Does theTVaddict not have what it takes to ‘go pro?’ Check out that smile, John Stamos’ has never looked better. Next stop, the Emmy Red Carpet!

UPDATE: Holy Frak! Where’s the love for my mad paparazzi skills? I risked life and limb admist the real paparazzi for this shot!

Last Monday, theTVaddict played Paparazzi for an afternoon at the NBC UpFronts. Click the link below for some more great photos of 30 ROCK stars Tina Fey and Jane Krakowski. Not surprisingly, Alec Baldwin was missing in action.

Who’d have thought that a project called GOSSIP GIRL would quickly become the least talked about new series on the CW’s fall 2007 slate. While the show, from OC creator Josh Schwartz definitely looks to be a winner — after-all, who doesn’t love glitzy New York socialites and OC levels of melodrama — the real talked about shows were some of the CW’s more offbeat and original offerings.

Namely, ALIENS IN AMERICA. Now I know what you’re thinking — EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS aside, ‘funny’ and the CW are two words that don’t generally go together. Well, if the reaction from the UpFront audience was any indication, the CW may have its first bona-fide comedic hit on its hands (translation: people actually laughed).

ALIENS IN AMERICA tells the story of Justin Tolchuk, a sensitive 16-year-old just trying to make it through the social nightmare that is high school. Realizing that her son needs a friend, Justin’s mom signs the family up for the school’s international student exchange program. Needless to say, if BORAT taught us anything, it’s that America loves its foreigners. Come fall 2007, the next big CW star is going to be a 16-year-old Pakistani Muslin named Raja.

Moving away from comedy comes LIFE IS WILD, a family drama that sounds a touch familiar. When the wife of a heart surgeon veterinarian dies, father Andy Danny drags his entire blended family out of New York city to spend a year living in Everwood Colorado South Africa. Berlanti levels of drama, lush African scenery and adorable lion cubs means we’re willing to give the show a try. As long as the family’s last name doesn’t happen to be ‘Camden.’

Finally, there’s REAPER. And no, the title doesn’t refer to the fact that the hour long comedy/action/drama hybrid just killed off VERONICA MARS. REAPER is exactly what twenty-one year old Sam (Bret Harrison, THE LOOP) discovers he is when Satan shows up at his door and informs him that his parents sold his soul to the devil before he was born. Turns out, it’s payback time and Sam must spend the rest of his life capturing hell’s escapees on earth. One part BUFFY, one part SUPERNATURAL, REAPER looks to be a winner. And no, I’m not just saying that because Satan told me to.

So here’s where you come in dear readers. Let me know what show should be first on my MUST WATCH list upon my return home. Are Pam & Jim going to live happily-ever-after? Did Callie finally discover the truth about Izzie and George? Did she lose it? What exactly was in Fay’s secret love dungeon on UGLY BETTY? Is Sam alive on SUPERNATURAL? And did J.D. ruin Eliot’s love life yet again? Play programmer and let me know what I should be watching first. And please, spare me the spoilers.

UPDATE: Thanks everybody for the great suggestions. Right now I’m stuck at LaGuardia airport awaiting my flight home (sad!). I was hoping to download last night’s episode of THE OFFICE on my iPod, but sadly, iTunes hasn’t posted it yet. Instead I’ll be checking out UGLY BETTY on abc.com. Considering I have four hours until my flight, I have a feeling I’ll get to GREY’S and SUPERNATURAL as well. Really, what did people do before wireless internet?

UPDATE II: Just finished watching Tuesday’s VERONICA MARS. Really great episode punctuated by the fact that there’s only two hours of the series remaining. On a related note, if you’re like me and once in a while need to turn off the TV in order to pick up a good book (yes, it’s true), I highly recommend a real story about one child soldier’s incredible story. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Bean.

*He asks rhetorically

4:03PM: FOX President Peter Liguori has 1 hour to complete his 2007 UpFront. So says Jack Bauer in a pretty funny opening video.

4:06PM: The head of FOX sales is talking about FOX Sports. Uh, this is theTVaddict, not theSPORTSaddict… let’s get to the good stuff.

4:12PM: It only took twelve minutes to mention FOX’s other property MySpace. Holy Corporate Synergy Batman!

4:14PM: Another MySpace message. By the way, did you know theTVaddict is on myspace at myspace.com/thetvaddict

4:18PM: Yeah! Less baseball in the fall on FOX. Again, this isn’t theSPORTSaddict.

4:19PM: You heard it here first. HOUSE has been awarded the prestigious post-superbowl timeslot. A welcome change from last season’s snooze inducing CRIMINAL MINDS.

4:20PM: FOX is promising only good shows this season. Which will no doubt be a change from the previous UpFronts where they promised medicore shows.

4:24PM: Back2You is genuinely funny. Trust me, it takes a lot to make a group of cynical reporters laugh.

4:25PM: Watching clips from Amy Sherman-Palladino’s new project THE RETURN OF JEZEBEL JAMES. Oh how I’ve missed Amy Sherman-Palladino’s blink and you’ll miss dialogue. Trust me GILMORE fans, you’ll love this.

