# The New Television Season **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-television-season/756130 "2016-05-30T23:46:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-television-season/756130/21 "2016-06-01T20:42:54Z")
At least they’re keeping Jenna Elfman away from any new shows. _Looks at the site_ Aw dammit. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-television-season/756130/22 "2016-06-01T20:48:36Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The Great Indoors\* > Son of Zorn > > Powerless\* > > - > - I am actually looking forward to these. The two with \* look good. Zorn looks really stupid. Two out of three aint bad! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-television-season/756130/23 "2016-06-01T20:52:25Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > A few that looked interesting: > > Making History > Timeless > > The Blacklist: Redemption _The Blacklist_ is only good due to James Spader, No Red, no show, i think. Tine travel shows always fail. I went back in time to make sure that happen. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-television-season/756130/24 "2016-06-01T20:54:57Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I want to reboot someone with a baseball bat, then swing it at the fish out of water. > > The only ones that look interesting are ‘Powerless’ and ‘Midnight, Texas’. Ha! _Midnight_ could be good. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-television-season/756130/25 "2016-06-01T21:27:18Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > The two with \* look good. Zorn looks really stupid. Two out of three aint bad! Zorn looks so stupid it could be great. Is Ed Wood still around? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-television-season/756130/26 "2016-06-01T21:33:35Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Zorn looks so stupid it could be great. Not with Fox making it.☹ ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-television-season/756130/27 "2016-06-02T10:31:48Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Some of these sounded hilarious, as if they were fake. I like to think that they come up with snappy titles first and then try to fit a show into the title. Some of them reminded me of the “South Park” episode “A.W.E.S.O.M-O”: > [@](#): > > Cartman: [as A.W.E.S.O.M.-O] Um… Okay, how about this: Adam Sandler is like in love with some girl. But it turns out that the girl is actually a golden retriever or something. > > Mitch: Oh! Perfect! > > Executive: We’ll call it “Puppy Love”. > > Mitch: Give us another movie idea, A.W.E.S.O.M.-O. > > Cartman: Um… How about this: Adam Sandler inherits like, a billion dollars, but first he has to become a boxer or something. > > Mitch: “Punch Drunk Billionaire”. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-television-season/756130/28 "2016-06-02T11:02:44Z")
The list was quite funny, with all the fake shows and all. Most of them sounded even plausible. Of course, it gives itself away when you realize that every sitcom is about some immature person having to deal suddenly with children. And things like the supposed Prison Break Revival (He’s alive! And in a prison in Yemen!) or that Blacklist spin-off that’s exactly the same only gender-reversed- Yeah, the satire was too obvious in those. Oh, and they went and used the same time travelling plot- only one is a sitcom and the other is a drama. That was clever of the writer. I’d totally watch the MacGyver reboot, though. If it were real. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-television-season/756130.md?page=1)