Hiatus

I have decided to do something in this blog that I will also be doing in a lot of other blogs. I don’t know just what the ramifications of this choice will be. As the title of this blog post reveals, I will be going on hiatus as of this post. I don’t know how long I will be gone. I wish that I could explain more about why I’m doing this now, but I won’t at the moment. The answer will be in my CSI: Cyber blog at some point in time regardless of if this blog returns before that post is written or not.

I was going to do a blog post on the new trend of Christmas made for TV movies on CBS which I have mixed feelings about, will largely just ignore, and don’t mind too much as it gives me less to watch and it is during football season. My post on New Year’s Eve bingo is still going to have to wait even longer for me to be done. I won’t be ranking the CBS shows yet. And I also won’t be doing 2010 Ended Shows Reviews for a bit yet either. Those four posts were supposed to be the last four this year, this being one of the four that is now being done instead and the planned updates not being done for a while.

I have no idea yet how I will start doing blog posts here again and will implement things so that it makes sense in the way that it is going away. I hope to not be gone too long, but will need some time to take a break from this and other blogs for reasons that I will explain later, but not now. Sorry about this sudden break from blogging. But it is the best decision for me at the time.

Top 4 Episodes of 1992

When I did my post on the best episodes of 1991, I could only come up with 5 instead of 10 as I just was not that familiar with some shows and couldn’t remember others. I also had a limited amount of time to look for some show’s episodes anyways. This year, I could only think of 4 potential episodes that would work as I wasn’t sure what all I could qualify, especially with me unsure of what PBS kids shows might work in the end. Here, I’ve decided, are the 4 best episodes from 20 years ago.

 

#4 Verne Hatches an Egg (Back to the Future): In what would be the show’s last episode, we get a good lesson into going too far into a scheme and how that could easily be misused by others. Taking a good lesson from the second movie in the film franchise, people learn how time travel can be misused by the wrong person when someone else has access to it. It creates this good send off to the show that didn’t need to be that spectacular of an ending yet.

 

#3 The Outcast part 2 (Matlock): Following the set up to the case in the previous episode, this could have been the start of the whole small town where everyone has secrets and nobody can be trusted cliché came from. Still, Matlock finds himself with little to no people he can trust as he seeks to solve a crime in the town he ended up with. While there could be some more elements of this show that would be more serious in today’s TV, it was quite an interesting feat to accomplish even back then.

 

#2 The Airport (Seinfeld): While a lot of you might be mad at me for not picking The Contest, I believe that this was a pretty good episode of the show and best represents things in the end for very simple reasons. It was a good choice to represent the whole nothingness aspect that this show was about in the end. And it provided a great concept into the simple concept of picking someone up from the airport. So much of this was great to see in the end as to how everything worked together.

 

#1 Radio Bart (The Simpsons): Inspired by a true story of someone falling into a well, this episode had poor Bart not having a good birthday party until he’s able to prank the town into thinking that a boy is trapped in a well using one of the gifts that he got. But when his sister catches him and points out that he will get caught with the label on the radio in question, the tables turn and the joke is on him with him trapped in the well for real. While people abandon him since they didn’t like being duped, his father is able to get him out of the well in the end and the best episode of the year was made.

 

I was unsure based on certain potential airings when series 3 of Thomas the Tank Engine aired. If it did air in 1992 instead of 1991, then the episode Percy’s Promise that was on 1991’s best episode list should instead be on this top list with Verne Hatches the Egg moving back to number 5 and the episode Witchcraft from Back to the Future appearing on 1991’s list. I am not sure if I had the most reliable source in the end which is why I didn’t include it on the list in the end. Sorry about the confusion.

The Absolute Stupidity of Viral Video Shows

While I have what I decided are at least two big posts that ultimately related to three big annual posts that need to be done this year, this isn’t one of those posts. Fuck. I have little time to get it done. So I’m going with sometime simple.

 

There is something incredibly dumb that airs on TV. They have aired a lot of shows that are just clips that are videos from the internet. What is this shit? Is this like when Craig Ferguson said on his show, The Late Late Show: “Take that, internet. We’re illegally posted videos of you on TV”?

