Back to You on FOX

[genlock]

Not too bad.

The little fat news director was spot on.

(fixed for ARP)

[Bob Campbell]

I laughed out loud a couple times. Of course they had me at "Pittsburgh".
I have to watch to see if they mention places I used to hang out.

[Arp2]

Not too bad.

I think it's the only new show I'm adding. Well, there's Survivor, too...it has a WWE Diva and a radio personality. If/when they exit, I'll be done with it for another decade, I'm sure. Oh....Kid Nation, too. I hated it (it reeked of the same "casting" as any other "reality" show), but I'll watch it. At least another time or two.

The little fat news director...

He actually wasn't fat...he was just kinda round and round-faced...an endomorph....

He made me laugh.....

...was sopt on.

Whoa! Slow down, there, cowboy! This was a mere sitcom debut, not porn!


Regarding other tv, I'm considering dropping CSI, CSI:Miami, TNA:Impact, and, believe it or not, Heroes. They all seem irrelevant and/or unrewarding at this point.

And what happened to cable reality shows Hey Paula, Confessions Of A Matchmaker, and The Springer Hustle? Though teasing next episodes, all three seemingly vanished without completing their seasons/series.

[Bob Campbell]

CSI is starting to lose me but Heroes is still my hero. My new guilty pleasure is Flash Gordon, I don't know why, maybe it's the chicks.

[Ace Purple]

Back To You had a good first show rating. I missed the first episode, but I'll be adding it to my DVR program list.

[Big Media]

Finally watched this on Tivo last night. This will be this year's hit. No doubt.

[Arp2]

Replying to my own post....feels very weird.....

Not too bad.

I think it's the only new show I'm adding.

....although I'm finding I almost have to BT it to get to see it. This is the first year where I must rely on VOD, internet VOD, and BT to see what I want.

Which is stunning me. And frustrating me.

And making me wonder what I'm doing with my life.

Well, there's Survivor, too...it has a WWE Diva and a radio personality. If/when they exit, I'll be done with it for another decade, I'm sure.

I get an hour back on Thursday nights....

There were five programs my DVR wanted to record between 8 and 9 Thursday night! There were 9.5 hours of programming I wanted to see between 8 and 11!

Dang competition.......!

...and all this while there's almost nothing, at all, on Wednesday nights.

Advertising-driven TV schedules appear just as likely to be killing TV as advertising-driven radio formats are contributing significantly to the possible killing of radio....although backwards/reversed. To accomodate ad-buyers, TV jams all its best content into one or two nights, forcing viewers into missing content they would more than gladly watch on other nights; also to accomodate ad-buyers, radio jams all its content into one or two demos, denying any content at all to those who would otherwise gladly listen to radio to get it.

We're all longterm stupid.

Oh....Kid Nation, too. I hated it (it reeked of the same "casting" as any other "reality" show), but I'll watch it. At least another time or two.

I'll probably go through to the finish....and hate myself.....

Regarding other tv, I'm considering dropping CSI, CSI:Miami, TNA:Impact, and, believe it or not, Heroes. They all seem irrelevant and/or unrewarding at this point.

Keeping CSI, CSI:Miami, and Heroes (which, so far this year, is about five times as interesting as last year's was)....really thinking I need to drop TNA:Impact (they picked the absolute worst time to double the length of a show that makes no sense, has no point, cannot be understood, and is almost worthless)....

New TV season shocks and frustrations:

NBC just loves to Tivo-bork...in the NBC case, some programs (the 9p ones, I believe) are scheduled for :61, bumping a following program on another channel.

College football on Sunday night??? And Tuesday night???

CNBC has seemingly walked right into FBN's strategy, apparently not having a clue just how Northeast- and NY-centric they are (FBN's attack is based on "CNBC is Wall-Street-focused; FBN will be Main-Street-focused"). In fact, in the last two or three weeks, CNBC has actually been running promos for WNBC's new "New York Nightly News" 7p newscast, saying that there's finally a newscast when you're at home to see it. And CNBC just shelved "On The Money," the younger-ish, more casual, business-news-oriented (as opposed to the strong market-lean throughout the day), 7p wrap-up of the day, again seemingly leaving themselves wide-open for an FBN attack.

