Fall TV 2011

[JDTAY]

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/guide/fall-2011-grid/ - schedule and premiere dates

JD's picks:
Sunday - Nothing. Play video games.
Monday - 8pm Adventure Time | 8:15pm Regular Show | 9pm House
Tuesday - 9pm New Girl | 10pm Unforgettable
Wednesday - 8pm The X Factor | 10pm South Park
Thursday - 8pm The Big Bang Theory | 8:58pm The X Factor | 9pm Person of Interest | 10pm Beavis and Butthead | 10:30pm Good Vibes
Friday - 6pm Batman: The Brave and the Bold | 6:30pm Young Justice | 7pm Generator Rex | 9pm Grimm
Saturday - 9pm Doctor Who - while it lasts

Yeah, my picks suck, I know. They're not recommendations actually, just what I'll probably be watching.

I might bump this thread and edit the title for notable show premieres.

Zooey Deschanel = hawt
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[Chuck]

I'll watch The Big Bang Theory. There appears to be nothing else of interest this fall.

[JDTAY]

So Person of Interest isn't... of interest?
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[MNOWAX]

I'm waiting for top gear to come back.

they had a clip of Jeremy Clarkson and James May talking about this past series, and laughed about people torrenting the episodes in the US and then bashing the series.
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[Zag]

Wow. You watch your shows at specific times of the week? How barbaric. You probably sit through the commercials, too! (Actually, I typically do, too, because I'm playing games on my computer at the same time and don't bother to stop the game to jump over them.)

Monday: Monday Night Football (if I care about either team at all).
Sunday: Football

As convenient:
Doctor Who,
Big Bang Theory,
Stargate Universe (if it returns)
Grimm and New Girl both look interesting and I plan to check them out. (New Girl only because Zooey Deschanel is yummy and I'm a dirty old man -- I doubt I'll stick with it.)
Possibly one of the generic detective shows I sorta follow
Possibly one of the many Gordon Ramsey or Bobby Flay shows when I'm bored (Masterchef, Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, BBQ Addict, Grilling somethingorother)

[Scurra]

[Zag]

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[Scurra]

Normally the "regular" edition is broadcast on Friday at 10pm and the XL next day (Saturday) at about 10pm as well. Sometimes it gets shunted to Sunday and once in a while it disappears altogether.

First episode of the new series was broadcast Fri/Sat this week so presumably it will show up fairly soon (as will the 10th anniversary behind-the-scenes doc that was on this week as well I would guess.)

And Zag - please try and find it somehow, because you've got a genuine treat waiting for you. Mind you, I don't know what sort of tradition of "panel shows" you have in the US, let alone comedy ones? It's a very strong genre in the UK (probably because it's quite cheap to make!) but of course formats like that rarely work in other countries in the way that dramas or sitcoms do.
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[Zag]

Oh! Stephen Fry! Well, that clinches it. If it is half as funny as Fry and Laurie, it'll be great.

Quote: Stephen doesn't have beer goggles, he has Madiera pince-nez.

[Courk]

BBC America is what, 6 months behind on Top Gear? At least they're giving it an 80 minute slot so there's no cuts.

[JDTAY]

First new show of the fall season, "Ringer", premieres at 9pm ET tonight on the CW. It stars Sarah Michelle Gellar as a chick in a dangerous situation who assumes her twin sister's identity only to find out her sister is also in a dangerous situation. Yay, high-concept.
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[JDTAY]

Tonight is the premiere of Hulk Hogan's MCW on trutv, which promises "half the size, twice the violence." That's right, it's little people wrestling. Why this wasn't on TV ten years ago, I do not know.
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[wordcross]

Lot's of primetime premiers tonight. The one's I'm interested in are "Castle" on ABC, "NCIS" and "NCIS Los Angeles", plus an hour of "How I Met Your Mother" on CBS.

"Mythbusters" is back in a little over a week. "Dexter" and "Psych" don't start again until October. That's about all of the TV shows I watch that aren't currently airing or that haven't just finished a season.
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[dethwing]

Saturday: Football
Sunday: Football
Monday night: Football
Thursday night: Football
Friday night: Football

At some point I'll make time to watch Big Bang Theory.

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[/edit] NCIS (& L.A.) is on Tomorrow night, not tonight. I am disappoint.
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[JDTAY]

At 9pm on FOX tonight is Zooey Deschanel in the premiere of some show with Zooey Deschanel in it. Screw the title, I just likes me some Zooey.

Then at 10pm on CBS is the premiere of Unforgettable, about a detective who never forgets anything ever, except the circumstances around her sister's murder. Yeah, that's... convenient. My money says she did it. >_>
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[Zag]

Except that the premiere was last week.

But she is hawt. She has the most expressive face I've seen on television in a long time.

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[JDTAY]

New Girl and Unforgettable were both pretty good, I shall continue watching them.
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[Zag]

I just saw Unforgettable. I thought that the flashback scenes were too slow. Why would memories be slower than the actual experience? Anyway, I suspect it won't have legs; it's too much of a one-trick pony.

[JDTAY]

Tonight is the premiere of a singing competition show with Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul in it. I have a good feeling about this one, guys.
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Tonight at 8pm on ABC is the premiere of Charlie's Angels, a show about three women who fight crime. Sounds very original.

