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This is the fourth in an ongoing seriers of entries where I look at the upcoming TV season. Why? Cause I am a TV junkie. Who wants to sponsor me?
I am not a TV programmer. I can not pretend to know what the process is for putting together a TV schedule. (Insert dream sequence involving mokeys and poo throwing here.) But I do know that it makes little to no sense to have genre shows go up against each other cause you are splitting the audience.
So then what the heck were they thinking with Wedneday at 8:00 pm? We have three, count’em, three genre shows up against each other.
Wednesday
8:00 pm
Pushing Daisies – ABC
This was the first new show renewed last season. Quirky, funny and romantice, it won over critics and audiences with its tragic tale of Sam, the pie man, whose touch can bring someone back to life, but then send them back to death if he touches them a second time. If this show produces the same kind of quality as the first season, it should do well.
Bones – Fox
This procedural has sci-fi elements, making it a genre show. Plus it has David Boreanz who, thanks to having played Angel, would turn a period romantic drama where he is dressed in hose and wearing a white wig into a genre piece. Bones has done well enough that Fox has kept it around for three seasons. It will also do well as it draws enough of the normals to keep its ratings up.
Knight Rider – NBC
This is the show I am putting on deathwatch. The two hour pilot was meh, with its best bit coming at the end when the Hoff showed up. Since Hoff ain’t going to be in every episode, this show is starting off with a handicap. Add to the fact that Pushing Daisies and Bones will pull off viewers and this is one show that I think is going to disappear fast. Or is going to perminantly relocated to its repeat slot of Saturdays at 9:00 pm. And then cancelled. Do not get attached to this show people. NBC has just as bad a track record with genre shows as FOX. Remember seaQuest, Earth 2 and Journeyman?
America’s Next Top Model – CW
OK, not genre, but one of my guilty pleasures. One that makes the Husband Unit roll his eyes in disgust. I love the photoshoots and the two Js. Fabulous!!!!! Thank goodness this repeats on Fridays.
And that’s it for Wednesday. Three genre shows, all at 8:00 pm. The rest of the night is free for us to watch the ones we’ve taped or catch up on dusting the action figures.
Next time: Thursday – You are (bleeping) kidding me.