# TV's new Fall Bombs - Predictions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871 "2005-07-02T22:22:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/21 "2005-07-03T07:40:52Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > She’ll do anything for love? Of course, that doesn’t explain how Renny Harlin manages to get any other actor to agree to appear in his movies… Three-ways? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/22 "2005-07-03T07:47:16Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > Three-ways? I don’t think Matthew Modine swings that way. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/23 "2005-07-03T08:28:21Z")
I seriously doubt that this so-called “ABC’s NFL Monday Night Football” will have any real staying power. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/24 "2005-07-03T18:31:39Z")
I am not ashamed to say I want GHOST WHISPERER to flop REALLY big only as proof that Joan’s God is indeed a Vengeful and Just Deity. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/25 "2005-07-03T22:14:45Z")
> [@Plynck](#): > > Well, it’s summer rerun time, and that’s when I take a certain amount of schadenfreude in predicting which Fall television shows won’t make it for a full season, based upon their capsule descriptions. Let’s face it, most of the time it’s shooting fish in a barrel, but there are occasional surprises: > > **Hack**. Who would have thought that a vigilante cab driver would have made it out of the idea stage, let alone last a couple of years? Mostly on the talent of David Morse and Andre Braugher, but that one surprised me (with its staying power, I still think it was a piece of crap). > > **Alias**. A spy show by the creator of Felicity? Whoda thunkit? And I’m still watching it, and now Abrams can do whatever the hell he wants… > > So, here are the links: > > [ABC](http://abc.go.com/primetime/schedule/2005-06/index.html) > > [CBS](http://www.cbs.com/primetime/fall_preview_2005/) > > [NBC](http://www.nbc.com/Fall/) > > For ABC, I’m voting for **Commander-In-Chief** , with Geena Davis. Just too Hillary for most folks, I think, and you have to be smart if you’re doing political drama. And a show about a woman balancing the needs of being a good mom while serving as the Commander In Chief just isn’t. > > For CBS, I was tempted to vote for **Closer to Home** , but I’m not sure I want to vote against Bruckheimer. I’m voting for **Ghost Whisperer** , with Jennifer Love Hewitt. Kinda like Patricia Arquette, but more top-heavy. > > For NBC, aww WTF, I’m voting against Bruckheimer after all with **E-Ring**. Dennis Hopper on TV? And he can’t swear or take drugs and he has to wear a uniform? He’ll implode before the season is over. > > Any others? What CBS? No new CSI’s? Did you run out of Who songs? 😛😛😛 ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/26 "2005-07-03T22:41:46Z")
I don’t know that it looks any sillier than most years. There seem to be a shit-ton of new ensemble dramas where lots of weird, unexplained stuff happens. On the one hand, it’s unlikely any of them will rise to the level of _Lost_; on the other, maybe one of them will. I can’t believe NBC is just planning to just stick _Scrubs_ in somewhere. I’ll grant that it may not have more than a year or two left in it before it gets played out, but it’s the best comedy they have by a longshot. Yet they treat it like it’s filler. The least that it deserves is a consistent time slot. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/27 "2005-07-03T23:43:10Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > What CBS? No new CSI’s? Did you run out of Who songs? 😛😛😛 CSI: Cleveland was supposed to have “Mama’s Got a Squeezebox”, but all those who have seen the pilot went mad and ate their own faces. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/28 "2005-07-04T11:14:17Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > I can’t believe NBC is just planning to just stick _Scrubs_ in somewhere. I’ll grant that it may not have more than a year or two left in it before it gets played out, but it’s the best comedy they have by a longshot. Yet they treat it like it’s filler. The least that it deserves is a consistent time slot. The good news at least is that the guy who created it said in an interview said that it pulls down good enough ratings that it’ll never be cancelled outright, and he has enough experience with the TV game that he’s probably right. Now if only he had a more memorable name! ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/29 "2005-07-04T16:20:58Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I seriously doubt that this so-called “ABC’s NFL Monday Night Football” will have any real staying power. I predict it will only last one season on ABC, and then force a move to NBC. NBC will then switch it Sunday nights, replace half of the cast and go onto a long run. Kind of like the times it lost JAG and Baywatch… ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/30 "2005-07-04T18:03:22Z")