Also at 8pm and 8:30pm on CBS is the return of The Big Bang Theory. To celebrate, I've come up with a dumb joke. What do you call a CBS sitcom about redneck physicists?
The Big Dang Theory

The highlight of the night, at 9pm on CBS, is Person of Interest, in which Jesus Christ teams up with the dude from Lost to stop crimes before they happen using a high-tech surveillance/analysis system.

At 9:30pm on NBC is Whitney, which you need not know about since you'll be watching Person of Interest.

Finally, at 10pm on NBC is Prime Suspect, starring Mario Bello in a remake of a British show about a female detective in a department full of chauvinistic males. I wish chauvinism still existed in real life, it's pretty awesome.
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[Zag]

I finally got a chance to get caught up with Doctor Who last night. The last episode I had watched, Night Terrors, was pretty lousy -- just formulaic Doctor and co get in some scary fix, until the Doctor figures out that it is just the side effect of some ridiculous alien. However, the first of the two I saw last night, The Girl Who Waited, was terrific: Doctor Who at its very best. The second one, The God Complex, was also quite good but paled compared to the first. Taken together, they were a very interesting mix of themes w.r.t Amy Pond's relationship with the Doctor.

Mild spoiler on The God Complex: OMG, please tell me that they aren't writing Karen Gillan (and her magnificent legs) out of the show. I see that there's only one episode left this season, and I just watched the trailer -- there's no sign of her. I'm very sad now.

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[Zag]

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What is going to happen to Amy Pond? Who knows. All I know is that Rule One applies. (As it did with RTDavies as well.) So I'm not going to make any presumptions about anything. There are a lot of rumour and counter-rumours floating around e.g. that Gillan and Darvill have been seen on the set of the Christmas Special which is currently filming.
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[JDTAY]

Bad news, guys. Gary Johnson finally made it into another presidential debate, but noone will watch him since he's on against "Person of Interest", which surely everyone will be watching. Although the debate does last two hours, so maybe people will see the second half. 9pm on Fox News if you're interested.
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Tonight is the premiere of A Gifted Man, about a surgeon whose ex-wife returns from beyond the grave to try to convince him to give people free healthcare. Now that not even death can shut up liberals, I suppose I'll have to suspend my plans to murder them all.
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Tonight at 10pm on ABC we have "Pan Am", about airline stewardesses in the 1960s.

More importantly, at 7pm on CBS is the season premiere of "60 Minutes", featuring an interview with Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Yay.
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At 8pm on Fox we have Terra Nova, in which humans from a dystopian future try to establish a new society 85 millions years in the past. Hurray CGI dinosaurs. I give this one season.

At 8:45pm on Cartoon Network is the series premiere of Secret Mountain Fort Awesome (though a preview episode ran back in August). It's about five creatures called Disgustoids who are banished by humans to the sewers for being too disgusting. One of the creatures has a body made of farting butts and is called Fart. He's the sensitive one.

At 9pm on the CW is Hart of Dixie, a show about a doctor in a small town which is in House's timeslot. Yep, move along folks, nothing to see here. They shoulda shot for next year.
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[Zag]

I'm a little curious about Terra Nova, mostly wondering if they've made any attempt to make it science fiction, as opposed to dumb-science fiction. I'm willing to make the initial suspension of disbelief for the time travel step, but that doesn't mean that they should just flout all the rest of the laws of physics.

For instance:
Why did they jump back to a time when there are all these humongous predators around. It's not as if there aren't plenty of other choices.
Have they addressed the time paradox / butterfly effect problem? I mean, it's hardly the flap of a butterfly, since they intend to live and grow, starting a whole new civilization of humans, sometime before mammals even existed. Do they expect to erase the present? Or do they know that their mini-civilization is doomed from the start (because it did already exist in our own history, and obviously didn't make it)? Or are they creating a new reality that exists in the multi-verse, but doesn't affect the reality that they left?
Do they avoid doing the billion other stupid things that they could easily have avoided if they had just hired a bright physics or engineering undergrad to tell them, "no, that's stupid, it's overly complex and wouldn't work -- just do this instead"? You know, all the stupid stuff that most "science fiction" that comes out of Hollywood does.

[Scurra]

It's possible that someone has read Julian May's Saga of the Exiles and thought that it would make quite a neat idea if you added dinosaurs to it...?
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Damnit, Cartoon Network moved Secret Mountain Fort Awesome up to 8:30 at the last second. I hope noone missed it.

Not that impressed with Terra Nova so far.
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[Chuck]

I'm watching Terra Nova now. I also watched The Big Bang Theory but it wasn't as funny as I remembered from past seasons. I didn't bother with the rest of the new shows because they sounded boring.

[MNOWAX]

i ended up watching Raw, how was terra nova? i was hoping it would be kinda funny tbh
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[Chuck]

Terra Nova wasn't bad. I'll watch the next episode, but I expect it to go downhill fast like Earth 2 did.

[JDTAY]

New Girl received a full season order, 11 additional episodes. Yay for additional Zooey Deschanel hawtness.
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