I’ve been rereading the extensive list of shows that will be on ABC and CBS and NBC and FOX and the CW. I came to the conclusion that there probably isn’t a single new show that I’ll start watching. I’ve ODed on police procedurals, the comedies don’t sound particularly funny, and the few shows I might have given a chance to (ABC’s Pan Am, about the hassles of being an airline stewardess in the 1960s, for one) won’t last more than a month.
This is not such a bad thing, mind you. Every year for the last couple at least, I say I’m not going to add any more new shows to my DVR recording. two years ago, I lapsed and started to watch The Good Wife, but last year, nada. (I don’t think so, anyway.)
Are there any new shows YOU are looking forward to? I feel that I should be into FOX’s Terra Nova, especially with Steven Spielberg’s name attached, but I’m just not.
There is a trend for 50s and 60s nostaligia at the moment. In the UK, we’re just about to get The Hour set around a fictitious BBC new programme during the Suez Crisis in 1956 and starring Dominic West from The Wire.
In August we have Page Eight, a modern spy thiller with a killer cast including Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon and Ralph Fiennes.
But as always in the aumtumn, I’ll be looking forward to the next neries of Spooks.
I watch two hours of programmed television a week; I don’t expect that to change. I really do prefer a good – or even a cheesy – book to the Tube.
Would you believe me if I told you that I never or almost never watch TV?
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Hope you are having a nice and happy weekend, Roger****
You know, Roger, we just shut off our cable – rather reluctantly, but we are trying to pay off Lex’s divinity school debt and hope someday to own our first home, probably a condo.
We DID get BBC-America, AKA “The Bamber Broadcasting Network,” because Jamie Bamber (a cutie if there ever was one. Think Hugh Grant without the attitude.) is on THREE shows – repeats of Battlestar Gallactica, the remake of which was phenomenal; Law & Order/UK, which I believe they tried to export without success but which features Bill Paterson, among other great Brits; and some new Sci-Fi show.
There is nothing new. That’s why we have Netflix! Thanks for the reminder about what a Murdoch/GE/Whoever else sewer the networks have become. Reality shows, exploitation of women, and mean videos of people getting hurt. I mean, if they would at least show some curling or other Canadian sports, I’d be there…! Amy
Fearless prediction: If ‘Pan-Am’ survives the entire season, its year-one season finale will have one of its planes going down. You heard it here first.