This is the 2010 Spring-Summer Mid-season Update to the wonderful world of network and cable television shows for the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. not that I will be able to keep up with all of them, as last fall has proven. My apologies, but this second recession in my life that has kicked me so badly in the stones ... I am guaranteed to never spawn my own children. In fact, I currently have only one channel I am able to get on broadcast television: ABC. Thank the Gawds for Hulu, as it has helped me catch up to most television, and even keep up with the new stuff this summer:

ABC cancelled all but one of it's new genre shows: Eastwick, Defying Gravity and most recently Flash Forward and Happy Town. If you, like me, never saw the remaining 5 episodes for Defying Gravity, it is available now on DVD. However, V has been picked up to continue it's invasion upon humanity. And, of course, LOST finally found some closure, for better or worse. ABC does have a couple of new shows for us to hope for: The Gates, not your ordinary neighborhood ... unless you are accustomed to living next door to werewolves and vampires. Which leads me to the new fall series, No Ordinary Family ... a title that pretty much sums it all up, except instead of monsters, this mild-mannered family has discovered they now possess super powers following a plane crash during their last vacation. Both sound fairly light-hearted, fun faire ... we'll see if ABC can hang on to them.

CBS ditched a horde of shows of thier own, including Ghost Whisperer, so all that remains is the NBC refugee, Medium, renewed for a seventh season.

NBC is keeping Chuck, thank gawd, but Heroes got the axe and is not coming back for a fifth season (if we are very very lucky, creators and fans will get a chance to wrap up the saga with a movie or mini-series event). Merlin has been passed down to NBC's bastard child, SyFy Channel, and renewed for a 3rd season, but us Hulu fans are still waiting for Season 2. The aftermath of the apocalypse series, Day One, remains in some sort of bizarre state of limbo ... but it doesn't look like we'll even get to see a two-hour movie, much less a series from it (what the hell do you do with a series that has been shot, yet never airs?). However, we are currently getting the new chiller, Persons Unknown, which appears to be my fav new show of the year. Come fall, NBC will premiere two new promising series: The Event, a massive intense conspiracy thriller (hell, the promo gave me chills), and the good cop turned wrongfully accused criminal turned into his son's favorite comic book superhero, The Cape (yeah, I know it looks Dark Knight-ish, but is that really so bad?).