**Scrubs ** is coming back! Happy dance. Thursday night – rock solid.
I liked this line,
“The Singing Bee is another damn singing competition.”
I like Leslie Nielsen, but I’ll have a hard time believing him as a teen, nerdy or otherwise.
Friday Night Lights is coming back, I’m so pumped! I was quite nervous.
I’m also happy about Scrubs, but I was less worried about it this year. The Office and My Name is Earl were givens so NBC did me right this year. They do a better job of sticking with a struggling show than some.
The new shows don’t sound very promising but I’ll give a few of them a try such as:
Chuck
Journeyman
The IT Crowd
At first I was like, “What? A 200 year old guy playing a teen that’s just retarded.”
But then I checked IMDB and he is not playing the teen he is just the biggest star so he name is mentioned, but the way they worded it it came off confusing.
The description for Heroes: Origins concerns me. Apparently they introduce a bunch of characters and then let viewers decide which one will end up on the show the next season? We’re now ruining traditional entertainment by turning the creative process over to a reality show?
One new show that I’m interested in seeing, The Bionic Woman, and it’s on at a time I can’t watch or tape it. For all the bitching and manipulating the networks do about DVRs they certainly are working their schedules to leave me with few options beyond getting one.
I’m glad Damian Lewis is getting his own show, I only hope it’s worthy of his talent (I expect he’ll be using his excellent American accent).
Interesting that “30 Rock” and “The Office” are switching time slots. I wonder why.
I like Lewis, too, though the best thing he’s ever done is apparently unknown by virtually everyone but me. Life will be up against Lost (thank you DVR!)
I think they’re repositioning The Office at 9 because it’s a choicer time slot. Anyone coming off an hour show from 8-9 (particularly Ugly Betty) will be able to go there now.
As I had feared, there will be no Raines in the fall. It will be a dry season without Jeff Goldblum.
Same here. I really don’t know what else to say, but I’m really disappointed to see this. It smacks of network suits squeezing more money out of a successful show in the worst way.
Yeah, well, they always did use focus groups. Only now we all have to watch as a good thing is watered down to the lowest common denominator AND we pay them for the privilege of giving our opinion - $2.99 a call or something, isn’t it? :rolleyes:
Oh, okay. 
I might try watching the Bionic Woman but other than that, NBC will only get my viewing on Thursdays.
Well, I love** The IT Crowd**, and the fact that they got the original Moss to play him in the US version is icing on the cake. Oh, and Joel McHale is the little candy flowers on the icing on the cake.
I’m glad “The Office” is on at 9:00 now. The little one is usually asleep by then.
I love upfronts week. Makes me wish I was a television journalist.
I’m just sad that Identity didn’t get renewed. Yet Deal or No Deal is airing twice a week, and it’s less than half the game show Identity was.
Yeah, I liked Identity. Odd show, but interesting. More fun to play along with than most.
I wonder if “Identity” might have gotten better ratings with a more mainstream host. I love Penn Jillette, but not everyone feels that way about him. One of my mother’s friends was talking about game shows, and she went on and on for about ten minutes about how offensive Penn Jillette was. I was tempted to urge her to watch “Bullshit!” on Showtime, but I overcame the temptation in time to save myself from being browbeaten to within an inch of my life by my momma.
Yay! Kevin McKidd (Vorenus from Rome)is getting a show. Love him, and they say it sounds like Quantum Leap, so it sounds up our alley.
It’s too bad Andy Barker didn’t make it. I still remember the bit they did with their toddler crying all night because they lost her toy. They show a montage of them offering all kinds of toys and objects, having them thrown back or causing more screaming, and there’s just a short shot of Clea Lewis offering a boxful of trashbags, with this *look *on her face, and it had us on the floor. Either she has kids, or she’s the world’s best actress.