While exercising this morning, I watched what is probably the final episode of New Amsterdam, darn it.  "Love Hurts" had all its parallels and metaphors lined up and locked in.  It soaked in continuity, the little things of which you don't get the full impact unless you've seen all the preceding episodes, and all the satisfactions that go with ( Read more... )

I just caught up on that fifth episode of New Amsterdam, and while it deserves an in-depth analysis, I'm going to rattle off just these bullet points:

• We have one poet referenced per episode so far, without fail.  I hope they keep it up, and keep it fun.
• I was right about the ( mini-spoiler )

I have seen the three episodes of Fox's New Amsterdam that have aired so far.  The first knocked my socks off.  I'm told that it is greatly re-tooled -- not only re-edited, but re-shot -- from the original version the critics saw and panned late last summer.  The day after watching it, I burbled at much-madness over the phone, and she said she could not ( Read more... )

Setting the VCR.  Tonight at 9:00 (Pacific/Eastern) on Fox, New Amsterdam premieres.  That's the one about the immortal homicide cop (though the critics say quite a bit else about it has been retooled).  Episode two is slated for Thursday, and episode three for Monday, which, frankly, is just asking for a Drive-style ratings disaster, in my ( Read more... )

Has everyone heard the Doctor Who scheduling news?  Mr. Tennant is taking time off for stagework with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and therefore though season four of the revived series will air in 2008, season five won't air until 2010.  Remarkable.  A US network would never permit such a thing.

And while we're on TV news, New Amsterdam ( Read more... )

According to Charlie McCollum, TV critic for the San Jose Mercury News, 1) New Amsterdam's premiere has been postponed until January, 2) Bones has been moved to Tuesdays at 8:00 to become House's lead-in, and 3) Dresden Files has been canceled.

Well, well.  Following NBC Monday and ABC Tuesday, CBS released its new fall line-up today, and Moonlight (the vampire detective show, reputedly reminiscent of FK as well as early Angel; protagonist's name is "Mick St. John") did indeed make it onto the schedule.  Babylon Fields (the much-talked-of zombie show) did not.  But in general across ( Read more... )