What are you watching this summer?

[lurkey]

CBS's Summer Schedule


Sunday, Effective July 13
7:00-8:00 PM 60 MINUTES
8:00-9:00 PM BIG BROTHER (Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM COLD CASE
10:00-11:00 PM TBA

This is the one with the kids, right?

[Brent]

CBS's Summer Schedule


Sunday, Effective July 13
7:00-8:00 PM 60 MINUTES
8:00-9:00 PM BIG BROTHER (Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM COLD CASE
10:00-11:00 PM TBA

This is the one with the kids, right?

[Cyclenall]

Hells Kitchen was the best of the season tonight. I laughed so hard at Jason's comments and Ramsey's head banging! I don't think I have laughed that hard since last season's episode 1.

This was another good comment at the end when Jason left; "I'm now going to get drunk tonight".

[Miss Mary]

We finally watched Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother from Monday night (DVR didn't record and we watched via CBS' website).....anyway, both episodes were great. I'm so glad we watched HIMYM, character Marshall quit his job (which will probably keep him and Lilly in their apt., etc. and strapped for cash for a while, in other words not quite ready to enter into the real married couple world (house, kids, etc.). Which is great for the storyline.

Soooooo.....I hate when the DVR messes up. I joked with my daughter - this would have never happened with our Lost eps - I have so many backups in place for Lost episodes - DVR, VCR, Sony Watchman, another Sony TV/WX/Radio, both with good batteries, just in case.....LOL!

So now we have to find time to watch the other two Monday night sitcoms (I don't really care about Rules of Engagement but eh, I'll watch if my family sits down for it).......LOL

We've just had the busiest evenings of late and not home much. We're so tried trying to fit in these TV shows! If we had been home Monday night we would have realized the DVR wasn't recording.

[Brent]

TV Guide handicaps the bubble shows:

Aliens in America
The bad news: The ratings suck.
The good news: The show doesn't. It's really funny — and the CW knows it.
Odds of Survival: 3

Back to You
The bad news: It didn't experience enough of an American Idol bump back in February to make it a lock for next season.
The good news: Fox is as enamored of the show as Kelsey Grammer's character is enamored of himself.
Odds of Survival: 7

Big Shots
The bad news: Horrible show + even worse ratings = buh-bye.
The good news: Lots of really talented actors are free to appear in better TV shows!
Odds of Survival: 0

Boston Legal
The bad news: That cast doesn't come cheap. And they'll come even less cheap next year.
The good news: It continues to be a solid, if not spectacular, performer for ABC.
Odds of Survival: 6

Cane
The bad news: Nestor Carbonell is back on Lost!
The good news: Nestor Carbonell is back on Lost!
Odds of Survival: 2

Cashmere Mafia
The bad news: Viewers gave it a lukewarm reception and critics give it a downright chilly one, making Mafia a likely candidate for getting whacked.
The good news: One less Sex and the City clone to clog up the airwaves!
Odds of Survival: 0

Cavemen
The bad news: Oh, where to begin....
The good news: I can stop feeling sorry for the inimitable Julie White. She deserves better, and maybe now she'll get it!
Odds of Survival: 0

Eli Stone
The good news: Following Desperate Housewives, it scored its highest ratings since its premiere. Even more importantly, ABC loves it!
The bad news: Eli needs to hang onto the extra viewers it gleaned from Desperate when it returns to its regular Thursday time slot tomorrow.
Odds of Survival: 7

How I Met Your Mother
The bad news: Rumor has it not everyone at CBS loves this show.
The good news: Ted and the gang have been on a ratings roll since their Britney bump. The laffer is also the Eye's youngest-skewing show. Translation: Wait for it, wait for it... they'd be insane to cancel it!
Odds of Survival: 8

Las Vegas
The bad news: For starters, it's been canceled.
The good news: NBC has yet to release the actors from their contracts, raising hopes for a possible two-hour wrap-up.
Odds of Survival: 0
Odds of Closure: 2

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The bad news: There was no mention of the show at NBC's "infront" last month.
The good news: It's still a contender at USA.
Odds of Survival: 5

Life Is Wild
The bad news: The cast and crew are already out of Africa.
The good news: CW has yet to officially cancel it. But that may be because they forgot it exists.
Odds of Survival: 0

Men in Trees
The bad news: The audience is small…
The good news: … but passionate. And loyal. And resourceful. It also enjoys solid support at ABC, schizophrenic scheduling aside.
Odds of Survival: 5

Moonlight
The bad news: Another backstage shake-up has left the series without a show-runner.
The good news: Fans are batty over this vampire drama and have even gone so far as to organize a blood drive with the Red Cross to draw attention to it.
Odds of Survival: 8

New Amsterdam
The bad news: The fact that Fox trimmed its initial order for the show doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
The good news: It's held up surprisingly well ratings-wise.
Odds of survival: 6

