TV premiere week is upon us!
 

Ahh, the time of the year I live for... new episodes of my old favorites and new shows to get addicted too and pray that they don't get cancelled.

I haven't seen anything new that looks good to me this year... I'm more excited about the return of my old stand-bys - Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, CSI, CSI: Miami, etc. I do like that show House on Fox... might add that to the rotation.

Then there is Dog, the Bounty Hunter - The AWESOMEST show... I'll need to squeeze that in to my Wednesday somehow... probably catching the repeat of the 9:00 episode at midnight or whatever... can't abandon my L&O.

So... is anyone else excited about the new shows or old ones?

I don't watch as much TV as I used to, and the only network channel I really watch for TV is NBC. All my favorite shows are on there, and the only new shows I've seen that look interesting happen to be on there as well. I start grad school on December 1, so my TV time will probably be further limited around then.

Dog is a great show...I usually catch it as well as Airline and Inked in repeats.

I like Dog too - what about Desperate Housewives??? WHOO HOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love that show!

I can't remember the last time I turned the channel to one of the networks. But they are replaying the beginning of the second season (which I missed) of Battlestar Galactica on the SciFi channel soon. The digital recorder has it set to the highest priority.

I didn't watch every episode, but I liked Desperate Housewives.

Arrested Development is tonight.

Once upon a time, when I worked a regular job and could watch TV at night, I was very serious about the start of the new TV season. The arrival of the Fall Preview issue of TV guide was one of the more exciting moments in my house, as I tried to plan around all the new shows that I wanted to watch, and which ones I would tape ...

The shine's off it now.

The living room altar of entertainment doesn't occupy the space in my heart it once did. Yeah, I'm looking forward to new L&O and CSI, but I haven't even heard about any of the new stuff coming on ...

Desperate Housewives? I saw one episode and just don't get why that's entertaining.

My Name is Earl.

There is usually a battle in our house on Sunday nights over who gets to watch their show. I love Desparate Housewives, but others in the home like Family Guy (I hate Family Guy)... so who knows if I will get to enjoy that one very much this year.

You only have one TV?

Wait, isn't that an excuse to loot?

Urm...wait....yeah, that's what we were told....

That excuse is right up there with, "Well, my ass was itchin'...what the hell? Let's go lootin'!"

I have two, but I'm anti-TV in the bedroom... I used to have a TV in my bedroom, but then the bedroom became the 2nd living room and I would just sit in there all the time and would stay up all night watching crappy TV. I did have a cable jack put in my bedroom... and if worse comes to worse, that TV will be sitting on my dresser next Sunday night.

Tomorrow night is the first new episode of Nip and Tuck, one of the few non-HBO shows I will be watching. My Name is Earl looks interesting.

Still, I'm watching Rome and looking forward to Deadwood starting up. Haven't figured out which group of characters are tougher, the Romans or the pre-South Dakotans. Entourage just finished, and I'm waiting for Carnivale to start up again.

I'm pretty sure Carnivale isn't starting up again. :(

Carnivale was canceled over the summer.

And just when I was starting to trust HBO...

I guess it was in the cards.

On the HBO web site it says.

They don't even mention that it's been canceled. Cowards.

My cable was out last night due to weather, so I missed the premiere of CSI: Miami!!!

Is the season premiere of Law & Order SVU tonight? I will have to go with it if it is and save the premiere of Nip/Tuck for when it comes on again. Too many shows, so little time and no TIVO!

I probably need TIVO. I'm just too damn cheap.

Yes, I'm too cheap for TiVo, but who needs it when you can catch your favorite shows later in the same night.

Tonight's agenda:

8:00 - House
9:00 - Law & Order SVU
10:32 - Nip/Tuck

All is right with the world.... except I really need to go shopping tonight for some clothes... might have to make it a super fast trip or just try everything on at home whilst enjoying my favorite TV shows.

Waiting for the premier (tonight) of my all time fav, NCIS!!!! I really dig the military aspect of the crime scene investigation, plus I love the characters over CIS: Miami. I am a little apprehensive, however, after they killed off the wonderful and snacky Sasha Alexander (Kate Todd). We'll see if this forces the show to "jump the shark" or whether they can recover with such a drastic cast change.


My second fav is CSI: Las Vegas. CSI: Miami...not so much.

Ohh, TiVo is the best invention since the LASER. You set up whats called a season pass for your favorite shows and it records whether you there or not. No tapes to worry about, no timers to set. Our TiVo cost us about $100 and the service only costs us $4 a month (vs. $12 normally). If you do you research well enough, you can get in on a deal where they will give you a machine when you sign up with DirectTV.

I can't have direct TV in my neighborhood (apt complex with a no dish rule). The DVR box for the digital cable is just too damn expensive, but if I start missing too many shows I might look into TiVo. It would stop that annoying tendency of having 8 hr video tapes piling up all around the bedroom, and never being able to find a blank when I need one ...

Is Hugh Laurie of HOUSE the sexiest man alive or WHAT? Damn, he's hot! Whoooooo! But, I've a conflict, coz I want to watch MY NAME IS EARL, too, which is on at the exact same time! Oh, and I'm TiVo-less, too. :(

Hugh Laurie? From Blackadder?

Damn girl, it has been too long for you, hasn't it?

yeah, from Blackadder! He's NOT hot? Shoot. I've probably been doing it with men who I THOUGHT were hot, but probably, upon reflection, were not hot.

Long, long time. I'm getting mee to a nunnery. Or, I'll start caning tomatoes, either one.

Caning your tomato? Is that the female version of cuffing the carrot?

