*** Television, Fall 2009 ***

[CourtasanSatine]

Any news on Wipeout and Leverage?

 

[bicker]

ABC ordered a third season of Wipeout for next summer on July 22. TNT ordered a third season of Leverage for next summer on August 27. (Six episodes of the second season will be broadcast this winter, even before that.)

 

[CourtasanSatine]

Thanks bicker!

 

[bicker]

Durham County premieres tonight on ION.

 

[IvyandLace]

Any news on HawthoRNe?

 

[bicker]

Any news on HawthoRNe?

Renewed for next summer.

 

[Tinker74]

Bicker...do you know whats happening with Drop dead diva?....we started watching this during our WDW vacation in July and now watch from the internet every week (we are in the uK).

We LOVE it...I don't know how many are left in this season..or if it will be back..I hope so...


Our other faves are LOST...the Mentalist..heroes and dexter.....Oh and DHW's

 

[bicker]

Bicker...do you know whats happening with Drop dead diva?

It isn't one of the shows I keep track of, but from what I can tell, it continues through mid-October, and has already been renewed for 2010.

 

[bicker]

Durham County

What I will be interested in seeing is whether ION broadcast this show widescreen or pillar-boxed. We do have ION in HD here, but I don't know if they have ever actually broadcast anything in HD. I'm pretty sure this series was produced in HD, so maybe it'll be broadcast in HD.

Strike One: No closed captioning! Hello! Are there no deaf people in Canada? That's usually enough to turn a television show into a reject for us, but we gave Durham County more of a chance.

Strike Two: How incredibly dull and depressing.

Strike Three: How incredibly pixelated! This is an OTA broadcast channel -- it is not compressed by Comcast; it is not 3-muxed. (It never even makes it to Comcast's HITS.)

And if that wasn't enough: I'm normally pretty tolerant of station identification bugs (overlays), but for some reason that orange dot that is part of the ION logo really bugged me.

Fail.

 

[bicker]

Sunday, September 13
Series Finale of King of the Hill (Fox)
Season Finale of True Blood (HBO)
Season Finale of Hung (HBO)
Season Finale of There Goes the Neighborhood (CBS)

Monday, September 14
Season Premiere of Lincoln Heights (ABC Family)
Season Premiere of One Tree Hill (CW)
Season Premiere of Gossip Girl (CW)
Series Premiere of The Jay Leno Show (NBC)

Tuesday, September 15
Season Premiere of The Biggest Loser (NBC)
Season Finale of More To Love (Fox)
Season Finale of Big Brother (CBS)
Season Finale of Shaq vs. (ABC)
Season Finale of The Cleaner (A&E)

Wednesday, September 16
Season Finale of America's Got Talent (NBC)
Season Finale of Wipeout (ABC)
Series Premiere of The Beautiful Life (CW)
Season Finale of Dark Blue (TNT)

The official start of the fall television season

Thursday, September 17
Season Premiere of Bones (Fox)
Season Premiere of Survivor (CBS)
Season Premiere of Parks & Recreation (NBC)
Season Premiere of Fringe (Fox)
Season Premiere of The Office (NBC)
Season Premiere of Community (NBC)
Season Premiere of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX)

Friday, September 18
Season Finale of Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader (Fox)
Season Finale of Eureka (Syfy)
Season Premiere of Crash (Starz)


Next week:
Season Premieres of Bored to Death, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dancing with the Stars, Heroes, House, How I Met Your Mother, Accidentally on Purpose, Two and a Half Men, Big Bang Theory, Castle, CSI: Miami, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Forgotten, The Good Wife, Mercy, Old Christine, Gary Unmarried, Criminal Minds, Law & Order, Modern Family, Cougar Town, CSI: NY, Eastwick, Flash Forward, Grey's Anatomy, CSI, The Mentalist, Brothers, Ghost Whisperer, Law & Order, Smallville, Medium, Dollhouse, Numb3rs, Saturday Night Live.
Season Finales of Ruby & the Rockits, Warehouse 13, The Colony.
Also, premieres of syndicated runs for Law and Order: SVU, My Name is Earl, The Office.

 

[bicker]

News of concern regarding Maura Tierney.

Maura Tierney quits 'Parenthood' for cancer treatments - From Inside the Box - Zap2it

 

[stacy347]

That is upsetting about Maura Tierney. I think she's a really talented actress and she seems like a genuinely nice person. I wish her all the best.




My Thursdays are going to be frustrating with all of these new shows. Flash Forward will be on opposite Vampire Diaries (which we watched and enjoyed tonight). I already have my heart set on Flash Forward and we are still on the darn waitlist for the DVR from Charter...ugh.

And then they are putting Community up against Fringe which is always a must-see for me.

Now DH tells me he wants to start watching Survivor this season again (we haven't watched the last 4 seasons I think). We do have 2 VCRs in the house still but life would be so much easier if Charter would just get on the ball with the DVR!!

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

That's very sad about Maura. I've loved her since she was on News Radio.

 

[bicker]

Monday, September 7
Premiere of Ghost Whisperer ... in Syndication (Syfy, Women's Entertainment, ION)

So the verdict here, in our house, is that Ghost Whisperer is worth watching. We missed it in first run, and really enjoyed the first episode, so we'll be recording as much of the rest as we can, and as our DVR can store. I suppose we might spend next summer filling in the gaps, via Netflix, as we have done in the past with X-Files, Alias, NCIS, and most recently Smallville.

