A show that mixes action, humor, philosophy and suspense all into one. The original 1960s television series, The Prisoner, embodied this; a show that had a little of everything and left you amazed in terms of style and substance. Unfortunately, it is in many of these areas that the show’s remake, the mini-series The Prisoner, comes up short. This new version , while having a few strengths of its own right, fails to meet the expectations set-up by its classic ancestor.

Maybe someday in the far distant future, television producers will realize that coming up with something new, fun and original takes a little more than a change in color. Comedian George Lopez’s new late-night talk show, Lopez Tonight, premiered this past Monday on TBS. Billing itself as a new, edgy show designed to appeal to a more multicultural audience in a similar manner to the Arsenio Hall Show (ask your parents if you haven’t heard of it). While it certainly embraces the multicultural or racial aspect of its promise, the show’s first episode fails to really take off in a way that sets it apart from the usual fare.

HBO’s new series Bored To Death is the resurrection of television. The show is a classy reminder of the golden age of television and follows the antics of an accidental Sherlock Holmes in modern times. Basically, it’s a detective show with absolutely no forensics.

Despite winning the Emmys in the “Outstanding Comedy Series” category three years in a row along with a plethora of major prestigious awards for the show and its cast members, NBC’s 30 Rock is one of the most underappreciated programs on television (if ratings are any indication).

Imagine a world where your two best friends, both inappropriately hilarious and most importantly, less attractive than you, are the only two other persons of your gender.

FX’s hit comedy, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, returned to the small screen last Thursday for the fifth season of what has to be one of the funniest shows on TV.

Glee is a new musical comedy on FOX that follows a band of misfits in a high school glee club as they struggle to win the acceptance of their peers, as well as a national performing arts competition. It also features drama but seems more favorable to the comedy side of things.

The season five premiere of Bones last Thursday unfolded an engaging series of events, sidetracking investigation and analysis as the cornerstones of the show, to keeping the viewers indulged for a bizarre romantic sequence of events between the hyper rationalizing Dr. Brennan (Emily Deschanel), a scientist from D.C. devoted to discovering and investigating the identities of the deceased from only a few specimens of the human skeleton, and the jovial, tough, and dedicated FBI agent Booth (David Boreanaz).

The Emmy Awarding winning television series The Office took off with its sixth season of fantastically awkward white-collar humor last Thursday, Sept. 17. Though NBC’s mock documentary comedy has long strayed from the equally brilliant BBC original and has developed its own style of humor, the new season pilot, “Gossip,” demonstrated a promising start to Dunder Mifflin fans everywhere for the upcoming episodes.

The premiere of Melrose Place last week unleashed a two-sided plot, appealing to both a drama-oriented audience as well as to the fans of convoluted mysteries and twists. The characters seem to be driven by sky-high ambitions, and as for reaching to the top, morale is an unknown territory.