The new TV season

[Kimstu]

@Stauderhorse

House. I keep hearing that the show is ending this season, but I’m not sure how true that is.

Neither is anyone else at present, according to Hugh Laurie:

“I have a feeling that we’ll all know come February or so, whether this is something that we should be going on with or not.”

Of course, the British-born Laurie has become an old hand in the ways of U.S. network TV, and he readily admits that the decision may ultimately be out of the hands of the show’s creative team.

“The network and the studio … are doing their own sums all the time and they may say, ‘Do you mind making it in a photo booth now?,’ because dramas are expensive and times are hard and belts are tight,” Laurie says. “We have put off addressing the subject in a very sober way because there are just so many unknowables. Right now, we’re open-ended. I think anything is possible.”

[TBG]

@RikWriter

I’m looking forward to Terra Nova. Hope it’s good.

Last show I remember Fox giving such a huge push was New Amsterdam, which wound up getting a last minute shove into mid-season and instant cancellation. Hopefully this one will fare better.

[TBG]

@cmyk

Also, did Falling Skies get another order, and if so, when to expect season 2?

IIRC yes and next summer

[Mahaloth]

No one is looking forward to Alcatraz?

I know it comes on in 2012, but I’m looking forward to it for sure.

[twickster]

@Lamia

I think only some of the original 12 students will be graduating at the end of the coming season (with the others being either a year younger or held back for various reasons), but it seems like most of the kids who’ve had major plots will be seniors in the coming year. The writers have confirmed that Finn, Rachel, and Kurt are graduating, and I assume Quinn and Santana will be too.

Part of the reason I have hope that the third season will be an improvement over the second is that with graduation looming the writers may actually start resolving things with these characters.

I heard they’re planning to cut way down on the “theme” episodes – which were the weak ones S2. I hope this is an actual plan and not a wishful rumor.

[Taomist]

American Horror Story looks mildly interesting, though just from the commercials I really can’t tell why.

[cmyk]

@Two_Many_Cats

Okay, I took a gander at a"best of" clip of Mad Men. Are you kidding me? That’s the best of? The script was such laughably stilted dialog that I couldn’t even sit out the whole four minutes. Plus again, everybody way too pretty. Except the poor nanny help of course. Dumb. Nobody in the world talks the way these people do.

Breaking Bad I found less putrid. They had gangsters sitting around a table talking a deal. Suddenly some guy gets killed. Then for no reason the scene gets all artsy and in slow-motion so it quickly becomes detached from any real drama the scene might have otherwise had. Another meh.

Sorry, still batting zero here.

Ooof. Alright then, why not just admit you don’t like television, rather than just dissing the good stuff based on watching trailers?

[Cabin_Fever_1]

I am so out of touch it is not funny. The only thing I make a point of watching is Breaking Bad.

I used to be a TV junkie a few years ago. Now? meh.

[infinitii]

This will be my weekly schedule, until I see some of the newer shows and decide to drop or keep them, and until the networks start shuffling things around to accommodate:

Monday:
Terra Nova
2 Broke Girls
Gossip Girl - I’m a big Gossip Girl fan, I just can’t help it.
House - I still love this show.
Hart of Dixie - A new Josh Schwartz show with Rachel Bilson? Yes, please.
Alcatraz (midseason) - Time travel and Alcatraz are two of my favourite things, and JJ Abrams can sometimes make a good show.

Tuesday:
Glee - This comes close to my favourite show right now, and some of the new cast additions have really sparked my interest.
New Girl
Ringer - SMG!!!
Apt 23 (midseason)

Wednesday:
Happy Endings
Revenge
American Horror Story - Another Ryan Murphy FX show, I’ll give it a shot.

Thursday:
The Big Bang Theory
Community
Person of Interest
Bones - I totally lost interest last season, but I’ll give it another shot.
The Mentalist
The Secret Circle - Intriguing cast, the CW is really looking my network of choice this season.
The Finder (midseason)

Friday:
A Gifted Man
Nikita - The other contender for my favourite show currently. I can’t believe how good this show is, unfortunately I fear its move to Friday will kill it this season. Oh well.
Grimm

Saturday:
NOTHING!

