BoomerD
No Lifer
- Feb 26, 2006
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foghorn67
Lifer
- Jan 3, 2006
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I love watching the following:
NCIS....NCIS LA sucks though.
Fringe
Blue Bloods. Love the cast. Selleck, Monyhan, Walhberg. Decent pacing and a general feeling of realism. (Relative term).
Bones
House
Sons of Anarchy. Damn their short seasons. I wouldn't say they have plot holes, but I do hate how it takes the most complicated route.
L&O LA looked sort of promising, I think Skeet Ulrich is an alright guy, but nothing else delivers. SVU sucks, and has been too preachy for the past few seasons. CI was the one that deserves a network. Vincent D'Onofrio is coming back, but only after Goldbloom left...and it's only for one more season.
That's it for CI. It's dead after one more.
Hawaii-Five-O is watchable for what it is. It's like modern 80's stuff. It's fun.
Over the summer I am always watching The Closer and Burn Notice.
Shows I need to catch up on.
Leverage and Dark Blue.
NCIS....NCIS LA sucks though.
Fringe
Blue Bloods. Love the cast. Selleck, Monyhan, Walhberg. Decent pacing and a general feeling of realism. (Relative term).
Bones
House
Sons of Anarchy. Damn their short seasons. I wouldn't say they have plot holes, but I do hate how it takes the most complicated route.
L&O LA looked sort of promising, I think Skeet Ulrich is an alright guy, but nothing else delivers. SVU sucks, and has been too preachy for the past few seasons. CI was the one that deserves a network. Vincent D'Onofrio is coming back, but only after Goldbloom left...and it's only for one more season.
That's it for CI. It's dead after one more.
Hawaii-Five-O is watchable for what it is. It's like modern 80's stuff. It's fun.
Over the summer I am always watching The Closer and Burn Notice.
Shows I need to catch up on.
Leverage and Dark Blue.
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Caught a couple of reruns of Dark Blue the other nite and its pretty good. Plus the blonde is freakin smokin!
- Jun 17, 2001
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I guess they should've stuck to the Jay Leno show afterall
Was NBC onto something after all with its Jay Leno primetime experiment? Because for the current fourth week of the season, NBC's new Monday-Thursday 10 PM lineup is poised for the first time to fall below the rating levels of the ill-fated Jay Leno Show for the same week a year ago.
Based on Live+same day ratings for Monday-Thursday, which include live viewing and same-night DVR viewing, as well as fast nationals for Friday, NBC is averaging a 1.595 rating among adults 18-49 at 10 PM this week. A year ago, The Jay Leno Show averaged a 1.642 for the same week in Live+same day. And that is despite the fact that, after NBC's new 10 PM shows tied Leno last week, NBC boosted significantly its Friday performance in the hour by replacing poorly-rated new legal drama Outlaw with Dateline, going up from a 0.9 to 1.3 in the 18-49 demo this Friday.
Was NBC onto something after all with its Jay Leno primetime experiment? Because for the current fourth week of the season, NBC's new Monday-Thursday 10 PM lineup is poised for the first time to fall below the rating levels of the ill-fated Jay Leno Show for the same week a year ago.
Based on Live+same day ratings for Monday-Thursday, which include live viewing and same-night DVR viewing, as well as fast nationals for Friday, NBC is averaging a 1.595 rating among adults 18-49 at 10 PM this week. A year ago, The Jay Leno Show averaged a 1.642 for the same week in Live+same day. And that is despite the fact that, after NBC's new 10 PM shows tied Leno last week, NBC boosted significantly its Friday performance in the hour by replacing poorly-rated new legal drama Outlaw with Dateline, going up from a 0.9 to 1.3 in the 18-49 demo this Friday.
- Dec 11, 1999
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I like Fringe except for the gross-out factor. Since I never know when an episode will be too gross or not, I've given up watching.
- Jun 17, 2001
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techs
Lifer
- Sep 26, 2000
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- 4
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Huh. I hadn't noticed.
But yeah, this season is pretty good, but the ratings are not great.
It's destined to be on the bubble again.
I would really hope a network like HBO or Showtime will pick it up if it's cancelled on Fox.
Hmmm. Naked Olivia x2.
Fringe is ... ok.
The current storyline is really annoying IMO.
Fringe was much better in the beginning when there wasn't this stupid "warring universes" storyline. They also screwed up their characters if you ask me, as neither Olivia is likeable at this point (I just hope for both to die!!!)
The current storyline is really annoying IMO.
Fringe was much better in the beginning when there wasn't this stupid "warring universes" storyline. They also screwed up their characters if you ask me, as neither Olivia is likeable at this point (I just hope for both to die!!!)
- Jan 2, 2001
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This. Let's get away from Walternate and get back to wacky, weird Walter/science.
Anna Torv was in pretty hot sex scene in The Pacific mini series, don't think there was any boobage though, but it was still hawt.
Fringe on a network like HBO, Showtime, or heck, even AMC would be amazing.
