So now that CBS has made their final tweaks, I was looking at what's coming up this summer, with the summer season starting on Friday.... and I'm not sure there's gonna be enough for us!
Sunday
9:00-10:00 pm
__________ABC: Scoundrels [6/20]
__________AMC: Rubicon [8/1]
__________HBO: True Blood [6/13]
Scoundrels seemed weak, but y'know, it's commercials have been growing on me. We'll watch the first episode and decide.
Rubicon looks like it could be as good as Mad Men.
No problem with having three shows and only two tuners in the DVR: We don't actually have HBO.
We're actually a full season behind on True Blood, so we're going to be catching last season on disc, from Blockbuster.
Sunday
10:00-11:00 pm
__________ABC: The Gates [6/20]
__________AMC: Mad Men [7/25]
__________Showtime: The Real L Word [6/20]
__________TNT: Leverage [6/20]
The Gates also looked weak, originally, but we'll record it and see what the buzz on the street is.
No problem with having four shows and only two tuners in the DVR. We don't have Showtime, and are actually a season behind with The L Word, so we'll be catching that on disc, from Blockbuster. And Leverage is repeated a couple of hours later.
Monday
8:00-9:00 pm
__________Fox: Lie To Me [6/7]
9:00-10:00 pm
__________TNT: The Closer [7/12]
10:00-11:00 pm
__________Showtime: Weeds [8/16]
__________TNT: Saving Grace [continues]; then Rizzoli & Isles [7/12]
Yet-again, we're a season behind with Weeds, so we'll catch it on disc, from Blockbuster.
Tuesday
8:00-9:00 pm
__________ABC: Wipeout [6/1, 6/22]
9:00-10:00 pm
__________Syfy: Warehouse 13 [7/13]
__________USA: White Collar [7/13]
10:00-11:00 pm
__________A&E: The Glades [7/13]
__________USA: Covert Affairs [7/13]
The Glades is another show we'll record but probably not watch.
Covert Affairs looks like a very good companion to White Collar.
Wednesday
9:00-10:00 pm
__________Bravo: Top Chef [6/16]
10:00-11:00 pm
__________USA: Psych [7/21]
Not much going on on Wednesday.
Thursday
8:00-9:00 pm
__________CW: Vampire Diaries (encores)
9:00-10:00 pm
__________ABC: Rookie Blue [6/24]
__________USA: Burn Notice [6/3]
10:00-11:00 pm
__________USA: Royal Pains [6/3]
We'll record Rookie Blue only because it stars the woman who played Andi in Reaper. We probably won't end-up watching it.
We missed the second half of the season for Vampire Diaries (because it was on up against FlashForward and Bones). I hope they rerun the second half of the season... they're starting back up again with Episode 1, so there doesn't actually seem like there is going to be enough time to catch up...
Friday
9:00-10:00 pm
__________CBS: Flashpoint [6/4]
__________Syfy: Eureka [7/9]
10:00-11:00 pm
__________Starz: Pillars of the Earth [7/23]
__________Syfy: Haven [7/9]
We don't have Starz, so we'll actually have to wait a year or so for Pillars of the Earth.
Haven looks like it could be
very good... we're really looking forward to it.
Saturday
9:00-10:00 pm
__________BBC America: Doctor Who [continues] then Being Human [7/24]
We've been recording Doctor Who, but holding off watching them, waiting for the video discs, because we don't get BBC American in HD here.
So for those keeping count, that's about 19 hours of television (not counting the shows that we're recording but probably won't be watching), which probably could be enough for us, except a lot of what you're seeing there are series that start later in July, or end by July, so figure in any specific week, that list represent about 14 hours, which is a little thin for us. Even during the summer we tend to watch about 16-17 hours. (Really, 13 hours, but since we DVR everything, 17 hours broadcast = 13 hours of watching time, skipping over the commercials.)
Taking out the shows that I mentioned above that we'd be watching on disc, that's about two or three hours less programming than what we recorded last year. A thinner summer in terms of what looks good to watch, to us.
We will make up for the two gaps (the gap between what we recorded last year versus what we will record this year; and the overall gap between the 14 hours of programming that are listed above, and the 16-17 hours that we typically watch over the summer) with more discs from Blockbuster. We've got Dexter queued up, as well as The Tudors, Nurse Jackie, and some movies, including Sherlock Holmes, Time Traveler's Wife, Angels & Demons, New Moon, etc.
How does this summer look like its shaping up for you?
