I watch too much TV...

...but here are some interesting updates about shows on the bubbles and the networks' fall schedules (well, really only regarding the shows I like.)

The good news:

• Chuck will be back! Yay!
• Amazingly, Dollhouse will be back, too.
• So will Cold Case, which won the battle of "which one will CBS save?" that it was fighting with Without a Trace. That's too bad for Without a Trace, as I like that show, too. But if I had to choose, I'd go with Cold Case. The music is much better and my friends and I sometimes play a "guess the killer" game (that I am a rockstar at playing).
• Some minor bits of good news: ABC is bringing back Better Off Ted and Castle. Castle is one I like mostly for Nathan Fillion, who I've loved since he was on One Life to Live--even before his entry into the Whedonverse. Better Off Ted is a pretty darn funny show--sort of Arrested Development-Lite. The episode called "Racial Sensitivity" seemed like an instant classic to me.

The bad news:
Goodbye, Samantha Who? I really liked this little show. This one hurts, although not as badly as when we lost Aliens in America. This is more surprising, though, as I thought it was doing okay in the ratings.

The weird news:

• NBC cancels Medium? What the heck? Fortunately, CBS is picking it up!
• Also, I know I've already covered this above, but the whole "Cold Case or Without a Trace" decision illustrates quite clearly how much TV can be more about money than ratings. Both shows have really good numbers, but cost too much to make (as opposed to cheap reality shows).