Premiering Tonight 09.09.08

The 2008 Fall Season is upon us and that signals the return of Premiering Tonight. Welcome to Premiering Tonight, highlighting all the new and returning shows premiering on the Fall 2008 schedule.

Premiering tonight on TV is the series premiere of Fringe on Fox, while My Network TV’s Crimetime Tuesday returns with premiere episodes of Street Patrol and Jail. The CW has the series premiere of Privileged while Bravo unveils The Rachel Zoe Project.

Fringe – 8 pm/ET Fox
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When an international flight lands at Boston’s Logan Airport with no signs of life, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) is called in to investigate as part of an inter-agency task force. After her partner, Special Agent John Scott (Mark Valley), is nearly killed during the investigation, a desperate Olivia searches frantically for someone to help, leading her to Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble), our generation’s Einstein. There’s only one catch: he’s been institutionalized for the last 17 years, and the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son Peter (Joshua Jackson) in to help.

When Olivia’s investigation leads to multi-billion dollar corporation Massive Dynamic and its manipulative corporate executive, Nina Sharp (Blair Brown), our unlikely trio, along with Department of Homeland Security Agent Phillip Broyles (Lance Reddick) and FBI Agents Charlie Francis (Kirk Acevedo) and Astrid Farnsworth (Jasika Nicole), will discover that what happened on Flight 627 is only a small piece of a larger, more shocking truth.

Street Patrol – 8 pm/ET My Network TV

Crimetime Tuesday is back with an all new season of Street Patrol. First, a suspect has the NYPD on the cutting edge with a weapon you have to see to believe. Then, find out why one chop shop gives the word “Hybrid” a whole new meaning.

Jail – 9 pm/ET My Network TV

In the Season 2 premiere, jails in Austin and Portland, Oregon, are visited. The officers bring in a man who seems like the model inmate, until something sets him off! And one inmate takes the term “when push comes to shove” to the literal extreme.

Privileged – 9 pm/ET The CW

Twenty-three-year-old Megan Smith has a Yale education, a relentlessly positive attitude and a plan to conquer the world of journalism, despite the fact that she is currently slaving away at a tabloid rag. Megan’s plan is thrown off course when, in one whirlwind day, she gets fired, meets cosmetics mogul Laurel Limoges (Anne Archer) and becomes the live-in tutor for Laurel’s twin teen granddaughters in the heady Palm Beach world of wealth and power. The girls, Rose and Sage, are beautiful, rebellious and less-than-thrilled with their new tutor, but Megan is determined to win them over as she enjoys the perks of her new job – breathtaking private suite, gorgeous convertible and live-in chef Marco.

The Rachel Zoe Project – 11 pm/ET Bravo

Bravo’s passion for fashion (Project Runway, Make Me a Supermodel, Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style) continues with this new real-world show documenting the life of celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe. The series generally tracks the fashionista guiding the style of stars, runway shows and magazine shoots while trying to expand her business. In tonight’s opener, Rachel searches for the quintessential red-carpet gown for actress Joy Bryant. Meanwhile, there are posse problems when Rachel’s associate frowns on a new overly zealous assistant.