Updates and Monday TV

I've been busy as all hell. Haven't done any writing. Have done a great deal of drawing (one renovated school and half a floor plan because my sister has now decided she wants to build a house and I cannot talk her into paying a residential architect to design it for it... so now it falls to me. This is situation is largely what has kept me so busy. It's like having a second job, only this time it's for family. Sigh.)

Anyway, went to the game Saturday and all I can say is that the weather is gorgeous. (The game, however, SUCKED! Dude, we were behind going into the half. We were behind Duke! Duke, for god's sake! We were four touchdown favorites, and we went into halftime behind... DUKE! The lowest ranked team in the country. Yeah, yeah, we shut them out in the second half and beat them by three touchdowns. but our coach is treading on thin, thin ice at this point. Losing to Arkansas is somewhat allowable because we played a good game and if our kicker hadn't choked -- three times! -- we would have won. Plus, Arkansas whooped Auburn this weekend -- poor Auburn -- so it's become somewhat okay that we lost to Arkansas. And we lost to Florida, which is never a good thing, but we were an underdog for the game and we still gave them a run for their money. But DUKE?! There's no excuse to lose to Duke... even just the first half. People aren't blaming the players (quite honestly, John Parker-Wilson is developing into a good quarterback and, though Darby isn't as good as he used to be, he's a solid player. Of course, we still miss poor Prothro. But our coaches seriously need to shape up or they'll be shipped out.)

Also, Auburn lost, which makes most Alabama fans happy, but as I'm actually an Auburn alum (despite my Alabama fandom) it saddens me that Auburn's hopes for a national title just went kerblooey.

Still, the weather was insanely gorgeous with clear blue skies and perfect weather in the 70s. 

As for TV

Battlestar Gallactica was grim. Of course it was grim.  I didn't expect anything else.  But, I must say, it was depressingly grim.

The Amazing Race  actually seems to have righted its ship this season and is back to being good.  Who knew rowboats in Vietnam could make so many contestants completely lose their shit?  It was great.

I've officially given up on Studio 60.   It's never going to be my kind of show or appeal to my kind of sense of humor.  And I don't see any chemistry in the ship they are clearly trying to sell. 

Finally, I'm still enjoying Heroes.  Yes, I see the cliches and the lazy plot devices... but it's still fun to watch.   I continue to love Hiro bunches and bunches.

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Updates and Monday TV

I've been busy as all hell. Haven't done any writing. Have done a great deal of drawing (one renovated school and half a floor plan because my sister has now decided she wants to build a house and I cannot talk her into paying a residential architect to design it for it... so now it falls to me. This is situation is largely what has kept me so busy. It's like having a second job, only this time it's for family. Sigh.)

Anyway, went to the game Saturday and all I can say is that the weather is gorgeous. (The game, however, SUCKED! Dude, we were behind going into the half. We were behind Duke! Duke, for god's sake! We were four touchdown favorites, and we went into halftime behind... DUKE! The lowest ranked team in the country. Yeah, yeah, we shut them out in the second half and beat them by three touchdowns. but our coach is treading on thin, thin ice at this point. Losing to Arkansas is somewhat allowable because we played a good game and if our kicker hadn't choked -- three times! -- we would have won. Plus, Arkansas whooped Auburn this weekend -- poor Auburn -- so it's become somewhat okay that we lost to Arkansas. And we lost to Florida, which is never a good thing, but we were an underdog for the game and we still gave them a run for their money. But DUKE?! There's no excuse to lose to Duke... even just the first half. People aren't blaming the players (quite honestly, John Parker-Wilson is developing into a good quarterback and, though Darby isn't as good as he used to be, he's a solid player. Of course, we still miss poor Prothro. But our coaches seriously need to shape up or they'll be shipped out.)

Also, Auburn lost, which makes most Alabama fans happy, but as I'm actually an Auburn alum (despite my Alabama fandom) it saddens me that Auburn's hopes for a national title just went kerblooey.

Still, the weather was insanely gorgeous with clear blue skies and perfect weather in the 70s. 

As for TV

Battlestar Gallactica was grim. Of course it was grim.  I didn't expect anything else.  But, I must say, it was depressingly grim.

The Amazing Race  actually seems to have righted its ship this season and is back to being good.  Who knew rowboats in Vietnam could make so many contestants completely lose their shit?  It was great.

