PaleyFest 2010, the Paley Center for Media’s annual television celebration, begins Friday in Beverly Hills, CA. During the fest, the casts and creators of the best shows currently on TV participate in panel discussions, Q & A sessions and meet and greets.

Here’s are all of the shows that will be featured in PaleyFest 2010: “Modern Family” (2/26), “Lost” (2/27), “NCIS” (3/1), “Community” (3/3), “Dexter” (3/4), “Cougar Town” (3/5), “The Vampire Diaries” (3/6), An evening with Seth Macfarlane and friends (3/9), “Breaking Bad” (3/10), “Flashforward” (3/11), “Men of a Certain Age” (3/12), “Glee” (3/13), “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (3/14).

Courteney Cox (“Cougar Town”), Larry David (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”), Ray Romano (“Men Of A Certain Age”), Michael C. Hall (“Dexter”), Chevy Chase (“Community”),and Ed O’Neill (“Modern Family”) will all be in attendance this year.

The festival will take place at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. There are still tickets available to most of the events except for the “Lost” and “Glee”. Individual tickets  from $24 to $75 or you can purchasee the PaleyFest2010 Premium Package which include 2 guaranteed tickets to 4 star-studded PaleyFest2010 panels, premium seating within the Saban Theater for each package event, early admission to the Saban Theater for each package event, exclusive invitation for 2 people to attend 1 private after-party with surprise guests in attendance and a limited edition PaleyFest2010 Premium Package Souvenir lanyard for $750.

You can also follow the Paley Center on Twitter for news and info about the event too!

I have to admit, when a show gets a lot of pre-release hype, I’m a little bit leery. All too often in the past, shows that have gotten a lot of POW!BANG!BOOM! from the networks have turned out to be clunkers in which the network was heavily invested and desperate to see succeed. (Please do not even get me started on Nickelodeon’s campaign with “The Fresh Beat Band.” It won’t be pretty.)

So I approached “Flash Forward” with a hearty amount of skepticism. For weeks, I’d heard “From the people who brought you LOST, a new series that WILL TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY BLOW YOUR ENTIRE MIND APART!!!!” Okay, I’m exaggerating, but this show got a lot of hype, most of it centering around “From the creators of LOST” which are some pretty darn big shoes to fill. (LOSTies, you know what I’m saying here, right?)

Imagine my surprise when I sat down, turned this show on and suddenly, it grabbed my hand, threw me into the passenger seat and said, “Come on! This is going to be one heck of a ride.” AND IT WASN’T LYING. It was fully serious. I was hooked from the moment I saw a battered Joseph Fiennes (Agent Mark Benford) climb out of a flipped over car crying out for “Demetri.”

That ride hasn’t lost any of its thrill in the two episodes since the premiere. I’m just as intrigued about why the world blacked out for 137 seconds as I was in the beginning. I’m just as ready to know what the heck is going on. And I’m going to say something that might have LOST fans ready to send me some hatemail – this show is the answer to my “What will I do when LOST is over” question. Kids, I can’t lie – this show lives up to its hype.

The cast is superb. The plot moves and grooves and sends you unexpected places to ask unexpected questions. It leaves you wanting more, more, more and MORE. While I freely admit I’m a TV junkie, I will also point out that I’m addicted to good television, and this, my friends, most certainly fits the bill. So, please, do yourselves a favor and add this to your Thursday night lineup.