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New Fall Season
The New Fall Season starts tonight, for me anyway, as I take a look at K-Ville to decide if it is a keeper or not. I usually give a new show 2 episodes to impress me. The Pilot episode, in my opinion, should be spectacular because it's the episode that sold the show to the network. Therefore, if you impress me as well in episode 2, then you're likely a keeper. This does not, of course, restrict me from dropping the show from my lineup at a later date.
I can't promise that I'll be exceptionally diligent with this blog in giving my impressions of episodes of shows I watch, but I'll do my best. One of my favorite blogs on the TV Guide site is Rodyssey's Odyssey. The blogger and I watch a lot of the same shows, and I've enjoyed his take on things a lot. He keeps up with the blogging a lot better than I think I will. This will be my best laid effort though.
The following is my planned lineup (Sunday thru Friday). Hopefully you'll find a show that I watch that will make you want to come back and see what I had to say about it. These are in quasi-time slot order not order of importance to me. I have, however, bolded my returning shows.
Sunday:
Cold Case
Shark
Brothers and Sisters
Monday:
Chuck
How I Met Your Mother
The Big Bang Theory
Aliens in America
Samantha Who?
Two and A Half Men
K-Ville
Journeyman
Tuesday:
NCIS
Carpoolers
Reaper
Cane
Wednesday:
Pushing Daisies
'Til Death
Private Practice
Life
Dirty Sexy Money
Thursday:
Ugly Betty
Grey's Anatomy
Supernatural
Big Shots
Friday:
Women's Murder Club
Moonlight
Las Vegas
Men In Trees
Numb3rs
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Sep 17, 2007 1:14 PM
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I am planning on tuning in to PRISON BREAK and K-VILLE tonight with a lot of anticipation!
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Sep 17, 2007 1:26 PM
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Leann,
The biggest problem I see with your list is that you're skipping the best show on Television, "Friday Night Lights".
How is this possible??? Have you at least tried it? 
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Sep 17, 2007 2:27 PM
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Hi Leann,
I'm also going to give K-ville a look tonight. The previews look great, and I kinda have this thing for Cole Hauser. I've dropped Prison Break.
I'm going to have to go with Bulldawg on Friday Night Lights. It's very good - subtle, funny, moving and with some kickarse football sequences. And I don't even like football.
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Sep 17, 2007 3:02 PM
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Hi Leann, I'm going to have to join the chorus here in praising Friday Night Lights. You should definitely check it out. Like Hoggle, I don't like football. But I absolutely adore the show.
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Sep 17, 2007 3:36 PM
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Hoggle,
And FNL was also the show most deserving but overlooked at the Emmys last night.
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Sep 17, 2007 3:36 PM
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Bulldawg - yeah, that just confirmed my suspicion that the Emmys are pretty worthless, these days. I mean, honestly, to overlook FNL was just freakin criminal.
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Sep 17, 2007 4:15 PM
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Hoggle - Friday Night Lights is a MUST SEE!
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Sep 17, 2007 4:15 PM
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I know there are lots of people out there who LOVE Friday Night Lights. I happen to not be one of them, and it's not even the show's fault. The movie left such a bad taste in my mouth that I just couldn't get past that in order to watch the TV show. My parents watch it and a few of my friends, but I just couldn't do it.
I'm sure it is a perfectly wonderful show and perhaps one day I'll sit down with the DVDs and have a FNL marathon, but that bad taste is still there even today. AND I LOVE SPORTS MOVIES.
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Sep 17, 2007 4:19 PM
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Leann, I thought the movie was pretty good, although it was a bit painful, given that my husband is a former high school coach whose entire coaching staff was almost run out of town after a losing season a few years ago (he used it as an opportunity to get out of teaching, the best decision he's ever made, I think). It all hit a bit close to home really. Thankfully, the tv program isn't like that really - it's more upbeat and funny, though it does have some darker moments.
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Sep 17, 2007 5:26 PM
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I looked at the programs you're going to follow for the fall tv schedule and agree with your choices. I look forward to your comments. But, man, revisit your English text book and review the portion on grammar and punctuation. It would make reading your writing so much easier.
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Sep 17, 2007 8:57 PM
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Leann-
I actually didn't like the movie either!!!!!
Yes, and initially, I did NOT want to watch FNL last fall because I thought the movie was so weak. I even liked the cheesy "Varisty Blues" better than the FNL movie. Plus, I am really not a fan of Billy Bob Thornton.
But, the critics were praising the pilot of FNL so much that I had to check it out - I was curious.
My wife didn't want to watch it either. She also likes sports movies and even likes football, but typically for Television, she'd rather watch "Project Runway" or "Top Chef".
Well, by the end of the pilot episode, my wife was in TEARS - that's how well made a pilot it was and we were hooked ever since.
From subplots with Buddy Garritty, Jason Street's paralysis, Tyra's near rape,. Matt Saracen's Iraq veteran dad returning home, matt & Julie's courtship, the back n forth of the Taylors with the town of Dillon, Texas, Lile and her torn romance between best friends Tim Riggins and Jason Street, to Riggins' parent-free hard existence - there was so much meat there.
This was the best TV series of 2006-2007. Hands down. And my wife agrees. And this is from a couple where the husband (me) typicals likes shows like "lost" and "Heroes" and anything Sci Fi (though I am a sports fan) and my wife always leans to Reality shows on Bravo and everything else second.
And while we don't agree always on TV shows, we agree on FNL as the best show of the year.
In fact, I am even going to go post this response as Blog so everyone can see how passionate I am for this show.
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Sep 18, 2007 8:23 AM
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tvviewer, that's a bit rude. I didn't really see anything particularly wrong with Leann's grammar.
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Sep 18, 2007 10:14 AM
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I agree Hoggle - I had my own typos and we are on here to talk Television - not rate one another's occassional bad spelling or missed comma.
Very rude indeed.
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Sep 18, 2007 10:26 AM
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I agree with Hoggle and bulldawg4life (did you go to Georgia or Mississippi State?). We are here to talk about Television. My fingers tend to type faster than my brain. No one ever said blogs had to be the most perfect written word. People make mistakes folks, and if those mistakes are going to make it too hard for you to read my post, then I'm so sorry for you tvviewer46!?. (Hopefully one of those punctuation marks is correct.)
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Sep 18, 2007 12:18 PM
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