- Jun 17, 2001
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NBC - THEY"RE ALIVE
Pickup Time At NBC: 'Event', 'LOLA' And 'Outsourced' Get Full-Season Orders, 'Chase' Pending, 'Undercovers' Gets More Scripts
http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/pic...-chase-pending-undercovers-gets-more-scripts/
Pickup Time At NBC: 'Event', 'LOLA' And 'Outsourced' Get Full-Season Orders, 'Chase' Pending, 'Undercovers' Gets More Scripts
http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/pic...-chase-pending-undercovers-gets-more-scripts/
lupi
Lifer
- Apr 8, 2001
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Question: I know that you and many others are loving this season of Fringe with the alt-world, Doublivia high jinks but I am a bit more, shall we say, off-put. One of my problems is that I'm getting a very Charmed vibe about the whole thing. Allow me to explain. I was a devoted Charmed fan (until the unfortunate last season), but one of the staples of that show which always bothered me were the possession/body-swap type episodes. One of the sisters would be overtaken or possessed or swapped out or what have you and the other sisters would take forever and a day to noodle it out. No matter how strangely or out of character they acted, they would sense nothing was amiss until the whole thing blew up in their faces. With Fauxlivia in the mix on our side, I'm getting that familiar feeling of "Really? Come on!" when it comes to the continued obliviousness of the rest of the cast. When she didn't call Peter before going to search the apartment bit would be one example. At least with Charmed, it would resolve itself within the hour, not so in this case as they will be ping-ponging back and forth, from what I understand, all season. Charmed, obviously, is a very different animal and the comparison is limited.
But I don't particularly like this whole back and forth business in general. I find the other universe more entertaining in small doses, and the fact that the audience knows information that the so-called geniuses on the show don't (but should be able to deduce) creates a disingenuous tone to me. I know I may be in the minority on this, and I will continue to watch as long as Fringe is on the air, but I am not loving this season as much as the previous ones. Just wondering if you can see my perspective. — Jill
Matt Roush: The difference to me — and I can't comment on Charmed, as I didn't go on that ride — is that this dual-world doppelganger-Olivia storyline is not a stunt, it's an arc. And it's an arc that Fringe spent two seasons building toward and is now showing the consequences of ripping the fabric between universes, trapping our heroine on one side with her lookalike covert agent on the other. It may not be the story you wish they were telling, but it's clearly the story they've laid the groundwork for, and if they were to cut it short, they'd get hammered by the "mythology" fans who live for this kind of thing. I'll also take issue with your calling "disingenuous" the device of making the audience aware of things our heroes, as of now, can't see. That is a classic form of suspense storytelling, dating back to vintage Hitchcock and beyond, and it's giving Anna Torv the best material she's had to date on the show, allowing her to raise her game in a way I didn't think possible. So while I'm with you that I don't want this storyline to take over the entire season — and the trailer at the end of next week's episode made it sound like things might change in the near future — I'm OK with it for now. Plus, watching John Noble play two versions of Walter is a bonus. Way too early for backlash on this front.
But I don't particularly like this whole back and forth business in general. I find the other universe more entertaining in small doses, and the fact that the audience knows information that the so-called geniuses on the show don't (but should be able to deduce) creates a disingenuous tone to me. I know I may be in the minority on this, and I will continue to watch as long as Fringe is on the air, but I am not loving this season as much as the previous ones. Just wondering if you can see my perspective. — Jill
Matt Roush: The difference to me — and I can't comment on Charmed, as I didn't go on that ride — is that this dual-world doppelganger-Olivia storyline is not a stunt, it's an arc. And it's an arc that Fringe spent two seasons building toward and is now showing the consequences of ripping the fabric between universes, trapping our heroine on one side with her lookalike covert agent on the other. It may not be the story you wish they were telling, but it's clearly the story they've laid the groundwork for, and if they were to cut it short, they'd get hammered by the "mythology" fans who live for this kind of thing. I'll also take issue with your calling "disingenuous" the device of making the audience aware of things our heroes, as of now, can't see. That is a classic form of suspense storytelling, dating back to vintage Hitchcock and beyond, and it's giving Anna Torv the best material she's had to date on the show, allowing her to raise her game in a way I didn't think possible. So while I'm with you that I don't want this storyline to take over the entire season — and the trailer at the end of next week's episode made it sound like things might change in the near future — I'm OK with it for now. Plus, watching John Noble play two versions of Walter is a bonus. Way too early for backlash on this front.
techs
Lifer
- Sep 26, 2000
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Sucks. Event should have gotten cancelled at this point!
I am willing to go the distance on a show but even though I watched all episodes to date, I just deleted it from my DVR queue. Just too stupid!
Happy to see Outsourced go.
Anybody else think Diedrich Bader would be a great replacement for Steve Carrell when he leaves the office? Bader is hilarious in Outsourced and I could totally see him carrying the Office.
BoomerD
No Lifer
- Feb 26, 2006
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From that article, it doesn't look like "Outsourced" is going anywhere...except forward...which is odd. I thought it was bombing.
Its NBC. Most articles say the shows they are saving have bad ratings but they, NBC, do not have anything to replace them with.
BoomerD
No Lifer
- Feb 26, 2006
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True...but fortunately, they had the "wisdom" to cancel "Outlaw."
That one was getting worse as every week...
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