# New TV Season... what's gonna be good? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2002, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-tv-season-whats-gonna-be-good/125261 "2002-08-23T17:13:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-tv-season-whats-gonna-be-good/125261/21 "2002-08-24T14:47:38Z")
I’m looking forward to \*\* The Hack \*\* I’ve always loved those types of Everyday hero shows. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-tv-season-whats-gonna-be-good/125261/22 "2002-08-24T18:45:51Z")
A lot of shows I’ve given up on are still on: **The Practice, Judging Amy, Frasier, West Wing,** and **ER,** to name just a couple. New season of **Amazing Race**! Yahoo! That looks like my only conflict – it’s on against **The Bachelorette** (all six weeks of it), so I guess I’ll have to tape. It looks like there’s a couple of nights, like Tuesday, where I can just turn off the TV after the **ET/Hollywood Squares Newshour.** ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-tv-season-whats-gonna-be-good/125261/23 "2002-08-24T20:18:00Z")
ALIAS! And Futurama, The Simpsons (dragging though), and Scrubs. Only good shows on network television right now IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-tv-season-whats-gonna-be-good/125261/24 "2002-08-25T01:33:58Z")
Sunday: We’ll check out **Bram and Alice** , and hope **Becker** gets better. Monday: **Third Watch** is back! **CSI Miami** should be good. Here’s hoping. Tuesday: We’ll try **Life With Bonnie**'cause we like Bonnie Hunt. Wednesday: **Ed** (although I’m getting pretty sick of the teenager story lines) and **The West Wing** and we’ll probably check out **MDs.** Thursday: We’ll probably try out **Dinotopia** , but if it’s as bad as the mini-series, we’ll drop it. Also **CSI** is back! Woot! Friday: **Firefly** could be good or it could be dreadful, in either case. it’ll probably get cancelled quickly, we’ll see. The rest of Friday’s tough. I like the actor starring in **Hack** a lot, (but apparently not enough to remember his name) but Friday is **Stargate SG-1, Farscape** night around here. Good thing we have VCRs. Saturday: Mrs. B will be watching **The District**. I’ll probably watch too. It’s kinda cheesy (and preachy) sometimes, but we like the actors. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-tv-season-whats-gonna-be-good/125261/25 "2002-08-25T04:21:24Z")
Monk, Dead Zone (already loving those two!), West Wing, Buffy, Angel, Smallville and Gilmore Girls. That’s about the extend of my TV watching, and almost half are new shows. StG ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-tv-season-whats-gonna-be-good/125261/26 "2002-08-26T14:15:41Z")
> [@](#): > > **Bumbazine** : …but Friday is Stargate SG-1, Farscape night around here. Well, Farscape is gone until January now and I think SG-1 is going the same way in September, so you may have Fridays free for a while. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-tv-season-whats-gonna-be-good/125261/27 "2002-09-09T04:57:03Z")
I’m looking forward to the returns of **Dawson’s Creek** (shaddup), **Buffy, er, Charmed** and to a lesser degree **Boston Public**. I will also sheepishly confess to more than likely be watching the shows on The-N, which I discovered this summer. I really wonder if they realize how many people in their 20’s are watching a teen-oriented station… Since so many of the shows I watched got the axe, (X-files, Felicity, Roswell, and I sort of watched Ally McBeal) I’m willing to give some new shows a shot, hoping they will last longer than the only new shows I started to watch last season(Pasadena, Wolf Lake and Glory Days), all of which crashed and burned. I’ll definitely check out **Haunted** , \*\* Birds of Prey\*\* and **Boomtown**. I would like to see **Without a Trace** so maybe the weeks **er** is a re-run, or if someone will tape it… I might try watching an episode of **Fastlane** (if only because they worked a miricle, seen only before in that terrible movie **Supernova** , and made Peter Facinilli hot), and **Firefly** (if only because of its creator- I do not like things based on spaceships) and maybe try to watch **Angel** again, though I wrote it off the 1st season. I won’t be watching any new sitcoms, because the only ones I’ve liked in the past 5 or 10 years died fairly quickly(Norm, 2 Guys and a Girl, Random Years, Andy Richter) and it’s just too painful to try and find one I can stand 🙂 \ I will give up my VCR when they pry it from my cold dead fingers- I rarely watch the shows when they’re on, and I like to archive them. \ When should we start a thread to make predictions on which new shows will be circling the drain first? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-tv-season-whats-gonna-be-good/125261/28 "2002-09-09T06:01:11Z")
I can tell you what won’t be good - “Docs”. At least, I think that’s what it’s called. It’s the one about the band of rebel doctors who buck the evil HMOs in charge of their hospital that try to prevent anyone from getting treated. Yeah! Stick it to the man, hero-docs! And you know they’re good, because they wear funky clothing. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-tv-season-whats-gonna-be-good/125261/29 "2002-09-09T07:32:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Smeghead \* > \*\*I can tell you what won’t be good - “Docs”. At least, I think that’s what it’s called. It’s the one about the band of rebel doctors who buck the evil HMOs in charge of their hospital that try to prevent anyone from getting treated. Yeah! Stick it to the man, hero-docs! And you know they’re good, because they wear funky clothing. :rolleyes: \*\* _Docs_, brought to you by Mega-Ultra-Family-Medico-Plexcorp, your family in the medical business… Who wants to wager David Caruso drops CSI: Miami for a film career after one season??? ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-tv-season-whats-gonna-be-good/125261/30 "2002-09-09T07:48:28Z")
Well. It’s interesting how many shows you mention are here too. Some shows lag behind terribly, 'cause the network here doesn’t believe in them. **Buffy** will start S.3 here, Fridays at 00.10… So my weekly schjedule will be: Monday @8 **C.S.I** @9 **Bostan Public** @10.30 **Dark Angel** Tueasday @8 **West Wing** @9 **Popstars** (dont know if it’s on TV in the U.S. yet Wednesday is comedy central at ch5. @8 **Friends** @8.30 **Spin City** @9 \*\* Ed\*\* @10.00 **Frasier** Thursdays are weak. **The District** is the only semi-good show Fri-Sat are also weak. Sunday is movie of the week. So it’s works kinda well. Evenings when I’m at home doing nothing is when the good shows are on. I’ve got **Buffy** and **Angel** on DVD, so no sweat about the bad scheduling. Angel is not even on the air yet, over here. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-tv-season-whats-gonna-be-good/125261/31 "2002-09-09T16:19:17Z")
**The Gaspode** Popstars came and went last year. It wasn’t renewed since it didn’t have much of an audience. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-tv-season-whats-gonna-be-good/125261.md?page=1)