Fall television viewing schedule

[fenchurch]

I've seen a few other people do it, so I figured I'd jump on the bandwagon... I used the fall schedule guide out at Futon Critic to make my list, which means I might have missed a few things, if they didn't show up there.

I'm finding myself in the strange position of hoping some of these shows really suck, because I really don't want to spend that much time watching television!

The shows in italics are the ones I want to check out, but have no idea whether they'll actually catch me in the long run.

Monday:

8PM - Chuck
9PM - Heroes
10PM - Journeyman

Tuesday:

6PM - Reaper
8PM - Bones
9PM - House

Wednesday:

8PM - Pushing Daisies
9PM - Bionic Woman

Thursday:

10PM - Without a Trace (duh!)

Friday:

9PM - Moonlight (I don't have a lot of hope for this one, but figure I'll at least give it a try.)
10PM - Numb3rs

Sunday:

8PM - Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (sometimes, you just want feel-good TV)

Comments

[marsterslady.livejournal.com]

All I've seen about Moonlight is a commercial. I want to have hope for it. Have you read anything about it that leads you to not have hope, or is it just pessimism brought on from experience in expecting too much and getting too little? :)

[djonn]

Moonlight seems to have had a checkered production path -- IMDB doesn't list a series creator credit, but David Greenwalt (Angel) was brought in to replace the original showrunner (don't know who that was), but left again after three months, citing "personal reasons". The new showrunner is Chip Johannesson (formerly of Dark Angel and Beverly Hills 90210); Ron Koslow (Beauty and the Beast) is one of the series writer/producers, as is Joel Silver (Veronica Mars). Also coming from VM is Jason Dohring, playing someone named "Josef"....

On the plus side: Koslow ought to know what he's doing, and the combination of genre credits suggests that the producers should be willing and able to play to the smart end of the audience. On the down side: the amount of early turnover is worrisome, and may mean that the series will take a number of episodes to find its direction.

To the extent that one can judge from the limited promos and coverage I've seen, the sense I get is that the intended vibe is, in fact, in the general vicinity of Remington Steele/Moonlighting -- although for obvious legal reasons, no one's going anywhere near making the connection overtly. If that's a correct guess, and if they can pull it off, Moonlight might turn out very well indeed. OTOH, that's an awfully ambitious target for a cast whose credits are mostly pretty lightweight. I don't know that I'd hold my breath.