New TV season seems to have a couple of shows coming up that I'm getting interested in. Let me see if I can dig up the titles/networks real quick:
In advance: Thumbs, big toes, and anything else that can point downward to the stupid CAVEMEN show that is coming up on ABC. You couldn't pay me enough money to watch that. I don't even need to see previews of it, as the idea behind it is just stupid. Bad enough to have been fed the stupid commercials for GEICO, but to go beyond that and try to make a TV show out of it is just stupid. I guess the folks at ABC never watched Baby Bob over on CBS (another TV show made from commercial characters).
BIG SHOTS on ABC looks interesting to me. A male answer to Desperate Housewives. I'm interested in watching at least an episode or two. Hopefully it'll be entertaining.
PUSHING DAISIES on ABC looks interesting, but that concept seems so over done. Can you say Six Feet Under? Or how about a few major movies along the way? Or perhaps the show that NBC ran just last season: Raines. This show could be awesome, and looks interesting so far, but is it going to be entertaining for a long haul?!? I'll watch an episode or two of this one before deciding I guess.
DIRTY SEXY MONEY on ABC. Peter Krause is a favorite so watching the show to see him in it. Donald Sutherland can be very good too. I like the concept for it, but wish the show was going to be on HBO or Showtime so it could definitely get good and racy and not have to censor language, nudity, etc.
BACK TO YOU on FOX. I like the two leads (Patricia Heaton, Kelsey Grammer) and would love to see a good sit-com for the new season. Hopefully this one will do it, but FOX has little or no patience for their shows, and has the MLB playoffs in the fall that always screw up the schedules even more.
K-VILLE on FOX. A drama on FOX? That's normally a kiss of death as FOX has absolutely no patience for dramas. It could be gone by the time a few people even think of watching it, but if there's no conflict in schedules, I may try to watch an episode or two.
FOX has already postponed NEW AMSTERDAM until much later in the year. Not a good sign. Probably won't last long at all on FOX, again given that whole lack of patience thing.
CBS has no class. Well, they had the sit-com THE CLASS last year, but only gave it a short order, and then ran it off the schedule just as it seemed to be getting it's legs. For that, I'm still not happy, and my patience with CBS on any new shows they offer may not be high.
Honestly, looking over the CBS schedule, I just don't see anything there that really excites me. A bunch of same old, same old or tired old concepts with some people I might enjoy if they were in different shows (CANE's Jimmy Smits as an example).
NBC brings back HEROES and I'll be very happy to start watching the new season of that when it returns.
There's been a little buzz for the remade BIONIC WOMAN series coming to NBC and I might find myself falling into watching that show.
Before just a few minutes ago I hadn't actually even checked out NBC's fall line-up. Now that I have, I see the show CHUCK coming up on Monday nights in the 8PM time (east coast) slot. I guess it could be fun to watch, but I seem to recall a show called JAKE 2.0 (on the former UPN network) and a host of other shows that might have inspired this one. As usual, TV doing it's best to rip off their own past works.
There's supposed to be a HEROES spin-off. I would expect great things from that, and hope it does well, but I guess that'll all depend on what slot it gets on the schedule.
JOURNEYMAN looks a bit like a Quantum Leap rip-off. Could be interesting, but I expect that NBC will continue to find that the Monday Night at 10PM time slot is death for those shows as long as CBS continues to run CSI: Miami in that slot.
