*** Television Winter 2010 ***

[bicker]

Added some Fox details, including delay of the start of Sons of Tuscon; addition of Our Little Genius, Past Life, and Kitchen Nightmares.

Also, paradoxically, it appears as if CW has given up on Wednesday night.

Also 100 Questions has been pulled from the winter schedule.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

Did I miss something? Where's Lost? Isn't that supposed to start in January?

 

[bicker]

February 2:

Tuesday
9:00-10:00 pm
__________ABC: Scrubs [continues] / Better Off Ted [continues] (later: Lost [2/2])

Tuesday, February 2
Lost (ABC)

 

[bicker]

Things aren't quite settled yet, but the winter is coming into better view, given Fox's releases this past week. Looks like the winter is going to be less interesting than the fall was, for us. This is what we're probably going to have our DVR recording:

Sunday
8:00-9:00 pm
__________Fox: The Simpsons [returns 1/10]
9:00-10:00 pm
__________ABC: Desperate Housewives [continues]
__________CBS: Three Rivers [continues]
__________HBO: Big Love [1/10]
10:00-11:00 pm
__________ABC: Brothers & Sisters [continues]

And this is being generous. We have only watched one episode of Three Rivers (the rest are waiting on our TiVo), and have about six episodes of Brothers and Sisters stacked up. As long as we have hard disk space we'll continue to record these two, but I doubt we'll watch all of them.

Monday
8:00-9:00 pm
__________CBS: How I Met Your Mother [continues] / Accidentally On Purpose [continues]
__________Fox: House [returns 1/25]
__________NBC: Chuck [1/10]
9:00-10:00 pm
__________Fox: 24 [1/17]
__________NBC: Heroes [continues on 1/4]
__________ABC: Castle [continues]
__________TNT: Men of a Certain Age [continues]

Monday 8PM continues to be one of the biggest hours of television, for us, now with Chuck, House and the CBS comedies. How I Met Your Mother is pretty consistently good, and Accidentally On Purpose is just about the funniest show on television now AFAIC. Unfortunately, we end up recording both on our old SD DVR (which probably won't work starting this coming Monday, when we switch to FiOS).

I totally missed that we're going to have a conflict between 24, Heroes and Castle. (The cable program, Men of a Certain Age, will be rerun a couple of hours later, so no conflict there.) I'm going to have to fight that one out with my wife. My preference would be to catch Castle in reruns.

Tuesday
8:00-9:00 pm
__________CBS: NCIS [continues]
__________Fox: American Idol [1/12]
9:00-10:00 pm
__________ABC: Lost [2/2]
__________CBS: NCIS: Los Angeles [continues]
__________Fox: (American Idol - starts at 8:00)
10:00-11:00 pm
__________ABC: The Forgotten [continues]
__________CBS: The Good Wife [continues]

No real conflict here. The three-way conflict at 9PM is irrelevant; we don't necessary need to watch American Idol in HD, and heck I'm not sure how much longer we're going to be watching NCIS: Los Angeles anyway. The Forgotten is another show we're just recording, but not watching.

Wednesday
8:00-9:00 pm
__________NBC: Mercy [continues]
9:00-10:00 pm
__________ABC: Modern Family [continues]
__________CBS: Criminal Minds [continues]
__________Fox: Human Target [1/20]
10:00-11:00 pm
__________ABC: Eastwick [continues] [Ending by mid-January]
__________TNT: Leverage [1/13]

No real conflict here either. First of all, we're just going to watch one episode of Human Target. I doubt we'll like it enough to keep it. However, if we do, still no real conflict: We haven't watched Criminal Minds for almost a year.

Thursday
8:00-9:00 pm
__________ABC: Flash Forward [continues]
__________CW: Vampire Diaries [returns 1/21]
__________Fox: Bones [returns 1/14]
__________NBC: Community [continues]
9:00-10:00 pm
__________ABC: Grey's Anatomy [continues]
__________Fox: Fringe [returns 1/14 - winter finale 2/4] ; Then Past Life [2/11]
__________USA: Burn Notice [1/28]
10:00-11:00 pm
__________ABC: Private Practice [continues]
__________CBS: The Mentalist [continues]
__________FX: Archer [1/14]
__________USA: White Collar [returns 1/28]

Thursday 8PM is the overall champion for season pass conflicts on TiVo this fall, I believe. We handled this this fall by not watching Vampire Diaries (figure if it is good, we'll catch reruns) and recording Community on our SD DVR (which, again, may not work after Monday). The 9PM and 10PM conflicts are no real conflict... the cable shows are rerun.

