For your preseason pleasure, today we bring you the results of E! Online's annual Fall TV Preview Watch/Pass Poll.
Thousands of TV fans voted on which new television shows they plan to watch, DVR or diss completely. The results offer a clear indication about which shows are winning the buzz race, and which are all but sure to die whimpering deaths in Nielsen's basement. (Hint: Boardwalk Empire is hot $#*!, while $#*! My Dad Says is decidedly not.)
Read on for our official handicaps of what's hot and what's not for the 2010-2011 fall TV season:
HBO's Boardwalk Empire has the best buzz amongst E! Online readers, followed by NBC's The Event and three CBS shows, i.e. warm-fuzzies sitcom Mike & Molly, cop show Blue Bloods (Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg are catnip for the ladies) and remake Hawaii Five-0 (more lady-catnip, plus Grace Park).
New season losers, on the other hand, seem to be sitcoms $#*! My Dad Says and Outsourced; ABC's documentary-style soap about 28-year-olds My Generation; lawyer series Outlaw; and other lawyer series The Defenders. The latter two shows star Jimmy Smits and Jerry O'Connell, respectively, who are both beloved actors as well as notorious pilot-murderers. (Maybe they can go the way of one-time show killer Mark Feuerstein and join the USA Network to finally get a break?)
Falling square in the wait-and-see middle are NBC's Undercovers and Chase; ABC's No Ordinary Family, Detroit 1-8-7 and Better With You; Fox's Raising Hope and Lone Star, and the CW's Hellcats and Nikita (which premiered to not-terrible ratings last week).
Note: There are no Running Wilde results because we plumb forgot to include a poll with that review. We include it below as a remedial measure. Have fun online voting!
Fall TV Preview 2010: Running Wilde
WATCH
Boardwalk Empire — 67.7%
The Event — 64.2%
Blue Bloods — 57.8%
Hawaii Five-0 —57.4%
Mike & Molly — 55.9%
Undercovers — 53.5%
No Ordinary Family — 48.3%
Hellcats – 47.6%
Nikita — 45.7%
Detroit 1-8-7 — 41.4%
Raising Hope — 34.4%
Lone Star — 31.7%
Better With You — 28%
Chase — 22.6%
My Generation — 22.5%
Outlaw — 21.1%
The Defenders — 18.4%
Outsourced — 18.2%
$#*! My Dad Says — 15%
DVR – Let's call this the choice that means "meh" and "definite maybe"
The Defenders – 38%
Chase — 37.4%
Lone Star — 35.5%
My Generation — 35.4%
No Ordinary Family — 34.3%
Better With You — 33.8%
Raising Hope — 31.8%
Nikita — 30.5%
Blue Bloods — 30%
Undercovers — 28.7%
Hellcats — 28.7%
Mike & Molly — 27.9%
Hawaii Five-0 — 27%
Detroit 1-8-7 — 26%
The Event — 25.5%
Boardwalk Empire — 24.4%
Outlaw — 23.4%
Outsourced — 21.9%
$#*! My Dad Says — 16.2%
PASS
$#*! My Dad Says – 68.8%
Outsourced — 59.9%
Outlaw — 55.5%
The Defenders — 43.7%
My Generation — 42.1%
Chase — 40%
Better With You — 38.2%
Raising Hope — 33.8%
Lone Star — 32.9%
Detroit 1-8-7 — 32.6%
Nikita — 23.8%
Hellcats — 23.6%
Undercovers — 17.8%
No Ordinary Family — 17.5%
Mike & Molly — 16.2%
Hawaii Five-0 — 15.5%
Blue Bloods — 12.2%
The Event — 10.3%
Boardwalk Empire — 7.8%
Do these results square with your expectations for the season? Hit the comments with your smarty-pants analysis!
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