Sunday:
Once Upon a Time
Pan Am

[dropzone]

@infinitii

Grimm

The one with Donny Jones (Silas Weir Mitchell)? I’m all over that one! Love that guy. He can take it to the edge and hold it or push it over, as is needed.

(looking down my shirt and mouthing, “What would you do?”)

[Mahaloth]

@Two_Many_Cats

Okay, I took a gander at a"best of" clip of Mad Men. Are you kidding me? That’s the best of? The script was such laughably stilted dialog that I couldn’t even sit out the whole four minutes. Plus again, everybody way too pretty. Except the poor nanny help of course. Dumb. Nobody in the world talks the way these people do.

Breaking Bad I found less putrid. They had gangsters sitting around a table talking a deal. Suddenly some guy gets killed. Then for no reason the scene gets all artsy and in slow-motion so it quickly becomes detached from any real drama the scene might have otherwise had. Another meh.

Sorry, still batting zero here.

Uh, I don’t watch either of those shows, but you can’t just watch best of trailers to judge a show. Things out of context often seem stilted and so forth.

[cmyk]

@Mahaloth

Uh, I don’t watch either of those shows, but you can’t just watch best of trailers to judge a show. Things out of context often seem stilted and so forth.

+1 billion

ETA: I’ve been watching all kinds of TV for almost 40 years now, I’d argue that prime-time television is better now than it’s ever been. Of course, 90% of television is crap, but that’s always been the case, even though we have more quantity now.

[Morgyn]

@Dewey_Finn

That’s a remake of the UK series Prime Suspect. The original starred Helen Mirren and was excellent but I’m doubtful about the remake that stars Maria Bello.

Oh, dear, I was afraid when I saw the title that this was the case. From the trailers, it looks very much as if they took the title, filed off the serial numbers, and attached a show that has a completely different concept to it.

[Two_Many_Cats]

@Mahaloth

Uh, I don’t watch either of those shows, but you can’t just watch best of trailers to judge a show. Things out of context often seem stilted and so forth.

No. Mad Men’s dialog is just plain stilted. In four minutes of their “best” clips, they couldn’t show a single believeable line? Sorry, I grew up on shows like All in the Family, Gunsmoke, Barney Miller and others. Now, those had writers who could do convincing dialog. If you had never seen any of those programs, and watched best of clips from those shows, you can bet you would at least be able to sit though four minutes without cringing in derision.

Maybe I should watch a newer show end to end. But they’re all like soap operas now. You have to watch a whole damn season for anything to happen. Maybe the old programs deserved criticism for neatly solving problems in an hour or less. But there’s something to be said for a succinct storyline.

[Dewey_Finn]

Seriously? You’re judging a show based on a four-minute clip of it? And not just any show, but one of the most critically acclaimed shows of recent years.

[cmyk]

Is this sort of like one of those “The only good music, was [whatever music you listened to when you were growing up], because the stuff now, is just noise and crap. Crappy noise.” things?

[Two_Many_Cats]

@Dewey_Finn

Seriously? You’re judging a show based on a four-minute clip of it? And not just any show, but one of the most critically acclaimed shows of recent years.

Not just a four-minute clip. A best of clip, specially chosen to draw in viewers. And if that’s the most critically acclaimed show of recent years, then recent years have sucked worse than I thought.

[cmyk]

@Two_Many_Cats

Not just a four-minute clip. A best of clip, specially chosen to draw in viewers. And if that’s the most critically acclaimed show of recent years, then recent years have sucked worse than I thought.

So you haven’t watched TV in years. Any prime-time show?

[Two_Many_Cats]

@cmyk

Is this sort of like one of those “The only good music, was [whatever music you listened to when you were growing up], because the stuff now, is just noise and crap. Crappy noise.” things?

There’s something of that, true. But really, I’m just sick of wanting to vomit whenever I watch TV that’s not a documentary or a thirty year old rerun.

[Oslo_Ostragoth]

@cmyk

Anyone not highly anticipating NBC’s new concept/drama Awake, is outta their goddamn minds!

Watch this trailer for it and tell me I’m wrong.

This? Yer link got hashed.