Wasted time today.
You may consider yourselves the beneficiaries (or not):
Using Futon Critic's Winter Viewing Guide as a jumping off place:
www.thefutoncritic.com/guide.aspxSue’s Upcoming Viewing Schedule.
[Seems like a lot of shows have (very) abbreviated “seasons” with as few as 5-8 episodes.]
Rating system: #1: Will watch, will record, as close to “must see” as anything gets for me.
#2: Will record, will watch, a favorite but if in conflict with #1 will watch on tape
#3: Will record, will probably watch but if I get behind will delete without watching, or if I get bored will drop from schedule
#4: Probably won’t record, might watch if nothing on and I run into it or if rerun.
#J: Jim watches, so recorded for him.
MONDAY: 2-4 hours
7 pm: Chuck #1 (Jan 11, NBC)
House #4 (Jan 11, FOX)
8 pm: “24” #3 (Jan 18, FOX, preview on Jan 17)
Possibility (#3 or #4?) “Life Unexpected” on CW. Looks like something that might suck you
in if the writing is at all decent. Plus --- Sheri Appleby from Roswell is playing the
mother. (Jan 18)
9 pm: Castle #2 (Jan 11, ABC)
TUESDAY: 3-4 hours
7 pm: NCIS #1 (Jan 5, CBS)
8 pm: LOST #3 (Feb 2, ABC) -- I’m going to try to get back into it for the final season.
GLEE #2J (Night change from Wednesday, April 13, FOX)
9 pm: White Collar #2 (Jan 19, USA)
Southland #J (new eps March 2, TNT)
“V” #4 (March 30, ABC)
Wednesday: 1-3 hours
7 pm: Human Target (#3 or #4?)– will give it a try out (FOX, preview on Jan 17, at 8 pm on Jan 20,
settles in at 7 pm on Jan 27)
8 pm: good time for me to catch up on taped stuff as Jim is at choir practice
9 pm: Leverage #1 (Jan 13-Feb 17, TNT)
Psych #3-4 (Jan 27, USA)
Thursday: 4-6 hours!!! [On top of which many of the VU women’s B-ball games are on Thursdays]
7 pm: BONES #1 (Jan 14, FOX)
The Deep End – might try it out (#3-4) see review at bottom (Jan 21-Feb 25, ABC)
Flashforward – #2 or #3 if it starts to bore me (same time slot--March 2, ABC)
8 pm: Jim records The Office and 30 Rock
Fringe #2-#3 (Jan 14-Feb 4, FOX)
Past Life #10 – takes Fringe’s time slot. Sounds absolutely horrid. See below.
Supernatural #2-#3 (Jan 21, CW) (I’ve been taping it on an old VCR and following along)
9 pm: Burn Notice #2 (Jan 21, USA)
Friday: 2 hours
7 pm: Law and Order #3 (Jan. 15, NBC) – Jim likes to watch.
8 pm: Dollhouse #1 (Jan 8, 15, 22, FOX)
Caprica #2 or #3 (Jan 22-March 25, Syfy)
Saturday night: lots of shows being repeated, good night for catching up: 0 hours
Sunday: 1 (possible) hour
If I can remember that it is on I might try watching Durham County. I’m taping the 6 hour marathon but can’t imagine when I would watch it. Anyway, it’s on ION at 9 PM starting Jan 3.
For a Grand Total of: 14-20+ hours weekly. Which is bizarrely unimaginable to me. So there are probably shows even on this list that I won’t watch. Especially since it is also basketball season. So I don’t think anything under a #2 is really going to get watched.
Ranked (25 hours listed)
#1: 5 hours (Chuck, NCIS, Leverage, Bones, Dollhouse)
#2: 4 hours (Castle, Glee, White Collar, Burn Notice)#3: 9 hours (24, Lost, Fringe, Supernatural, Caprica, Flashforward, Human Target, Psych, Law and Order)
#4: 5 hours (House, Life Unexpected, The Deep End, V, Durham County)
#J: 2 hours (Southland, The Office & 30 Rock)
Networks:
ABC: 5
CBS: 1
NBC: 3
FOX: 7
CW: 2
USA: 3
TNT: 2
ION: 1
SyFy: 1
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New show: The Deep End
ABC Thursday at 7, Jan 21-Feb 25
Video clips:
abc.go.com/shows/the-deep-endBelow, see their PR. My impression: every clip features 2 things: “from the people who brought you Grey’s Anatomy” and a clip of the 2 female associates switching blouses (i.e. stripped to their bras). Doesn’t mean it won’t be good but I’m not fond of the sales pitch.
5 first year law associates: 2 females, 2 white males, 1 black male. I recognize both females (Tina Majorino is one of them) and Billy Zane.
all about The Deep End
In a city where wealth and power rule, everyone strives to make it to the top. For five eager and attractive law associates, being accepted into one of Los Angeles' most prestigious law firms is the first step on their way up. But as they soon realize, the law offices of Sterling are far more cutthroat than they could have ever imagined and they must fight for themselves and their clients to stay afloat in these shark infested waters.
These young and impressionable associates are immediately thrown into cases and forced to deal with the emotional and ethical decisions that come with the job they've worked so hard for. Dylan (Matt Long, Jack and Bobby) is given an impossible pro bono custody case, Beth (Leah Pipes, Sorority Row) keeps mum when a 90-year-old man signs an agreement thinking that she's his daughter, Liam (Ben Lawson, Neighbours) must get a client to sign with the firm under false pretenses, Addy (Tina Majorino, Big Love) finally gets some attention from her boss when she speaks her mind, and Malcolm (Mehcad Brooks, True Blood) gets off on the wrong foot when he is hired outside of the firm's traditional process.
While these five ambitious associates struggle to adjust their appetites and ideals to the fast-paced demands of their jobs, they're faced with the warring partners at Sterling who hold the keys to their future, and a reluctant mentor, Rowdy (Norbert Leo Butz), who tries to guide them and the firm through the trenches. For Dylan, saving face with one partner in particular is much more difficult after he falls for the firm's paralegal—unbeknownst to him, she's already in bed with firm partner Cliff Huddle (Billy Zane, Titanic), who is married to fellow partner Susan Oppenheim (Nicole Ari Parker), and fighting for the soul of the firm with its namesake, Hart Sterling (Clancy Brown, Carnivale).
The Deep End stars Matt Long as "Dylan Hewitt," Billy Zane as "Cliff Huddle," Clancy Brown as "Hart Sterling," Norbert Leo Butz as "Rowdy Kaiser," Leah Pipes as "Beth Branford," Tina Majorino as "Addy Fisher," Ben Lawson as "Liam Priory," Nicole Ari Parker as "Susan Oppenheim" and Mehcad Brooks as "Malcolm Bennet."
The series executive producers are David Hemingson and Jan Nash. The pilot for The Deep End was written by David Hemingson and directed by Michael Fresco. The series, which premieres on January 21, 2010 from 8:00-9:00p.m., ET, is from Twentieth Century Fox Television.
New Show I will NOT BE WATCHING: Past Life:
www.thefutoncritic.com/rant.aspx?id=20090616_pastlife