Posted by kittson on 21 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
Thanks to the writers strike, most of the freshman series (minus a few notable exceptions) have wrapped for the season. We thought this would be a good time to look back at the results of our Fall Premiere Challenge and see how the winners fared.
Pushing Daisies (ABC) – Ratings were consistently good for this […]
Posted by kittson on 02 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
You can stop sending those Nerf footballs to NBC. Today the network announced its schedule through summer 2009, and “Friday Night Lights” is indeed on it (thanks to DirectTV). The acclaimed football drama is, as they say, off the bubble, rescued from that no man’s land between renewed and canceled.
However, some of our […]
Posted by kittson on 27 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Television, What I Watched
After some long, cold months of reruns and reality television, new episodes of scripted shows are starting to trickle back into the schedule. In fact, tonight alone, three shows return, including “Men In Trees”.
Below find a list of return dates for most scripted shows (as well as the ones that have been cancelled – […]
Posted by kittson on 31 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Television, What I Watched
The WGA contract expires at midnight, and the possibility of a writers’ strike is high. This will mean no new screenplays or scripted television. You probably won’t notice the effect on movies, as the studios have been stockpiling scripts for months. Television is a different story. Episodes are written only weeks […]
Posted by liz on 23 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
Now that the Fall Premiere Challenge is over, we can turn our attention back to all the shows we already love.
Created by two of its stars (Glenn Howerton and Rob McElhenney), “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” has been described as “Seinfeld on crack” (it’s killing me that I didn’t coin this phrase!). The show is […]
Posted by kittson on 22 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
Welcome to the post you’ve all been waiting for, the ninth and final part of the Fall Premiere Challenge. Before we announce the six winning series, we have some business to wrap up.
First, we have a couple of updates. There continues to be little activity from the networks in the form of pick-ups […]
Posted by kittson on 18 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
Let’s begin this penultimate edition of the Fall Premiere Challenge with a bit of good news. On Tuesday, our top scoring show “Reaper” posted a gigantic 25% increase in household ratings, resulting in the largest audience in the 18–49 range to date for the CW.
And now the bad news…
Life is Wild (CW) – I […]
Posted by kittson on 14 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
Over here tensions are high as we wait for the networks to make their decisions about the new fall shows. So far not a single one has been canceled. Last year the first series to go was the Ray Liotta vehicle “Smith”, which was axed after three episodes. Many of the new […]
Posted by kittson on 10 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
Welcome to Part 6 of the Fall Premiere Challenge. I’d hoped things would be looking up by now, but with only one notably geeky exception, the numbers are sliding. I can’t wait to get back to my old favorites like “Heroes”, “Ugly Betty”, and “Friday Night Lights” (subtle hint – START WATCHING “FRIDAY […]
Posted by kittson on 08 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
Welcome to Part 5 of our 9 part series. This is the halfway point. Let’s see how the shows are doing.
Pushing Daisies (ABC) – This highly stylized drama about a pie-maker who brings people back to life by touching them is the first show this season that seems to be pushing the art of television […]