I've officially given up on Studio 60.   It's never going to be my kind of show or appeal to my kind of sense of humor.  And I don't see any chemistry in the ship they are clearly trying to sell. 

Finally, I'm still enjoying Heroes.  Yes, I see the cliches and the lazy plot devices... but it's still fun to watch.   I continue to love Hiro bunches and bunches.

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Updates and Monday TV

I've been busy as all hell. Haven't done any writing. Have done a great deal of drawing (one renovated school and half a floor plan because my sister has now decided she wants to build a house and I cannot talk her into paying a residential architect to design it for it... so now it falls to me. This is situation is largely what has kept me so busy. It's like having a second job, only this time it's for family. Sigh.)

Anyway, went to the game Saturday and all I can say is that the weather is gorgeous. (The game, however, SUCKED! Dude, we were behind going into the half. We were behind Duke! Duke, for god's sake! We were four touchdown favorites, and we went into halftime behind... DUKE! The lowest ranked team in the country. Yeah, yeah, we shut them out in the second half and beat them by three touchdowns. but our coach is treading on thin, thin ice at this point. Losing to Arkansas is somewhat allowable because we played a good game and if our kicker hadn't choked -- three times! -- we would have won. Plus, Arkansas whooped Auburn this weekend -- poor Auburn -- so it's become somewhat okay that we lost to Arkansas. And we lost to Florida, which is never a good thing, but we were an underdog for the game and we still gave them a run for their money. But DUKE?! There's no excuse to lose to Duke... even just the first half. People aren't blaming the players (quite honestly, John Parker-Wilson is developing into a good quarterback and, though Darby isn't as good as he used to be, he's a solid player. Of course, we still miss poor Prothro. But our coaches seriously need to shape up or they'll be shipped out.)

Also, Auburn lost, which makes most Alabama fans happy, but as I'm actually an Auburn alum (despite my Alabama fandom) it saddens me that Auburn's hopes for a national title just went kerblooey.

Still, the weather was insanely gorgeous with clear blue skies and perfect weather in the 70s. 

As for TV

Battlestar Gallactica was grim. Of course it was grim.  I didn't expect anything else.  But, I must say, it was depressingly grim.

The Amazing Race  actually seems to have righted its ship this season and is back to being good.  Who knew rowboats in Vietnam could make so many contestants completely lose their shit?  It was great.

I've officially given up on Studio 60.   It's never going to be my kind of show or appeal to my kind of sense of humor.  And I don't see any chemistry in the ship they are clearly trying to sell. 

Finally, I'm still enjoying Heroes.  Yes, I see the cliches and the lazy plot devices... but it's still fun to watch.   I continue to love Hiro bunches and bunches.

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TVGuide Winners and Losers

From TVGuide.com:

Winners
Heroes: Sci-fi fans have turned this into what looks like a breakout hit. Even though the show dropped more than two million viewers from its premiere, it was still very strong with younger viewers, especially men aged 18 to 49. The key now will be to keep pleasing the type of rabid but fickle fans that such genre shows can attract.

Jericho: The Biz didn't believe this show — about life in a small town after a nuclear holocaust — had any chance of surviving. But its ratings mushroomed in the second week, which is always a good sign, and made CBS competitive on Wednesdays at 8 for the first time since Bill Paley left this mortal coil.

Brothers & Sisters: Despite having the stench of failure all summer (cast changes, new executive producer, reshoots), this soapy drama is doing a better job of holding on to its Desperate Housewives lead-in than Boston Legal did, and that's the bar ABC execs are using to measure its success.

Losers
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: NBC execs can talk all they want about upscale viewers who are tuning in to the new drama from Aaron Sorkin. But it doesn't matter how much money they have if the ratings continue to decline. This show has lost viewers in every half hour it's been on the air.

Kidnapping shows: Both NBC's Kidnapped and Fox's Vanished couldn't even get people in the door for their season-long yarns about missing people. You won't see anyone try this concept again soon. We think.

'Til Death: Fox was asking a lot of its new Brad Garrett sitcom to have it open in the very competitive 8 pm/Thursday time slot against CBS' Survivor, NBC's My Name Is Earl and ABC's Ugly Betty, which rode into the hour with a lot of preseason buzz. But Fox is being patient. Insiders say 'Til Death (and Happy Hour) will be back in November after baseball coverage is over. Hey, you can afford to be patient when you've got American Idol coming back in November.

