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Fall TV: Best New Shows September 9, 2009 I don't know about you, but my TiVo's hungry for some new fall TV. And while returning favorites like How I Met Your Mother and Heroes are still a ways off, you can start watching some of the best new shows of the season this week. Here are my top three newcomers. (And if you can't wait for new Heroes, check out our free sneak peeks -- in HD! -- here.) -- Stephanie Reid-Simons, Amazon Video On Demand (Twitter: amazonvideo and Facebook: Amazon Video On Demand) Glee (airs tonight; at Amazon Video On Demand tomorrow) This show isn't easy to describe. It's a musical. It's a comedy. It's thrilling. It's bittersweet. It's about a jock who starts singing, a teacher who starts dreaming and an outcast who wants to be seen as the star that she is. Cory Monteith, who plays said jock, said his favorite description of the show is that it's High School Musical getting punched in the stomach and having its lunch money stolen. The first episode, which got a post-American Idol airing last spring, set a high bar. (You can watch it here now.) Here's hoping the show can hold on to that feeling. Community (airs Sept. 17, but you will be able to watch it Friday -- free -- at Amazon VOD) It's not easy trying to be the next Office, as Parks and Recreation can attest (though I think Parks and Rec can get there). Still, Community may have a shot. It's got creative DNA reaching back to Arrested Development. And more importantly, it's got Joel McHale, the engaging snarkmeister from The Soup, stars as the de-facto leader of a ragtag community college study group that also includes Chevy Chase at his nutjobby finest. Vampire Diaries (airs Thursday, coming to Amazon VOD Friday) A broodingly handsome vampire, forever young, lusts after a beautiful high-school girl. We've seen this before, right? Well, sort of. Expect Vampire Diaries to be more Dawson's Creek than Twilight, with fabulous Kevin Williamson dialogue and evil-brother intrigue. It's a guilty pleasure, for sure, with its melodramatic fog and eye-candy cast, but it has a pleasing bite. Find more new fall shows here.

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