Tuesday the 22nd is the premier of Memphis Beat (which if I likely will call Memphis Blues at some time…)
I’ll give it a go. I did like My Name Is Earl most of the time and Jason Lee is OK. Also, now that Justified is finished for the season I have that time slot free.
I will watch it. Advance reviews have been lukewarm, but I like Lee as well. It’s summer, what the hell.
I like Jason Lee too – hadn’t heard about the new show. The DVR is set!
Yeah, my biggest concern is that it’s going to suffer by comparison (though the similarities between the two may only be surface-level).
I’m only a marginal ‘Earl’ fan but I’ll have to watch a couple of episodes.
Honestly though, I don’t have high expectations about it. I’ll put $5 on it saying it won’t last a single full season.
Will watch - I wonder if ‘Randy’ will show up anywhere…
I’d rather see Catalina!
I’ll probably give it a shot. But I’ve read that it’s primarily filmed in New Orleans, which is nothing at all like Memphis. There’s an article in http://commercialappeal.com telling about why they didn’t shoot in Memphis. Can’t say I’d blame them.
DJ Qualls was on Craig Ferguson’s show last night, and yes, he said they film in NO. I think he’s hilarious, and I’m gonna watch Memphis Beat.
I’ll give it a shot, but my expectations are pretty low.
Oslo, that’s a good way to approach TV, movies, books, etc. Take it for what it is rather than what you expect it to be. All we have to lose is an hour.
I like DJ Qualls too. When I first saw him in something (can’t remember), I thought a guy who looked like that wouldn’t get much work, but he seems to be doing just fine.
My wife is from Memphis, and we were huge Earl fans. We’ll be there.
I’m a DJ Qualls fan, I’ve always thought he deserves a show of his own, so I’ll support him by watching it.
Hope it’s good. Apparently it’s not meant as a comedy, though, so I’m a little cautious.
I heard a few promos for this show on the radio today. They were the main sponsors for our weird new 90s station.
The radio promos sound horrible. Doesn’t make the show sound funny at all. I don’t want to see Earl and DJ Qualls in a drama. And it sounds like a horribly written, cliched drama.
But, I’ll come back to this thread to see what you guys thought.
Hmm. My expectations were met.
I watched it tonight, and I was entertained. I definitely got a New Orleans vibe from it, rather than Memphis, though (and now I know why, after reading it was actually filmed there).
It probably won’t become my new favorite show, but I’ll keep watching.
I love Alfre Woodard & DJ Qualls and liked Earl a lot, but this was pretty bad. Lee’s character is so cookie-cutter and ill-conceived, and he can’t pull off the rogue intensity the part demands; his Dottie speech to the cops or his rooftop confrontation with the “son”, for example, are clunkers. And the show goes to great pains trying for an “authentic” local color, but bashes you on the head with obvious blues riffs (“Green Onions” ad nauseum) and forced southern cliches (I hates me that tofu!). As for the crime, it was a snoozer, smothered with sentimentality (which looks like a pattern; this week: old lady, next week: little kid). And above all that, he’s an Elvis impersonator (with terribly lip synching)!
In short: Ugh.
Missed it: didn’t get home till almost 10:30. I’m sure they’ll replay it.
It’s on TNT, not a broadcast network. Important for those who are too cheap to pay for cable or satellite. 
Ahh so that’s why I’ve never heard of it.
It’s not that I’m too cheap, I just have more important things to do with my money.
Okay I’m cheap. So what is it about anyway? Is it even shot here in Memphis?