{"id":7725,"date":"2009-09-08T15:29:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T22:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2019-12-23T14:27:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:27:55","slug":"thoughts-on-the-fall-2009-tv-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/09\/08\/thoughts-on-the-fall-2009-tv-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the Fall 2009 TV Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3763,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.tvguide.com\\\/special\\\/fall-preview\\\/fall-schedule.aspx&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20150113005128\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.tvguide.com:80\\\/special\\\/fall-preview\\\/fall-schedule.aspx&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 22:35:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 13:11:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 18:05:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 10:20:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 09:52:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 21:28:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 21:28:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I just peeked at TV Guide&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/special\/fall-preview\/fall-schedule.aspx\" title=\"TV Guide: Fall TV schedule for start of 2009-2010 season\">Fall 2009 TV lineup<\/a> to see what Prairie and I might be interested in using to rot our brains with in the evenings. Most of the week looks doable, with only a few potential conflicts. (Oh, and we are old and crotchety and go to bed at 10pm, so I&#8217;m not paying much attention to the 10-11pm block.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mondays<\/strong>\n<p>While we like both <em>How I Met Your Mother<\/em> and <em>Big Bang Theory<\/em>, as CBS has put one show we&#8217;re not likely to be interested in (<em>Accidentally on Purpose<\/em>) and one show we know we dislike (<em>Two and a Half Men<\/em>) in between the two, we probably won&#8217;t bother watching either one until the season DVDs show up on Netflix. This leaves us without anything we&#8217;re terribly interested in watching on Mondays until the mid-season switchup when <em>Chuck<\/em> comes back. Looks like Mondays will be TV-free for us until spring.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Tuesdays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>NCIS<\/em> is a definite, with <em>NCIS: LA<\/em> a maybe. We&#8217;ll probably give <em>NCIS: LA<\/em> a couple weeks out of curiosity to see if they can pull off a successful spinoff, but we&#8217;re reserving judgement, as the <em>NCIS<\/em> episodes from last season that introduced the new team weren&#8217;t our favorites. Plus, once <em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em> (ugh) ends (hooray!), the <em>Scrubs<\/em>\/<em>Better Off Ted<\/em> combo will (for us) be a strong contender &#8212; <em>NCIS: LA<\/em> will have to be <em>really<\/em> strong to pull us away once that switch happens. I am worried about ABC putting <em>V<\/em> up against <em>NCIS<\/em> in November &#8212; not only does <em>NCIS<\/em> already have a strong fanbase, but it&#8217;ll have had two months to set up any season-running plotlines to hold onto its fans. I really, <em>really<\/em> want to see this new take on <em>V<\/em>&#8230;but I also really enjoy <em>NCIS<\/em>. That&#8217;s going to be a difficult choice &#8212; one of them will have to get pushed to Bittorrent or some other form of online delayed viewing.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Wednesdays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Law and Order: SVU<\/em> and\/or <em>Criminal Minds<\/em> are the only things that look interesting at all, and they&#8217;re both shows that we can watch or not watch depending on our mood. Wednesdays look pretty TV-free for us.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Thursdays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m curious enough about <em>FlashForward<\/em> to look for it on Bittorrent, Hulu, or some form of online watching, I&#8217;m not curious enough for it to win out over <em>Survivor: Samoa<\/em> (I&#8217;ll admit it, it&#8217;s one of two &#8220;reality&#8221; shows that Prairie got me hooked on). After that, it&#8217;s <em>Fringe<\/em>&#8230;or <em>CSI<\/em> (if I choose, it&#8217;ll be <em>Fringe<\/em>, if Prairie chooses, it&#8217;ll be <em>CSI<\/em> &#8212; either way, we&#8217;ll both enjoy what we watch, and the other will get the Bittorrent\/Hulu\/whatever treatment later in the week). Ugh. This one worries me. I <em>really<\/em> enjoyed season one of <em>Fringe<\/em>, and I&#8217;m not happy that FOX is putting it up against <em>CSI<\/em>. <em>CSI<\/em> has such an entrenched presence and fanbase, I&#8217;m not sure if the sci-fi, alternative reality weirdness of <em>Fringe<\/em> can pick up enough numbers to compete long-term. While I&#8217;m glad that <em>Fringe<\/em> is at least getting a second season, I worry that in putting it against <em>CSI<\/em>, FOX is just practicing a form of &#8220;delayed cancellation&#8221; &#8212; this way, FOX can just say Fringe didn&#8217;t get the market share it needed when they cancel it, even though if they&#8217;d moved it to a less competitive night (or left it where it was, though I can understand them not wanting to try to battle the <em>NCIS<\/em> juggernaut either), it might have done fine.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Fridays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prairie&#8217;s a fan of <em>Ghost Whisperer<\/em>, so we&#8217;ll keep watching that, even though last season kept annoying us (the &#8216;ghost of the week&#8217; stories were fun and what kept us watching, the stupid &#8216;romance&#8217; plotline with her husband in the body of the new guy is annoying, dragging on too long, and has enough WTF moments for a post of its own&#8230;but then I&#8217;d have to publicly admit that I watch <em>Ghost Whisperer<\/em>). Nothing else looks interesting.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Saturdays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A wasteland of dreck. TV-free, for sure.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Sundays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Amazing Race<\/em> is our favorite &#8220;reality&#8221; show, so that&#8217;s a definite. Nothing else that night is a must-see.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s our lineup. Agree\/disagree? Attempts to convince me to try a show I&#8217;m ignoring? Lemme know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just peeked at TV Guide&#8217;s Fall 2009 TV lineup to see what Prairie and I might be interested in using to rot our brains with in the evenings. Most of the week looks doable, with only a few potential conflicts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[3414,3417,673,3418,3419,3410,3416,3411,3413,8,3276,3523,3279,3415],"class_list":["post-7725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-better-off-ted","tag-criminal-minds","tag-csi","tag-flash-forward","tag-fringe","tag-how-i-met-your-mother","tag-law-and-order-svu","tag-ncis","tag-scrubs","tag-television","tag-the-amazing-race","tag-the-big-bang-theory","tag-the-ghost-whisperer","tag-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}