CASTLE – When the new season of “Castle” begins, Beckett hasn’t heard from Castle since he left for the Hamptons months ago to finish writing his second Nikki Heat novel, “Naked Heat” (on sale September 28). The most Beckett, Ryan and Esposito have seen of Castle is a bookstore standee of him advertising an upcoming book signing. So when Beckett and her team burst into a shadowy apartment on the trail of a murderer, the last thing they expect to see is the real-life Castle standing over a dead woman’s body holding a gun! As Castle protests his innocence, Beckett has no choice but to arrest him on suspicion of murder, on the Season Three premiere of “Castle,” MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.

BROTHERS & SISTERS – “The Homecoming” – It’s been a year since the Walker family was torn apart by a tragic car accident, and in a very un-Walker like fashion, everyone has been avoiding everyone else. Truths and reality only start to set in when the family is forced to come together for Justin’s homecoming party: Nora tries to prepare for the party, but is not acting like the mother she used to be; Sarah is consumed with the Narrow Lake deal; Kevin has a new career as public defense attorney; Saul and Scotty are running their restaurant; and Kitty’s life has become a taboo subject for everyone. Time has changed the Walkers, on the fifth-season premiere of “Brothers & Sisters,” SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

First up, the news we have been teased with all summer, but pretty much figured out. Ausiello broke the news that Owen and Christina are marrying in the season premier of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Shocking I know . . . yes I know you figured it out by now.

The ever fabulous Frances Conroy is checking in as a patient on “Grey’s Anatomy” according to TV Guide

Debra Monk will appear in a recurring role on “Brothers and Sisters” this season as a nemesis of sorts for Nora. Nora begins hosting a radio show about moms. Source: Playbill

Stephen Collin’s character on “Brothers and Sisters” is named Charlie. He’ll be Saul’s new boyfriend on the show.

Reggie Austin is going to play new housewife Vanessa William’s husband on the show. Vanessa also makes moves on Brian Austin Green, who is playing a handyman Bree has her eye on.

Here is the new promo for the new season of housewives. No spoilers revealed, but it is funny!

When the show returns, it will be a year after the crash. Much is different. Robert is dead. Older brother Tommy has once again been written off the show. Rebecca will only appear in a handful of episodes early on to explain her departure from the show as well. Kevin and Scotty will end up with older foster kids when surrogacy didn’t work out.

ABC announced the following Fall premiere dates for the 2010-2011 season today. All times listed are ET.

Premiere dates for Fall series “Body of Proof” and “Secret Millionaire” will be announced at a later time. As previously announced, Saturday Night Football premieres Saturday, September 4 at 8:00 p.m. ET.

Monday, September 20
8:00-10:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars”
10:00-11:00 p.m. “Castle”

Tuesday, September 21
8:00-10:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars” (special performance show night and time)
10:00-11:00 p.m. “Detroit 1-8-7″

Wednesday, September 22
8:00-8:30 p.m. “The Middle”
8:30-9:00 p.m. “Better With You” (formerly titled “Better Together”)
9:00-9:30 p.m. “Modern Family”
9:30-10:00 p.m. “Cougar Town”
10:00-11:00 p.m. “The Whole Truth”

Thursday, September 23
8:00-9:00 p.m. “My Generation”
9:00-10:00 p.m. “Grey’s Anatomy”
10:00-11:00 p.m. “Private Practice”

Friday, September 24
10:00 p.m. 20/20

Sunday, September 26
7:00-8:00 p.m. “America’s Funniest Home Videos”
8:00-9:00 p.m. “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”
9:00-10:00 p.m. “Desperate Housewives”
10:00-11:00 p.m. “Brothers & Sisters”

Tuesday, September 28
8:00-9:00 p.m. “No Ordinary Family”
9:00-10:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars The Results Show”

By now most everyone has head that Emily VanCamp (Rebecca) is departing “Brothers and Sisters.” She will appear in a few episodes, then head out somehow. We still don’t know. Emily gave an interview on it here.

Jill Biden, the VP’s wife, will appear on the August 15th episode of “Army Wives.” She is playing herself in the episode, that’s all we know at this point.