Friday
8:00-9:00 pm
__________CW: Smallville [continues]
9:00-10:00 pm
__________CBS: Medium [continues]
__________Fox: Dollhouse [continues; ending 1/22]
__________Syfy: Caprica [1/22]
10:00-11:00 pm
__________CBS: Numb3rs [continues] [Ending in February] (later: TBD)
__________Syfy: Sanctuary [continues] [Ending by mid-January]
__________USA: Psych [return 1/29]

That 10PM TBD is probably Flashpoint, but again, the cable shows are rerun, so no real conflict.

Saturday

That is just about the same amount of television that we've been recording this fall, except for the fact that so many of the shows listed above are ending in January or February (Eastwick, Sanctuary, Numb3rs, Dollhouse). To be fair, this list doesn't include the shows not yet scheduled, Parenthood, Copper, The Bridge, Day One, etc. However, overall still a much "lighter" line-up than we had in the fall, since there are always some shows added to our Season Pass list later. For example, this fall, White Collar was one show added later.

 

[bicker]

Perhaps sensing an opportunity, Psych has been moved from Friday to Wednesday, up against Eastwick, CSI: NY, Leno, Leverage and Being Erica.

 

[bicker]

Updated the winter schedule to reflect that Three Rivers has been removed from the schedule, despite having had three episodes added to its series order.

 

[bicker]

Added Durham County, Damages, Inbetweeners and Demons, to the grid and list, and added Inbetweeners, Demons and Survivors to the What's New? message.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Have to tune into "Demons"...thanks.

What about "Being Human", a BBC show?

 

[bicker]

The first season of Being Human was broadcast on BBC America this past summer. There is no word on when the second season will be broadcast in the US. (It will be broadcast in the UK starting next month.)

Syfy has ordered its own reimagining of the series, for presentation either next summer or during the 2010-2011 season.

 

[bicker]

At the end of tonight's Flash Forward, they indicated that the show would not be returning with new episodes until March.

Given that there are 25 episodes in the season, that would extend the season into late June, barring two hour episodes.

 

[bicker]

V will be returning in the Spring, as originally planned, in The Forgotten's time slot.

 

[CourtasanSatine]

Why the suddent long gaps between new epsiodes? SPN is not back till at least mid Janurary.

 

[bicker]

People generally watch less episodic television during the December holidays.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

The first season of Being Human was broadcast on BBC America this past summer. There is no word on when the second season will be broadcast in the US. (It will be broadcast in the UK starting next month.)

Syfy has ordered its own reimagining of the series, for presentation either next summer or during the 2010-2011 season.

Ah so no word yet.

And SyFy is going to take it and hack on it? Hence the word "reimaging"?

I have been watching Hex reruns on the BBC. Cool show.

 

[bicker]

I suspect that Syfy will make it more appropriate for its target audience, which is increasingly female and increasingly less-so the kind of people who enjoy foreign shows the way foreign audiences like them.

 

[Missy1961]

At the end of tonight's Flash Forward, they indicated that the show would not be returning with new episodes until March.

Given that there are 25 episodes in the season, that would extend the season into late June, barring two hour episodes.

I think FF had it's order cut--they're making less episodes. I think I read that in TV Guide a week or so ago.

And ABC did the same thing to Life on Mars last year--then cancelled it.

 

[bicker]

My best source for this kind of info, thefutoncritic.com, is not showing any series episode order cut for Flash Forward... they're still supposed to get 25 episodes in -- 15 between March 4 and May 26.

I need to revise my speculation, though... I believe that they had planned, from the start, for episode #22 to occur on April 29. I do not believe that they're going to mess up that synchronicity. So that means that the double episodes would necessarily need to take place earlier, probably in April, perhaps even including a two-hour event on April 29, itself.

The other possibility is that they're aiming to handle Flash Forward as Fox handled did Drive, in 2007, deliberately programming it into June, in an effort to keep folks watching television into the summer.

At this point, I wouldn't have much hope that Flash Forward will be renewed into 2010-2011. We watch it, but quite frankly, the writing is not really good enough to demand renewal. At this point, I think it is great of ABC to continue paying for the series, and presenting it, so that those (relatively few) of us watching can see how it ends.

 

[bicker]

Just an update... apparently the events of April 29, itself, have always been supposed to extend over several (let's call it three) episodes. As such, then that means that they can have episode #20 air on April 29 (the beginning of the day, instead of the end of the day). I still think it would end up working out the other way, with the last of three double episodes on April 29, itself, and then the aftermath covered in three one-hour episodes, May 6, 13, 20.

 

[bicker]

I've added information about upcoming ABC series "The Deep End" (running for six weeks during the winter in the Thursday night 8PM slot) to the first few messages in this thread.

 

[bicker]

Added Parenthood, starting March 1, taking over Heroes' Monday 9PM time slot.