He always looks so angry.

Anyway...

For your enjoyment. Hugh Laurie

:lol: that's pretty funny, BigV, but, no....I really do mean to can the tomatoes...sad, isn't it?

And yeah, Hugh Laurie IS hot as Doctor House. I love emotionally abusive men...turns me on (apparently, anyway. From past experience those are the kind I must like...) (Why doesn't therapy ever WORK??)

i've still gotta wait a few more months for 24 :(

Damn Bri - maybe it has been too long for you - that limpy bastard is u g l y.

How about this one for sexy?http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/A.../9559/mhay.jpg

yeah, it's his abusive character I really like! He's so scathingly sarcastic, caustive, mean-spirited, AND!~hooked on pills! He's PERFECT for me!!! :)

LMAO Brianna!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOW, talk to me about Matthew - oh la la!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Would someone who wasn't distracted by a suicidal caller in the last 5 minutes of the L&O:SVU premiere episode please PM me and tell me what happened? I saw everything up to (wow, this is hard to describe without a spoiler) the last teensy weensy little bit, like actually within 30 seconds of the "Directed by Dick Wolf" card being flashed.

How's about somebody who saw it PM me and I'll tell you what I need to know about the ending ...

I got distracted but this is the gist of it, highlight as needed, I don't know character names:


Rapist tells cop they are going to rape girl, but cop must go first
Cop says he won't do it in front of another guy
Rapist tells cop he respects that and says he'll go around the wall
Cop instructs girl to scream and then to run on cue
Girl screams, runs on cue
Rapist returns
Cop confronts, lets on identity
Rapist gets better of him
Cavalry (Ice T and whatsername) can't identify where rapist is to help
Rapist handcuffs cop to van door
Rapist dramatically tells cop they are alike
Girl found by cavalry, can't identify exact location
Cop struggles free of door
Scuffle, cop gets rapist in headlock and dramatically puts him in sleeper hold
Cop found by cavalry

NCIS premier last night. I have to say, it is still my all-time favorite despite the loss of Kaitlyn Todd. I'm hooked once again. Much...MUCH better than the other CSI:Crime Scene Investigators, CSI: Miami, and CSI: New York. Although I still like the CSI on Thursday nights.

I can't get past Mark Harmon's scenery chewing.

What, exactly, is scenery chewing? I've heard it, but don't know if I've ever seen it. Examples, please.

Overacting. Too much emotion and drama, particularly where it's not warranted.

Think Shatner asking, "Why does God need a starship?"

Too pausy, too breathy, too whatever. Saying "I'm going to go get a cappucino" with just the hint of a tear squeezing out one eye, and with too soulful a look towards the camera.

Acting that you can tell is acting.

Ahh----now I get it. *trying to think of recent example* like anything Calista Flockhart does? Or, every episode of The O.C? I watch a lot of documentaries, real Crime (bless CourtTV!) and A&E. Of course, Bill Curtis has been known to be a bit over the top, for a narrator, that is.

Expressive narration does not typically qualify, although can be annoying in it's own right. As far as Bill Curtis goes, you may have noticed that all of his expressiveness is in his voice ... facially he has a broad range of one emotion. Not quite the same.

Well, Harman can't be worst than David Caruso's mugging for the camera. Every eposode, the script must read this:

Caine: Enter scene. Tight head shot. Caine drops head, turns sidways to camera, pulls glasses half-way down not and peeks out the top. Makes some snide, cheeky comment.

And that, dear friends, is why I don't watch CSI:Miami.

Also the fact that all the CSI shows suck hardcore.

*ducks and runs*

For me, CSI is very good and cool and intricate and interesting. I occasionally see CSI:NY, mostly because I really like Gary Sinese.

I honestly don't think the CSI concept was good enough to deserve two spinoffs, but that's probably why I'm not a television executive. Despite liking all flavors of L&O (except Trial by Jury, which I thought was quite unnecessary) I like my television to at least pretend it's original. Although I realize that everything being done today is only a shade of living color different from the settings and situations faced weekly by Matt, Doc and Miss Kitty.

I thought I was the only one in America that thought CSI was bad.



Tonight should be some very good tv . Part one of the Bob Dylan bio put together by Martin Scorsese for the American Masters series on PBS. Part two is tomorrow night.

Awww dude, you lost at PBS. JK!!! There are some great shows on PBS

That's why I like the NCIS on Tuesdays. The CSI shows all have the same formula. Bazare crime, case is solved, the criminal confesses everything without presence of lawyer in room. Miami makes Caine out to be some super-sluth who posesses powers of clairvoyance who can predict the murders next victim or the existance of a bomb in the room. Thursdays Las Vegas is OK except I get tired of that ME always talking and stroking the dead bodies as if they are alive...creepy. And of course Wednesdays NY version...I wont even get into that. That's what we need, another TV show about NY.

I predict that these shows have a limited amount of time left. Couple of seasons they'll start dropping off starting w/ NY. When that happens, it will leave more room for more reality TV shows.

CSI the original doesn't suck... CSI: NY and CSI:Miami are definitely not as good. I think the characters in the orignial CSI are much more likeable and real and better looking. I can usually tolerate CSI:Miami, but heck no to CSI: NY - it's on at the same time as Law & Order and L&O and L&O SVU trump all.

This blog reminds me of my favorite all time show of all time, ever. Favorite.

AIRWOLF!!! I have the theme song stuck in my head now, and I haven't heard it in 20 years.

Thanks... it's in my head now too. :yelsick:

Darn. Now I have to find my cassette tape so I can listen to it and unstick it.