all the cool kids are doing it...

[vaznetti]

I took the career-finding quiz thing; it told me I should be a historian. ::facepalm:: The next choice was criminologist, though, which sounds pretty neat. After that? Writer. ::facepalm, again::

My TV-watching schedule is a bit up in the air -- I sometimes forget to pay attention until a week or two into the season, when the rest of you can tell me what's good. Also, sometimes the Canadian scheduling monkeys make things conflict that would not otherwise do so, or help me avoid conflicts I would otherwise have, or show things on totally different nights for reasons best known to them. But here, tentatively, are shows I will try to watch at least once next year.


Monday:
Heroes will be back, and I will watch it. I'm not fannish about this show, and there are things about it that really, really bug me, but it will have David Anders in it and apparently Nichelle Nichols, too, and that is enough to keep me watching. And I guess if I really hate it, I can take a look at K-Ville instead.

I will also try Journeyman, although I suspect that it may irritate me. But it has time travel and that guy who played Lucius Vorenus on Rome, and apparently the guy who played Mike Kellerman on Homicide, so even though the plot sounds kind of dumb, I will watch a bit of it.

If the scheduling gods are kind, I will also watch Everybody Hates Chris, for lo, it is really funny and the only show with a voiceover that does not make me cringe. Actually, if the people who wrote the Everybody Hates Chris voiceovers took over the voiceovers for Heroes, I would like Heroes about 300% more.

Due to living in Canada, and my cable package, I do not get BBC America, but I see that Top Gear is coming to BBC-America. You should all watch this show! It is really funny! Very un-politically correct, especially about environmental stuff. Still, I love it with a firey passion, especially when they blow up caravans.


Tuesday:
There are a lot shows I want to watch on Tuesdays, although none of them are shows I really care about: there's N.C.I.S., which I like well enough, and Bones, which I started watching late this summer and find entertaining, and The Unit, which I stopped watching in its first year because it was too sexist even for me, but started again last year, and now they're all on the run or something, so I may go back to it.

I will probably give The Reaper a try, if other people tell me it's good, but the new show I am really looking forward to is Cane, because it sounds awful and soapy and has Jimmy Smits in it, and I really am just that shallow.


Wednesday:
Pushing Daisies looks like it might be worth watching -- they solve crimes! -- but the show I am most looking forward to is the Bionic Woman remake. Yay! I hope it turns out to be good, and does not get axed early on.

Life sounds kind of dubious, but does have Robin Weigart in it, so if it isn't on too late, I will try it out. (Because of Atlantic Time, sometimes shows which are on at 10 ET are broadcast here at 11, which is too late for me to still be awake and watching TV by Wednesday. I have to really, really want to watch a show to watch it from 11-12.)


Thursday:
Obviously, Supernatural owns my television-watching soul on Thursday nights. Other than that, there's Ugly Betty, but I am not sure what I think about that show's sudden turn towards the tragic at the end of last season.

Is NBC ever going to cancel ER?


Friday:
Friday is shaping up to be a big TV night for me, which is great because I usually come home and collapse on the couch, unable to form coherent sentences, on Friday evenings. I am just hoping that the scheduling monkeys allow me to watch more than two of these shows.

I am so glad that Friday Night Lights is on on Fridays now, even though it is the kiss-of-death night, because when it was shown on Tuesdays I had a lot of trouble remembering that. I will watch that and Numbers (they solve crimes! with math!) for sure, even though I have some bad memories of the Numbers finale last year ::waves hands and says that never happened a lot::

I think that Space will be showing Blood Ties on Fridays, as well. This may require some juggling.

If the scheduling gods permit I may also be able to watch Moonlight, which looks a bit like a remake of Angel, but probably with worse scripts, and Men in Trees, which is dumb but sometimes has Nick Lea in it.


The Weekend:
There is nothing I want to watch on Saturdays.

Sunday:
Sunday has in the past been a good night, but right now the only thing catching my eye is Dexter, and it may be on too late here; maybe I will watch football, instead. Maybe I will write.

I ought to find out when SGA is on, up here. Maybe this will be the year I actually watch it.

Comments

[cofax7]

The advantage to watching SGA this year is that it has Jewel Staite, Amanda Tapping, and more leather on everyone. The disadvantage is that the writers are exactly the same.

There is too much tv. Tim Goodman at the Chron says that "Life" is actually pretty good, what he's seen of it, because Damian Lewis' character is fairly complex, but he's also not sure if it's going to be sustainable. I'll watch a few, even if Claudia Black isn't going to be on it after all.

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Does Tim Goodman have a fall recs guide?

