What are you going to be watching this fall? After saying farewell to Lost after last season, I’m in need of a new anchor show. Sunday nights are for football (so sad that after all these years, Monday Night Football is no longer the marquee game of the week) and my Thursday night dance card is full of NBC comedies, but the rest of the week is up for grabs.
There is yet another law show coming to your TV this Fall. What is the fascination with lawyers, anyway? The Defenders will be the latest in a long line of legal dramas, premiering next month on CBS. Despite the high likeability of Jim Belushi and Jerry O’Connell, I just can’t bring myself to watch another show about cops, lawyers, or doctors. Surely there are other interesting professions out there.
The Event is the most intriguing show slated for this season. If the program is half as creative as the ad campaign, it could be worth a watch. All we really know about the premise is that something big is happening and the President is keeping it a secret from the general public. It may work, it may not, but it at least appears to be a novel approach.
As always, there will be some hits and some misses in the comedy department this season. Outsourced, the newest entry into NBC’s Thursday night lockdown has hope. It essentially looks like The Office in India. There has to be at least two season’s worth of laughs out of that premise.
$#*! My Dad Says, on the other hand, has disaster written all over it. What’s funny on the internet doesn’t necessarily translate to good TV (reference HBO’s Funny or Die). Even with Bill Shatner on board, the brain trust at CBS has put themselves into the position of having to promote a show whose name they cannot say on TV. I think the Sunday School crowd will take an immediate pass on this one, and everyone else will follow suit soon after.
Of course, I could be wrong about any or all of these shows. That’s the beautiful hope that springs forth every fall.
But I’m probably right.
