# ...and the first show on the Fall 2010 TV chopping block is.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 30, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-first-show-on-the-fall-2010-tv-chopping-block-is/555632 "2010-09-30T17:48:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![deedeeknowit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@deedeeknowit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deedeeknowit)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-first-show-on-the-fall-2010-tv-chopping-block-is/555632/81 "2010-10-28T01:57:37Z")
I know it’s not the first but I’m afraid Terriers is going to go. This makes me sad because I love both Donal Logue and Tim Minear. Where else can you see a T.V. character hold two fingers up to a man and ask him if he smells his wife? Okay, that might not be the best example of a good show to the general public but it is to me. That and…Donal Logue and Tim Minear. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-first-show-on-the-fall-2010-tv-chopping-block-is/555632/82 "2010-10-28T04:53:14Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > [Caprica](http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/10/27/breaking-syfy-cancels-caprica/) has just been cancelled. I didn’t even bother watching it after it returned, it just didn’t have enough lightness to entertain me. The **darkness** was what I specifically liked. Give me more dark shows like _Breaking Bad_, _The Shield_, etc. and I’m a happy couch potato. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@Captain\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-first-show-on-the-fall-2010-tv-chopping-block-is/555632/83 "2010-10-28T07:27:54Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Yeah, if you ignore Tom on Parks & Rec, Abed on Community, Kelly on the Office, etc etc. I don’t watch 30 Rock, so maybe they blow this theory, but seems like a “brown person” is pretty much required for any sitcom on NBC. Kelly from “The Office” is really cute. I like Indian women. They are very exotic. Kelly has a big ass too, something to hold on to. I don’t like Indian food. Curry makes me fart. There needs to be more East Asian women on TV! I love em. (I think Sandra Oh is hot, this is how much I like east Asian females.) The girl on Hawaii 5-0 is Korean and lovely. A show I like is called “The Good Guys”. That show cracks me up. It will probably be cancelled soon since its a FOX show. Running Wilde sucks. Will Arnett sucks. Will Arnett can only be that one character. I watched the first episode and turned it off after about 10 minutes. Sucks, sucks, sucks. Raising Hope is a great show. (Except for that old bag Cloris Leachman whose sucked ever since The Mary Tyler Moore show.) ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-first-show-on-the-fall-2010-tv-chopping-block-is/555632/84 "2010-10-28T22:14:49Z")
Last night I watched the Chase episode where the main character runs up to a crop duster, jumps on the wing, and then proceeds to shoot the engine from the wing while the plane is lifting off the ground. Promo for the next episode had her looking for a bomb-planting terrorist, see him, and run across an area they apparently cleared because of said bomb, which detonates as she is going by. I have just deleted Chase from my record list. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-first-show-on-the-fall-2010-tv-chopping-block-is/555632/85 "2010-10-28T22:54:46Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Ouch. I actually liked Caprica quite a bit. > > Not only is it canceled, but they re removing it from the Friday schedule to air the final episodes in 2011. > > ☹ It hasn’t been on the Friday schedule ever since it came back, but your point is still right, they are removing it from the TUESDAY schedule. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-first-show-on-the-fall-2010-tv-chopping-block-is/555632/86 "2010-10-28T23:19:47Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Last night I watched the Chase episode where the main character runs up to a crop duster, jumps on the wing, and then proceeds to shoot the engine from the wing while the plane is lifting off the ground. Promo for the next episode had her looking for a bomb-planting terrorist, see him, and run across an area they apparently cleared because of said bomb, which detonates as she is going by. > > I have just deleted Chase from my record list. I watch Chase, but I won’t miss it when it’s gone. Technically, they hadn’t cleared the area, suspected a bomb was in the area, but dingbat (who has a history of daring dingbat things) sees the bomber (who likes to watch his handiwork) and goes chasing after him. I’m waiting for the episode where she gets the bill to repair the engine on that crop duster and has to start selling her body in her off time to pay for her ‘dingbatedness’. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-first-show-on-the-fall-2010-tv-chopping-block-is/555632/87 "2010-10-29T20:12:28Z")
I don’t think it dingbattedness, it’s reckless abandon. In a prior episode she follows a suspect as he jumps off a high balcony to the balcony over and one down. He climbed across and enters a room below where they started, so she runs through the building to catch him at the door, then tries to follow him as he jumps off the balcony headed for the pool. Only her partner intervening keeps her from going splat on the pavement the way the suspect did. “I could have made it.” “No, you couldn’t.” Looks down at perp splat on pavement, short and off the side of the pool. “Okay, but I would have made it farther than he did.” She’s so intent on catching the guy, she is blind to the risks. I just don’t find that endearing, but even that I could take if it wasn’t the rest of the interplay of the characters. “Oh no, the studly bounty hunter that flirts and teases as he gets in the way and keeps her from catching the murderous bastard.” Bleh. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-first-show-on-the-fall-2010-tv-chopping-block-is/555632/88 "2010-10-30T01:57:22Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > [Caprica](http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/10/27/breaking-syfy-cancels-caprica/) has just been cancelled. I didn’t even bother watching it after it returned, it just didn’t have enough lightness to entertain me. I have been watching it, and been patiently waiting for the day I could cheer as the Silons slaughtered damn near every charachter. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-first-show-on-the-fall-2010-tv-chopping-block-is/555632/89 "2010-11-05T01:28:17Z")
[Undercovers](http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/11/04/nbc-cancels-undercovers/70882) has just been cancelled. I found the leads to be forcing their charisma, and frankly that was just unpleasant. I gave up only a few episodes in. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-first-show-on-the-fall-2010-tv-chopping-block-is/555632/90 "2010-11-05T19:15:08Z")
I hope _Raising Hope_ lasts. I’ve only been able to watch two eps but they made me laugh my head off. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-first-show-on-the-fall-2010-tv-chopping-block-is/555632/91 "2010-11-05T19:52:15Z")
And Running Wilde, Better With You and Outsourced continue to live on. How can that be? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-first-show-on-the-fall-2010-tv-chopping-block-is/555632/92 "2010-11-05T22:52:10Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > [Undercovers](http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/11/04/nbc-cancels-undercovers/70882) has just been cancelled. I found the leads to be forcing their charisma, and frankly that was just unpleasant. I gave up only a few episodes in. You lasted longer than I could. Yet I still watch _Chase_. That should tell you how bad I thought _Undercovers_ was. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-first-show-on-the-fall-2010-tv-chopping-block-is/555632/93 "2010-11-05T22:53:34Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > [Undercovers](http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/11/04/nbc-cancels-undercovers/70882) has just been cancelled. I found the leads to be forcing their charisma, and frankly that was just unpleasant. I gave up only a few episodes in. The leads were the worst part of the show. The nerdy support guy fawning over the male lead was very funny (though they did overdo it a little), Leo was cool (should’ve just made a show about him), and I loved Gerald McRaney as their exasperated boss. But the leads just did nothing for me at all. Married couple bickering on missions every week does not make for a good spy show I guess. (Hope the Chuck producers take note!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-first-show-on-the-fall-2010-tv-chopping-block-is/555632.md?page=4)