well, sure, maybe I just have a soft spot for that '70s concept of 'gimmick/quirky cop' shows (Ironside-wheelchair. Cannon-fat. Barnaby Jones-old, Columbo-rumpled) but mostly, for some odd reason, I was fascinated with the actor who played Charley Crews, the guy just seemed like Steve McQueen reborn and since so many TV actors are frankly interchangeable lately it was something to key in on. Plus the interactions of the secondary characters was rather quirky and complex.
Show did rile me from time to time, the episode where someone was murdered and during the investigation it was discovered that someone was stealing solid rocket motor fuel to sell to 'tuner' racers (they would cut the fuel into chunks and put it in their gas tanks to go faster)...now, I'm no rocket scientist but I'm PRETTY SURE if you dropped a chunk of Shuttle SRB fuel in your gas tank all you'd get is a clogged fuel filter if there wasn't a chemical reaction that would, I dunno, blow you up or instantly rot out your gas tank...that bizarre concept (and, again, who knows, maybe it WOULD work but I don't see how) just took me out of the moment.
And don't get me started about the investigation at a Cali based firearm manufacturer where it was company dress code for EVERYBODY to open carry a pistol on site...
But other than those oddball things, it was a solid cop show and I liked it.
Doesn't matter I guess. with the whole Leno at 10 thing eating up 5 hours a week, things are just gonna get really messy at NBC.
What I'm worried about is if Letterman and/or Kimmel are going to jump on the "ready for Prime Time" bandwagon. I still haven't forgiven Letterman...and I've never really liked Kimmel.
dunno if either network is ready for that leap. NBC is just tanking in the ratings IIRC, and the Leno show is probably cheaper than even 'reality' shows. It's a raw cost-cutting move, I think. And it keeps Leno from jumping ship and moving over to, probably, ABC. Or even maybe Fox, which might consider going into late night weekday programming again if they had someone akin to Leno.
After all, 'everybody' is watching stuff on their computers now anyway, so what's the point of even having a broadcast network, right? Bah.
(yet ANY piece of trash on NBC does better numbers than the highest rated show on USA or SyFy, and cable was supposed to kill the need for broadcast networks, so, they got that wrong...)
Silly metropolitan elitist. NOT EVERYBODY HAS CABLE TV. :/
Still, I have hope that once the DTV transition finishes, the main networks will add more subchannels and branch out. It's weird that PBS has taken the initiative and run with it.
Yes, PBS did it right from what i could tell, when I could get the signal (I think you know this dance), well enough to get me hooked on M.I.5 and get unhappy when I can't fiddle with the antenna and get it AARRGGGGH.
Same problem with a religious station, which normally I would just delete but damn, they run I Spy for 2 hours in the late afternoon! I SPY! An uneven show but Cosby and Culp make it watchable...
And re, cable. I know, I know, it's the fantasy that EVERYONE has cable and broadband and if you don't you're clearly some technophobe luddite. Comes the revolution, baby, I'll fix that. :)
Show did rile me from time to time, the episode where someone was murdered and during the investigation it was discovered that someone was stealing solid rocket motor fuel to sell to 'tuner' racers (they would cut the fuel into chunks and put it in their gas tanks to go faster)...now, I'm no rocket scientist but I'm PRETTY SURE if you dropped a chunk of Shuttle SRB fuel in your gas tank all you'd get is a clogged fuel filter if there wasn't a chemical reaction that would, I dunno, blow you up or instantly rot out your gas tank...that bizarre concept (and, again, who knows, maybe it WOULD work but I don't see how) just took me out of the moment.
And don't get me started about the investigation at a Cali based firearm manufacturer where it was company dress code for EVERYBODY to open carry a pistol on site...
But other than those oddball things, it was a solid cop show and I liked it.
Doesn't matter I guess. with the whole Leno at 10 thing eating up 5 hours a week, things are just gonna get really messy at NBC.
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After all, 'everybody' is watching stuff on their computers now anyway, so what's the point of even having a broadcast network, right? Bah.
(yet ANY piece of trash on NBC does better numbers than the highest rated show on USA or SyFy, and cable was supposed to kill the need for broadcast networks, so, they got that wrong...)
Feh.
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Still, I have hope that once the DTV transition finishes, the main networks will add more subchannels and branch out. It's weird that PBS has taken the initiative and run with it.
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Same problem with a religious station, which normally I would just delete but damn, they run I Spy for 2 hours in the late afternoon! I SPY! An uneven show but Cosby and Culp make it watchable...
And re, cable. I know, I know, it's the fantasy that EVERYONE has cable and broadband and if you don't you're clearly some technophobe luddite. Comes the revolution, baby, I'll fix that. :)
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