Hart of Dixie), a retired superhero turned teacher who’s pulled back into his former life. Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil (The Game, Being Mary Jane) created the show, which was initially developed at FOX before moving to The CW. Dynasty: A reboot of the 1980s ABC soap from Gossip Girl EPs Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage. Nathalie Kelley (The Vampire Diaries) plays Cristal, whose engagement to billionaire Blake Carrington (Grant Show) ruffles feathers in the family. The cast also includes Elizabeth Gillies, Alan Dale, Sam Adegoke, Robert Christopher Riley and Rafael de la Feuente. Valor: Matt Barr (Sleepy Hollow) and Christina Ochoa (Animal Kingdom) lead the cast of this show set at a U.S. air base. The action centers on a group of helicopter pilots who fly clandestine missions and the investigation of one that went wrong. It comes from writer Kyle Jarrow. Life Sentence: A young woman (Lucy Hale) previously diagnosed with terminal cancer finds out she’s not dying after all. She then has to reckon with some of the decisions she made when she thought she didn’t have much time left. Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith created it. FOX 9-1-1: Angela Bassett will star in this series from Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk (American Horror Story, Glee) about the lives of first responders — police officers, paramedics and firefighters — who put their lives on the line to help others. FOX says it will be based on real-life experiences. The Gifted: An X-Men-adjacent series from Marvel (and X-Men director Byran Singer) that centers on a family whose lives are upended when the kids (Natalie Alyn Lind, The Goldbergs, and Percy Hynes White) start to display mutant powers. Amy Acker and Stephen Moyer play their parents. Matt Nix (Burn Notice, APB) is the showrunner, and Singer directed the pilot and is an executive producer. The Orville: Seth MacFarlane’s first live-action show for FOX is a sci-fi series set on a mid-level exploratory spaceship probing the galaxy in the 25th century. MacFarlane stars as the captain of the Orville, with Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights, Agents of SHIELD) as his ex-wife and first officer. Jon Favreau directed the pilot. The Resident: A senior resident at a hospital (Matt Czuchry, The Good Wife, Gilmore Girls) takes a new doctor (Manish Dayal) under his wing and shows the rookie all that’s good and bad about 21st century medicine. Bruce Greenwood, Emily VanCamp and Shaunette Wilson also star in the show from writers Amy Holden Jones, Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi. Ghosted: A true believer (Adam Scott) and a skeptic (Craig Robinson) are recruited by a government agency to investigate a wave of paranormal occurrences in Los Angeles. Ally Walker and Adeel Akhtar also star; Tom Gormican (That Awkward Moment) created the show. LA to Vegas: The ensemble show follows a group of people — crew and passengers who make a weekly flight from Burbank to Las Vegas in hopes of striking it rich. Dylan McDermott, Ed Weeks (The Mindy Project), Kim Matula, Olivia Macklin, Nathan Lee Graham and Peter Stormare star; Lon Zimmet (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) is the creator. NBC The Brave (formerly For God and Country): Follows a group of military operatives who put themselves in peril and make personal sacrifices to undertake secret missions behind enemy lines. Anne Heche and Mike Vogel lead the cast; Dean Georgaris (The Manchurian Candidate) created the show. Good Girls: Three women struggling to make ends meet hatch a plan to rob a supermarket, which of course leads to much bigger problems. Retta (Parks and Recreation) and Mae Whitman (Parenthood) play two of the three leads; the third part is being recast. Jenna Bans (Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy) created the series. Reverie: A former hostage negotiator (Sarah Shahi, Person of Interest) who left the job after a personal tragedy is pulled into a new line of work: Rescuing people who have become lost in a sophisticated virtual-reality program. From Extant creator Mickey Fisher; also starring Dennis Haysbert, Jessica Lu, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Kathryn Morris. Rise: Based on the book Drama High by Michael Sokolove, it follows a high school drama teacher in an economically depressed town and the students he inspires. The cast includes Josh Radnor, Rosie Perez, Auli’i Cravalho (Moana) and Shannon Purser (Stranger Things). Jason Katims (Parenthood, Friday Night Lights) adpated the book and executive produces the show. A.P. Bio: A philosophy scholar (Glenn Howerton, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) fails to get a dream job and finds himself stuck teaching high school biology. He then uses the honor students in his class for his own gain. Saturday Night Live veteran Mike O’Brien created the show. Champions: Gym owner Vince (Anders Holm) and his gorgeous idiot brother Michael (Andy Favreau) have their lives upended when an ex of Vince’s (co-creator Mindy Kaling, who will be an on-screen guest star) shows up with their teenage son. Kaling and fellow Office alum Charlie Grandy created the show.

Romper Room memories! We got the local Los Angeles version when I was young. One Saturday we had a beach outing planned, but on the day my mother didn't feel up to it (from this vantage point, I can surmise she was hung over). My sister and I were dejectedly watching the show when the magic mirror segment came on: "Romper, stomper, bomper boo. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do. Magic Mirror, tell me today, did all my friends have fun at play?" Then Miss Nancy called out our names, saying she was sorry we didn't get to go to the beach but to stay cheerful or some shit. We were freaked out and juvenile minds blown! Guess mom had time to call into the show between hits of aspirin and coffee.