Monday, September 7
Series Premiere of Durham County (in the US) (ION)

We rejected this show mostly on principle, i.e., that ION was not providing closed captioning for it. However, I think that this show might have gone over our heads, anyway: We just want to have some enjoyment, from television, and this show didn't seem like it was going to deliver that.

Wednesday, September 9
Season Finale of Leverage (TNT)

The twist with Jeri Ryan was excellent. We're really jazzed to see this show return in January.

Thursday, September 10
Series Premiere of Vampire Diaries (CW)

Good enough to watch, but not good enough to make a point of watching. Just to give you some idea where this show ranks in our estimation:

Our plan was to stop watching after Episode 2 because after that it'll be on against Bones and Flash Forward. Now, Flash Forward is going to be rebroadcast on Friday for at least the first two weeks. Doesn't matter to my wife and I; we're still going to record Flash Forward on Thursday (thereby bumping Vampire Diaries) "just in case" there is a problem with the Thursday recording of Flash Forward we have the Friday broadcast to make up for the problem.

So essentially, Vampire Diaries is worth watching, but not as much as having a backup plan for recording Flash Forward, a show we haven't even seen yet.

 

[bicker]

So the fall television season begins officially tomorrow. Finally! We've been looking at the bottom of the barrel here for weeks, so it'll be nice to have a good amount of great new stuff to watch.

We've been working our way though the take-down of SD-6 from Alias's first and second season. I think we have three hours left, so we'll just barely finish that off before the fall season starts backlogging.

I've been doing my back of the napkin computations again, and it doesn't look to me that we'll be watching many of the new series, even if we do record them. Between lots of new responsibilities and time commitments at church, I figure we'll barely be able to keep up with the returning series. So essentially, all the new shows (except for NCIS: Los Angeles and FlashForward) go into storage. And, of course, if they're killed early, we'll probably never watch them. Convenient.

Going back to the back of the napkin... even with all that, we're still going to run out of room on the DVR in November. Hmph.

 

[bicker]

That's very sad about Maura. I've loved her since she was on News Radio.

What do you think about the idea of having Parenthood built up around Helen Hunt instead? That's the word on the street -- that that's almost a done-deal already.

I think it's a pretty good idea. Helen Hunt's been gone from television for a while, and I think this could be a great way for her to make a return. And I think her movie career has been kind-of iffy since Pay It Forward and What Women Want.

 

[momrek06]

bicker:

The Real Housewives of Orange County. Season 5 Premier, November 5, 2009.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2285916

 

[momrek06]

bicker:

Real World/Road Rules Challenge - THE RUINS - September 30, 2009 MTV

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=33601089&posted=1#post33601089

 

[bicker]

Sunday, September 20
Emmy Awards (CBS) (which is why practically nothing else is on)
Season Premiere of Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)
Series Premiere of Bored to Death (HBO)

Monday, Septemeber 21
Syndication Premieres for Law & Order: SVU, My Name is Earl, The Office
Season Premiere of Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
Season Premiere of Heroes (NBC)
Season Premiere of House (Fox)
Season Premiere of How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
Series Premiere of Accidentally on Purpose (CBS)
Season Premiere of Two and a Half Men (CBS)
Season Premiere of Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Season Premiere of CSI: Miami (CBS)
Season Premiere of Castle (ABC)

Tuesday, September 22
Season Premiere of NCIS (CBS)
Season Finale of Ruby & The Rockits (ABC Family)
Series Premiere of NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)
Season Finale of Warehouse 13 (Syfy)
Season Finale of The Colony (Discovery)
Series Premiere of The Forgotten (ABC)
Series Premiere of The Good Wife (CBS)

Wednesday, September 23
Series Premiere of Mercy (NBC)
Season Premiere of Old Christine (CBS)
Season Premiere of Gary Unmarried (CBS)
Season Premiere of Criminal Minds (CBS)
Season Premiere of Law & Order: SVU (NBC)
Series Premiere of Modern Family (ABC)
Series Premiere of Cougar Town (ABC)
Season Premiere of CSI: NY (CBS)
Series Premiere of Eastwick (ABC)

Thursday, September 24
Series Premiere of FlashForward (ABC)
Season Premiere of CSI (CBS)
Season Premiere of Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
Season Premiere of The Mentalist (CBS)

Friday, September 25
Series Premiere of Brothers (Fox)
Season Premiere of Ghost Whisperer (CBS)
Season Premiere of Smallville (CW)
Season Premiere of Law & Order (NBC)
Season Premiere of Dollhouse (Fox)
Season Premiere of Medium (CBS)
Season Premiere of Numb3rs (CBS)

Saturday, September 26
Season Premiere of Saturday Night Live (NBC)


Next Week: Season Premieres of The Amazing Race, The Simpsons, The Cleveland Show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Desperate Housewives, Dexter, Family Guy, American Dad, Californication, Cold Case, Brothers & Sisters, Lie To Me, Trauma, Hank, The Hills, The Middle, Private Practice, Til Death, Stargate Universe.

 

[donald&daisy]

So much tv, so little time....