Posted in 2 Broke Girls, 30 Rock, America's Next Top Model, Animal Practice, Archer, Ben and Kate, Bob's Burgers, Comic Book Men, Don't Trust the B--- in Apartment 23, Elementary, Face Off, Glee, Go On, Grimm, Hot Set, How I Met Your Mother, Key and Peele, Modern Family, Neighbors, New Girl, Once Upon a Time, Parenthood, Parks and Recreation, Project Runway, Reaper, The Big Bang Theory, The Inbetweeners, The Mindy Project, The New Normal, The Office, The Simpsons, thirtysomething, Tosh.0, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, TV 2012, Underemployed, Up All Night on November 18, 2012| 1 Comment »
This season signals the end of a lot of shows, shows that have been with us for a long time. This season also promised a slew of new comedies that were going to be amazing (I know they promise that every year, but some of them got really strong praise from objective sources). And yet, here we are, half way through the season (Grimm is taking a Mid-Winter break or some such thing) and I didn’t really like anything new.
Next season is shaping up to be rather a wasteland. (more…)
Posted in 2 Broke Girls, 30 Rock, Allen Gregory, America's Next Top Model, Archer, Are You There, Chelsea?, Bob's Burgers, Breaking In, Chuck, Comic Book Men, Face Off, Glee, Grimm, How I Met Your Mother, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Key and Peele, Modern Family, New Girl, Once Upon a Time, Parenthood, Parks and Recreation, Portlandia, Project Runway, Ringer, The Big Bang Theory, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, The Office, The Simpsons, Tosh.0, TV 2012, Up All Night, Workaholics on March 10, 2012| 2 Comments »
The TV Season scheduling continues to confuse me. It’s February and two shows are done already. And new shows are starting this week. I actually appreciate this rolling schedule because it means new shows instead of repeats.
So hey, networks, why not go all the way and just let the shows run for twenty weeks and then end. Stop showing reruns (or better yet, rerun them at like 2 in the morning so we can watch them if we miss them) and the introduce a new show for the next half a year. We wouldn’t have this six weeks off nonsense of Community and Glee or three weeks of repeats of other shows.
I’m picking this week to write this simply because of the ending of the two shows. We haven’t had a look at the new ones yet, so it’s a clean slate.
Somehow we don’t even have time to watch movies anymore, so the TV shows must be very good. (more…)
Posted in 2 Broke Girls, Allen Gregory, American Horror Story, Archer, Arrested Development, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chuck, Community, Flight of the Conchords, Free Agents, Gilmore Girls, Glee, Grimm, Hart of Dixie, How I Met Your Mother, How To Be a Gentleman, Kal Penn, Mike and Molly, Modern Family, Mr Show, New Girl, Once Upon a Time, Pan Am, Parenthood, Parks and Recreation, Project Runway, Ringer, Suburgatory, Terra Nova, The Big Bang Theory, The Office, The Simpsons, The Walking Dead, Tosh.0, TV 2011, Up All Night, Work of Art on November 20, 2011| 1 Comment »
I was planning to write this post early in the TV Season. I found out that the TiVo website rather helpfully includes a page of all the premiere dates of shows, which in addition to telling us when shows started, has also turned out to be a good way to keep track of the shows that were cancelled already. Our goal is basically to get every good show cancelled so that we can watch our poor Netflix DVDs (which now that we had to change our policy we have mercifully fewer discs that we are not watching). Um, thanks for the hike Netflix?
Anyhow, it’s now about seven weeks into the season and we’ve already lost a number of shows–some as quickly as two weeks in…which, really? I mean why bother. Surprisingly, none of the FOX shows were cancelled yet. That’s probably because FOX didn’t pick anything cool or interesting enough for me to want to watch–that’s actually not true, they have some good new shows this season, but nothing like Arrested Development.
So, this time I’m breaking it down by day of the week (which is silly since we TiVo everything and watch it whenever). And this time red shows are shows we have given up on and Green ones are ones that we’re still enjoying. (more…)