Here's ABC's new fall lineup, but first a moment of silence for those not returning:
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Crumbs -- 5 episodes of 8 aired -- I really liked this quirky sitcom. I was sorry to see it go.
Emily's Reasons Why Not -- 1 episode of 6 aired -- I really disliked this boring sitcom and was not sorry to see it go.
Jake In Progress -- 2 seasons/17 episodes/3 unaired -- This show had a good first season and then got changed too much to make the second feel like it was a continuation anyway. It's too bad. It had potential.
Miracle Workers -- 5 episodes of 7 aired -- This reality show featured doctors helping people. I hate to be cynical about things, but haven't we seen enough of that on TV? Don't we want more escapist fare? Apparently we did (or at least more Deal or No Deal).
Sons and Daughters -- 10 episodes of 11 aired -- Missed this entirely. Well...I didn't so much as miss it as didn't bother to check it out.
Alias -- 5 seasons/103 episodes -- What started off as a great show slowly devolved into a mess. I haven't seen much on season 4 yet as after season 2 this became a DVD exclusive show for us. Don't tell me what happens cause I don't know when I'll get around to seeing the end. The first four seasons are on DVD. Season 5 should be out this fall.
Commander in Chief -- 15 episodes of 18 aired -- What started off as the highest rated new show of the 2005-2006 season quickly because one of its lowest for a variety of reasons. Replacing the show's creator never helps. Keeping the show off the air for months to retool it also never helps. Luckily, the last episodes will be burned off (starting the end of this month) and no one will have to buy the DVD set (assuming it's still coming...but I bet they change the title from "Inaugural Edition" to something else).
Hot Properties -- 13 episodes -- While I'm pretty sure there's a successful sitcom to be based in the world of Real Estate, this wasn't it.
Night Stalker -- 4 episodes of 10 aired -- The worst part of this show was the fact that it didn't change its title or character names. Instead of getting a remake of a cult TV series, we got a complete re-invention. It wasn't bad once you got past the idea that this wasn't the same old Carl Kolchak. It got cancelled in the middle of a two part story. Damn you ABC. Luckily, the whole show arrives on DVD at the end of the month and SciFi starts rerunning all the episodes this summer.
Freddie -- 22 episodes -- Not a big fan of Freddie Prinze, Jr. (though his stints on Boston Legal as Donnie Crane were fun). So I never caught this show.
Hope & Faith -- 3 seasons/73 episodes -- This was a mildly amusing sitcom that wasted the talents of a number of people. The walking definition of cute.
Invasion -- 22 episodes -- The series finale airs tomorrow night, so it'll be interesting to see if things get wrapped up or not (they didn't know cancellation was coming when they filmed what would have been the season finale). This was the BEST new show of the 2005-2006 season. Sure it took a while to get into it, but like a great story once it hooked you, it kept its fingers in you. I'll be back with a more in depth review of the whole series when it gets released on DVD later this summer (assuming that release still happens).
Rodney -- 2 Seasons/36 episodes -- Never saw it, never will.
In Justice -- 13 episodes -- This should have been a show I'd watch. Lawyers trying to free the wrongly convicted, led by Kyle Maclachlan? I watch too much TV as it is and there wasn't anything new here that would hook me, after all it's still a lawyer show.
The Evidence -- 6 episodes/2 unaired -- Orlando Jones & Rob Estes starred in yet another procedural cop show. Had they given it a twist (like Orlando Jones shoots 7-Up cans out his butt) maybe it'd have lasted longer.
MONDAYS
8pm Wife Swap
9pm The Bachelor
10pm What About Brian
I have nothing to say about any of these returning shows. I don't watch them.
TUESDAYS
8pm Dancing With The Stars -- Yawn.
9pm Let's Rob...Donal Logue (Grounded For Life) stars in this sitcom about a group of friends who decide to break into Mick Jagger's apartment. Jagger appears briefly in the pilot, but I'd like to know what happens when they pull off the heist. It is a sitcom after all...not a drama. But it is from the creators of Ed, so there may be more there than we can currently see.
9:30 Help Me Help You -- It's group therapy with Ted Danson, Jane Kaczmarek and Jere Burns (wait...didn't he do the group therapy thing in Dear John).
10pm Boston Legal -- Sure it's gotten a bit silly this season, but it's still entertaining.
WEDNESDAYS
8pm Dancing With The Stars -- A Double Yawn!
