Tuesday, May 28, 2019

My Planned Viewing Habits: Summer of 2019

Well, it time or even almost past time for me to talk about what my plan for watching shows will be this summer. I might watch shows at least once by recording additional ones for later. I doubt that I will do much of that and may only give shows a courtesy watch. What I watch can depend on a lot of things and it is always possible that I could wind up not watching much anything at all. But I will mention all of the shows that I think that I will potentially watch at least once or at all.

Let’s start by talking about all of the shows from last summer that I’m not going to watch. Well, I would do this now, but none of them are on this summer so I guess that I can just skip this. It would apply in future seasons, though.

Now as for shows that I would watch if they come back but don’t know if they are coming back, I do not know if there are that many this time around. I would like to see Pink Collar Crimes again, but I don’t think that it is coming back. That should be it for this season.

Before I go much further, I should get to shows that will still be airing during the summer, at least at the beginning of the season. I’m watching the end of iZombie, Jane the Virgin, and The Code. Everything else that might have started already is going to count for a regular summer show. Ransom might count as well depending on how long it airs still.

What are all the old shows that I’ll be watching again? They are Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Instinct, Elementary, Whistleblower, Masters of Illusion, Whose Line is it Anyways?, Hollywood Game Night, The Outpost, Match Game, The $100,000 Pyramid, Celebrity Family Feud, To Tell the Truth, Penn and Teller: Fool Us, Burden of Truth, My Last Days, and What Would You Do?

There are some revivals of shows that are on that I might watch. I already checked out Paradise Hotel, but will not be watching that again. I might check out both Press Your Luck and Card Sharks. I also plan to check out Beverly Hills 90210.

As for all of the new shows to see, I am interested in The Big Stage, Songland, Spin the Wheel, First Responders Live, The InBetween, What Just Happened? With Fred Savage, Bring the Funny, Blood and Treasure, Bulletproof, Hypnotize Me, Mysteries Decoded, Pandora, Red Bull Peaking, Love Island, and I Ship It. I don’t know yet when or if all of these will air. I did watch The Red Line in case I didn’t mention that during my midseason plan post.

You might have noticed that some of these air against each other and I don’t yet know if I’ll just pick and chose what I’ll watch or if I will try to see any of these more than once. In my area, MyNetwork TV is showing reruns of CSI: Miami on Fridays and reruns of The Good Wife on Thursdays. I may watch either of those from time to time as I like those shows.


I have no idea what else there is to say for this post so I’ll probably just end it here. I know that I need to do a special, annual post that has not yet been done so I can hopefully do that and get it done sometime sooner rather than later. I just hope that I’m not too pressed for time and can write all of the posts that I like to do during this summer, especially since I’m now back to weekly posts of this blog.

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Sliver Globes Award Nominees 2018

Now that I’m finally back to weekly updates (and still doing random ones), I thought that I would finally get to updates of all of the blog posts that I’m a bit behind on that I hope that I can get published in time. Well, I’m writing what I think are the best shows on television in this blog post. These are the nominees. The winners will be in a later post. Remember that there could be spoilers of various shows in here that you have not seen so read at your own risk.

Best new show: Charmed, God Friended Me, Instinct, For the People, Burden of Truth, Pink Collar Crimes

Best one season show: 10 Days in the Valley

Best cancelled or ending show: Once Upon a Time, Code Black, Murphy Brown, 10 Days in the Valley, The Middle, Nashville

Most screwed show: Ghosted

Best theme song: NCIS, Magnum P.I., S.W.A.T., NCIS: New Orleans

Best idea for a show: iZombie, Murphy Brown, The Late Show

Best series premiere: Charmed, Instinct, Pink Collar Crimes

Best series finale: 10 Days in the Valley, Code Black, Once Upon a Time

Best cliffhanger ending: Jane the Virgin, Arrow, Dynasty, NCIS: Los Angeles, Station 19, NCIS

