DR. Who, Housewives and Veronica Mars

Posted Sep 20, 2006 by Walt Belcher

Updated Sep 20, 2006 at 02:57 PM

  The preview DVDs are piling up and I’m excited. I watched the first new episode of “Desperate Housewives” which returns Sunday (sept. 24).
 
  Very cool. The show, which slipped creatively last season, is back on track.  Kyle MacLachlan is very creepy as Orson, a neatnik who may have killed his first wife and is now after Bree.  There’s a wild bedroom scene where Bree expericences something for the first time and thinks she’s having a stroke.

  Meanwhile Lynette’s having real trouble with hubby Tom’s ex-lover who just keeps meddling in their lives. Gabby has it out with the surrogate mother carrying her child. And Susan finds romance at the hospital (where Mike is in a coma) with a handsome man (Dougray Scott) whose wife is in a coma, too.

Tonight, I’m looking at the second season debut of “Doctor Who”  which returns to the Sci-Fi Channel on Sept. 29.  This time David Tennant plays the alien Time Lord.  Also in my to-do box is the season debut of “Veronica Mars’’ which returns next week on The CW.  I’ve already seen the first “Gilmore Girls” (also next Tuesday).  It’s OK.

  This is a great job because I get these DVDs without the commercials.