Yep, me too.

Dirty Sexy Money, in particular. Although I really did not like the idiocy of season 2, the first season was breathtakingly good.

All the other shows you mention I also enjoyed.

I hope that does not mean that interesting, complicated characters are completely OUT.

They pushed the show in the direction of making it more "soapy" so gone was Patrick Darling's humanity and fatherliness towards Nick. They were sacrificing character for story. Krause said he was happy with the switch, but I can't see how. I think they got new showrunners or something.

In other good news, if you've been hating "Heroes" lately, the original showrunner, Bryan Fuller, who went to the now cancelled "Pushing Daisies" may be returning. Apparently he was responsible for "Company Man" which everyone agrees was an awesome episode.

Story

Link no work, but somewhere i read (and I can't find that link either) an interview with Fuller and he said he was definitely back and that his concern was returning to the relationships among the characters.

weird the link just stopped working.

Anyway, what I found interesting is that they already fired Jesse Alexander and Jeph Loeb. They were co-executive producers and writers. I bet they thought they'd be with this gig forever.

Yeah, it's pretty definite that he's coming back, which is good news.