 

What’s dumb is just how many of these shows exist. If I wanted to watch dumb viral videos, wouldn’t I just get online and do that? And why do I want someone or a group of people talking about them? It’s dumb and I’ll never understand why they exist or people like them. I mean, the videos aren’t even popular or ones that I’ve ever heard of before. How are they viral? Why do people watch these TV shows? And just how can there be so many of them? I don’t get it and probably never will.

Thursdays in Primetime Version 8

Thursdays are the most competitive nights on television. All the networks put all their best shows on the same night. It is impossible to watch everything good at this time, unless, of course, you record some things to watch later or watch what you can’t see online. I have seen a lot of these shows so here’s my views on them:

 

Young Sheldon: Status- Currently on CBS at 8/7 Central on Thursdays. Why I’ve seen it- I watch the show it span off from so it made sense to watch this too. Noteworthiness- This is a prequel to the show The Big Bang Theory. Description- A spin-off of The Big Bang Theory, it features Sheldon Cooper at a younger age. Notable People- Jim Parsons, who plays adult Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory, is the narrator of this show, or was at one point. Pros- The show works and is pretty good. It doesn’t have some of the problems that the main show has, like focusing on sex too much, due to all the characters being young. Cons- It doesn’t seem to have the same type of appeal that The Big Bang Theory does. It doesn’t seem as funny as one would want it to be. Note to Parents- This is pretty acceptable most of the time. There have been some issues now and then, but not too many. Recommendation- I would suggest watching this. You don’t even have to like The Big Bang Theory to enjoy this, although there are links between them. My Viewing Habits- I have not seen every episode, but I have watched this since it first started. Prediction- This will probably keep lasting for a while. It is renewed for next season. I see no reason why it wouldn’t last. Reception: generally favorable. Grade: A.

 

Walker: Status- Currently on the CW at 8/7 Central on Thursdays. Why I’ve seen it- I watch a new CW show at least once when I can. Noteworthiness- Like a lot of CW shows of the recent past, this is a remake of the Chuck Norris show. Description- We see the adventures of people who work in Texas as rangers. Notable People- This stars Jared Palalecki from Supernatural. Pros- This has everything in a show that I would like. Cons- It didn’t meld or click with me and I didn’t really like it that much. Note to Parents- This has the standard amount of issues at times, but not always. Recommendation- Don’t bother with it. My Viewing Habits- I only watched it once and won’t see it again. Prediction- I have no clue about this lasting or not at the moment since it will be hard to tell what might happen with CW shows for a while. Reception: mixed to negative. Grade: D+. New review

 

Law & Order: Status- Currently on NBC at 8/7 Central on Thursdays. Why I’ve seen it- It had a premiere crossover with other parts of the franchise that I have seen and keep up with so I thought that I might as well keep up with this. Noteworthiness- This created one of the most successful and longing lasting franchises in the history of American television. It was also cancelled for a long time until it was brought back. Description- Cops and lawyers solve crimes with people catching the criminals and then the courts putting them away. Pros- It is a typical legal drama so you know what to expect. Cons- It never really melded well for me with me finding it to be too boring. Note to Parents- I have no idea just how often this show airs content adversary warnings, but I would recommend that your kid be at least a teen before they start watching this show. Recommendation- Don’t bother with it. My Viewing Habits- I have seen this sort of twice, if you don’t count the original run. I’m not currently interested in seeing much of this outside of crossovers that it has. Prediction- Reception: good. Grade: D. New review

 

Ghosts: Status- Currently on CBS at 8:30/7:30 Central on Thursdays. Why I’ve seen it- It looked like it could be interesting. Noteworthiness- This is adapted from a UK series of the same name. Description- A woman has a near death experience and then starts seeing ghosts that have always been there. Notable People- It stars Rose McIver from Power Rangers: RPM and iZombie. Pros- This show is funny and has enough in it that is worth keeping up with. Cons- Parts of it can be dumb. Note to Parents- There isn’t much wrong with the show in terms of content, although there are the usual problems at times, it is largely just in dialogue and nothing else. Recommendation- Watch this show if you can. My Viewing Habits- I haven’t seen every episode, but plan to keep up with it as much as I can. Prediction- This is going to keep lasting for now. Reception: positive. Grade: A. New review

 

