# Best And Worst Of New Sommer Television Season

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 9, 2003, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-of-new-sommer-television-season/194007 "2003-08-09T08:21:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-of-new-sommer-television-season/194007/1 "2003-08-09T08:21:52Z")

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My nominees for best:

Sex And The City  
The Wire  
Monk  
Queer Eye For The Straight Guy  
Dead Like Me  
The Restaurant

Worst:

The New Roseanne Barr Show  
OC  
American Idol Juniors  
Trading Spaces Family version  
There are a lot of other shows I didn’t bother to see. Any other nominees?

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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-of-new-sommer-television-season/194007/2 "2003-08-09T08:25:46Z")

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Trading Spaces: Family does suck compared to the original version.

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-of-new-sommer-television-season/194007/3 "2003-08-09T08:28:38Z")

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Ahem…“sommer”…comes after Sprung, and right before Wanter.

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**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-of-new-sommer-television-season/194007/4 "2003-08-09T13:05:16Z")

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Best:  
_Monk  
The Dead Zone  
Peacemakers_

I’ve seen two or three episodes of _MI-5_ on A&E (it’s called _Spooks_ in England and I like that, too.  
I don’t have HBO or Showtime anymore, so I can’t comment on any of those shows. _Dead Like Me_ looked good in the previews, but I’ll have to catch it when it comes out on DVD. I really wanted to see _The Wire_ since it was filmed here in Baltimore, but I’ll have to find that on DVD later, too. I rely on my dad and step-mom to tape _Six Feet Under_ for me. I saw the first two season before we dumped the premium channels and was totally hooked.

Worst:  
_Trading Spaces Family_

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**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-of-new-sommer-television-season/194007/5 "2003-08-09T15:08:10Z")

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I really like MI-5 too…

What I don’t like is that all my favorite shows (Monk, Dead Zone, and MI-5) are not on till 10 pm. Whats the deal with that? Wouldn’t 9pm be a better time slot, esp. for Dead Zone & MI-5 that are on nights followed by work days for most people? There’s really nothing else on before any of them that would be missed.

I also have been enjoying Unsolved History on Discovery and World Poker Tour (which costs me money because every time I watch it, I get a hankering to go to Nevada Palace and lose $20 in a tournament.)

Jaime