Looking to the Fall Season
The line-ups for the fall television season are starting to be announced. So far, I'm only mildly disappointed.
Smallville, Supernatural and Veronica Mars will be making the transition from The WB and UPN (respectively) onto the CW, the network that is being created by the merger of those other two.
Three of the four networks have announced their prime time schedules for the fall. Fox's schedule should be coming soon.
Grey's Anatomy will be moving to Thursday nights at 9 p.m., putting it head-to-head with CSI. Lost, NCIS, Boston Legal and Desperate Housewives will hold on to their current spots.
Gone for good is Surface. That makes me a little sad. The show was really coming into its own, especially during the second half of the season. I don't see ABC's Invasion on the schedule, but I haven't heard that it's canceled just yet. That just amazes me. Invasion took too long to spin up and, even with the first season almost over, it doesn't have the intensity it should (though the last episode or two have come close).
The plan for the next season of Lost seems to be to run it in two blocks with a break in the middle. The theory being that this will reduce the number of re-runs (something that has frustrated all the fans I know quite a bit) and allow for a mid-season airing of something else.
Of course, that thought leads me to wonder where all the noise about the new summer season shows is. I've seen plenty of hubbub over the new fall shows, but after last year's ultra-hyped summer season of stuff, things are oddly quiet. Makes me wonder just a little how well doing four season of mostly 12 episode (or less!) shows worked for the networks.
I'm still kind of curious how Reunion turned out... but apparently, I'm one of the very few. (It only made it through half the season.)
Smallville, Supernatural and Veronica Mars will be making the transition from The WB and UPN (respectively) onto the CW, the network that is being created by the merger of those other two.
Three of the four networks have announced their prime time schedules for the fall. Fox's schedule should be coming soon.
Grey's Anatomy will be moving to Thursday nights at 9 p.m., putting it head-to-head with CSI. Lost, NCIS, Boston Legal and Desperate Housewives will hold on to their current spots.
Gone for good is Surface. That makes me a little sad. The show was really coming into its own, especially during the second half of the season. I don't see ABC's Invasion on the schedule, but I haven't heard that it's canceled just yet. That just amazes me. Invasion took too long to spin up and, even with the first season almost over, it doesn't have the intensity it should (though the last episode or two have come close).
The plan for the next season of Lost seems to be to run it in two blocks with a break in the middle. The theory being that this will reduce the number of re-runs (something that has frustrated all the fans I know quite a bit) and allow for a mid-season airing of something else.
Of course, that thought leads me to wonder where all the noise about the new summer season shows is. I've seen plenty of hubbub over the new fall shows, but after last year's ultra-hyped summer season of stuff, things are oddly quiet. Makes me wonder just a little how well doing four season of mostly 12 episode (or less!) shows worked for the networks.
I'm still kind of curious how Reunion turned out... but apparently, I'm one of the very few. (It only made it through half the season.)