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Reviewing Fall TV Lineups Pt 2, The CW & CBS
August 26th, 2008
See part one here: Reviewing Networks Fall TV Lineups
The CW
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From A May Press Release of theirs:
Monday Night Features Winning Team of Hit Dramas “Gossip Girl” and “One Tree Hill”
New Neighbors Move in Tuesday Night: “90210″ Ensemble Features Original Cast Member Jennie Garth in a Guest Starring Role, Followed By New Drama “Surviving the Filthy Rich”
Top-Rated “America’s Next Top Model” Leads Into New Fashion Reality Series “Stylista” on Wednesdays
Fan Favorites “Smallville” and “Supernatural” Return on Thursdays
Friday Night Gets a Counter-Programming Comedy Makeover With “Everybody Hates Chris” and “The Game,” Followed By An “America’s Next Top Model” Encore
Courtesy of Gregg DeGuire, WireImage.com
Three Hours of Original Programming on Sunday From Media Rights Capital
The Devil Returns on “Reaper” for Midseason
The CW’s Lineup simply needs some help. Two of the shows (Smallville and especially One Tree Hill) have out lived their usefulness, and are on creative downslides, right out the door.
I predict 5 out of 11 of those shows aren’t back next year.
This network is like a television grave yard; a bad after though; a place only good for catching some Everybody Loves Raymond and King of Queens reruns after work, or before dozing off at night.
The bright spot on the dung hill though is that I believe The CW boast the only two shows with majority Black cast in Everybody Hates Chris (one of only 3 currently airing sit-coms I’d make a point to watch) and The Game. Being that The CW is the joint amalgimation of the WB and UPN; the two stations that perfected large Black programing line ups until they could get established, only to leave Black aundinces twisiting in the wind; it’s rather fighting that they hold out some vestiges of the roots and be the only one with any Black shows.
CBS
Unless you’re a big CSI (in all its carnations) fan or a fan of their two big, longstanding reality shows (Survivor and Amazing Race); the CBS lineup can easily be described as BOOOORING.
How I Met your Mother is watch-able, and Two and a Half Men and the Old Adventures of New Christine are interesting enough if you happened not to be doing anything when they come on; but none of it is appointment television.
The network has to rely on 4 CSI programs, one on each of the first 4 nights of the week; to even be viable. Most of the rest of its programming are crime shows too: Without a Trace, Criminal Minds, 48 hours, Numb3rs, Cold Case and also new comers The Mentalist and Eleventh Hour. Has this been an intentional strategy by CBS over the last few years; to market itself as the crime investigations network? Nice to see one of the “big three” being reduced to having to try and compete with Court TV, eeeeer, I mean Tru Tv.
I think Simon Baker is a wonderful actor, and loved his previous show The Guardian (which was quality television; but you all apparently didn’t watch it too much; probably because you were burnt out on all your CSI’s); but this show seems like it’s going to be a detective version of House; another super know-it all who just intuitively has all the answers. And the fact is, we’ve had that show, it was called “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” with Vincent D’Onofrio
who’s an expert on everything, and knows more than Solomon; though he’s a cop.
Just what we need, another egotistical, super self-superior genius. This only comes in second for being a bad ideal to ABC’s now defunct “Blind Justice” about a blind detective; and CBS’s currently scheduled for Friday night drama, Numb3rs.
The best night looks to be Sunday Night leading off with Amazing Race, followed by a now old reliable Cold Case, a show for which I can turn to if I don’t want to watch Sunday night football; which most Sunday I don’t; as by that point in the day I’m burnt out on the pigskin after 10 hours of pre-game shows, multiple-games and the post game show. And it rounds out with The Unit, which is a solid, if not terribly interesting show.
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