I’ve seen pilot screeners for [Everybody Hates Chris](http://www.tv.com/everybody-hates-chris/show/34457/summary.html), [Prison Break](http://www.tv.com/prison-break/show/31635/summary.html) and [Supernatural](http://www.tv.com/supernatural/show/30144/summary.html) . Of them Supernatural is the only one that I really enjoyed, and even that wasn’t anything earth-shattering. Mostly, I’m excited about returning shows. Less than two weeks 'til new Battlestar! thwartme ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/31 "2005-07-04T23:27:34Z")
I’m not good at predicting (see my current Death Pool standings), but I don’t see much hope for _Everybody Hates Chris_ surviving past December. Personally, I haven’t felt much enthusiasm for television since Star Trek and MST3K went down. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/32 "2005-07-05T06:44:06Z")
> [@thwartme](#): > > Mostly, I’m excited about returning shows. Less than two weeks 'til new Battlestar! Holy crap, I’d forgotten! WOO!!! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/33 "2005-07-05T18:23:11Z")
> [@Menocchio](#): > > CSI: Cleveland was supposed to have “Mama’s Got a Squeezebox”, but all those who have seen the pilot went mad and ate their own faces. I’m having a vision with Drew Carey in it here - it’s not clear, but he’s in it somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/34 "2005-07-05T18:43:44Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > The good news at least is that the guy who created it said in an interview said that it pulls down good enough ratings that it’ll never be cancelled outright, and he has enough experience with the TV game that he’s probably right. Now if only he had a more memorable name! Bill Lawrence is the creator of _Scrubs_. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/35 "2005-07-05T19:40:10Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > What? No **[Fox](http://www.fox.com/schedule/schedule_fall.htm)**? It just wouldn’t be Fox without a canceled, but brilliant show, so I predict either American Dad, or Mad Tv will increase in quality, then get canceled two weeks later. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/36 "2005-07-05T19:49:27Z")
No, no **Scott** , its going to be Arrested Development. It’ll go out strong though and fans will threaten to storm Rupert’s office unless all the episodes are shown. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/37 "2005-07-05T19:54:11Z")
No, no, no. The Fox philosophy is to cancel a show just as it is getting good. To cancel a show after it has risked cancellation, and has been good for a long time misses the whole point! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/38 "2005-07-05T19:55:50Z")
I’ve already heard _CiC_ referred to derisively as _The Breast Wing_. That and the fact that everything Geena Davis has been associated with in the last decade has been unilaterally unbearable, and even a promising supporting cast does not bode well. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/39 "2005-07-05T20:23:49Z")
> [@thwartme](#): > > I’ve seen pilot screeners for [Everybody Hates Chris](http://www.tv.com/everybody-hates-chris/show/34457/summary.html), [Prison Break](http://www.tv.com/prison-break/show/31635/summary.html) and [Supernatural](http://www.tv.com/supernatural/show/30144/summary.html) > Of them Supernatural is the only one that I really enjoyed, and even that wasn’t anything earth-shattering. **Prison Break.** Yeah, how did I miss that? With Dominic Purcell from **John Doe** , another production doomed to extinction… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871/40 "2005-07-05T20:54:09Z")
OK, here’s my picks for next season: **She’s the Fuhrer** Geena Davis as Eva Braun, who takes over the Third Reich after Hitler dies in an amusing Blitz accident. **Boo!** The ghost of a murder victim solves murders. **CSI East Bumfuck, Kansas** Crack team of crime-solvers sits around and waits for one of the town’s five residents to start murdering someone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvs-new-fall-bombs-predictions/310871.md?page=3)