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What am I missing this fall?
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John Crichton
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New Shows:
Lost: Looks awesome. JJ Abrams is great.
Father of the Pride: I don't know if I'll keep watching it but the second ep was pretty funny. And it comes on right before Scrubs so I'll give it a shot.
Joey: The premiere did not suck.
Returning/Continuing Shows:
Alias: Consistantly one of the best hour-longs on the air.
Apprentice 2: The Donald is too damn interesting.
Dream Job 2: A reality show that doesn't make me feel dirty watching it.
Rescue Me: Fun show that is suprisingly moving and funny at different times.
Scrubs: The best 1/2 hour on TV right now.
Smallville: Pivotal 4th season. Can't wait. One of the few genre shows worth watching.
Star Trek: Enterprise: Last season ended with a bang. I hope they can follow up.
Survivor: Vanuatu: The king of reality TV keeps me coming back every year and I feel dirtier every time...
And let's not forget Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars next month!
All in all, this is a fairly weak year for TV, IMO. We seemed to have lost 1-2 good shows/year for the last 4 years or so - and yes this includes shows that never got off the ground. The impact is finally being felt as last year many of my old standbys (and I assume other's as well) said goodbye. This included but was not limited to: Angel, Friends (always good for a consistant laugh) and Frazier. These shows were all heavy-hitters to me. And even if I didn't watch the latter 2 every week, they were still there as fallbacks.
My saving grace shows: Alias (when it finally returns) & Scrubs. I can always count on them to be good and they never fail to entertain. Survivor comes in on this list as well but it is really a guilty pleasure.
The silver-lining: It can't get much worse from here on out. This year is spartan but I believe there are better things to come in the following seasons. Joss Whedon will most likely have another show on the air within 5 years and the superhero genre is still very hot and I'm sure will produce another winner before interest starts to flag.
The sci-fi genre is poised for a comeback after many years of drought. Just to think as recently as 6 years ago we had DS9, Buffy, Angel, Farscape, Babylon 5, Firefly, Voyager, Dark Angel, Lexx, X-Files, Futurama, Earth: Final Conflict, Roswell, Sliders, MST3K, Milennium & Andromeda all on the air overlapping very close to each other. Now, I didn't exactly like all those shows but at least there were options.
Now, all there is for sci-fi is Trek, Stargate & Andromeda. Slim pickings if you ask me. Sci-fi TV may take a few years but I believe a comeback is in the cards.
Uh, not that you asked.
Lost: Looks awesome. JJ Abrams is great.
Father of the Pride: I don't know if I'll keep watching it but the second ep was pretty funny. And it comes on right before Scrubs so I'll give it a shot.
Joey: The premiere did not suck.
Returning/Continuing Shows:
Alias: Consistantly one of the best hour-longs on the air.
Apprentice 2: The Donald is too damn interesting.
Dream Job 2: A reality show that doesn't make me feel dirty watching it.
Rescue Me: Fun show that is suprisingly moving and funny at different times.
Scrubs: The best 1/2 hour on TV right now.
Smallville: Pivotal 4th season. Can't wait. One of the few genre shows worth watching.
Star Trek: Enterprise: Last season ended with a bang. I hope they can follow up.
Survivor: Vanuatu: The king of reality TV keeps me coming back every year and I feel dirtier every time...
And let's not forget Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars next month!
All in all, this is a fairly weak year for TV, IMO. We seemed to have lost 1-2 good shows/year for the last 4 years or so - and yes this includes shows that never got off the ground. The impact is finally being felt as last year many of my old standbys (and I assume other's as well) said goodbye. This included but was not limited to: Angel, Friends (always good for a consistant laugh) and Frazier. These shows were all heavy-hitters to me. And even if I didn't watch the latter 2 every week, they were still there as fallbacks.
My saving grace shows: Alias (when it finally returns) & Scrubs. I can always count on them to be good and they never fail to entertain. Survivor comes in on this list as well but it is really a guilty pleasure.
The silver-lining: It can't get much worse from here on out. This year is spartan but I believe there are better things to come in the following seasons. Joss Whedon will most likely have another show on the air within 5 years and the superhero genre is still very hot and I'm sure will produce another winner before interest starts to flag.
The sci-fi genre is poised for a comeback after many years of drought. Just to think as recently as 6 years ago we had DS9, Buffy, Angel, Farscape, Babylon 5, Firefly, Voyager, Dark Angel, Lexx, X-Files, Futurama, Earth: Final Conflict, Roswell, Sliders, MST3K, Milennium & Andromeda all on the air overlapping very close to each other. Now, I didn't exactly like all those shows but at least there were options.
Now, all there is for sci-fi is Trek, Stargate & Andromeda. Slim pickings if you ask me. Sci-fi TV may take a few years but I believe a comeback is in the cards.
Uh, not that you asked.
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BastionPress_Creech
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Since I don't have cable, my options are limited. But here's what I plan on watching:
Monday Night Football - Thank you, God that football season is here. Some of the best games last season were Monday night. I lost count of the number that literally went to the wire to determine the winner. Plus, watching the Packers game last year when Favre lost his dad was one of those I will never forget. It was history in the making the way he played and I don't like the Packers as a rule.
Survivor - The only reality show that I've ever cared for. All others are a cheap copy (except for the original two seasons of The Mole when it aired - the one with Anderson Cooper, not the celebrity crap that followed it). Each season of Survivor always has some sort of new twist that makes it entertaining and seems to up the ante with the players. I'm looking forward to tomorrow night to meet the contestants and see how it shakes out.
