What new TV shows do you want to see?

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The fall premieres are coming. As usual, most look like crap, but there are some which show potential:

ABC

Bob Patterson, starring Jason Alexander as a motivational speaker who doesn’t practice what he preaches. If it lives up to its clever advertising, it ought to be funny. With Robert Klein.

NBC

Law and Order: Criminal Intent looks like a worthy addition to the L&O franchise, but it’s going to be on opposite The X-Files, so I’ll probably miss more than a few episodes.

Inside Schwartz, a sitcom about “an athletics-obsessed sportscaster whose inner thoughts and fantasies are revealed through personal conversations with sports figures.” Looks to be a litle weird, though they’ll have to be careful with the gimmick of star athletes appearing in every episode. It’s on after Friends.

CBS If it weren’t for Everybody Loves Raymond, Becker, CSI, David Letterman and the NFL, I wouldn’t watch CBS at all! The only new show that shows potential is Wolf Lake and it’s on opposite Law and Order on NBC!

The WB

Only one new series looks promising: Smallville. Clark Kent before he became Superman. It looks like it will be done as a serious drama. (That is, I hope it will be.) Annette O’Toole plays Martha Kent; in Superman 3, she was Lana Lang.

On UPN, there is only one new show with potential: Enterprise. And they’ll probably blow it.

One new FOX show deserves a post (if not a thread) all its own: Can you guess which one?

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I’m looking forward to Enterprise on UPN, 24 on FOX, Citizen Baines and The Education of Max Bickford (2 Oscar winning actors?!) on CBS, and Alias on ABC.

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  • Enterprise * is a given.

Also, I’d like to see 24 even though I’m not a big Keifer Sutherland fan, the show show has potential. Hopefully, the network will allow the show to play the entire season (which covers exactly one day).

Sorry, but I think that Bob Patterson will tank just like Michael Richard’s show. Jason Alexander, IMHO, is a no-talent hack who can drag down any show he’s in.

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I’m really looking forward to that new UPN show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

And I am also eagerly anticipating The Tick on FOX, if for no other reason than I hope it will inspire someone to repeat the animated series so I can finally see/tape the six episodes I’m missing.

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The Tick is the show I most want to see. And yet, I doubt it will last more than one season because it will probably be too weird for most.

I give honorable mention to 24 for having an original premise: an entire series devoted to a single day.

Notice that I am NOT looking forward to any “reality” series. The one game show I saw this year that I wish was still on is You Don’t Know Jack with Paul Reubens as host Troy Stevens. It wouldn’t surprise me that some viewers didn’t realize that even though the game and the contestants were real, Reubens was playing a character. Or else they thought the game was as fake as the host.

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jab1 said:

Aw, come on! The Amazing Race looks good. The Mole 2 should be good, too. And, of course, Survivor 3.

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Lost

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The new FOX show 24 is the one I want to see. Not so much for a show that takes one season to tell…but mainly for Kiefer Sutherland. <dreamy sigh> Ohhhhhh, yeah.

Might be a slow moving season. Next year, they’ll only be on day two. And the year after that…

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Enterprise looks like it might be decent.

I’m also gonna check out 24, and Thieves.

Scrubs looks like it might be good for a laugh.
But overall, I’m really looking forward to the second season of Dark Angel.
I hate to say it, but Bob Paterson looks like it’s gonna suck. I just get a feeling of dread everytime I see the trailer for it.

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I’m not entirely positive what network it’s on but Philly looks really good. Tom Everett Scott and Kim Delany are both good actors.

Smallville looks promising as well, I just hope some Canadian network picks it up or I’m screwed.

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shoulda looked before I posted. It’s on ABC

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I’m planning on listening to a lot of radio next TV season.

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I’m guesing you’re talking about 24.
I can’t wait to see it.

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In regards to the new, live-action The Tick I don’t get why they changed American Maid & Die Fledermaus to Captain Liberty & Batmanuel. I mean Die Fledermaus is a little obscure, but Batmanuel isn’t much clearer!

From the clips it looks even better than the animated series. Which probably means it won’t last 13 episodes…

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{quote]In regards to the new, live-action The Tick I don’t get why they changed American Maid & Die Fledermaus to Captain Liberty & Batmanuel. I mean Die Fledermaus is a little obscure, but Batmanuel isn’t much clearer!
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FOX holds copyright on those names, Ben Edlund (or possibly New England Comics) holds copyright for the Tick and Arthur, having written them in his original comic book series.

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I might try watching Pasadena(Balthazar Getty is in it,) Alias, Smallville and Thieves, as long as they don’t have the same time slots as any of the shows I currently watch, but they probably will. I plan to avoid Bob Patterson and all reality shows.

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I am also looking forward to Smallville.

I also want to see The Mole 2, Survivor 3, and The Amazing Race. Actually, The Amazing Race started this past Wednesday. It’s pretty good.

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The Tick is the only one that interests me, but if I know myself, I’ll never watch it.

I’m glad Fox is showing its support of unusual, risky shows by sentencing to death opposite Survivor.

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Jeannie said:

I agree on all counts. Did anybody see the premiere of Lost? I taped it but haven’t gotten around to watching it yet. I know it’s gotten panned by reviewers (especially in comparison to Amazing Race).

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I’m looking forward to the WB shows “Yo, Bitch”, “Damn, Yo Shit Be All Up in My Face” and “Damn!”.