TV Guide is reporting that we’ll see Harriet Sansom Harris return as Felicia Tilman on “Desperate Housewives. She’s the woman who got Paul Young sent to jail for killing her sister. She’s back to explain why Paul is now OUT of jail!

Ausiello is reporting that Miguel #3 from “Passions” is joining “90210.” Blair Redford joined the show and was Miguel after he escaped hell (and went to DirecTV). He’ll be playing Oscar, a British character who moves in with Ivy and her mother.

Finally news broke awhile ago that “Weeds” will be a major character short this season. There will be no drunken Cecelia! Can the show survive another major character loss? We never got Conrad or Heylia back after season 2 (3?).

Throughout the episode Kitty realized someone close to her was leaking info to ultra-right wing groups trying to bring her down. She never found out who (unless I missed this).

Saul realized he needed to be tested for HIV, as one (or more) of his former lovers recently died of it. He figured he lived this long, he must have been okay.

Rebecca and Justin agreed on a separation, but a work induced one. She will take her new job and he’ll go to Haiti for the year.

Nora paid for more tests and drilling at Narrow Lake only to discover an aquifer, a natural source of water that California was in great need of and would pay much for. They were now in the water business, Ojai is saved!

In the final moments, everyone was in various cars coming from various places when tragedy struck on the highway. Robert and Kitty’s car was the first to be hit by an out of control tractor trailer, which took out many other cars.

A lot of people were left in the balance as the show ended . . . .

-Robert it appears is dead from the accident. The actor is off the show, so it’s possible this is how he’s gone (earlier reports indicated Rob Lowe asked not to be killed off though).
- Saul was injured and warned Kevin not to touch him, it looks like he has HIV or possibly full blown AIDS, we don’t know.
- Holly was unconscious and in bad condition, with Justin rushing to try and save her.

Word is next season will pick up almost a year later. This would make sense, allowing Ojai to recoup (but not having to watch that) and whizzing through Justin and Rebecca’s separation (maybe advancing Justin to a doctor already). We’d also see Scotty’s restaurant up and running, but where would Saul be? Kitty could be in office, with Kevin possibly working for her?

It’s gunna be a looooong wait to find out how this works out. “Brothers and Sisters” tends to be good at these cliff hanger finales though. They’ve done this before!

By the end of the show Nora and Sarah got some old blue prints from Roger the architect, who William hired to design Ojai’s company building. Roger is not back in Nora’s life, he’s dating a younger woman now. Nora is still single it seems. Can’t they get her a good man? Maybe next season! Anyway, they learned William planned to build Nora a house at Narrow Lake, and Nora realized how much William really did love her.

The only other development was that Robert got caught by the guy he was trying to investigate, the guy playing dirty politics. He was told forget everything he knew, or the guy would make sure Kitty never got elected.

The only really interesting part of the show were the previews for the finale. It seems someone is going to die, maybe several someones. There seems to be a car crash coming, which Rebecca and Justin were either there for or arrived on the scene for. Who is the goner? I swear if they kill off Scotty Imma gunna be pissed! I fear it could be Saul or Holly’s hubby to be (Rebecca’s father).

I have to say I’ve actually liked having Tommy back. I actually hope they don’t kill him, and that they keep him around more next year. He seems different, not as much of the ass he was.

Anyways, I can’t wait till next Sunday. I want to see who is out, and how the reported time jump the show is doing affects things. It seems they are going a year into the future only.

Cooper suddenly had a lot of problems with Luc. He acted out through the whole episode, with Sarah trying to make excuses for her son while both Nora and Luc felt this was an issue that had to be dealt with. Cooper kept acting out against Luc and being disrespectful. Sarah herself also began having issues, thinking they had all lived in a fantasy world of “what if” and now it was a reality of “what can be.” She worried she and Luc might not make it. Luc tried to calm her down, telling her to not worry. In the end of course everything worked out, and Luc found a way to connect to Cooper through karate training.

I was NOT a fan of this storyline. Cooper was a snot, and I felt his attitude with Luc came out of nowhere and was just a plot device for this episode. Both Cooper and Paige had gotten over their initial shock about Luc and had no issues with him until this episode. Sarah annoyed me because she kept making excuses, and Nora also actually annoyed me by trying to blame the videogames Cooper kept playing.

