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Rachel Bilson As opening nights go, last Monday's kickoff for the fall season was pretty spectacular. Using the 2 Charlies laid to relaxation (and Sheen charred within the celebrity roast), we'll observe two and a half Males stacks up, with the relaxation of CBS' comedy selection. Adding high-profile dinosaurs for the mix now, and it must be another fascinating evening.First, the completely new shows, from Fall Preview:My primary Undertake Fox's Terra Nova (two-hour premiere at 8/7c): "Bigger isn't necessarily better, however in cases like this, it may be enough. Terra Nova will win no honours due to its pressboard figures and cumbersome writing, but hey, it's CGI dinosaurs! This really is really the fall's grandest escape and riskiest swing." To elaborate: This lavishly produced family-friendly sci-fi time-travel adventure isn't what you'd call edgy - from Steven Spielberg, it's Jurassic bark, while not much bite - plus it lays round the "beginning over" schmaltz just a little heavily after we have a family using a Stargate-like portal in to a settlement 85 million years inside the prehistoric past around the separate time stream, giving humans another chance to make a civilization without destroying our planet. (The dystopian prologue helps make the area of Edge Runner appear just like a musical comedy.) If you are in a position to ensure it is past the exposition, as well as the serious family clichés - a edgy teenage boy, an unpleasant brainiac daughter - there are many satisfying dino action. Plus it all looks gorgeous. Precious little on network TV feels as if an "event" (not to be mistaken using the Large Event) any more, so when this can't possess a bite in the competition, it may be a while before we view its like again.Want more fall TV news? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Not necessarily worth a nibble might be the CW's Hart of Dixie (9/8c), about this we written in Fall Preview: "Couldn't blame the South for threatening to secede again after sampling this patronizingly phony, city-sea food-out-of-backwater lump of country-friend hokum. Our hearts visit the appealing stars locked in this cloying bayou of cutesy quicksand." To elaborate - should i have to? - this asks us to consider The O.C.'s chirpy but brittle Rachel Bilson just like a aspirant heart surgeon named Zoe Hart (get it?) who's adopted against her will for the twee burg of Bluebell, Ala., where she's bequeathed a kindly country doctor's bucolic practice. This really is really the South with the Warner Bros. backlot, getting a dog alligator (named Burt Reynolds) and belles in "cotillion chic" pinafores and umbrellas. The show will receive a momentary lift when Zoe meets a close lawyer carried out by Scott Porter (Friday Evening Lights' Jason Street), but doggone it, he's installed on a catty debutante named Lemon (!), whose father might be the town's rival physician. Watching Hart of Dixie is similar to mainlining praline. Your brain will rot before your teeth do. Any resemblance with a charming hamlet like Gilmore Girls' Stars Hollow is simply inside the producers' minds.THE LAUGH TRACK: Coming off last week's blockbuster comeback, CBS' two and a half Males (9/8c) has another ace up its sleeve: the wonderful Judy Greer, guesting since the ex of lovelorn Walden Schmidt (Ashton Kutcher). ... More reason for CBS celebration: the surprise Emmy win by Melissa McCarthy in addition to comedy actress for Mike & Molly (9:31/8:31c), which begins season two while using title couple lately engaged.SIGNING OFF: Undertaking a daylong marathon in the entire first season, Syfy's Alphas systems (10/9c) while using team caught between Danger Signal as well as the Department of Defense since the war will get worse. ... On Showtime, battles may also be brewing on Weeds (10/9c) as well as the Large C (10:30/9:30c) their seasons finish. The focus of Weeds can be a sister smackdown between Nancy and sister Jill (Jennifer Jason Leigh), throughout The Big C, Cathy's husband Paul assumes their insurance carrier, while Trina runs a marathon in memory of Lee (Hugh Dancy).LATE Evening TUNES: Comedy Central's The Colbert Report (11:30/10:30c) develops to have an hour the first time, in recognition of special guest Radiohead. ... NBC's Late Evening With Jimmy Fallon (12:35/11:35c) honors Pink Floyd all week. Tonight's tribute features The Shins inside their first TV appearance in four years, playing "Breathe" within the Gloomy in the Moon. Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason can be a scheduled interview guest. On Tuesday, Roger Waters stops by, and works "Inside the Flesh" while using Foo Mma fighters.Just what else is on? ... Is it possible to believe PBS' Sesame Street is 42 years old? The completely new season starts today (check local records), which is already creating a stir while using Muppets' inspired parody of Glee, titled (what else) G. ... ABC's The Kids only decided to be yearly from turning 42 if the was unceremoniously canceled the other day. Within the place, we have a combination cooking/talk show titled The Chew (1 pm/ET), a prospect that numerous daytime experts have discovered difficult to swallow. ... In the Wager News exclusive, The Best Choice Solutions Black America (7:30/6:30c airs on Centric at 8/7c), Leader Obama addresses the economic crisis which is impact on the African-American community in the one-on-one with journalist Emmett Burns. ... Lightning-fly fishing rod participants Chaz Bono and Nancy Sophistication live to bop another week on ABC's Dwts (8/7c), this time around around challenged with either the Jive or perhaps the Quickstep. ... On ABC Family's The Lounging Game (8/7c), Sutton finally is available in person along with her (and Emma's) mother. ... Following a emotional fireworks on last week's opener of Castle (10:01/9:01c), things lighten just a little as Castle and Beckett look for a vigilante who's carrying out his killing spree in superhero guise. Appears like employment for ...Exactly what are you watching tonight?Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!