So by now you've probably heard about the new network being formed between CBS and Warner Brothers that will essentially replace both UPN and The WB. This is a good thing...as long as all the good shows from both networks get folded in for the fall. Read the latest Entertainment Weekly for the perfect lineup (which does include all of my favorite shows on the two networks plus the high profile Aquaman series in development for The WB).
Let's face it, while The WB has had some good shows over the years (Buffy, Angel, Smallville, Everwood to name a few), UPN has had exactly two since the network began in 1995 (Nowhere Man and Veronica Mars...and since Buffy moved there we're not going to count her...and Star Trek has been crap since Voyager started). So hopefully a good combination can be made and this new network can start beating the hell out of the old guys just as FOX has of late.
Meanwhile...it's mid-season time...so here's a look at what we've checked out so far...
Emily's Reasons Why Not was crap and was justly cancelled after one episode.
Jake In Progress was an interesting show last season that was brought back with too many oddball changes (all of a sudden Jake and Patrick were childhood friends when they had just met last season??). Also cancelled after airing one episode.
24 returned with an amazing 2 night 4 hour run that saw the demise of two MAJOR characters and threw the entire show into a tizzy. Sure the logic tends to defy logic (Tony being shot in the neck and then he's running around 3 episodes later), but it is pure fun and keeps you on the edge of your seat at all times. This season's plot is a doozy.
Love Monkey isn't bad, but having Tom Cavanaugh as the star reminds me way too much of Ed which I still miss (and that show needs to be on DVD).
Scrubs has also returned and hasn't missed a stride yet. 100 episodes and still going strong.
Four Kings is the same kind of crap that NBC has always used to glue their big "Must See TV" shows together. It should be gone before next season starts.
Crumbs is inetersting and humorous...but I'm going to give it a few more episodes before really reviewing it.
There are two reasons I decided to watch The Book of Daniel. 1) The Cast. The big names are good actors and I knew a few people who were background actors (so it was nice trying to spot them). 2) The controversy. Nothing gets me watching like people raising a ruckuss that we shouldn't be allowed to see something instead of just turning their damn TV off. The show itself was okay at best. I kept waiting to see if it got any better. I knew it didn't have long life left when the ads during the third episode were all for NBC programs and nothing else. It got cancelled the following week. Score 1 for the bad guys in spite of it being just "eh".
For those curious, the folks behind the interesting, but cancelled experiment Reunion revealed the potential killer in an interview but did state they may have taken it in another direction. It would have been the daughter who was given up for adpotion in the second episode (remember, the mystery was present day but each episode flashbacked to a different year starting 20 years ago in the pilot so we'd eventually reach present day and a solution to the mystery). Oh well.
Sci-Fi will begin broadcasting the new Doctor Who when Battlestar Galactica finishes it's second season at the end of March. If you like science fiction YOU MUST WATCH THIS SHOW (that also goes for Battlestar Galactica). I want to see the second season ASAP and don't want to have to jump thru hoops to do so.
Speaking of jumping thru hoops...Cartoon Network apparently took notice of all the activity on bittorrent sites concerning the new episodes of Justice League Unlimited that they were originally planning on airing this summer. The new episodes will now start in February (there are only 9 left before the season ends).
Well...I think that's all I've got today...
Be seeing you.
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