SINGAPORE : Come out and say it — there’s no shame in being a couch potato.

We here at TODAY, for example, spend a significant proportion of our waking hours glued to the boob tube. We bond intimately with our flat-screens, play footsies with the clicker, turn ourselves over now and then so we don’t get bedsores, and occasionally come into the newsroom and muck about so we don’t lose our day jobs.

During the commercial breaks, we put together a guide to TV-watching for the rest of the year, just so you telly fans out there can have a whole lot to look forward to.

We’re talking fast cars and hot girls, intentional karaoke malfunctions, and living vicariously through the adventures of a chubby Latina girl who’s beautiful on the inside; there’s also a guy who wakes up one day to discover that his parents have bartered him away to the devil.

So go on, bust out the microwave popcorn and put aside plenty of money for pizza delivery. Even boy scouts know it’s always best to be prepared.

The information was correct at time of publication, but is subject to change.

Desparate Housewives Seasons 4 & 5

What: Doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo-doo. No, it’s not the X-files theme song, it’s the Desperate Housewives tune.

In Season 4, Susan, Lynette, Bree, Gabrielle and Edie are joined by an old friend, Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany), who brings the simmering neighbourhood to a boil.

After a 12-year absence from Wisteria Lane, Katherine returns with her husband and daughter, ostensibly to take care of her ailing aunt — but private conversations between Katherine and her husband suggest otherwise.

Directly after the finale, Season 5 will pick up five years after the events of ­Season 4.

Don’t deny yourself the guilty pleasure of watching it. After all, if Eva Longoria can toy with temptation, why shouldn’t you?

When: Premieres October 20, Monday, 10pm.

SingTel Grid Girls

What: If you’re going to have a Formula 1 race, you’ve got to be ready for it.

SingTel Grid Girls is a reality show which will see three winners being crowned the Grid Girls. They will gear up at the starting line as flag bearers at September’s Grand Prix. Hosted by Glenn Ong, the show will also feature MediaCorp celebrities including Michelle Chia, Tay Ping Hui, Elvin Ng and Fiona Xie.

Because we all know every hot-rod needs a flag-bearing babe.

When: Premieres August 28, Thursday, 9pm.

Ugly Betty - Season 2

What: Betty is back — braces, eyebrows, orthopaedic shoes and all.

The new challenges that plague everybody’s favourite misfit in an image-obsessed world include contending with diva fashionista Wilhelmina Slater, who hopes to wrest control of Mode magazine by getting herself engaged to head honcho Bradford, and Betty’s uncertain relationship with her technically-off-limits soulmate, Henry. Not to mention the advances of a guy with a very big ... sandwich.

Up for six Emmys this year, ­including Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

When: Premieres August 28, Thursday, 10pm.

Project Runway Season 4

What: Thread, scissors, action! America’s aspiring creators of couture congregate again for a fourth season of trotting their creations out on the runway to be either ripped to shreds or cooed over and coveted by judges Heidi Klum, Michael Kors and Nina Garcia.

This season, guest judges include Sex and the City’s Sarah Jessica Parker, Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli and the infamous Victoria Beckham.

We’re so going to make it work.

When: Premieres August 28, Thursday, 11pm.

The Noose Season 2

What: This just in — the most incompetent news anchors in town are still aiming to bring you the “news” that all other local news sources won’t.

This season will introduce a new studio presenter, B B See (Chua Enlai), alongside the ever-so-popular Adrianna Wow (Michelle Chong). The field reporting strength has also increased by one, with the introduction of Jojo Joget (Suhaimi Yusof). Various guest weather reporters will be lighting up your green screens, while Gurmit Singh is nowhere to be seen. Viewers, you have the right to be misinformed.

When: Premieres September 9, Tuesday, 10pm.

Sense Of Home

What: Sense Of Home is the first local English drama series filmed entirely overseas. It is a collection of four stories about Singaporeans abroad — living, working, travelling ... or simply lost.

Follow, for example, the adventure of Marcus and Caroline, two Singaporeans long-settled in Siem Reap who have an awakening of sorts when they are trapped in a rural Cambodian village after an accident.

The series features popular local faces like Rui En, Fiona Xie, Edmund Chen, Andrea De Cruz and Asian Idol Hady Mirza, acting alongside local actors from each of the foreign countries.

When: Premieres September 14, Sunday, 10pm.

Cashmere Mafia

What: Sex and the City creator Darren Star returns to New York for a new dramedy about four ambitious, sexy, high-flying friends who support one another through the trials and tribulations of work, family, and everything else life in New York City throws at them. Yes, it sounds like Sex and the City but it’s not, okay? Carrie’s not coming back — deal with it.

Cashmere Mafia stars Lucy Liu, Frances O’Connor, Miranda Otto and Bonnie Somerville and won’t be back for a second season, having already been cancelled in the US.

When: Premieres October 8, Sunday, 10.30pm.

Reaper

What: Fancy a dose of diabolism? The Faustian story lives again in Reaper, starring Bret Harrison and Ray Wise.

The comedy drama is about a guy who wonders all his life why his parents are so easy on him and so strict with his younger brother, only to find out on his 21st birthday that his parents have promised his soul to the devil in exchange for his father’s life.

What is it like being a pawn of the devil and doing his dirty work, like going after escaped souls from hell? We’re about to find out.

When: Premieres October 12, Sunday, 10.30pm.

Don't Forget The Lyrics (Local version)

What: It’s a bathroom singer’s dream: A show on which nobody cares how badly you sing, as long as you know the words.

On this game show, Singaporean contestants choose songs from different genres, decades and musical artistes, and are challenged to fill in each song’s missing lyrics.

Part of the fun is hearing voices that sound like a cross between Fran Drescher and a reversing truck.

When: Premieres November 27, Thursday, 8pm.

Private Practice

What: Move over, lawyers and forensic scientists — doctors are in again, and with a vengeance.

Private Practice, a spin-off from Grey’s Anatomy, stars Kate Walsh as Dr Addison Forbes Montgomery, a renowned neonatal surgeon. Deciding she’s had it with McDreamy, McSteamy and the rest of Seattle Grace Hospital, she moves to Santa Monica and sets up a private practice with her old friends, Naomi (Audra McDonald) and Sam (Taye Diggs). Shenanigans ensue. Just what the doctor ordered.

When: Premieres December 15, Monday, 11pm. - TODAY/ra