[cofax7]

I don't think he has one all in one place, but you could go poke about his blog (The Bastard Machine at SFGate.com).

[jcalanthe]

I watched the pilot for Life. Damian Lewis's character is indeed complex, and it's based on an interesting idea, but I don't have a lot of faith that they'll really explore that. His character reminds me a lot of Jared from the Pretender, down to the haircut even. They've set up a Mulder/Scully dynamic between him & his partner who is supposed to inform on him, and I'm not sure how I feel about a WOC cop needing to choose between protecting her white male partner or her own job when the WM cop is the lead (and that she's explicitly told to babysit him), though I do like the partner dynamic, and that the show has a prominent WOC role. It grew on me - partway through, I wasn't sure I'd bother finishing, but by the end I'd bonded somewhat with the characters.

There is definitely too much TV out there. I'm still not caught up from last season.

[vaznetti]

Hm. I might give it a try if the female characters seem OK, but the white male maverick cop is not exactly my favorite TV cliche of all time, and I've been watching a lot of The Wire on DVD, which is probably raising my cop-show expectations a bit.

[vaznetti]

Amanda Tapping the the real reason I want to see it, but I will probably end up just reading about the episodes on LJ and catching them in reruns.

I'm almost sorry to hear that "Life" is good, because the premise sounds awful. Maybe it will just be one of those shows that I don't watch.

[cofax7]

Yup! She showed up in the last episode of last season, as the new doctor.

[vaznetti]

Wasn't she on the show before, as a Wraith? Or am I confused?

[cofax7]

Yes, she was, but she was heavily made up, and didn't survive the episode, so. Frankly, I think the character's far too young for her position, but it's television, so...

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

especially when they blow up caravans.

lol Seriously? That's almost better than Myth Busters.

[vaznetti]

They have a thing for caravans; I think they sent one off a ski jump once, too. It's a wonderful show, if you don't mind putting aside good taste and common sense for an hour or so.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Good taste? What's that? ;)
Mythbusters blew up a cement truck once. Seriously. BLEW UP. They were a mile away. *snort*

[jennyo.livejournal.com]

Dude, I want Bionic Woman to fill my Alias expectations, except instead of Irina and Jack, I want Evil Gay Katee Sackhoff to menace the very Sydney-esque Jaime/Bionic Woman. I don't need it to be GOOD, critic-adored, whatever. I want hot robot chicks beating on each other in kind of a gay way. And of course, that is one of my direct scheduling conflicts, but there you go.

I have even more TV than you, and it's driving me NUTS, because I don't wanna watch that much TV. Because I'm sturdy on Heroes, and I intend to watch Chuck before Heroes. And then Lucius Vorenus's Quantum Leap does have Vorenus, which is cool, but I'm like, "it looks man-painy. I have the Grey's shows for that!"

[vaznetti]

I want more or less exactly the same thing from Bionic Woman that you do. Isn't that the definition of "good"?

There really is too much television this season; and this isn't even counting the replacement shows, like Jericho. I hadn't noticed Chuck (this happens to me a lot -- I skim tv show descriptions and immediately forget them), but I might give it a try, if the timing works out.

As for Lucius Vorenus' Quantum Leap Manpain show (the perfect description) -- I am secretly hoping that it sucks, so I don't have to watch it.

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Blood Ties is starting this Friday (like, tomorrow!) on Space, with reruns on Saturdays.

[vaznetti]

I think I knew about this. It's a special premiere, right? I will have to remind my husband that we're going to try it out.

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Yep, they're airing the two-part adaptation of "Blood Price" in one night.

[rhi]

If Burn Notice is running on any channels you can get, it's... how shall I say this? People pimped it to me as being 'perfect for you, Rhi, really, it's got an unwillingly-sidelined competent spy, and his *mother*, and his psychotic ex-girlfriend, and if that's not enough, Bruce Campbell, who's spying on him for the FBI' and er, it's terrifying how well my friends know me. Seriously. It's amazingly fun. (And oh my god, the women in this show are *terrifying*. It's great.)

[vaznetti]

It doesn't appear to be playing on any of the Canadian channels (we don't get the same cable channels, at least not here), but I will keep an eye out -- I guess I can ::ahem:: if I decide I must see it.

[rez-lo.livejournal.com]

and his psychotic ex-girlfriend

And his psychotic ex-girlfriend who is an explosives expert

::cough::

Not that I'm kinky, or anything.

I've seen the fake-leak of the Bionic Woman pilot. I'll enjoy reading your commentary.

[rhienelleth.livejournal.com]

A psychotic ex-girlfriend who is an explosives expert and totally awesome! I would watch the show for Fiona alone. "Fi, do you have guns in the trunk??"