The moms were great kind of except for Chris's. I can see where he gets the camera hog attitude.

Thanks! I ordered this one I've had my eye on. We'll see!

Best episode ever! I love that it's self-contained and anybody can watch and laugh without knowing a single thing about any of the characters.

Including Scientology! Made me snort.

For all the moms today, otter or notter!

Which one of The Monkees did y'all crush on? Peter Tork for me! I'm throwing this out for a group judgment: My sister doesn't like watching TV all that much and gets a little antsy after 2-3 hours, but her husband wants her company and enjoys discussing shows with her. I told her she should use her tablet to play low key games (solitaire, jigsaw puzzles, word games, etc.) while watching. Nothing timed or stressful. She feels that would be rude to him. I mean, she'd still be there, listening, watching and chatting as needed. People knit or do crafts or mending or any number of things while watching TV and I don't see electronic games as being inherently ruder.

The date with the people from Tennessee -- I really liked his ready sense of humor and easygoing manner. Good for the woman for losing so much weight, but I thought she was kind of self-absorbed and from what we saw, never shut up.

I'll disagree with the comments that Cody needs a woman who's sweet, country, shy, cute, quiet, or anything else. What he needs is to not be married at all!

The bespoke suit guy seems like he only needs to date women named Muffy or Peaches. Way too invested in his preppy lifestyle. On the other hand, his date was overly put off off by his singing and guitar. Unusual for a first date, maybe, but this isn't a normal situation and his voice and playing were fine. I agree the MLB guy seemed very genuine and nice. Cute, too! His date is missing out. Maybe seniors feel they need to put it out there if they expect sex to be part of relationship because a larger percentage of oldsters are no longer interested? A friend has four requirements for dating in her retirement community: liberal political views, no more than 3 medications, no oxygen tanks, and no sex. I thought it was a little rude to push a non-seafood eater to try shrimp, of all things. It has an odd texture to begin with, and those were huge! Since they were served whole, were they even deveined? (I eat shrimp but sometimes they can bring to mind those large grubs and weevils that people eat. Shudder!) Drew's narration and mannered way of speaking is starting to annoy me.

It's early, but funniest comment of the day! I've never been drawn to beefcake-ish guys; I had crushes on the funny, gangly dorks. For real, in the 80s:

Okay, then. I'm not a huge fan of the series overall and think some of the acting by the non-actors (including Aziz) is not good, with a lot of self-consciously stilted and rushed line readings. I thought Aziz's parents were even worse this time. His dad seems to be a nice person and is certainly enthusiastic, but the critical praise for him is a little over the top and maybe unearned? Overall, the many critics' top 10 lists and best of the year accolades for the show were surprising to me. Coming from that head space, I thought this season was even more self-indulgent and meandering. I didn't exactly mind watching 22 minutes about random doormen and deaf New Yorkers, but that's not saying I understood it, or laughed at all.

He captivated a generation of the under 10 set, apparently. :-) I later moved on to David Cassidy but the poster I bought and hung in my bedroom was Steve McQueen on his motorcycle. The adult coloring book resurgence is funny to me because I used to enjoy doing them in the 70s. Oversized books with groovy images from Peter Max and the like. So many peace signs!

Even as a kid, shows like The Honeymooners made me uncomfortable and sad. Enough with all the yelling! I did not and do not see the humor.

Of all the women who've been on the show claiming the main thing they want in life is to be married, I believe Ashley the most. Her standards are modest and Anthony meets them so she's all in. "The husband" is the least important person in her fantasy Facebook photo page of "my family." I apologize if I'm being dismissive, but baby fever is just foreign to me.

Not surprising from the thrice-married guy who writes advice books on relationships. Also wants to inform me about "Discovering Your Gift and the Way to Life's Riches." Although I actually like that he's refusing to apologize. Own that assy entitlement, dude!

I have failed at gardening with so many plants and vegetables over the years that I get kinda pissed whenever I see streetside planters overflowing with a variety of flowers. Nobody even looks after them and they grow fine!

The show was in my top 10 and I'll miss it, but I'm happy the showrunners were considerate enough to give us a sweet wrap-up in the season 2 finale in case it was cancelled.

Why isn't Cody able to be himself? Who's stopping him? Despite his assurances to the contrary, he is definitely NOT mature for his age. Has the show cast a much larger percentage of women who want a man -- A MAN! -- to make the decisions and dominate them than there are in the general population? Jeez, Danielle. Maybe try being a little softer and more yielding instead of staying at 10 and expecting your timid and insecure husband to take it to 11.

ABC has released the pilot online. I thought it was okay: 80% because of Martin the dog*, 20% because I like Allison Tolman, and 0% because the story was good. Reviews haven't been swell, particularly about Martin's millennial-speak, but I was entertained. Played by Ned the dog, voiced by Samm Hodges.

This is a from a jigsaw puzzle, but so adorable and typical of kitties. I could eat her up!