Best cliffhanger resolution: NCIS, Station 19, Arrow, NCIS: Los Angeles

Best cast: NCIS, Murphy Brown, Station 19, Grey’s Anatomy, Law and Order: SVU, The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, Charmed, Madam Secretary

Best writers: Law and Order: SVU, The Good Place, Supergirl, God Friended Me, The Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, Madam Secretary, Murphy Brown

Best editing: The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Arrow, Supergirl

Most interesting show: NCIS, Murphy Brown, The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow

Best music in a show: Riverdale

Time well spent award: NCIS, The Good Place, NCIS: New Orleans

Most memorable: NCIS, Murphy Brown, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, The Gifted

Most underrated TV show: Magnum P.I., Murphy Brown, The Last Man on Earth

Best retooling of a show: no nominees

Shouldn’t have been cancelled award: Murphy Brown, The Last Man on Earth, Scorpion, Salvation, Timeless

Why was it a midseason replacement award: Instinct, For the People, The Resident

Best comedy-drama: Murphy Brown, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, iZombie, The Last Man on Earth

Groundbreaking show: no nominees

Best news show: 60 Minutes

Most topical: Murphy Brown, Supergirl, Salvation, The Late Show

Best comedy: The Good Place, Young Sheldon, The Big Bang Theory, American Housewife, Fresh off the Boat, The Middle, Modern Family

Best drama: Jane the Virgin, NCIS, The Good Fight, Supergirl, God Friended Me, Magnum P.I., S.W.A.T., Ransom, Once Upon a Time, Ten Days in the Valley, For the People, The Good Doctor, Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, Charmed, The Flash, Supergirl, Dynasty, Legends of Tomorrow, Timeless, Blindspot, The Gifted, The Resident

Best PBS special: Celtic Woman: Ancient Land

Best show on CBS: NCIS, Code Black, Salvation, The Late Show, FBI, God Friended Me, Magnum P.I., NCIS: New Orleans, S.W.A.T., NCIS: Los Angeles, Instinct, 60 Minutes, The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, Murphy Brown, Ransom, Survivor

Best show on ABC: The Middle, Once Upon a Time, Ten Days in the Valley, The Rookie, American Housewife, For the People, Fresh off the Boat, The Good Doctor, Grey’s Anatomy, Match Game, Modern Family, Station 19, What Would You Do?

Best show on the CW: Charmed, Arrow, Black Lightning, The Flash, Supergirl, Burden of Truth, Dynasty, iZombie, Jane the Virgin, Legends of Tomorrow, Whose Line is it Anyways?

Best show on NBC: The Good Place, Timeless, Blindspot, SVU

Best show on FOX: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Last Man on Earth, New Girl, Bob’s Burgers, The Gifted, The Resident

Best show on any other network: Nashville

Best syndicated show: The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Best show on television nominees: pending


Other Section

Best villain: Nick St. Claire from  Riverdale, Vice president Cyrus Beene from Scandal, Clifford DeVoe from The Flash

Best hero: Kara from Supergirl, Leroy Jethro Gibbs from NCIS, Dr. Shawn Murphy from The Good Doctor, Barry Allen from The Flash

Best bromance: Callen and Hanna from NCIS: Los Angeles, Steve and Danny from Hawaii Five-0

Best anti-hero: Harlee from Shades of Blue

Best facial expressions: Alec Baldwin on Saturday Night Live

Best badass: Clifford DeVoe from The Flash

Best shocking moment: Jerome isn’t the Joker from Gotham

The dearly departed award: Stan Lee

Best story arc: Devoe’s mission from The Flash, Martian with memory problems from Supergirl, the quest for super asymmetry from The Big Bang Theory

Best character transformation: Michael on The Good Place

Best new character: Jocelyn from Quantico

Most underrated character: no nominees

Best finale song: no nominees

Best original song: no nominees

Best crossover event: Elseworlds from Arrowverse

Favorite actor: Jim Parsons, Freddie Highmore, Ian Armitage, Scott Bachula, Alan Cumming, Nathan Fillion, Stephen Amell, Andy Sandburg