4:30PM: Rashida Jones outside THE OFFICE! Yup, her comedy THE RULES FOR STARTING OVER has officially been picked up. That noise you hear… a sigh of relief from Jim and Pam fans everywhere.

4:33PM: Groan… FOX is highlighting its ‘alternative’ programming (reality TV). Bathroom break for half the room.

4:39PM: LAW & ORDER + HOMICIDE LIFE ON THE STREET – NEW YORK + NEW ORLEANS = FOX’s new drama K-VILLE.

4:45PM: NEW AMSTERDAM brings us yet another New York cop show. What’s the twist you ask…. wait for it…. John Amsterdam is immortal (OMG!). Now he’s using his lifetime (literally) of experience to help others (Double OMG!)… all that and he’s an alcoholic. DRIVE was cancelled why?

4:48PM: NEW AMSTERDAM is produced by Lasse Hallstrom and stars newcomer Coster Waldau.. try saying that three times fast.

4:50PM: The good, CANTERBURY’S LAW brings Julianne Marguilies back to TV. The bad, she’s on Thursday night at 9PM. Does FOX really expect LAW to survive against GREY’S, THE OFFICE, CSI and SUPERNATURAL. I smell another ‘brilliant but cancelled.’

4:52PM: THE SARAH CONNER CHRONICLES. Liguori goes out of his way to make clear that John Conner is not gay. Joking aside, the series looks fantastic. FIREFLY’S Summer Glau kicks some serious butt! May be theTVaddict’s most anticipated premiere.

4:59PM: As promised, one hour exactly. Kudos FOX.

The CW is dead to me. I don’t care how good any of these new shows are. Let the boycott begin.

Added Vance:

I was just about to say that. DEAD TO ME. The CW. The War is ON. (the june 15th thing is over according to Michael Ausiello’s conversation with Ostroff after the presentation at around 12:47pm)

First let me take a moment to go out on a limb and tell you what you don’t want to hear. Ausiello is wrong. Yes, Dawn Ostroff does have until June 15 to make a final FINAL decision on the fate of Mrs. Mars, but the reality is that Michael Ausiello is only keeping a glimmer of hope alive for fans of the show because let’s face it, with GILMORE GIRLS and VERONICA MARS gone — so to are a large group of very dedicated readers.

Don’t get me wrong, Ausiello is fantastic and definitely has the world’s greatest job. But I to attended the CW press conference and heard Dawn Ostroff’s tone. VERONICA MARS is dead, and not just because of low ratings. If the preview clips of the CW’s new series are any indication, the network has developed some fantastic, original and fun new shows that fit the CW brand perfectly. It’s time to give some fresh shows a chance.

VERONICA MARS was given three seasons to make it work — two more seasons than it deserved if we’re looking at the show from a pure ratings point-of-view. The show had a good run and will be remembered as one of those ‘brilliant but cancelled’ shows along side some of theTVaddict’s personal favourites (ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, EVERWOOD, KIDNAPPED and FIREFLY to name a few)

Tune in later today for my thoughts on the CW’s new slate of fantastic looking programs.

TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM BEAUTY AND THE GEEK
9:00-10:00 PM REAPER (New Series)

WEDNESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL
9:00-10:00 PM GOSSIP GIRL (New Series)

THURSDAY
8:00-9:00 PM SMALLVILLE
9:00-10:00 PM SUPERNATURAL

FRIDAY
8:00-10:00 PM FRIDAY NIGHT SMACKDOWN!

SUNDAY
7:00-7:30 PM CW NOW (New Series)
7:30-8:00 PM ONLINE NATION (New Series)
8:00-9:00 PM LIFE IS WILD (New Series)
9:00-10:00 PM AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL
(Encore Presentation)

ONE TREE HILL and PUSSYCAT DOLLS will return midseason.

TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM NEW AMSTERDAM
9:00-10:00 PM HOUSE

WEDNESDAY
8:00-8:30 PM BACK TO YOU
8:30-9:00 PM ’TIL DEATH
9:00-10:00 PM BONES

THURSDAY
8:00-9:00 PM ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5th GRADER?
9:00-10:00 PM KITCHEN NIGHTMARES

FRIDAY
8:00-9:00 PM THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT GREAT AMERICAN
BAND (working title)
9:00-10:00 PM NASHVILLE (working title)

SATURDAY
8:00-8:30 PM COPS
8:30-9:00 PM COPS
9:00-10:00 PM AMERICA’S MOST WANTED
11:00 PM-MIDNIGHT MADtv
MIDNIGHT-12:30 AM TALK SHOW WITH SPIKE FERESTEN

SUNDAY
7:00-8:00 PM THE OT (NFL post-game)
8:00-8:30 PM THE SIMPSONS
8:30-9:00 PM KING OF THE HILL
9:00-9:30 PM FAMILY GUY
9:30-10:00 PM AMERICAN DAD

A few more questions were tossed Ostroff’s way, but the tone of her answers were pretty clear. She loved the show, Rob Thomas and star Kristen Bell. But VERONICA MARS season four simply isn’t going to happen. Let the mourning begin.