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And it was taken to the wall by Ernie Kovacs's Percy Dovetonsils.
Posted on 09/11/2017 10:58:40 AM PDT by EdnaMode
This is the worst fall for new TV shows in the decade I’ve been a professional TV critic. And it’s hard to find one much worse in all the years I’ve been cognizant of “new fall TV” as a concept, since the late ’80s.
The comedies didn’t make me laugh. The dramas made me roll my eyes. Even with the boom in platforms making new TV, there’s but one show I’d recommend wholeheartedly and a smattering of others that made me say, “There could be something there if they work out the kinks.” The vast, vast majority of the new shows — whether on broadcast or cable or streaming — are just plain bad.
Now, to be sure, there are some heavily anticipated shows I have yet to see. Star Trek: Discovery, for instance, hasn’t sent out screeners to critics. (That CBS All Access is playing so coy with the show isn’t a great sign, but with a major project like this, it’s entirely possible the post-production process is taking longer than usual.) But I’ve still seen the vast majority of new series — and they’re bad.
So when people ask me what new shows they should watch, it takes but a few seconds to say, “Hey, The Deuce is good!” But if they’re not fans of David Simon or James Franco, or if they don’t have HBO, well … ABC’s The Mayor is pretty charming. Fox’s Ghosted has a good enough cast that I guess it should pull itself together eventually. CBS’s S.W.A.T. is certainly ambitious for a remake of an old TV show, even if it’s not all there yet…
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Oh yeah, Billions is awesome. Keeps you on your toes. Amazing acting. I wonder when it starts up again.
Every guy ever liked Marianne better than Ginger. So I stopped wearing strapless gold sequin gowns to the store.
I don’t watch any real tv. I stream everything. I prefer no commercials and binge watching. I usually watch 2-3 episodes in a row of something. Even the shows that are currently running I don’t watch on tv. Won’t watch them for a few weeks in a row and then catch up.
“Lenny and Squiggy” went on to be in one of the funniest, underrated comedies ever - “Used Cars” - with Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Al Lewis.
One of the first Steven Spielberg produced films...and directed by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Cast Away).
I don’t like where customer service has gone since ATT took over DirecTV. But as long as they are the only outlet for NFL Sunday Ticket, they have my eyeballs.
i quit tv in 1999 and found other things to with the $$$ i spent on tv, don't ask me what cause it just goes, but at least it's not going to tv
Except for a part of an episode, I’ve never watched “The Middle” but enjoyed Patricia Heaton in “EBLR” and, of course, “The Janitor” in Scrubs which is on Comedy Channel every morning 7am-9am.
Mary Anne = "Take her home to meet the parents and live happily ever after".
Yes they have gone down the tube after at&t.
LOL!
taxes...
-PJ
I threw out the television a decade ago. Don’t miss it.
BTW, if you like COPS, you’ll love LIVEPD on A&E on Friday and Saturday nights. New season starts back up Oct 13th I believe.
I liked SOAP back in 1977. It began September 13th.
Cut the cord 8 months ago. Don't miss any of the new crap on cable; delusional producers...
Do look forward to the resumption of a few OTA series, NCIS, Blue Bloods and a couple of others.
Love the old series over the air
Good for binge watching.
Also looking forward to watching movies from my purchased DVD & Blu Ray 600 copy library. Any Time I feel like it, all commercial-free.
Amazon Prime, Netflix, Streaming classic movies on YouTube, a few other streaming sources. Life is good.
No more $250 a month Cable. Ever.
100%
Oh yeah, I forgot about SOAP!
It was actually a pretty good show for the first two or three seasons, then it went downhill.
Stuff comes and goes on Amazon Prime
Same with Netflix. Unreliable.
One thing though, the name of the Admiral, Halsey.
“Galaxy Quest” as a spoof was much better, this is definitely a Star Trek spoof. To bad it isn't better.
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