What’s going to happen when your favorite shows return? SPOILER ALERT!

First, take note of the schedules of the return of your favorite shows here. Have you been counting the days till new episodes return or has this just been me doing this? My phone’s calendar is all marked. It’s set on alarm. I’m almost shy to write that out in the open, but what the heck…I’m a TV addict. It made me feel really sad seeing all those empty drives and DVR spaces. They’ve been quite empty for a long while now. But it won’t be long. TV is back!

And what’s going to happen when theses shows return? What’s there to expect?

Spoilers after the cut…

March 24
CSI: Miami: “You May Now Kill the Bride.” “A wedding murder takes the team to a strip club.”

March 30
Cold Case: “Andy in C Minor.” After a substantial splatter of the blood of a popular deaf teen who went missing in 2006 is discovered in a storage room at the high school for the deaf he attended, the team attempts to find the boy’s body and killer.

April 2
CSI: NY:  “DOA for a Day”: “Working with an anonymous tip, the CSIs travel to an abandoned warehouse and back into the virtual world where they hope to find one of the city’s most-wanted criminals.  (This episode concludes the storyline of "Second Life" in an episode aired last October 2007. 

Criminal Minds: “Damaged”: “When [David] Rossi decides to revisit an unsolved case from his past, the BAU team steps in to help him unravel the circumstances behind the mysterious murder of two young parents nearly 20 years before. Nicholas Brendon [pictured at left in ‘Damaged’] (‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’), Nicholle Tom (‘Burn Notice’) and David Tom (‘Veronica Mars’) guest star.”

April 3
My Name Is Earl: “I Won’t Die With a Little Help from My Friends”: “NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker gives an insightful recap to viewers to catch them up on the show. Earl (Jason Lee) is still lying in the middle of the road next to Billie (Alyssa Milano), both of whom are unconscious after being hit by a car. The accident puts Earl in a coma and takes him to an alternate world in the form of a sitcom. Meanwhile, Randy (Ethan Suplee), Darnell (Eddie Steeples), Joy (Jaime Pressly) and Catalina (Nadine Velazquez) begin doing whatever they can to ensure Earl lives. After several attempts, Earl continues to be stuck in a fevered state and is visited by Paris Hilton in his dream. The group realizes they are all out ideas and turn to their last option, a little boy that can cure everything with his finger. The boy refuses to help because he thinks Joy has the devil on her side, so Darnell and Randy try to prove to him that she does not.”

CSI: “Grissom’s Divine Comedy”: “[Gil] Grissom and his team battle the flu when they are called upon by DDA Klein (Bonnie Bedelia) to investigate the deaths of several key witnesses for a grand jury case against a dangerous Las Vegas gang.”

April 7
Samantha Who? “The Girlfriend”: “Samantha is forced to move back into the apartment when she discovers that she could be evicted for subletting it to Todd - who has just invited his new girlfriend, Chloe (Kiele Sanchez, ‘Lost’), to move in with him. Meanwhile, when Sam fails to show up for a makeover night with her mom, Regina and Dena end up bonding and having a girls’ night at the house.”

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April 10
The Office: “Dinner Party: “Pam (Jenna Fischer) and Jim (John Krasinski) find they have run out of excuses and are forced to go to Jan (Melora Hardin)and Michael’s (Golden Globe winner Steve Carell) house for dinner. When Andy (Ed Helms) and Angela (Angela Kinsey) are also invited to dinner, Dwight’s (Rainn Wilson) jealousy gets the best of him.”

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April 24
Ugly Betty: “24 Candles”: “Ugly Betty’s” first episode back is called “24 Candles,” and it does hark back a bit to the classic John Hughes film “Sixteen Candles.” In the episode, Betty dreams of the perfect birthday party, complete with a horse and carriage and her boyfriend Henry (Christopher Gorham) as her knight in shining armor. But Henry’s very pregnant ex, Charlie (Jayma Mays), turns up and causes trouble, as usual. So Gio (Freddy Rodriguez) steps in and gives Betty a night to remember. As for Wilhemina (Vanessa Williams), the former Mode diva is trying to hide the fact that she’s got Christina (Ashley Jensen) at her house –a Christina who is, thanks to the miracle of science, carrying the dead Bradford Meade’s offspring. Wilhemina’s sister, Renee (Gabrielle Union) is dating Daniel Meade (Eric Mabius), which threatens Willy’s big plans to grab control of the Meade empire.

Grey’s Anatomy: “Where the Wild Things Are”: Meredith is more assertive and grows “very strong” in the first episode back. She’s taking steps to move forward with her life and dealing with the fact that she’s no longer with McDreamy. George and Izzie come to grips with the realization that they’re better off being friends (a realization that most of us came to about a year ago). Kate Walsh will be back in the second of “Grey’s” five post-strike episodes. Her character, Addison Montgomery, is needed at Seattle Grace to perform a special operation. Lauren Stamine, a.k.a. Nurse Plot Device, will still be around when “Grey’s” returns, and Elizabeth Reaser, who plays Dr. Karev’s former patient, Rebecca, will return as well.

Source: The Chicago Tribune - The Watcher, NBC, ABC, CBS