Ugly Betty, which began as one of the cuter and funnier shows in memory, has completely devolved into a gay-themed, hyper-speed soap opera that is now completely inappropriate for the 8/7p slot.

Fox said the remaining episodes of Anchorwoman would be made available on the internet; that never happened.

[Big Media]

Here is a list of my season passes. Some of these obviously belong to the wife but you get the picture. I gotta say, I am very impressed with K-Ville, Dirty Sexy Money, and Journeyman. I just realized I need to move it up in priorities.

edit 1 Grey's Anatomy WCHS All First Run
edit 2 House WVAH All First Run
edit 3 Friday Night Lights WSAZ All First Run
edit 4 Private Practice WCHS All First Run
edit 5 Dancing With the Stars WCHS 5 Repeats & FR
edit 6 Boston Legal WCHS All First Run
edit 7 'Til Death WVAH All First Run
edit 8 How I Met Your Mother WOWK All First Run
edit 9 Jericho WOWK All First Run
edit 10 K-Ville WVAH 5 Repeats & FR
edit 11 Back to You WVAH 5 Repeats & FR
edit 12 Chuck WSAZ 5 Repeats & FR
edit 13 Gossip Girl WQCW 5 Repeats & FR
edit 14 Dirty Sexy Money WCHS 5 Repeats & FR
edit 15 The Big Bang Theory WOWK 5 Repeats & FR
edit 16 Life Is Wild WQCW All Repeats & FR
edit 17 Aliens in America WQCW All Repeats & FR
edit 18 Carpoolers WCHS All Repeats & FR
edit 19 Reaper WQCW All Repeats & FR
edit 20 Dirty Jobs DSC All First Run
edit 21 Survivorman DSC All Repeats & FR
edit 22 Anthony Bourdain: No ReservationsTRAV All First Run
edit 23 Man vs. Wild DSC All Repeats & FR
edit 24 Modern Marvels HIST All First Run
edit 25 WSAZ NewsChannel 3 Six O'Clock WSAZ 2 Repeats & FR
edit 26 WSAZ NewsChannel 3 Tonight WSAZ 2 Repeats & FR
edit 27 America's Funniest Home Videos WCHS 5 Repeats & FR
edit 28 Journeyman WSAZ All Repeats & FR

[The People's DJ]

really thinking I need to drop TNA:Impact (they picked the absolute worst time to double the length of a show that makes no sense, has no point, cannot be understood, and is almost worthless)....

Wait. Its taken you this long to figure that out?

After the first 3 shows for me.

[Arp2]

really thinking I need to drop TNA:Impact (they picked the absolute worst time to double the length of a show that makes no sense, has no point, cannot be understood, and is almost worthless)....

Wait. Its taken you this long to figure that out?

After the first 3 shows for me.

I'm dumb like that.

Although I "watch" a lot of tv, I don't really watch a lot of TV. Last night, I watched it. From a recliner. From a recliner in which I dozed off several times. I forced myself to stay awake for the main event and was just unbelievably confused by it. The heels are now babies? How and when did I miss that? And there was so much action so fast from so many (half of whom I either didn't recognize or couldn't tell apart) that I had no idea what was happening. Or why. Or what it had to do with the supposed "Superbowl and World Series all wrapped into one" coming up this Sunday. And the finish came from one of the least-impressive moves of the previous few minutes. And that Kurt Angle stuff, along with Sting's reactions,....well, what kind of nonsense was that?

And they now demand that I spend twice as much time confused and dozing off?

Yeah.....that's just gotta go.

[genlock]

Kelly Carr character reminds me of Sandra Cole.
Wish Sandra dressed like Kelly Carr.

[Dave Allen]

I didn't care for the first episode. Didn't see the second one. Tonite's was pretty good.