The New Adventures of Old Christine
The bad news: CBS doesn't own the show. It does, however, own Rules of Engagement, and the buzz is that the network only has room on its sked for one of them.
The good news: It's the funniest traditional sitcom out there. Plus, ABC is waiting in the wings to pick it up should the Eye cancel it.
Odds of Survival: 6
Odds of moving to ABC if CBS should cancel it: 10

Reaper
The bad news: Creatively, it failed to live up to the lofty expectations we had for it after that flawless pilot. And the ratings? Hellish.
The good news: Um, the pilot was really good! And there's no denying that there's a decent show in there. Somewhere.
Odds of Survival: 4

Shark
The bad news: James Woods is a, um, colorful personality. I'll just leave it at that.
The good news: Earned solid, if not spectacular, ratings on Sunday night.
Odds of Survival: 5

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The bad news: For as much money as Fox poured into this show in terms of promotion and special effects, it should've done better.
The good news: The network seems to think it will do better next season — it's already staffing up.
Odds of Survival: 9

The Unit
The good news: Performed consistently for the Eye.
The bad news: As expensive as it is to produce, it needs to be doing consistently better.
Odds of Survival: 5

Women's Murder Club
The bad news: I hear the cast and crew are looking for other work.
The good news: After knocking at death's door, Club landed a new show-runner and three more episodes to prove itself. It'll have to if it wants a second season.
Odds of Survival: 4

[Miss Mary]

Hopeful list for the shows we watch but I wish they'd save the New Adventures of Old Christine and ditch Rules of Engagement. I understand why the network is hanging onto Rules but I've just had a difficult time finding the jokes and premise believable! Christine works b/c viewers can relate to it. Same with How I Met Your Mother.....oh well, what can you do but write to the network.....or hopefully Christine will get picked up by ABC.

[Brent]

Hopeful list for the shows we watch but I wish they'd save the New Adventures of Old Christine and ditch Rules of Engagement. I understand why the network is hanging onto Rules but I've just had a difficult time finding the jokes and premise believable! Christine works b/c viewers can relate to it. Same with How I Met Your Mother.....oh well, what can you do but write to the network.....or hopefully Christine will get picked up by ABC.

I'm pretty sure HIMYM is back now. The Britney bump really helped but the ratings this past Monday were bad again. It skews young though as the article said which CBS will gladly take most likely. I REALLY don't think CBS is cancelling Christine for the sole fact that they don't want ABC to have it. If ABC gets it, they will most likely have an unstoppable comedy block(with Samantha Who?), which is the only thing they really lack right now.

I'm really not sure Eli will be back as much as the odds say, tomorrow is crucial, but it has low-rated Lost repeats as the lead-in which isn't good. But as I said, the strike means ABC will have next to nothing new on the fall schedule, so that helps it.

[Miss Mary]

Thanks for the info Brent. We have one busy night of TV again. And we're out until 9 p.m. too! We'll have to watch some of these shows Friday and Saturday, to catch up. Survivor, the entire NBC lineup from 8 to 11, and we could in theory catch the 2 hour Lost rerun (but we'd need another DVR to do that, could resort to our second VCR, but that's a little too obsessive....LOL).....

We just finished up watching the Monday night sitcoms, last night. And we still have a 'Till Death to watch from a week or so ago........I'm dragging these days!

Anyway, two more questions:

Carpoolers - did it get cancelled?

Welcome to the Captain - another one of those CBS Monday night part-time sitcoms (Christine, Rules are both in this category, these shows are usually only given partials seasons)..... - same ?, did it get cancelled too?

I'd take Welcome to the Captain over Rules.....ugh.

[Miss Mary]

Anyone who is half into How I Met Your Mother now, don't miss next week's episode. It ties in with a previous season's episode where it was revealed that Robin had put out a teen video in her youth - which is so funny. Because Barney thought it would be a different type of video! Turns out it was a cute but lame Disney-type kids video. Here's more info........I know I'm not going to miss it (and make sure our darn DVR records correctly this time!)

http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry ... /800037713

[Brent]

Thanks for the info Brent. We have one busy night of TV again. And we're out until 9 p.m. too! We'll have to watch some of these shows Friday and Saturday, to catch up. Survivor, the entire NBC lineup from 8 to 11, and we could in theory catch the 2 hour Lost rerun (but we'd need another DVR to do that, could resort to our second VCR, but that's a little too obsessive....LOL).....

We just finished up watching the Monday night sitcoms, last night. And we still have a 'Till Death to watch from a week or so ago........I'm dragging these days!

Anyway, two more questions:

Carpoolers - did it get cancelled?

Welcome to the Captain - another one of those CBS Monday night part-time sitcoms (Christine, Rules are both in this category, these shows are usually only given partials seasons)..... - same ?, did it get cancelled too?

I'd take Welcome to the Captain over Rules.....ugh.