Robert was asked by Dr. Anspa (the actor will always just register as Dr. Anspa from ER to me) to investigate this guy who they suspected of buying various war/building contracts from politicians. Robert entered a tennis tournament to get closer to the guy, and was spotted by Kevin, who began to worry as he knew this guy was dirty and bad news.

The best part of this episode was Kevrah! The name Kevin and Sarah gave themselves when they played in tennis double tournaments years ago. Apparently they were the hot %@%, or at least thought they were! They also got into fights with other players and temporarily banned from the local country club. It was hysterical watching everyone in the family react when they heard Kevrah! was back in action.

Saul and Scotty plan to go in on a restaurant together, with Saul bringing financing and business experience with him. Kevin meanwhile realized he had to find something to do which inspires him as well.

Rebecca continued house hunting, even making an offer on a house Justin hadn’t even seen. Following Holly’s advice she did this, because it was refundable and just to get their name in the game. Still, I thought it was fairly ballsy of her! Meanwhile Justin kept grappling with his own issues. In the end he told Rebecca he didn’t think he wanted to be a doctor anymore, he didn’t feel like part of a team. He was remembering how being in the army felt. Both Nora and Rebecca were stunned, Nora point blank told him she didn’t want him going back there after what happened the last time. Justin told Rebecca even though he was thinking about it a lot, it didn’t mean he would do it, but right now she was the only one true thing in his life.

HATED this story. HATED it! They got us all hoping Justin would be a doctor, tortured us with him almost failing, and now he just wants to quit? Part of me thinks he should, cause he clearly has learned nothing where he goes to school. He acted like a doctor wasn’t part of a team, which if he’d watch “Grey’s Anatomy” he’d know is just crap. I also seem to recall during the first season he was considering going AWAL rather than be sent back. Now suddenly it’s what he was meant to do? HATED this story!

That show is “Brothers and Sisters!” So what do you think? Will it work? I think given the way things are going, with Kitty wanting to be in office, Robert out the door, and Kevin and Scotty wanting a kid . . . it could happen. They could also fast forward Rebecca and Justin, who have at this point gotten stale and boring.

Your thoughts? A good idea, or a very very bad one?

Sarah worried throughout the whole show that she was pregnant, but in the end she wasn’t. Luc thought it would have been great, but she disagreed especially with him going away the next day. However he didn’t, and was saved with a Green Card at the last minute. While we knew Luc was going to stay, or not be gone forever, I felt this end was a bit rushed. It was just so last minute “surprise you’re saved!” I just didn’t feel satisfied I guess.

Nora and Saul’s mom Ida made a return, and she was not doing well. She was losing her memory, showing signs of either dementia or Alzheimer’s. Nora, always the problem solver, wanted her to live with her. Ida was against this from the start, and was at times mean and nasty to Nora. Nora fretted as to how she never had a good or close relationship with her mom. However in a moment where she thought she was with a friend, she confessed how Nora was a great mom, had great kids, and she did not want to be a burden to her. In the end, Ida seemed to head off to a home she herself found. Sadly Saul never came out to his mom, it’s a secret he’d been keeping from her his whole life and he didn’t tell her in this episode either.

The end of the show set up some stories that could lead to the death of some of our beloved Walkers in the upcoming season finale. Justin, moved over the death of one of his friends in Iraq, began to think perhaps he should go back to the war as a medic. Okay what what what !?!? First, wasn’t he discharged? Second, couldn’t he just finish medical school and go as part of doctor’s without borders or something? To see Justin just want to ditch school and return to the army irked me, as we’ve become so invested in him not flunking out of school all season long!

We meanwhile learned that Robert didn’t get his job because his heart wasn’t good enough, but because someone else in the government with their own plans for him put the 86 on the other job. We don’t know what it the original was aside from being in DC. The other job has to do with serving the country in some way, which Robert accepted. What is he going to be doing? Returning to duty as a general perhaps or something? He can’t be a spy, as he’s too well known!

There was no word on Narrow Lake in this episode, but Season Finale spoilers give the major hint that it is a spring of some sorts. So it looks like it is some kind of bottle water plan after all. Really? With the amount of bottled waters already out there this is what is going to save them? I’m hoping there is something bigger here honestly.