New year, new Word­Press and new episodes of my favorite TV shows. What else could I pos­si­bly need? Here’s the low­down on what to expect over the next few weeks:

First up, Scrubs returns on Jan­u­ary 6 for it’s eight sea­son. The pre­miere is titled “My Jerks” and fea­tures Courteney Cox as Dr. Mad­dox, who arrives at Sacred Heart to replace Dr. Kelso. Elliot has issues with here ego – again – and J. D. strug­gles to keep his new interns in the line.

Had your fill of Jack Bauer after 24: Redemp­tion? Guess not. Fox will bring the series back with a mas­sive four-hour, two-part sea­son pre­miere on Jan­u­ary 11. On Jan­u­ary 12, 24 will con­tinue with the sec­ond part of the sea­son pre­miere and on Jan­u­ary 19 24 will move to 9 p.m. Sweet! Cer­tainly, Jack Bauer will once again res­cue every­one but the bad guys. Sim­ply love to see this show.

Bat­tlestar Galac­tica will be back on air on Jan­u­ary 16, 2009. Even though I could never bring myself to like the orig­i­nal tele­vi­sion series pro­duced in 1978, the reimag­ined series ranks among my favorite TV shows. Since Decem­ber 12, 2008, you can watch The Face of the Enemy – a 10 part online series – over at SCIFI.COM. Some of the final 10 episodes  will run longer than the tra­di­tional episode. The series finale may very well con­sist of a mas­sive three hour event. After sea­son 4 there will be a two-hour TV movie called “The Plan”.

Lost will return on Jan­u­ary 21, 2009. As far as I know there will be a recap spe­cial directly in front of the sea­son pre­miere. They surely need it after the messed up sea­son 4. Let’s hope that there are no more issues and every­thing will be back to nor­mal. I really loved the show in the begin­ning … let’s see, how the next sea­son will turn out to be.