This is the night -- Monday, Sept. 19 -- when the TV season begins for real. It's the first official night of the new season and it's crowded.
With that in mind, I've included here more than usual of the stories that I sent to papers. If you scroll down after this, you'll find:
1) A profile of Whitney Cummings, who has two new shows. Tonight's "2 Broke Girls" (9:31 p.m., CBS) is the best new comedy; Thursday's "Whitney" (9:31 p.m., NBC) is above average.
2) An overview of the Playboy comeback that includes tonight's "Playboy Club" debut (10 p.m., NBC).
3) A chronological commentary on the Emmys. I just did that as it was going on; afterward, I went back and cleaned up the typos and stuff, but left the rest as-is.
4) The Emmy preview story.
For some reason, I think that the biggest hit show of the fall season will be "Prime Suspect," or that the biggest hit show for NBC will be "Prime Suspect," two different ideas.
---I guessed last year that NBC would have a hit in Jerry Bruckhiemer's "Chase."
But still, this seems to be my conviction.