Welcome to Flatch: Status- Currently on FOX at 9/8 Central on Thursdays. Why I’ve seen it- I tend to watch a new FOX show at least once. Noteworthiness- This is adapted from a British show. Description- This is a mockumentary about people from a small town. Pros- It works as a mockumnetary. Cons- This was dumb and really pointless; not at all funny. Note to Parents- There are some issues with this that you can come to expect in TV nowadays. Recommendation- Don’t watch this terrible show. My Viewing Habits- I watched this once after some missed attempts. I won’t be watching it again. Prediction- It shouldn’t have lasted a second season, but Sony bribed its way into one. That should have put it in danger and maybe it still is, but it seems likely to last now. Reception: mixed. Grade: F. New review

 

Law and Order: Special Victims Units: Status- Currently on NBC at 9/8 Central on Thursdays. Why I’ve seen it- I forget why I started watching. It might have been me wanting an hour long alternative to Modern Family so I wouldn’t have to watch what aired with it. Noteworthiness- It is the longest running drama spin-off on television as well as the longest running NBC drama. It is also the only primetime drama to premiere last millennium and still be on the air producing new episodes. It is a spin-off of Law and Order. It is now the longest running primetime show of all time. Description- A group of people known as the special victims unit (SVU) investigate sexual crimes and crimes that happen to children as well. Pros- They never show the rapes, even though that’s often what the show is about. The plots are interesting and different. There are always twists that keep you hooked on the show. They use real life cases as an inspiration, but not as what actually is shown. Cons- The show may never end. They regularly switch head writers because it has been on so long. The endings are normally not happy. It has a rather grim subject for a show. Note to Parents- There’s a lot of dark stuff in here and every episode airs with a viewer discretion is advised warning. So keep that in mind when you don’t let your kids watch it. Recommendation- Give it a chance and you might like it. If you don’t, that’s okay because it is dark. My Viewing Habits- I tend to watch this whenever possible, although I do miss a lot of it. I watch it a lot when it reruns on My Network TV, although it only tends to be when what I normally watch isn’t on or during the summer. Prediction- It will last until people stop watching for some odd reason or it gets too expensive to keep making. It might be in danger of ending, but if it is, there might be enough warning to let viewers at the people who do this show time to know. Reception: great. Grade: A+.

 

Call Me Kat: Status- Currently on FOX at 9/8 Central on Thursdays. Why I’ve seen it- I tend to watch a new FOX show at least once. Description- A woman quits her job and starts a cat café with various others in the cast as well. Notable People- This has a lot of notable people in this. I might mention them more in another post. Pros- Part of the plot seems different. Cons- This was dumb and had little purpose to it either plot wise or from any other perspective. Note to Parents- I could not tell based on the pilot if this would be good for kids or not. I’d say that parts were fine. Recommendation- Don’t waste your time with this. My Viewing Habits- I watched the first episode of this and won’t tune into it again. Prediction- This might last given current ratings, but might not if it goes sour. I’d say that it won’t keep up the good ratings. Reception: negative. Grade: F.

 

CSI: Vegas: Status- Currently on CBS at 10/9 Central on Wednesdays. Why I’ve seen it- I’m a fan of the CSI franchise so I wanted to watch this new one as well. I blog about CSI: Cyber. Noteworthiness- This is a continuation of the original CSI, largely focusing on a new team, but also bringing back people from the original team returning. Description- We return to characters from the original show solving new mysteries and dealing with potential issues of old teammates. Notable People- This has a lot of the original cast returning, including William Petersen, Jorja Fox, and Wallace Langham. It is also created by the same franchise creator as the four previous shows, Anthony E Zuiker. Pros- I felt that this was quite a good show and worth keeping up with. Cons- It can be too mysterious for its own good and also could ruin what’s previously part of the franchise. Note to Parents- Don’t let preteens watch this, but teens and older can. Recommendation- This is good and worth watching. My Viewing Habits- I plan to watch every episode about this to blog about it. Prediction- I don’t know if this is going to last now. You’d think that it would, but the main thing against it right now is whether or not it is just a short term plan in the end. It is going to last 10 episodes this season so we’ll wait to see if there will be more episodes and/or more seasons. Reception: great. Grade: B+.