Both are cancelled or will be cancelled. Horrible ratings.

[lurkey]

NBC to Create Programs Centered on Sponsors
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday April 18, @07:01PM
from the dead-before-it-even-started dept.

explosivejared writes "It sounds farcical when you first hear it, but NBC has teamed up with an ad agency to produce actual feature programs that are centered around promoting the products of the network's sponsors. The network has already began production on one sci-fi program entitled 'Gemini Division', which will act as a platform for products from Microsoft, Intel, and Cisco. The programming will be broadcast via the network's 'digital properties', eg the NBC web site. I guess it was only a matter of time for something like this to come along after product placement became the norm."

my favorite comments:

Make TV shows from ads?! That's so easy a caveman could do it!

No Scifi makes perfect sense, only in scifi could the protagonist succeed using Microsoft and Cisco products.

[Cyclenall]

Looks like NBC is about to get even worse.

[Brent]

Great night of TV, BB was really good, DH was even better than last week and very hilarious(especially Orson sleepwalking), and some great mysterious things at the end(plus an awesome preview for next week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WRMyJRpsb0 ), and B&S came back strong but I really hope they don't make David Rebecca's dad. Ugh.

[RL3AO]

BB? DH?

Anyway, I watched some Argentine soccer. Very entertaining.

[Brent]

BB? DH?

Anyway, I watched some Argentine soccer. Very entertaining.

Big Brother and Desperate Housewives.

[Miss Mary]

Brent - we need to find our old DH topic!

Anyway, I've read articles where it was implied that Tom's character might die but he never did. I think the writers have been paving the way for Lynette to be a single parent. Am I happy with this storyline - no! I like Tom and Lynette together but how can he help parent the kids if he's in prison for arson (what the writers want us to think right now, unless Rick wanted Tom to throw a brick or do minor vandalism and then set his own business on fire, hoping it would get pinned on Tom). Either way - Tom's in trouble!

Orson's confession to Julie - OMG! At least we know it wasn't his evil twin or something (classic soap storyline, of which DH has used quite a few already - amnesia, blindness).

[Miss Mary]

Desperate Housewives:

Brent - we need to find our old DH topic!

Anyway, I've read articles where it was implied that Tom might die but he never did. I think the writers have been paving the way for Lynette to be a single parent. Am I happy with this storyline - no! I like Tom and Lynette together but how can he help parent the kids if he's in prison for arson (what the writers want us to think right now, unless Rick wanted Tom to throw a brick or do minor vandalism and then set his own business on fire, hoping it would get pinned on Tom). Either way - Tom's in trouble!

Orson's confession to Julie - OMG! At least we know it wasn't his evil twin or something (classic soap storyline, of which DH has used quite a few already - amnesia, blindness).

Here's the TV Guide DH review:
http://community.tvguide.com/blog/TV-Sh ... /800067127

[lurkey]

TV Exec Drops Hints About Fate of Several CBS Series

CaneCBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler had a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter recently and discussed the 2007-08 season that’s coming to an end and the 2008-09 season that’s yet to come. Though CBS’ fall schedule won’t be announced for another few weeks, the exec did drop a few hints as to the status of some of the network’s shows that are still “on the bubble.”

Moonlight — “One thing Moonlight has going for it is it wins its time period. Unlike Jericho, Moonlight is not serialized. Moonlight was a presentation (rather than a pilot). By the time the strike hit, we were still making certain discoveries and exploring new ideas and the show’s mythology.”

How I Met Your Mother and The New Adventures of Old Christine — When asked to confirm if the sitcoms would be back next season, Tassler said, “I can’t confirm, but the last two episodes of Christine did great, Britney [Spears] week did great on Mother, and the next week did great, too. Both shows look good.” (There are rumors that, if Christine isn’t renewed by CBS, rival ABC will likely grab it.)

Shark — The James Woods series is still on the bubble; “We haven’t made any decisions yet about Shark.”


Cane — The Jimmy Smits show has been off the air since December and out of production for five months. On the positive side, Tassler wasn’t prepared to call the Latino dead yet. On the negative side, she called the drama’s chances of renewal “a real long shot.” No big surprise there.

Which, if any, of these shows will join the list of already renewed programs? We’ll know soon so stay tuned! TV Series Finale home page

[TexasStooge]

Last night's "Two and a Half Men" episode was funny as heck.

Just when Charlie had it made, he gets punched in the face 3 different times.

[Brent]

An original episode of the CW’s Gossip Girl limped out of the gate with a distant fifth-place 2.44 million viewers and a 1.3/ 3 among adults 18-49 from 8-9 p.m.

I didn't post about it here, but The CW launched a very racy ad campaign with OMG(and another letter added in), and really promoted the adult stuff in it. Spent millions on it with promos everywhere... and virtually no one tuned in. They really should just shut down. It's ridiculous.