I actually really liked the Last Firefly. It was well written, acted, and had some humour. However, I hope that they don't keep on pushing cowboys in space. Seeing the 'cowboy planet' where everything is completely 1880's, down to the music, really detracted the possibility for reality. I read an article by Joss, who said that he is not including alien life, because he does not believe that there is alien life out there... But we will revert our society to copy the late 19th Century in the US West exactly...
However, leave it to me to finally really like a show and find that it is cancelled.
The lineup this year has a lot of potential winners, and a lot of losers.
Shield looks good (even though it is HBO or something)
Boomtown as well
Buffy and Angel are still on the decline, and getting absurder and absurder. The School gets destroyed by a big worm, and there are still those in denyal... I guess we will have to see how this series ends, maybe Buffy will start fighting Vampires again, instead of Robots, Giant Worms, Gods, Computer Geeks and various ugly demons.
Birds of prey reminds me of this horrid show, I think it is called Black Scorpion, or something like it. I have not watched this yet, as I am not that desperate to watch TV.
If you like C.S.I., I would recommend you to get a hold of some episodes of "DaVinci's Inquest", a Canadian production based out of Vancouver. The funny thing about C.S.I. Miami is that a substantial number of the cast are individuals who left successful TV shows and failed in their solo TV and movie careers. The next member of the CSI Miami crew will be someone from Seinfeld.
Crossing Jordan has let me down for another year. Competing against all of those new forenzic shows (C.S.I. #1 and #2, DaVinci's Inquest, as well as Monk), this show is not individual enough to Last. Unfortunately there was nothing else worthwhile on after Third Watch Last year.
Haunted is probably the only Television show on in a while that actually made me jump in my seat. I am amazed that nobody has tried to do this yet on TV.
Smallville, now there is a total winner. It is on at the same time as Buffy here, and I am constantly drawn to watch it as it is still early in the series to be fresh, new, and with great writing.