Mostly the same old crap.
But there's a few bright spots, such as:
NBC did something right!
Wow, NBC. I'm really impressed. Looks like that new leadership is paying off. Giving Chuck another season, and pairing it with the new sci-fi Grimm to create a genre night on Fridays? Smart. Two really great looking sitcoms in the Will Arnet and Christina Applegate led Up All Night and Free Agents with Hank Azaria and the dashing Anthony Head? (Giles! Yay!) Good job! I'm impressed with the guts it takes to run that on Wednesday up against ABC's juggernaut comedy night as well. And your sex-and-intrigue period piece The Playboy Club looks much more entertaining than ABC's nearly identical venture Pan Am. Please remember how proud we intelligent TV viewers are when almost none of this gets watched. America is kinda stupid, NBC. I mean, there's a line at the Olive Garden every Friday night, you know?
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| And oh, my god, thank you for not doing this. It's possible you averted the apocalypse. |
FOX spent its budget on effects...
The very cool looking and seriously expensive Terra Nova, from executive producer Steven Spielberg took up most of FOX's programming this fall, but Zooey Deschanel's New Girl looks good, and it's possible the Jamie Presley led I Hate My Teenage Daughter will not be terrible. Yeah, probably not. Oh, and some sort of constipated-looking British guy is auditioning singers. Groundbreaking!
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| Well, he did ruin TV. I'm ok with him being a little uncomfortable. |
Oh, CBS.
Comfortable in their grandpa recliners at America's most watched network, CBS did not follow the trend this year, putting on absolutely no new shows that would be any different from what they already have on. Literally the most interesting thing they did was move The Good Wife to Sundays. Parenthood thanks you!
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| CBS wants you to stay the hell off its lawn. Its predictable, procedural lawn. |
The CW got Buffy!
After CBS predictably passed on the edgy and interesting Ringer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, the show found a home on CW, which makes a hell of a lot more sense. Rachel Bilson is also starring in Hart of Dixie, which as far as I can tell, is Sweet Home Alabama but she's a doctor.
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| Look! She's wearing black! Cause she's from New York City! |
ABC, meet me at camera 3.
This is a scolding, ABC. I know you make your money being the chick network. I understand that you will take whatever drivel Shonda Rhimes dreams up, that you would like to branch out into programming that can appeal to men while still keeping that female audience. But what you have here is crap. Literally, unadulterated poop. You have three sitcoms based entirely in the "men and women are different!" realm, including one that seems to be a remake of Bosom Buddies.
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| This makes me miss Outsourced. |
Seriously, ABC? Seriously?
Revenge looks like more trite drivel, with Emily Van Camp swanning her way through the Hamptons, with all the backstabbing-and-intrigue! and whatever, and Charlie's Angels will make you a ton of money, which we should all be really ashamed about. The one bright spot seems to be the really ambitious and fantastical Once Upon a Time with Gennifer Goodwin and Jennifer Morrison, and it's impressive that you are giving such a complicated show a chance.
We'll give it, what do you think, ABC, two episodes?
Hahaha I love "Look, she's wearing black because she's from NYC!" And I just want to set the record straight that the Olive Garden is worth the wait for the breadsticks and salad. Thank you very much, TV Freak.
ReplyDeleteOh, and btw...I am excited that Good Wife will be on Sundays now, but I have to tell you that I'm really sad that Off the Map was cancelled...I mean, that lead Aussie doctor guy was HOT!!! What's up, ABC????
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