When we were tasked to pick our 10 best and worst shows of 2012, we realized that in this TV landscape there was absolutely no way we could only pick five for our best of the year. So, Celebuzz went bigger and went for 20.

In the age of DVRs and delayed viewing, people are watching more TV than ever. But, this year there were a handful of these shows that became appointment television. Case in point, Showtime’s Homeland. Missing a Sunday night episode of the Emmy-winning drama’s second season had fans avoiding their Twitters and Faceboooks and even their friends the next morning, so they wouldn’t be spoiled.

Same goes for AMC’s The Walking Dead and ABC’s Scandal. Making it through a week without having watched the most recent episode was a hard feat to manage. Not all of our favorites were shocking dramas, though. We also couldn’t stop laughing at ABC’s hilarious cast of the under-appreciated Happy Endings and we were more than excited that Mindy Kaling was coming to TV in her very own show, The Mindy Project.

Of course, not all shows on the small screen had us addicted to the tube or laughing so hard we cried. Some of the broadcast network’s freshman comedies fell flat this year despite being picked up for full seasons.

ABC’s The Neighbors, about a family, which moves into a community of aliens was particularly light on the laughs. We also could have done without NBC’s Guys With Kids.

For our list of Best and Worst TV Shows of 2012, launch the gallery above.

What were your favorite and least favorite shows of the year?

FOX’s The X Factor has pushed up its the kickoff of its live shows. Originally slated to bow on Thursday night, the quick World Series sweep by the San Francisco Giants has brought the show back to its original Wednesday-Thursday schedule. The Top 16 acts will perform live on a special two-hour episode. Wedenesday’s first live show will feature the debut of hosts Khloé Kardashian Odom and Mario Lopez alongside judges Simon Cowell, Demi Lovato, Britney Spears and L.A. Reid. The top finalists will be revealed on Thursday at 8 PM. [FOX]

ABC has given full season orders to freshman comedy The Neighbors and sophomore drama Scandal. Though The Neighbors was universally panned by TV critics, the show about a couple (played by Jami Gertz and Lennie Venito) who live in a community full of aliens has performed decently in the ratings. Meanwhile the Shonda Rhimes-produced Scandal has held its ratings steady on Thursday nights. [THR]

Sports ruled the night in the ratings Sunday. FOX won the night overall with an average of 17.3 million viewers possibly due to runover from an afternoon NFL game. Game 4 of the World Series, which saw the San Francisco Giants sweep the Detroit Tigers, trailed NBC’s Sunday Night Football from 8 to 11 PM. ABC and CBS’ Sunday night line ups remained steady in the ratings compared to last week. [Zap2it]

British Girl Group The Saturdays are getting their own show on the E! network. The group, made up of Mollie King, Frankie Sanford, Vanessa White, Una Healy and Rochelle Humes, have had 11 Top 10 singles in the UK. Their show, Chasing The Saturdays, will follow the ladies as they take on life in Hollywood and record their new album. Chasing The Saturdays will premiere on Jan. 20 at 10 PM on E! [E!]

FOX’s midseason thriller The Following has just added Common Law’s Warren Kole in a recurring role. The actor will play Roderick, an important follower of serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy). Roderick does many tasks for his recently escaped master. The show also stars Kevin Bacon as FBI agent Ryan Hardy. The Following premieres Monday, Jan. 21 at 9 PM. [TVLine]

Chloe Sevigny, who can currently be seen on FX’s American Horror Story, is set to star in new A&E pilot, Those Who Kill. Adapted from a Danish crime series based upon book by Elsebeth Egholm, the show focuses on a police detective and forensic profiler who have a keen understanding of the serial killers they go after. Sevigny will play detective Catherine Jensen in the Boston Police Department’s Homicide Division. [Deadline]

Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy have both been renewed through 2016. The renewal brings the popular game shows into their 33rd and 32nd seasons respectively. In addition, hosts Pat Sajak, Vanna White and Alex Trebek have all renewed their contracts. Wheel of Fortune is currently the No. 1 game show on broadcast television while Jeopardy is No. 2. [TV Guide]

Actor Mark Deklin is replacing Switched at Birth’s Chris Wiehl in an upcoming episode of ABC’s Castle. The episode, which is currently in production and includes guest spots from Nancy Lee Grahn, Jack Wagner and Brendan Ford, is title “Significant Others.” There is no word on why Wiehl stepped down. [TVLine]

AMC’s Hell on Wheels has been renewed for Season 3. The show recently finished its second season with an average of 2.4 million viewers. Though the ratings were down from Season 1, its though this could be due to AMC’s dispute with the Dish network. The third season order is for 10 episodes. [Deadline]

Former Community Showrunner Dan Harmon has got a new gig. Adult Swim has picked up a new animated series from Harmon titled Rick and Morty. The show is set to debut in late 2013. Ten half-hour episodes have been ordered. [TVLine]

NBC’s Up All Night is changing format. The Thursday night comedy starring Will Arnett, Christina Appelgate and Maya Rudolph is moving from a single-camera to a multi-camera format for five new episodes.  The last episode to be shot in single-camera will be Episode 11 which will be completed next week. Production will shut down for three months to make the change with new shows beginning to tape in February. Episodes will debut on NBC in April or May of 2013. [Deadline]

Glee‘s Grant Gustin is headed to West Beverly High on The CW’s 90210. The actor, who plays Dalton Warbler Sebastian Smythe on Glee, will appear on several episodes of 90210 this season. His character, Campbell is described as a wealthy, good looking college student from a privileged background. Gustin previously co-starred with 90210 actress Jessica Lowndes in the Lifetime TV movie, A Mother’s Nightmare. No details are provided as to when he’ll appear on the show. [THR]

This is Halloween, this is Halloween, Halloween, Halloween …

Cue Jack Skellington from The Nightmare before Christmas, because Halloween programming has hit the small screen.

