Apologies for the delay, as a result my picks will be abbreviated today. Will include brief notes for Saturday as well as Friday though.

Friday Best Bets

Series premiere of A Gifted Man (CBS, 7pm)
Season premiere of Fringe (FOX, 8pm)
Season premiere of Supernatural (CW, 8pm)
Season premiere of Blue Bloods (CBS, 9pm)
Nathan Fillion, Larry Miller, the Jayhawks on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm)

Friday Primetime Grid

Friday Primetime

The Justice League International team travels through the past to save Batman throughout time on a new Batman: The Brave and the Bold (Cartoon Network, 5pm). [Official site for Batman: The Brave and the Bold]

Superboy and Miss Martian go undercover inside Belle Reve Penitentiary on a new Young Justice (Cartoon Network, 5:30pm). [Official site for Young Justice]

Rerun of the series finale of All My Children (SoapNet, 7pm, midnight, 3am).

A brilliant surgeon’s life changes forever when he starts seeing the ghost of his ex-wife in the series premiere of A Gifted Man (CBS, 7pm). Here’s what the press release says: “After the ghost of Michael’s ex-wife visits him from the afterlife and asks him to help continue running her low income clinic, he finds himself rushing back and forth between taking care of his own patients at Holt Neuro and her less fortunate patients at the clinic.” Patrick Wilson stars; rest of the cast includes Jennifer Ehle, Margo Martindale, and Pablo Schreiber. Julie Benz and Bill Irwin guest star. [Official site for A Gifted Man]

Nikita and Michael plot to take down Division and Oversight on the season premiere of Nikita (CW, 7pm).

The team “takes new shape” or something in the season premiere of Fringe (FOX, 8pm).

Castiel takes charge in the season premiere of Supernatural (CW, 8pm).

Robert Forster guest stars in a special “the team remembers 9/11″ season premiere of CSI: NY (CBS, 8pm).

Tony Bennett and Carrie Underwood appear as themselves in the season premiere of Blue Bloods (CBS, 9pm).

“Secrets from their pasts and an unexpected kiss put Audrey, Nathan and Duke on a collision course with their destinies” on a new Haven (SyFy, 9pm and 11pm).

Joel McHale hosts a new episode of The Soup (E!, 9pm, midnight, 2:30am; also on Saturday at 1:30pm and 10pm).

Journalist John Avlon, former Calif. Rep. Jane Harman, filmmaker Michael Moore, musician Tom Morello, and journalist Ron Suskind on a new Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, 9pm, 10pm, midnight).

Friday Late Night

Nathan Fillion (of Castle, Firefly), Larry Miller, the Jayhawks (one of my favorite bands, I’ve seen them in concert quite a few times) on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm). [Official site for The Late Show with David Letterman]

Gerard Butler, Kat Dennings on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:35pm). [Official site for The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson]

Ty Burrell, Little League World Series champions, Cake on a rerun of Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, 11:05pm). [Official site for Jimmy Kimmel Live]

Taylor Lautner, Florence Henderson, Beyonce on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC, 11:35pm). [Official site for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon]

Game, Melanie Pullen, Thievery Corporation on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, 12:35am). [Official site for Last Call with Carson Daly]

Saturday Best Bets

New Doctor Who (BBC America, 8pm, 11pm, 2am)
Season premiere of Saturday Night Live (NBC, check your local listings)

Saturday Primetime Grid

Saturday Primetime

New Doctor Who (BBC America, 8pm, 11pm, 2am).

Saturday Late Night

Alec Baldwin hosts the season premiere of Saturday Night Live (NBC, check your local listings) with musical guest Radiohead.