Yearly TV update!

What I'm watching that I wasn't watching last year, or I feel the need to tell you to watch again:

Agents of SHIELD (ABC, Tuesdays 8 PM): I LOVE THIS SHOW. Everyone's so shippable! And so pretty! And the MCU references! And the Marvel Comic references! And how it all ties into the movies and hints at the movies! And a Dollhouse reference! And Samuel L. Jackson cameos! EVERYTHING I WANTED AND HOPED FOR OUT OF THIS SHOW! (Except they haven't had a musical episode yet, and I expect this from the exact same production team that made a musical supervillain web series)

Almost Human (Fox, Mondays*): It started only months before the Robocop reboot, but this is definitely much better, and yay for Karl Urban! However, Fox decided to Firefly it, meaning they pushed back the premiere after all the advertising was already printed/filmed, and then aired it all out of order, then shuffled the finale around with the Sleepy Hollow finale and the premiere of The Following. So there's been basically no character development, and if there was supposed to be a plot arc, I can't see it. Hopefully it'll get another season.

Arrow (CW, Wednesdays 8 PM): The first season skipped right over all that typical first-season cheesyness, making the finale feel like a second or third season finale. The second season has only improved, and it's one of the most underrated shows on TV.

Cosmos (Fox, Sundays 9 PM): Neil DeGrasse Tyson rebooting a Carl Sagan thing with good science and glorious HD space photos. It's everything I never knew I wanted... it's like the total antidote to Ancient Aliens.

Intelligence (CBS): This is only on the list because I wasn't watching it last year. It's not spectacular, but it's a nice solid action-y filler for when the DVR is running low.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Hub, Saturdays 10:30 AM EST/7:30 AM PST): Oh, I love this show, and this season just keeps increasing the quality. From exposing shame homeopathic cures to realistic depictions of fashion week to the Doctor Whooves thing just keeping on going, there's nothing I don't love about the show.

Orphan Black (BBC America, returns April 19th): LET ME TELL YOU HOW I LOVE THIS SHOW. I may love this show about as much as Agents of SHIELD. It's a unique concept with stellar acting and a storyline that really picks up at the end and amazing acting and a whole boatload full of female characters who do stuff and their lives don't revolve around men and did I mention that Tatiana Maslany was totally robbed of that Golden Globe?

Rizzoli & Isles (TNT, Tuesdays, on hiatus): NOOOOOOOO! I love this show so, so much, but I am still procrastinating on watching the midseason finale because we know what's going to happen....

Sleepy Hollow (Fox, Mondays*): This was possibly sillier than National Treasure at first. And then there started being supernatural elements... so now it's some kind of horror show. There's also very little on TV as entertaining as seeing a character from the 1700's get outraged over the tax on Starbucks, or try to use Siri.

The 100 (CW, Wednesdays 9 PM):  England a space station holding the post-apocalyptic remnants of humanity is getting overcrowded, so they decide to send their convicts juvenile delinquents down to Australia Earth and see if they can survive and found a new civilization while all the local fauna trying to kill them. Given how Australia contains almost 0% unattractive people and it started from convicts and idk, sheep ranchers? and this show is populated with CW actors, several generations on their descendants will probably be simply too beautiful to look at directly.

The Tomorrow People (CW, Wednesdays on hiatus): Follow up Stephen Amell in Arrow with his cousin Robbie Amell: How could you not watch, at least at first... I kind of gave up because it just didn't hold my interest.

Warehouse 13 (Syfy, on hiatus): I'm so excited for the second half of the fifth season to return, but sadly, it's the final season. This is another show I've stuck with for years on end and loved very much. If you haven't watched this, catch up while you can!

*Fox has not learned one single thing from Firefly. Not. One. Thing. Sleepy Hollow premiered, like usual. And then when Almost Human premiered it was supposed to have a special premiere timeslot and a normal timeslot, but then after all the advertising for the special premiere time, they pushed it back by a week or two and changed the special timeslot. Then, in the middle of all the out-of-order Almost Human episodes, there were more "special time slots" for the season finale of Sleepy Hollow and the season premiere of The Following. And then, they not only shuffled around those timeslots, but the weeks on which those things would take place, and stuff like that. I couldn't keep track of any of it.

My DVR: Cable & Foreign Shows

OK, so in this case, "DVR" may be a bit flexible, if the foreign shows aren't being imported sufficiently quickly. I'm also not quite up on what day these are on, so they'll just be listed by network:

Doctor Who (BBC America)
Oh, that classic BBC show. I've made many friends over it, and converted many more friends, and now you can go to Target and see people wearing Doctor Who t-shirts. And this year is the 50th anniversary! 

The Hour (BBC America)
It's like Mad Men meets The Newsroom, about a young woman who's made a producer of a new BBC news program in the 1950's. Plus, you get to laugh at Ben Wishaw's character (pre-Skyfall) constantly referring to the female lead as "Moneypenny." 

Mythbusters (Discovery)
If you need to know why I DVR this, you probably not only haven't seen it before, you probably don't even know what it's about.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Hub)
Yep, I watch it. But, for the record, it's really cute, and has super awesome lessons that even I sometimes need to hear repeated. 

Project Runway (Lifetime)
I was introduced to this my first week after moving into the dorms freshman year of college, during its 3rd season. I've been sewing for ages, and I love pretty dresses, so I've kept watching! 

Teen Wolf (MTV)
It's my new addiction! And I blog extensively about this one, if you can't tell ;-)

Continuum (Syfy)
As an earlier post mentioned, I've only just started watching this, so I can't really say a lot one way or another. 

Warehouse 13 (Syfy)
I started watching it because I loved the premise - when I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark, I always spent so much time wondering what else was filling up that warehouse, and thought the idea was so cool - and stayed for the characters, hilarious references to history and literature, and the heartbreak and emotional drama that the writers put us all through. 

Rizzoli & Isles (TNT)
My very favorite detective/forensics show ever, not the least because it features some really awesome female characters. Yay! Also, they're basically me and my roommate: I'm the blond socially awkward Irish girl, and she's the brunette part Italian Boston native.