It’s that time of year where your favorite characters on TV don their best and scariest costumes. For example, ABC Family takes you back to your childhood with classic Halloween movies every night for “13 Nights of Halloween.”

Halloween programming started early this year as FOX ran the annual Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors two weeks early (due to baseball) and the Pretty Little Liars took us on a scary ride on ABC Family.

Perhaps, the most anticipated Halloween special this year is NBC’s Mockingbird Lane. The Bryan Fuller-produced Munsters reboot pilot, which cost a reported $10 million dollars wasn’t picked up for series, and is know being used as a Halloween special.

Of all the networks, NBC is probably getting into the spirit the most for the holiday with almost all of their comedies (sans 30 Rock) scaring up laughs and spooks this Thursday and next Tuesday.

But that’s not all we also have FOX’s Tuesday comedy block getting in the spirit with Halloween episodes of Raising Hope, Ben & Kate, New Girl, and The Mindy Project.

Meanwhile, ABC is bringing us the quintessential special, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, among other show’s Halloween-themed episodes, such as Modern Family and 666 Park Avenue.

Click through our gallery to see which shows are going Halloween and when they air.

Which show will you be watching? Let us know in the comments below!

Fall 2012 sees two new half-hour comedies coming to ABC. The Neighbors focuses on observational humor to show the differences between families — one human and one alien — in a suburban gated community. Malibu Country, on the other hand, is a more traditional sitcom centering on Reba McEntire as a woman who moves her family out to California, making them fishes out of water.

Though airing on different nights, both are family comedies featuring multiple generations of characters in order to bring in wider demographics. And both see the returns of sitcom veterans and strong female actors in Jami Gertz and McEntire.

To celebrate these new shows, ABC brought select cast members and executive producers of the series to the Paley Center for Media’s Fall TV Preview panel in Beverly Hills on Tuesday.

Read on to see what each show is about and what Celebuzz thought was the best series scoop revealed.

“I was ready to return the day the Reba show got canceled. I absolutely love television. I love the format; I love the rehearsal schedule; I love getting to be on stage with talented people who write for us and who you get to act with. I absolutely love this format, and I’m having such a great time with it,” McEntire addressed the audience about her new series.

On Malibu Country, McEntire doesn’t stand by her (cheating) man and instead takes her two teenage kids and her pot-lollipop-sucking mom (Lily Tomlin) across the country from Nashville to Malibu, where they all have to adjust to the differences in mind sets and ways of life. With a kooky, antagonistic neighbor (Sara Rue), Malibu Country certainly has shades of Reba, and considering it comes from Kevin Abbott, who has worked with McEntire for years, it’s not unintentional.

“I’ve been in the business for a while, and she is my favorite performer, star; she is just the best person to work with ever. I’m sorry, she just is. Even if I hated the concept [of the show]. I would have signed on for it because it really kind of mirrored Reba’s experiences, and I’d heard her tell these tales over the years, and I thought, ‘There’s a lot of material to work with’,” Abbott said.

Having only shot the pilot so far, Abbott went on to note that to fit the theme of the panel, Malibu Country, when you strip it down, does deal with “a totally alien culture.”

“I want to make sure that adults are also intrigued by the stories that we’re telling. I want them to be engaged; I want them to be a part of the experience,” Abbott, who admitted he “does not like the branding of TGIF,” plans to mimic the Roseanne style of “honest” storytelling.

“When I had two and three-year-old daughters, it was nice to be able to have a show they could watch, but that is not the show we’re doing. I’ve got Lily Tomlin; she’s stoned right now!”

The alien in Malibu Country, though? The entire panel agreed it would be Rue’s Kim. But Rue, herself, did want to add that she sees the character as grounded in her own way.

“I think of her more as lonely. She doesn’t have a job; she doesn’t really have a lot friends, so when Reba moves next door, it’s kind of the highest society thing to happen to her in a while. She just wants to be a part of it so bad. Keep in mind, I did watch a lot of The Real Housewives of Orange County for this character, in order to prepare for it [though],” she laughed.

The Neighbors, on the other hand, takes the “alien” part of its story extremely literally, despite starting from a very real, very simple place.

“My mom lived in a condo development in New Jersey… where the next door neighbor’s house was so close you could read out the bathroom window and touch your neighbors, but she never really talked to them… So I started thinking about who are these people my mom is living between?” Series creator Dan Fogelman explained.

The aliens in The Neighbors right now are teases — seeing pieces of them here and there and simple effects like green CGI slime for their ear-tears — but as the series goes on Fogelman is playing with animation to get more involved in the world and the rules of the aliens.

For any potential audience members who may have a hard time wrapping their head around aliens on primetime television in 2012, Gertz compared the essential differences between the families as simply being people who “don’t know our ways.”

“I look at it as they’re from another country, and they don’t know our ways; they don’t know how we do things as Americans. We feel we have fresh meat. These are neighbors we can mold and create into perfect neighbors, and it’s fabulous!”

Gertz shares this view with her on-screen persona Debbie Weaver, who actually says having such blank slates to teach “makes me feel like Oprah.”

As The Neighbors develops over the season, though, the Weavers will be taught the same amount — if not more — than they hope to teach. In a particularly memorable episode, Fogelman shared, the show will explore the differences between human and alien intimacy. And the title of that episode? Perfect for the times: “50 Shades of Green.”

The Neighbors premieres on ABC on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 9:30 PM, while Malibu Country premieres on ABC on Friday, Nov. 2 at 8:30 PM.

Do either of these shows intrigue you enough to tune into the premiere? Let us know which and why in the comments below!

– Danielle Turchiano