Smith: We were dazzled by the cast in the pilot episode, but likable villains are a tough sell these days, even if John Wells is writing their dialogue. This CBS drama could be the first new show to get yanked. 


(BTW:  Smith just became the first officially cancelled new show of the season, and Heroes became the first new show to officially get a full-season pick-up).

TVGuide Winners and Losers

From TVGuide.com:

Winners
Heroes: Sci-fi fans have turned this into what looks like a breakout hit. Even though the show dropped more than two million viewers from its premiere, it was still very strong with younger viewers, especially men aged 18 to 49. The key now will be to keep pleasing the type of rabid but fickle fans that such genre shows can attract.

Jericho: The Biz didn't believe this show — about life in a small town after a nuclear holocaust — had any chance of surviving. But its ratings mushroomed in the second week, which is always a good sign, and made CBS competitive on Wednesdays at 8 for the first time since Bill Paley left this mortal coil.

Brothers & Sisters: Despite having the stench of failure all summer (cast changes, new executive producer, reshoots), this soapy drama is doing a better job of holding on to its Desperate Housewives lead-in than Boston Legal did, and that's the bar ABC execs are using to measure its success.

Losers
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: NBC execs can talk all they want about upscale viewers who are tuning in to the new drama from Aaron Sorkin. But it doesn't matter how much money they have if the ratings continue to decline. This show has lost viewers in every half hour it's been on the air.

Kidnapping shows: Both NBC's Kidnapped and Fox's Vanished couldn't even get people in the door for their season-long yarns about missing people. You won't see anyone try this concept again soon. We think.

'Til Death: Fox was asking a lot of its new Brad Garrett sitcom to have it open in the very competitive 8 pm/Thursday time slot against CBS' Survivor, NBC's My Name Is Earl and ABC's Ugly Betty, which rode into the hour with a lot of preseason buzz. But Fox is being patient. Insiders say 'Til Death (and Happy Hour) will be back in November after baseball coverage is over. Hey, you can afford to be patient when you've got American Idol coming back in November.

Smith: We were dazzled by the cast in the pilot episode, but likable villains are a tough sell these days, even if John Wells is writing their dialogue. This CBS drama could be the first new show to get yanked. 


(BTW:  Smith just became the first officially cancelled new show of the season, and Heroes became the first new show to officially get a full-season pick-up).

TVGuide Winners and Losers

From TVGuide.com:

Winners
Heroes: Sci-fi fans have turned this into what looks like a breakout hit. Even though the show dropped more than two million viewers from its premiere, it was still very strong with younger viewers, especially men aged 18 to 49. The key now will be to keep pleasing the type of rabid but fickle fans that such genre shows can attract.

Jericho: The Biz didn't believe this show — about life in a small town after a nuclear holocaust — had any chance of surviving. But its ratings mushroomed in the second week, which is always a good sign, and made CBS competitive on Wednesdays at 8 for the first time since Bill Paley left this mortal coil.

Brothers & Sisters: Despite having the stench of failure all summer (cast changes, new executive producer, reshoots), this soapy drama is doing a better job of holding on to its Desperate Housewives lead-in than Boston Legal did, and that's the bar ABC execs are using to measure its success.

Losers
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: NBC execs can talk all they want about upscale viewers who are tuning in to the new drama from Aaron Sorkin. But it doesn't matter how much money they have if the ratings continue to decline. This show has lost viewers in every half hour it's been on the air.

Kidnapping shows: Both NBC's Kidnapped and Fox's Vanished couldn't even get people in the door for their season-long yarns about missing people. You won't see anyone try this concept again soon. We think.

'Til Death: Fox was asking a lot of its new Brad Garrett sitcom to have it open in the very competitive 8 pm/Thursday time slot against CBS' Survivor, NBC's My Name Is Earl and ABC's Ugly Betty, which rode into the hour with a lot of preseason buzz. But Fox is being patient. Insiders say 'Til Death (and Happy Hour) will be back in November after baseball coverage is over. Hey, you can afford to be patient when you've got American Idol coming back in November.

Smith: We were dazzled by the cast in the pilot episode, but likable villains are a tough sell these days, even if John Wells is writing their dialogue. This CBS drama could be the first new show to get yanked. 


(BTW:  Smith just became the first officially cancelled new show of the season, and Heroes became the first new show to officially get a full-season pick-up).