Today you get two Fugues for the price of one...first up is The CW with their new fall lineup.
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Gilmore Girls -- After 7 Seasons and 153 Episodes, this popular show decided to end its run. Never really caught it.
Reba -- Six Seasons and 125 Episodes later, this guilty pleasure ends while its still a good show, which is smart. Leave 'em wanting more...or having had just enough.
Runaway -- 1 Season/8 Episodes/5 Unaired -- I blinked and missed it...apparently so did everyone else.
Seventh Heaven -- 11 Seasons/243 Episodes -- I'm glad its gone...it should have been gone when it had its "Series Finale" at the end of the 10th Season, but The CW decided to entice their most popular show back for at least one more run to launch their "First" Season (after UPN and The WB merged). I'm still angry that this decision was what caused the wonderfully quirky, yet heart-warming Everwood to be cancelled. So I rejoice that this show is gone. Hooray!
All Of Us -- 4 Seasons/88 Episodes -- What was this show about? Never saw it.
Veronica Mars -- 3 Seasons/64 Episodes -- OK...so it's not "officially" gone yet. Its not on the schedule for next season, but the contracts aren't up until June 15, so the network is taking a bit longer to decide what to do with the show. IF it does come back, expect BIG changes (like its four years later and Veronica's now an FBI agent changes). This was a great show and while I'd love to see it continue, its ok if it goes out in style.
Hidden Palms -- 1 Season/8 Episodes -- OK...the show hasn't aired yet (it premieres at the end of May), but don't expect this teen soap to go anywhere beyond the episodes shot so far. If The CW had real faith in it, they would have premiered it earlier like originally planned. Of course, stranger things have happened in network TV.
MONDAYS
8pm Everybody Hates Chris -- This funny show that I rarely watch returns for a 3rd season.
8:30 Aliens In America -- A sitcom about a family that takes in a foreign exchange student expecting a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Northern European and wind up with a Pakistani Muslim. Hilarity ensues as the geeky daughter and her new friend navigate the perils of high school together.
9pm Girlfriends -- A show I've never watched returns for an 8th season.
9:30 The Game -- And another show I've never watched returns for a 2nd season.
TUESDAYS
8pm Beauty And The Geek -- This funny "reality" series returns for a 4th season.
9pm Reaper -- Brett Harrison (of The Loop and Grounded For Life) stars as Sam a guy who discovers that his parents sold his soul to Satan and now that he's turned 21, Satan (played by Ray Wise of Twin Peaks fame) gives Sam a new job...as a bounty hunter tracking down evil souls who have escaped from hell. With Kevin Smith as an executive producer and the talented cast and wacky idea, I'm looking forward to this show. It'll definitely get three episodes.
WEDNESDAYS
8pm America's Next Top Model -- Returns for a 9th "Season" of wacky Tyra Banks fun.
9pm Gossip Girl -- This show about a mysterious "blogger" and the reactions some prep school teens have to her "news" forms the basis for an ongoing mystery and melodrama.
THURSDAYS
8pm Smallville -- Returning for a 7th season, this show has been all over the place of late. But I'll keep watching if only because I've already invested so much time in it and to see where everyone is headed. I can't imagine there being a season beyond the next one (and if there is, it will be Lex Luthor-less because Michael Rosenbaum will not return), but I'm still along for the ride.
9pm Supernatural -- The show returns for a 3rd season and I still won't watch it as I'm not a big fan of the lead actor (he pretty much ruined all of Smallville's 4th Season).
FRIDAYS
8pm WWE Smackdown -- Returns for a 9th Season of homo-erotic fun (or is it a second season since this is The CW's second season...the previous 7 seasons were technically on UPN...although when did WWF become WWE? Maybe its really only the 4th season of WWE Smackdown as the first 5 seasons may have been WWF Smackdown? Does anyone really care?)
SATURDAYS
No Programming -- Thank G-d!!!!
SUNDAYS
7pm Online Nation -- Ugh...it's what you get if Bratz made Access Hollywood. More news about Paris Hilton and Britany Spears than you can shake a stick at (and stick shaking is much more fun than watching this crap).
7:30 CW Now -- Imagine if YouTube had its own TV series. Ouch...my brain hurts!
8pm Life Is Wild -- Did you ever wonder what Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman would have been like if she were a modern day male vet living in South Africa? No...well...you can find out anyway by watching this new show. Blah.
9pm America's Next Top Model (Repeats) -- Yay! Even more of Tyra! Ya know...in case you missed it the first time.
MIDSEASON
Crowned: The Mother Of All Pageants -- Mother-Daughter teams compete for pageant crowns. Don't they do this in pageants anyway? Why do we need to shit up our airwaves with this?
Farmer Wants A Wife -- Imagine if The Bachelor was for white trash. What do you mean it already is? No...I meant the contestants, not the viewers.
One Tree Hill -- Returns for a 5th Season?? How did that happen??
Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search For The Next Doll -- Returns for a second season but even G-d doesn't know why.
OK...back later today with FOX's new lineup...and then a wrap-up/review of next season tomorrow.
Be seeing you (shortly).
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