New TV season -- what looks good?

Cafe Society
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Well, we’re all looking forward to the return of our personal faves (I’ll be starting the first weekly Apprentice thread of Season Two in the next day or so :smiley: ) – but I’m sure I’m not the only one to read the Fall Preview issue of Entertainment Weekly with great interest. Not that there was a lot of interest – dang, there’s gonna be several no-TV nights in the typical week for me.

One show I’m curious about, though, is Desperate Housewives – Felicity Hoffman (of the late, lamented, Sports Night) and Teri Garr (I have no idea whether I should admit this or brag about it, but I loved Lois & Clark). If well done, it could be entertaining, and not just the same old same old.

Anything on your short list of new shows to check out?

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It’s Felicity Huffman. And it will be Teri Hatcher, not Teri Garr.

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:smack:

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Assuming the beautiful and talented **vivalostwages **will tape it for me, I am looking forward to Joey but since I have no cable and rely on her to keep me supplied in the three or four shows I watch, I have no idea what else might be coming on.

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I’ll be the negative one and say that I can’t see anything good coming this fall. I have the same issue of EW and everything in it just makes me groan.

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Jack & Bobby looks like a good show. One of the two boys becomes president. Apparently it’s had good reviews…

There is a show called The Mountain (or something) on WB. It’s about skiing or snowboarding I’d wager so I’ll watch that.

Gary Sinise is in CSI:NY. I don’t much like the other CSI’s but I’ll give this one a shot for him.

There’s some good returning shows that I’d rather watch. The first one, Jack and Bobby, is the only one I can see myself watching on a regular basis.

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A book.

Ok…now that I’ve gotten the most pretentious answer possible outta the way, my short list of new stuff to watch is CSI: NY and Joey.

What can I say? When I’m not reading, I like pap. :slight_smile:

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Wouldn’t it be interesting if that were CSI: NY and Joey? I’m not sure how effective Joey would be in investigating crimes, though.

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Anybody wanna bet how long Joey lasts?
Put me down for 8 weeks.

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I’m watching the first episode of The Surreal Life right now. I’m not much for “reality” shows but this is interesting.

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CSI: NY will be damn near unwatchable because of the heavy filtering. I couldn’t stand the heavy grey/blue used in the crossover CSI: Miami ep last season.

I’m looking forward to Lost and Desperate Housewives (Hobbits! Plane Crashes! Dead people in the suburbs!), the 6th season of The Amazing Race, and Arrested Development.

Nothing else seems anywhere near appealing.

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Frasier lasted, what, 11 years? And many episodes were totally hilarious. (Admittedly, many episodes weren’t.) Joey might not suck.

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I hated Friends, so I won’t be watching Joey.

The only shows I’ll be watching, again, will be The Amazing Race, Survivor, and maybe The Apprentice, though it sounds like The Apprentice is going to be so heavy on the product placement this time around it might be unwatchable.

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I will also try Jack and Bobby, along with *Smallville * and 24. I’m sure there are other good shows on somewhere (I’ve heard *Rescue Me * is good, but I’ll be damned if I know when it’s on), but I probably won’t see them. Hooray for DVD box sets!

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I’m really looking forward to the new J.J. Abrams’ show, Lost. Everything else looks like dreck.

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Put me down as a second for that. The only things I watch now on TV are on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.

Susan

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I also think The Lost looks good, and it hasn’t been hyped to death, so maybe that means it’s actually good.
I’ve seen two episodes of Hawaii, and am not overly impressed. I’ll give CSI: New York and Medical Investigations (on NBC) a try, but I’m not getting too invested.
I don’t watch CSI: Miami, just the original Las Vegas version. I did watch the crossover episode, and like Barbarian, hated the damn blue filter thing, so if that gets annoying, I’ll quit watching. I really like Gary Sinise, and Hill Harper (is that his name?) from The Handler, so hopefully it’ll be good, blue filtering be damned.
Medical Investigations could be good or could be really bad. We’ll just have to see. I have a feeling it’s going to be terribly cheesy.

I’m waiting for some shows to start back up: Survivor, Navy NCIS, Joan of Arcadia, Third Watch, CSI, Without A Trace, ER and the next installment of The Amazing Race (even though the current one hasn’t quite wrapped up yet).

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The big difference here (IMHO) is that Cheers was (and still is) far superior to Friends. The same will be said when comparing Frasier to Joey.

Joey will, in all likelihood, suck (again, IMHO).

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It’s on FX at 10:00 PM EST on Wednesdays, repeats immediately at 11:00 PM EST, a few times over the weekend, and I believe one last time Sunday or Monday at 10:00 PM EST.

It is very good. It’s the only show I can think of that I don’t like missing. I’ll stay up and watch the 11:00 rerun if I miss anything at 10:00.

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I’m really looking forward to Lost as well. I saw the first episode at Comic-Con this year, and let me tell you, I will never look at a jet engine the same way again after seeing that opening sequence! Some recent interviews up at AICN make it sound like there are some real twists coming.