Heh.

[vaznetti]

It is starting to sound like my kind of show.

[vaznetti]

You guys are not helping me decide to ignore this Burn Notice show! There are explosions!

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

I will be happy to mail it to you, through the actual postal system, if you like. It'd be a couple of weeks, because two episodes still have to air here, but I am intent of getting other people to see it, because it is just that fun.

[vaznetti]

I would be seriously grateful for that, if you would -- and believe me, waiting a couple weeks is fine. I am insanely too busy right now!

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

I know just what you mean about busy, OMG. Email me your address? pouncer77 at gmail.

[ageofaquarius.livejournal.com]

There are episodes of Burn Notice to be had online.

SPN owns me on Thursday as well. Nuff said.

I've seen Bionic Woman..I really liked it. Didn't care too much for the Sarah Connor Chronicles, and I adored Chuck.

I love Heroes and it's going against DWTS so I'm sorta at a loss.

This didn't help much did it.

[vaznetti]

Sarah Connor Chronicles is starting mid-season, right? I have hope that it will turn out OK, although of course I haven't seen any of the leaked episodes of any shows yet.

I think it's funny that we're all kind of flailing about our TV choices!

[cofax7]

I can maybe take care of the Sarah Connor thing if you want. It's seriously awesome.

[k2daisy.livejournal.com]

I am so glad that Friday Night Lights is on on Fridays now, even though it is the kiss-of-death night, because when it was shown on Tuesdays I had a lot of trouble remembering that. I will watch that and Numbers (they solve crimes! with math!) for sure, even though I have some bad memories of the Numbers finale last year ::waves hands and says that never happened a lot::

I could have written this paragraph in my own journal word-for-word, because YES. YES. Aaaaaaand YES.

Men in Trees, which is dumb but sometimes has Nick Lea in it.

Hee! I am a sucker for MiT; sometimes I like those fluffy happy-ending shows, and MiT is definitely that. And Nick Lea is supposed to be in it more this year! (Which is probably an easy gig for him to accept, since he's been living with the actress who plays Sara for a bunch of years now.)

[vaznetti]

I am kind of hoping for (a) denial or (b) some kind of reasonable explanation for what happened on Numbers, because, really. I don't want to hate my happy show!

My real problem with MiT is that it's on late -- either at 10 or 11 -- by which time I am pretty much zoned out on Friday. So I am never entirely sure what's going on in it, because I doze off for 5 minutes every now and then.

[k2daisy.livejournal.com]

Wellllll, I spent my summer Numb3rs hiatus writing MarySue fic in my head, in which I was not only able to explain away Colby's treason with a not-wildly-convoluted reason, but I also managed to get him back on the team! And to fall in love!

(I am so, so, SO grateful I never allowed the story to move from my head to paper. Truly.)

So I am never entirely sure what's going on in it, because I doze off for 5 minutes every now and then.

That's the beauty of fluffy happy-ending stories; you can miss bits and pieces and still follow the plot! :)

[vaznetti]

I am so disappointed that you didn't write this story, at least to share with all your friends! How did it work? You must at least give me the outline! Please? I love the idea of Mary Sue solving it all and helping Colby find love too!

[vaznetti]

I really used to love that show, too.

[fourteenlines.livejournal.com]

I think ER is kind of like the American Doctor Who -- why cancel something that works when you can just replace the leads??

IMDB - and I try not to go on IMDB at home anymore, since I'm on it all day for work - but IMDB tells me it's been on since 1994, which is a bit beyond the pale, really.

I still think of it as "the show that made George Clooney leave Sisters," which really ought to tell you something in light of the current state of George Clooney.

[vaznetti]

I think this is about to be the 14th season, or something. Which is amazing, for an evening soap. I guess not much in the Law and Order scheme of things, but it seems like forever.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Is NBC ever going to cancel ER

Sadly, I think the answer is no.

[vaznetti]

It will take a silver bullet, I think.

[zarahemla.livejournal.com]

if the people who wrote the Everybody Hates Chris voiceovers took over the voiceovers for Heroes, I would like Heroes about 300% more

Hee hee! ME TOO.

[vaznetti]

It would be AWESOME!

[elliotsmelliot.livejournal.com]

I'm less than enthused about the new shows. Everything seems too cutesy. Have you seen The Tudors? CBC is showing it on Tuesdays starting October 2. It hasn't got great reviews but I like the actors in it. I'm half tempted to check out Moonlight on Fridays if only to see if another Vampire detective show can be pulled off. The lead was very good in The Shield last year.

Happy belated Rosh Hashanah!