My understanding is that Charlie is in the first few episodes of Fringe and then something happens - it was described as "it'll blow your mind" - and then he goes away. Which may leave open the possibility of him returning? I don't know because I didn't want to know the details so all I have is this vagueness.

It won't blow my mind in a good way unless he stays. Maybe they body swap him with the new girl. Or send him to Earth 2.

Oh! In casting news which is too complicatedly spoilery for me to work out how to whitefont safely in Spoiler Lite, Adam Rodriguez leaves CSI: Miami and ends up on Ugly Betty for at least 5 episodes.

I watch CSI: Miami in reruns because it's the bad crack, so I won't see his departure for a while, but I will miss him. He's so much less useless than Jonathan Togo's character. And that's saying a lot.

Ausiello on Supernatural, which sounds kinda good:

According to series creator Eric Kripke, this season is all about “building Sam and Dean back up in a way that makes them older, sadder, wiser, and, ultimately, stronger. It’s funny, we’ve been feeling in many ways that this is the most optimistic season of Supernatural we’ve ever done. Because even though the exterior circumstances are a massive cluster f–k, internally, the boys aren’t tearing each other apart every episode. It’s more like, ‘Hey, maybe we’ll lose, but, dammit, let’s go down swinging.’

I want them to have each others backs. I want Bobby in there, and I want positive existing women and new POC.

Looks like Sylar doesn't stay Nathan. I was naive, I know, to hope so. I'm just so tired of Sylar, even though I love Quinto.

Great, so House has succumbed to the monkey crack and Heroes is going to be same old, same old. Maybe my Mondays aren't going to be so loaded up after all.

That said, my DVR is set to get all of that Monday's stuff (2-hour House, 2-hour Heroes and Castle), because I'm just that lame.

HIMYM premiere is HILARIOUS. I have no idea how this show stays so funny.

Supernatural's "Soon" teaser contains hints at three upcoming episodes.

"I Believe the Children Are Our Future" has the little boy/demon spawn, who is supposed to be the anti-Christ whom Castiel says must be killed.

"Changing Channels" (I believe that's the title) has the Japanese game show/CSI/sitcom/Grey's Anatomy spoofs and is all the work of the Trickster.

The poker game scene is likely to be the episode entitled "The Curious Case of Dean Winchester", which is where we'll see Chad Everett playing the elderly Dean.

Episode 9 is called "The Real Ghostbusters" and they're casting two men in their 20s-30s to play a copier repairman and a nerdy stereo salesman.

They've cast the role of Crowley for episode 10 called "Abandon All Hope..." written by Ben Edlund. According to spoilers, Mark Sheppard will play a "pivotal" crossroads demon. It's the last new show of 2009 and is said to be "epic" and will "definitely ... have the fans on the edge of their seats going into the holiday 'hellatus'". [Source Spoiler TV]

I read somewhere that two fan favourites die in the battle against Lucifer. I wondered if that's what had pissed shrift off. It's not like the show really has two people available to get killed off and still have Bobby and Ellen survive.

That may indeed be what pissed shrift off. I think the two fan favorites to die will be Sam and Dean, but I also think that might be a relative term considering what we're dealing with this season.