C.S.I. (all incarnations) - I'm a sucker for these although I don't watch CSI: Miami when it is up against Monday Night Football unless the game is lopsided and boring.
Stuff I am trying but am not impressed so far:
Medicial Investigations - CSI but more fast paced. I've always liked the lead character as an actor, but I'm not sure this one is going to last.
Father of the Pride - Yawn. It has its moments but I just don't find it as fun as Shrek or other DreamWorks projects.
LAX - My wife likes it, but I wasn't all that impressed. Heather Locklear and Blair Underwood are both good actors but the writing of the premiere episode just didn't click with me. I'll check it out for a few more weeks, maybe.
Monday Night Football - Thank you, God that football season is here. Some of the best games last season were Monday night. I lost count of the number that literally went to the wire to determine the winner. Plus, watching the Packers game last year when Favre lost his dad was one of those I will never forget. It was history in the making the way he played and I don't like the Packers as a rule.
Survivor - The only reality show that I've ever cared for. All others are a cheap copy (except for the original two seasons of The Mole when it aired - the one with Anderson Cooper, not the celebrity crap that followed it). Each season of Survivor always has some sort of new twist that makes it entertaining and seems to up the ante with the players. I'm looking forward to tomorrow night to meet the contestants and see how it shakes out.
C.S.I. (all incarnations) - I'm a sucker for these although I don't watch CSI: Miami when it is up against Monday Night Football unless the game is lopsided and boring.
Stuff I am trying but am not impressed so far:
Medicial Investigations - CSI but more fast paced. I've always liked the lead character as an actor, but I'm not sure this one is going to last.
Father of the Pride - Yawn. It has its moments but I just don't find it as fun as Shrek or other DreamWorks projects.
LAX - My wife likes it, but I wasn't all that impressed. Heather Locklear and Blair Underwood are both good actors but the writing of the premiere episode just didn't click with me. I'll check it out for a few more weeks, maybe.
DM_Jeff
Explorer
Two Hours A Week
My wife and I are giving one last chance to "Enterprise". I guess we're more forgiving than many of our friends.
And because we've enjoyed it up until now, "24". But apparently 80% of the original crew will be missing, so don't know how that'll go either.
Otherwise all our "shows" are on DVD. I'm not even sure why we subscribe to cable.
Oh, yeah, the kids like cartoon network.
-DM Jeff
My wife and I are giving one last chance to "Enterprise". I guess we're more forgiving than many of our friends.
And because we've enjoyed it up until now, "24". But apparently 80% of the original crew will be missing, so don't know how that'll go either.
Otherwise all our "shows" are on DVD. I'm not even sure why we subscribe to cable.
Oh, yeah, the kids like cartoon network.
-DM Jeff
WizarDru
Adventurer
dreaded_beast said:
I think you mean the Venture Brothers. It's not how Johnny Quest should have been...Johnny Quest was like Camelot...a brief shining moment when TV didn't talk down to kids, and presented a fantastic action adventure show that was visually arresting and exciting (featuring character work by folks like the legendary Alex Toth).
What the Venture Brothers is, however, is a hysterically funny and brilliant parody of Johnny Quest. Here's an added incentive to like it: Ben Edlund, creator of the Tick, has written at least one episode. Last weeks episode nearly had me crying, it was so funny. Any show that manages to mix David Bowie, Pirates, UFO Ghosts and Jacques Costeau into one story...well, they're aces in my book.
Which is good, because this TV season is virtually non-existent for me, otherwise. Except for some cartoon network shows, I don't watch anything on prime time any longer, except maybe Queer Eye. Oh, well.
Viking Bastard
Adventurer
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
I never would've expected to like this show, but gawddamnit, it's frickin' great!
I never would've expected to like this show, but gawddamnit, it's frickin' great!
Henry
Autoexreginated
WizarDru said:
I love this show, though because I always have a hard time catching anything on Cartoon Network, I depend on a friend of mine to tape these for me, and we watch them usually before our game. This show has me in stitches:
**Brock is teaching Hank how to fight via communicator**
Brock: On your neck... you feel the Thorax? Think of it as a handle. Now, feel on the other side? That leads to the Aorta. Think of it as a button. Now, when you see the bad guys, repeat after me... "grab the handle, push the button."
**Brock is chained up, and talking to Hank through his communicator watch**
Brock: After the twist, you'll hear a snap. Then the body goes ragdoll on ya.
Hank: And that will knock him out...even more?
Brock: That'll kill him
Hank: Do I have to?
Brock: Alright fine, crybaby. Just tie him up and, maybe I guess gag him. But at the first sign of trouble I want you to at least break both his knees.
That, and I've been catching Dead like Me on DVD, as well as Coupling. Both very good shows, but I don't have BBC America or Showtime, so I'm waiting for next year and DVD.
Crothian
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I'm going to watch another season of Tru Calling. Don't know how fox managed to keep if for a second seaso, but it is interesting enough to keep me tuned in.
Lost, I'm not sure of. Ya, its great the previews aren't giving anything away but at the same time I'm not sure a show can keep the mystery and be entertaining.
Lost, I'm not sure of. Ya, its great the previews aren't giving anything away but at the same time I'm not sure a show can keep the mystery and be entertaining.
Ranger REG
Explorer
Unfortunately, the nostalgia is beginning to wear off. The network noticed a drop in viewership.Viking Bastard said:
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