CBS has announced its new fall schedule. This poses a bit of a problem for me since I really haven't watched many CBS shows over the last few years. I stopped watching when Now and Again was cancelled back in May of 2000. I just started watching again this past season (because of Criminal Minds...more on that later). So all you'll get from me are lists of what's been cancelled and what's new for next year with a few comments on some surviving shows. Sorry...it's the best I can do.
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Courting Alex -- 7 episodes of 13 aired.
Out of Practise -- 14 of 20 episodes aired.
Threshold -- 9 of 13 episodes aired. DVD to be released this summer. Wasn't a bad show. I'd but the DVD. Maybe.
Yes, Dear -- 6 Seasons/122 episodes
Love Monkey -- 3 of 9 episodes aired. VH1 has been running the entire show and will have completed airing all nine episodes next week. This show was fun. It sits on our DVR awaiting a marathon. A DVD release would be nice, too.
Still Standing -- 4 Seasons/88 Episodes
MONDAYS
8pm How I Met Your Mother -- Returns for a 2nd Season.
8:30 The Class -- Look, folks. Friends gets remade as a show about 20-somethings. Yawn.
9pm Two And A Half Men -- Returns for a 4th Season.
9:30 The New Adventures of Old Christine -- Returns for a 2nd Season.
10pm CSI: Miami -- Returns for a 5th Season. First 3 Seasons on DVD.
TUESDAYS
8pm NCIS -- Returns for a 4th Season
9pm The Unit -- Returns for a 2nd Season. Tried watching this because of the talent (Dennis Haysburt, Robert Patrick, David Mamet), but it just didn't click for me.
10pm Smith -- Ray Liotta stars as a thief with a family who don't know what he does for a living. Could be interesting and I do like Liotta.
WEDNESDAYS
8pm Jeircho -- Skeet Ulrich and Gerald McRaney star in this just after the apocaypse drama about a town that believes that the end has come and they're cut off from anyone else. How will they make it on their own? Did the world end? Sounds interesting.
9pm Criminal Minds -- This was the show that got me to break my boycott of CBS. Mandy Patinkin is an amazingly talented actor and I'll watch him in almost anything. This show is not great, but it is a good proecdural about the FBI's Behavior Analysis Unit (they profile serial killers and such). The stories have been decent, but predictable. Hopefully next season will delve a bit more into the backstories of the team members. And it'd be nice next time when theyy have a season finale to advertise it as such. We didn't know and we're left with a maddening cliffhanger.
10pm CSI: NY -- Returns for a 3rd Season. I was watching these in reruns and on DVD and this would be my favorite part of the "franchise" (since I gave up watching the other two on DVD and in reruns). Maybe we'll start watching "live" now that the boycott's over. The first Season is on DVD. I assume Season 2 will be out before the new one starts.
THURSDAYS
8pm Survivor -- Now entering its 13th Season. Seasons 1, 2, 7 & 8 are on DVD.
9pm CSI -- Now entering its 7th Season. The first 5 Seasons are on DVD.
10pm Shark -- James Woods and Jeri Ryan star in a law drama whose pilot is directed by Spike Lee. I'll give it the one episode shot because of the talent, but the concept leaves me cold (there's no more room in my heart for a law show just now...even Boston Legal is skating on thin ice as I stack up episodes to watch when I find the time).
FRIDAYS
8pm Ghost Whisperer -- 2nd Season in the fall.
9pm Close To Home -- 2nd Season in the fall.
10pm Numb3rs -- 3rd Season in the fall. Season 1 is on DVD by month's end.
SATURDAYS
8pm Crimetime Saturday (Why can't they just call it CSI: Repeats?)
10pm 48 Hours Mystery -- 18 Seasons and three name changes.
SUNDAYS
7pm 60 Minutes -- Running since 1968, it should be called 19972800 Minutes now (unless my math is off).
8pm The Amazing Race -- Returns for a 10th Season. Seasons 1 & 7 are on DVD.
9pm Cold Case -- Returns for a 4th Season.
10pm Witout A Trace -- Returns for a 5th Season. The 1st Season is on DVD.
MIDSEASON
The King Of Queens -- Returns for a shortened 9th Season. 1st Five Seasons on DVD.
3 LBS. -- Stanley Tucci stars in a medical drama. See my comments about Shark and apply them here (just change Boston Legal to House M.D. and drop the comment about skating on thin ice).
Rules of Engagement -- Hmmm...Patrick Warburton in a sitcom about two married couples and a single guy (wasn't this known as The Single Guy when it aired on NBC back in the 190s?). Warburton is what would get it a shot in my book. The concept is blah.
Waterfront -- Joe Pantoliano is a Mayor. Meh.
A quick addendum to yesterday's news about ABC....There may be a movie or two based on Commander In Chief, but I'll believe it when I see it. I also inadvertantly left Less Than Perfect off my "Gone But Not Forgotten" list. I forgot this show was burning off episodes this summer. I don't know how many, but up until now it's had 4 seasons and 71 episodes (this being the 4th season right now)...but I don't care how many more are coming, do you?
Tomorrow it's time for FOX...and then the new network known as The CW. We already know all the shows that will be airing next season (more Veronica Mars! Yay! no more Everwood! Boo! More Smallville! Yay! No Mercy Reef! -- the Aquaman show -- oh well), we just don't know nights and times. Stay tuned.
Be seeing you.
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