Couch Potato Fall Planning!

[newnumber6]

Well, the networks have announced their fall TV schedules (here's a good one-stop site where you can look at all of them), so I've done my regular lookthrough for new shows that grab my attention, as well as watching out for moves of old shows.

Of renewals, Veronica Mars is the only one that really concerned me, it was on the bubble and I'm glad it's coming back, even if I haven't yet seen season 2 yet. Other shows on my watch list that are returning either were pretty well guaranteed or I don't care enough about even if they might be mildly interesting. Some shows are moving around on the schedule, but I think I can make it all work.

New shows, however, two of my early 'this show could be cool, pay attention' shows made it. Heroes about ordinary people discovering they have superhuman powers. Here's a semi spoilery outline listing the cast of characters including their abilities. Looks like a good cast and I have a good feeling about this one.

Also new there's Jericho about a small town in America cut off from the rest of the country after some kind of nuclear apocalypse. Jericho stars Skeet Ulrich, the male Johnny Depp, who was in Miracles.

Of minor interest due to casting, from Firefly both Gina Torres and Adam Baldwin have series on the slate. Gina Torres is in the FOX hostage negotiation drama Standoff, which doesn't sound terribly interesting to me, and Adam Baldwin is in an ABC midseason replacement show Day Break, which is about a person who relives the same day over and over again. So like Groundhog Day, only stretched out into a whole series, and a drama. I don't think Baldwin plays the rerunner. Dunno how good that show can be, the format seems like it could get old very fast. Oh, and of course Inara will be on Stargate SG-1 this season in a recurring role, so the Firefly cast is doing fairly well.

Sadly a noshow on the schedule was Untitled Zombie Project, a proposed one hour drama about survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Mmmmm, zombies. But I guess the world's just not ready for a weekly zombie TV series. Yet.

Of course all of this doesn't count the cable networks, but since I'll usually have to wait a while or download to get them anyway, I don't have to worry about them.

So, here's my breakdown night by night (for fall):

These are the "will try not to miss" ones on my list, at least tentatively. I'll be watching other stuff but if they conflict with something else I'm fine with jettisoning them. Luckily, at this point, none of my Don't Miss shows conflict so it's a fairly stress free year.

Monday
At 8- Prison Break
At 9- Heroes
Wednesday
At 8- Jericho
At 9- Lost
Thursday
At 9- Grey's Anatomy
Friday
At 10- Numb3rs

I don't get CW so I'll be downloading Veronica Mars and Space will hopefully be running Supernatural on Saturday nights again cause I've recently started getting into that. Weekends are also the point where Space usually places the US cable channel SF shows. Sundays I suppose will be Simpsons/Family Guy/American Dad if there's no other SF show that takes priority.

Comments

[soleta-nf.livejournal.com]

I love post-Firefly/Buffy shows. I will definitely check out both Gina and Adam's shows. :)