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This is the third in an ongoing seriers of entries where I look at the upcoming TV season. Why? Cause I am a TV junkie. I can stop anytime I want.
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Tuesday
Tuesday is shaping up to be a good night for genre fans to do something other than watch TV. May I suggest Tanker Tuesdays over at City of Heroes?
8:00 pm
House – FOX
OK, I’m cheating here. House is not a genre ahow, per say, but my reasoning is sound. You would be hard pressed to find a geek who didn’t enjoy this show. Still, even if you miss this, House‘s popularity means it will be on again.
9:00 pm
Fringe – Fox
FBI agent investigates strange, possibly paranormal phenomenon. Sounds familiar? Here’s the twist: FBI agent seeks help from world reknown scientist. The catch? He’s been institutionalized for the last twenty years. Institutionalized = crazy. Dr. Looneytunes will only help if the FBI work through his estranged son.
Now there is quite the buzz about this show among critics. They are excited about the return of Joshua Jackson to Primetime TV. He was Pacey on Dawson’s Creek. The other reason for the buzz is FOX’s decision to run this show with half the ads of a normal TV show. That’s five minutes. For the whole season, not just the premier the way Heroes did a few years ago (Thank you Nissan!). The reason for FOX’s decision to do this is in response to cable and their lack of commercials. No word if this means that there will be an hourly sponsor.
So will this work? Don’t know. It is a genre show on FOX. Everyone knows what that means. But FOX believes in this enough to give it House as a lead in. And it is not in the Friday night death slot.
I give it 50/50 odds of lasting the season.
10:00 pm
Eli Stone – ABC
This quirky mid-season replacement has been renewed. Why is it here? Well it is about a guy (the title character) who discovers he has an inopperable brain aneurysm that lets him hallucinate, often about the future. Eli is compelled to do something about what he sees. It has been suggested in the series that these visions are from God and that Eli is a prophet. So think Joan of Arcadia meets Medium.
Will it survive? Having never seen it (although the description I just wrote intrigued me and I may have to pick up some DVDs and catch up) I feel confident in saying until the end of the season. After that, no. I think this is another case of the writer’s strike getting something renewed that normally would have perished.
Next time: Wednesday night 8:00 pm – DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN – what crack are the network’s doing?