The new year is usually a time of reflection and resolutions. Instead of reflecting on the past TV season, we make the following wishes for the coming year, some more attainable than others.

My dear sweet Pushing Daisies, you left us far to soon. One might say the strike has caused you to be...pushing daisies! Oh that was clever. Bad puns aside, we're left without new episodes of one of this season's best new offerings. Even though it barely had time to hop off its training wheels, let's take a look at this modern-day fairy tale.

Five new prime-time TV series premiere the week of Monday, Oct. 1 (all times Eastern): ''Aliens in America'' What: A sitcom that mines humor from the miseries of adolescence as well as America's post-9/11 anxiety.