9pm Lost -- With season two being mostly one step forward, two steps back I'm hoping season three will pick up the pace a bit. Not that slow pacing is bad, but after a while it gets infuriating. The first season is on DVD. Season 2 arrives on DVD just before the start of season 3. The most interesting theory I've read about the show connects it to Shakespeare's The Tempest and the 50s sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet (also based on Shakespeare's play and getting its own DVD special edition, finally, this fall).
10pm The Nine -- This show follows a hostage crisis over 52 hours. Sounds interesting. The cast ups the ante. Starring Chi McBride, Tim Daly, Kim Raver (guess Audrey's not returning to 24 next season), Scott Wolf (guess Jake's not returning to Everwood next season...assuming it even returns..we'll find out Thursday) and John Billingsly (guess the Vice President's brother won't be turning up alive for much longer on Prison Break next season...not that the VP will be around either...check out ABC's Sunday night schedule). This is a must see for me.
THURSDAYS
8pm Big Day -- Imagine Father of the Bride crossed with 24 and you've got this show that follows the planning of a wedding from the beginning of the season to the end. I wonder what a second season would get us? Marla Sokoloff and Josh Bloom are the young couple.
8:30 Notes From The Underground -- This sitcom is about a young couple having a baby. At least this way if it succeeds they can't "jump the shark" by adding a kid.
9pm Grey's Anatomy -- Didn't care much for this show when it premiered. Still don't. Season 1 is on DVD.
10pm Six Degrees -- The creators of Lost bring us a new drama in which six strangers affect each others lives in unknown ways and are slowly drawn together. That's pretty vague huh? So's the cast, but I'd follow these guys off a cliff for an episode just to see where they're going.
FRIDAYS
8pm Betty The Ugly -- Salma Hayek produces this hour long comedy about a large Latino lady who winds up working in the fashion industry.
9pm Men In Trees -- Anne Heche stars as a relationship coach. Yawn
10pm 20/20
SATURDAYS
8pm Saturday Night College Football
SUNDAYS
7pm America's Funniest Home Videos -- are there any men aside from me and six people I know know who have yet to been hit in the crotch and embarassed on national TV?
8pm Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
9pm Desperate Housewives -- Season 2 got a bit silly at times and I wish Bree would get her come uppance, but I look forward to seeing where this goes. Season 1 is on DVD. Season 2 arrives this summer.
10pm Brothers & Sisters -- The biggest problem I have with this family style soap opera-ish show (from descriptions) is that Patricia Wettig is part of the cast. If she's here, who's running the country over on Prison Break? Even though it has a good cast (which also includes Calista Flockhart, Ron Rifkin, Balthazar getty and Rachel Griffiths) and is from Marti Noxon (one of the writers from Buffy The Vampire Slayer) I have ZERO interest in this show.
MIDSEASON REPLACEMENTS/RETURNS
Day Break -- Taye Diggs stars as Eliza Dushku (just kidding, but not really) in this show from Rob Bowman (of The X-Files). Here we have a cop who wakes up to find himself accused of killing someone and has to uncover the clues to his framing. Unfortunately, he wakes up the same day every day...just like in Tru Calling. We'll see.
Traveller -- Two friends are accused of a terrorist act and are hopeful that a third can clear them, but they discover that he may not have existed in the first place. Wrap up every action & sci-fi show of the last decade in a burrito and I think this is what you'd get. Could be interesting. We'll see.
In Case Of Emergency -- It's group therapy with David Arquette, Greg Germann, Jonathan Silverman, Kelly Hu & Lori Laughlin as their doctor. It's a good thing ABC has a backup in case Help Me Help You fails. It's smarter than NBC airing their two backstage looks at SNL right up front. Jon Favreau is the executive producer.
Set For The Rest Of Your Life (airing Tuesdays at 8pm after Dancing With The Stars ends) -- This new game show is like The Newlywed Game but with higher stakes. In the first part, contestants try to gain as much of a monthly stipend as possible. Will it be $10 or $10,000? In the second half, they're playing for time. Will they get just one month? A year? A decade? Or will it be for the rest of their lives?
The George Lopez Show (Wednesdays at 8pm after Dancing With The Stars ends) returns for a sixth season.
According To Jim (Wednesdays at 8:30 after Dancing With The Stars ends) returns for a sixth season. Why?
Just For Laughs -- Candid Camera gets ripped off...again.
Greg Behrendt's Wake Up Call -- Ugh...a self help show in prime time?? Dr. Phil wasn't available? John Edwards?
American Inventor -- Why?
Supernanny (airing Mondays at 8pm after The Bachelor ends)
Up tomorrow...CBS...that'll be interesting, won't it?
Be seeing you.
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