I'm a bit confused on one of the female characters, but I'm guessing I'll figure it out eventually.

We can probably clear up any questions, if you want to ask them here.

Yeah, it was Elle/Emily that was confusing me. I just couldn't figure out when Elle was on and why she left and when Emily came along. I've looked up enough to clear things up though. Elle doesn't really do much for me, so I'm happy with the addition of Emily.

Rayne, if you get Ion TV, they should be starting up with S1 of Criminal Minds next Monday. They're finishing off with the S4 finale 2-parter (To Hell... ...And Back) on Tuesday night, and then showing a relatively early S1 ep on Thursday (The Fox--excellent ep!). My cable doesn't have the listing up for next week yet, but they always show the series in order, so it makes sense they'll be starting it anew then.

As for confusing Elle and Emily, just remember that one of the actresses can act (Paget Brewster, who plays Emily Prentiss) and one can't (Lola Glaudini, who plays Elle). I really dislike Elle, and she ruins most of S1 for me.

Actually, ION's starting over tonight. They're showing "To Hell... and Back" as the first two eps of the three hours block, and then "Extreme Aggressor" (AKA, the pilot) as the third hour.

It's silly of me to consider watching CM from the beginning on ION when I have the freaking DVDs right here.

I've been thinking about picking up the S4 dvds--I think that might be my favorite overall season in terms of rewatchable episodes.

My main problem with the A&E reruns is that they seems to draw from a pool of about 10-15 eps that they rerun constantly, completely ignoring entire chunks of certain seasons.

Also, they tend to slice out a few seconds of show to stick in more commercials. Ion doesn't do that. (I first noticed this with NCIS reruns on Ion vs. USA--in McGee's first ep, USA always leaves out the bit where DiNozzo pretends to be playing football before tossing the rock through the bad guy's window. I wouldn't notice it, but that bit is included in the S2 opening credits, so when I first saw it on the Ion rerun, I thought "Oh, that's where that scene is from!"

The only problem is the ION schedule is partially in prime time, so it's bound to conflict with a few things.

Yes, it does. I've forsaken new episodes of several shows because of my new obsession with CM.

I've forsaken new episodes of several shows because of my new obsession with CM.

Yes, this! Luckily, most of my other shows are on cable, which means they're rerun either later that day or on the weekend, so I just time-shift. The only network shows I watch are CM on Wednesday night and occasionally NCIS on Tuesday night if I've missed it earlier in the season. Comcast has NCIS available OnDemand (I wish they would do the same with CM, though). This fall will be a bit different, since I'll be adding Hawaii 5-O and Under Covers to my network schedule, along with Castle and the others.