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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 1758524" data-attributes="member: 4779">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! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> 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. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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