Yay – it’s time for the new Spring TV Season! Hooray! Here, in no particular order, are the shows I’m foaming at the mouth for.

Lost – This is a given. Though I personally thought that last season was not the show’s strongest (blasphemy, I know), they did get the ball rolling on a number of fronts, and all of the lingering questions and conspiracy theories that the show leaves you with are just too much fun. In spite of any quibbles, Lost is definitely in line to be one of the greatest serialized dramas in TV history, and I will damn sure be obsessing over every minute this year. In addition to the obvious questions of how Locke ended up in the casket, how the O6 will get back to the Island, and where (or when?) the Island disappeared to, I am still dying to find out how Christian plays into everything, how on Earth Danielle was able to live on the Island for 16 years without ever seeing an Other, and I STILL want a flashback episode for Vincent.

24 – Oh, really, last year sucked? Yeah, thanks for the heads-up on that. Well, for the record, the very beginning and very end of last year were good, it was just the entire middle that was boring and mindless. Well, the mini-movie this fall showed that Jack can still be interesting, and though the change of setting from LA to DC can only do so much, I do think it can help give the show a kick in the tush. They need to remember that what made the show so great in the first place was that the characters were so interesting – the cookie-cutter villains and even good guys just don’t work after a while. Oh, and my conspiracy theory is that Tony Almeida isn’t really a bad-guy – he’s good, just working undercover. I’m really clinging to that, because the whole concept of having him be evil because Michelle died is just so trite.

Big Love – Multiple wives! Shady business dealings! Roman conspiracies! (The kind about the guy named Roman, naturally.) I don’t understand why more people don’t love this show – it’s really well written and well acted, and the whole concept of a a show about a polygamist is just fun.

Flight of the Conchords – I fell in love with this show last year, and picking up the CD has kept New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk rock duo fresh in my music-parody-loving brain. I know the first episode is available to watch online, but part of me wants to wait to see it on the big screen.

Dollhouse – My original goal was to finish Buffy, Angel, and Firefly before Whedon’s latest kicks off. that might not happen, but now that I’m a Joss convert, I’ll definitely be checking in to see Eliza Dushku’s latest role. The rumors of problems on set and with the writing don’t really faze me, as often times those things are exaggerated, and whenever there are high expectations you’re bound to have some people crying foul. But I’ll give it a shot, to watch a Whedon show “live” – just a decade after everyone else started doing it!

Scrubs – And last but not least – Scrubs is back! Tonight! On ABC! I’m going nuts with exclamation points! I am so stoked to be getting more of this show, which I have loved for many years now. Very rarely can one show – a sitcom, no less – be so funny and have so much heart. It’s not an easy line to walk, but Scrubs does it time and again. Part of me hopes that the show ends after this year when Zach Braff leaves, and part of me would love to see it go on forever with a rotating cast, but that just reeks of Saved by the Bell: The New Class to me. Once the core group goes, especially if it’s en masse, it’s just harder to care beyond that point. But I won’t worry about that now, and I’ll just be happy for new Scrubs starting tonight!