Fall TV Preview Watch/Pass Poll Results: What's Hot, and What's Not?

Thousands of TV fans voted on which new television shows they plan to watch, DVR or diss completely

By Jennifer Arrow Sep 17, 2010 8:45 PMTags
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire, William Shatner, Stuff My Dad SaysCraig Blankenhorn/HBO; CLIFF LIPSON/CBS

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!

Poll

Fall TV Preview 2010: Running Wilde

Running Wilde?
Watch
36.6%
DVR
24.4%
Pass
39%
NBC

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%

Jack Rowand/The CW

DVRLet'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%

Harper Smith/NBC

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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