Favorite actress: Kaley Couco, Tea Leoni, Patricia Heaton, Kate McKinnon, Candice Burgeon, Kyra Sedrick, Britt Robinson, Constance Wu, Cassidy Rodgers, Danielle Panabaker, Rose McIver, Melissa Benoist, Gina Rodridez, Kristen Bell, Jamie Alexander, Mariska Haritay, Emily Van Camp

Best episode yet: Gone Baby Gone from Law and Order: SVU, Chapter Seventy-Eight from Jane the Virgin, Sound and Fury from Madam Secretary, Murphy Too from Murphy Brown, Enter Flashtime from The Flash

Best episode this year: Gone Baby Gone from Law and Order: SVU, Enter Flashtime from The Flash, Sound and Fury from Madam Secretary, Murphy Too from Murphy Brown, Chapter Seventy-Eight from Jane the Virgin

Self sacrifice win: Rumple from Once Upon a Time, Rip Hunter from Legends of Tomorrow, Quentin Lance from Arrow

Best social commentary: Supergirl’s racist characters, Madam Secretary’s quest towards peace, Salvation’s confronting political problems

Best cameo: Hillary Clinton on Murphy Brown, Stormy Daniels on Saturday Night Live, John Noble on Legends of Tomorrow

Best political commercial: Mike Madigan hates sunshine, Michael Bloomberg’s vote for Democrats, Claire McCaskill’s senator who has never left Missouri

Best commercial: no nominees

Best season yet award: The Flash season 4, Supergirl season 4, Salvation season 2

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Saturdays in Primetime Version 3

Well, it is time that I finally get back to what I was wanting to do with this blog for a while now, but have not yet been able to do. Starting with this Tuesday, I will now be going back to weekly posts of this blog on every Tuesday for the foreseeable future. This may not cover all the Tuesdays, but will cover most of them in the near future. I’ll let you know if they will end or be phased out. Now let’s get to the proper introduction of this post.

From time to time, I post random updates of some of the Saturday shows that are on. I thought that since I can do one now, I might as well get to posting about new updates of Saturday shows since there is actually something to watch then right now. So let’s get to it.

Million Dollar Mile: Status- Currently on CBS at 8/7 Central on Saturdays. Why I’ve seen it- I like to watch a new CBS show at least once. Description- A reality competition, contestants compete through various obstacles for money while they try to avoid being caught by a well trained chaser. Notable People- Tim Tebow, a football player, is the host of this show. Pros- It works and seems fair. Cons- The show doesn’t have much to it. It is not something that people who don’t like sports would be into. Note to Parents- I can’t think of anything objectionable that might be in here. Recommendation- You can see this if you want to, but I wouldn’t spend time with it. My Viewing Habits- I only watched the first episode of this. Prediction- This will end for sure after the episodes they made of it finish airing in the future. Reception: mixed. Grade: D+. New review


Ransom: Status- Currently on CBS at 9/8 Central. Why I’ve seen it- I thought that I would like the general plot and premise of this. Noteworthiness- This is a Canadian show that airs in America. It had once been cancelled here once before and was brought back later. Description- A team of people tries to solve cases involving missing people, typically, and other crimes. Pros- The plot works and is interesting. Cons- The timeslot sucks and it’s easy to miss the show as a result. Not all of it works as it doesn’t always seem related to anything in each episode. Note to Parents- This has the standard amount of problems that you might expect from a show, but is not nearly as violent as it could be and other shows are. It is much tame compared to what one might be used to. Recommendation- I think that this is something that most people should watch if they want to and care enough. My Viewing Habits- I have been a fan of this since the first episode, but have missed a lot of show. Prediction- Whether or not is lasts is not up to us in America. Canadians will decide if they like it with their viewership and we can only hope that this will air sometime in the US as a result. Reception: somewhat good. Grade: A.