Medium (Friday, 8/7c, CBS)
One of the funniest $.25 on 30 Rock's contempo alive adventure was Jon Hamm's adornment as a guy whose duke displace goes afield (a archetypal horror-movie staple). This week, it's Allison's about-face to comedy it a bit added straight, as she gets a bark affix on her duke and it begins acting up as if the added duke doesn't apperceive what it's doing. The adventure is blue-blooded "Talk to the Hand." Good to apperceive affective to Fridays and a altered arrangement didn't rob the alternation of its faculty of humor.

Supernatural (Friday, 9/8c, The CW)
Speaking of amusement alloyed with horror, attending for the Winchester brothers to get their Twilight snark on as they clue a army of vampires who's been abducting adolescent girls in a baby town. Things get blowzy back citizen carper Dean gets bit and goes all True Blood, bidding grandpa Samuel to accelerate Dean afterwards the vampire that angry him. Dean, accommodated Alpha Vamp.

Sherlock (Sunday, PBS, 9/8c, analysis bounded schedules)
One of the fall's added adorable surprises is this new Masterpiece Mystery! import, a modern-day adjustment of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic. In three 90-minute movies exec produced by Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Jekyll), we accommodated a abreast and active Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) who maintains a "Science of Deduction" website, and a absurd Dr. Watson (Martin Freeman of the aboriginal The Office) who chronicles their bizarre crime-solving exploits in a blog. They're abundant company.

Luther (Sunday, 10/9c, BBC America)
This arresting abomination drama's additional adventure gives you a bigger faculty of the series' methods. The baleful apperception amateur abide amid Detective Luther (Idris Elba) and the alluring psychopath Alice (Ruth Wilson), but Luther charge additionally acquisition time to accouterment addition abominable case, this time involving a abstruse soldier who's targeting anyone in a badge uniform. The astriction builds on all fronts in this excellent, but dark, diversion.