 

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Law and Order: Organized Crime: Status- Currently on NBC at 10/9 Central on Thursdays. Why I’ve seen it- I watch SVU, the show it span off from. Noteworthiness- This is part of the Law and Order franchise, being a direct spin-off of SVU. It makes use of one of the characters that used to be on SVU. Description- An old cop comes out of retirement to deal with the threat of organized crime. Notable People- It stars Christopher Meloni, formerly of SVU after a long time away from it. Pros- It seems good in some places for the most part. Cons- It also seems slow moving and a bit of a random topic to cover. The plot can be too drawn out at times. Note to Parents- This has the usual problems that you would find with a show like this. Recommendation- If you can keep up with this all of the time, then you should. Otherwise, if it is too much of a commitment, then don’t bother with it too much outside of what you might need from it to connect you with other shows in the universe. My Viewing Habits- I have watched this since close to the beginning of it, although I haven’t seen every episode. Prediction- It will last a while. Reception: good. Grade: C. New review

Saturdays in Primetime Version 7

It seems that the CW keeps doing new shows on Saturdays so I keep doing these posts and it may yet get caught up and in line with all of the other days of the week. That’s cool. I also realize that it seems that I lose some review updates so I might end up redoing reviews I had done before but otherwise did not have in my updates, possibly from not knowing that they were coming back so I wrote them off as cancelled or I otherwise lost the review somehow, possibly not even including it in my blog in the first place by forgetting about it.

 

Criss Angel’s Magic with the Stars: Status- Currently on the CW at 8/7 Central on Saturdays. Why I’ve seen it- I promised myself that I would watch a new CW show at least once. Description- Two different celebrities compete against each other for stars while performing various magic tricks. Notable People- It is hard to say and explain who all is famous in this. But one is a famous magician named Criss Angel. The celebrity guests are also famous too, needless to say. Pros- It is a good show. The tricks are always entertaining and often done well. Cons- The stars, that is, those performing the magic, have to work more on the performance part of magic while also trying to perfect the tricks themselves. Some tricks aren’t performed as well as they could be. Note to Parents- There isn’t much wrong with the show outside of revealing outfits for women and the tricks being a bit dangerous. There is a warning not to try these tricks. Recommendation- This is worth watching. My Viewing Habits- Like any and all Saturday shows, I’ll watch what I can of this as it works out. Prediction- It has very low ratings given its poor timeslot so unless this gets a better timeslot, it won’t last at all. It has even gotten a 0.0 rating, the lowest possible in the demographic. Reception: somewhat good. Grade: B-. New review

 

World’s Funniest Animals: Status- Currently on the CW at 9/8 Central on Saturdays. Why I’ve seen it- I tend to watch a new CW show at least once. Noteworthiness- This was one of the shows that got to be on the air due to the pandemic as it could be produced remotely. Description- This is a viral video show of different videos featuring animals. Pros- People who like this type of show would like it and want to see it. Cons- This show is overall dumb, pointless, and not remotely close to funny. Note to Parents- I forget if this has anything objectionable or not. My biggest concern is potential physical comedy or animal mistreatment like abuse. Recommendation- Don’t bother with this. My Viewing Habits- I have only seen this once and won’t watch it again. Prediction- I have no idea what might happen with this show so I’m guessing that it won’t last anymore. Reception: bad. Grade: F. New review

 

48 Hours: Status- Currently on CBS at 10/9 Central on Saturdays. There are times when it fills gaps in the schedule caused by cancellations on CBS, although that hasn’t happened in a while. Why I’ve seen it- I guess it was just me wanting to watch something that was on, although on occasion, I was interested in what the episode was dealing with. Description- A true crime series that is basically a documentary type show exploring a criminal case. Pros- The episodes are typically quite interesting. Cons- It airs at a bad time. It can also be gruesome and drawn-out. Note to Parents- Don’t let your kids watch this. It is far too dark for them. Recommendation- I guess that this is worth watching from time to time, although I don’t typically go out of my way to watch it typically. My Viewing Habits- I have seen this at times, but don’t tune in most times as it isn’t my cup of tea. Prediction- Somehow it has remained a long time on the air despite it typically airing on Saturdays all the time. I imagine that it will continue to last a while. Reception: positive. Grade: C-.

Tuesdays in Primetime Version 8

Tuesdays are a competitive night on television. It is also when some of television’s most popular shows are on. The only problem is that the shows are so good, you won’t be able to watch them all. What all is good? Well, let’s delve into it.

 

The Resident: Status- Currently on FOX at 8/7 Central on Tuesdays. Why I’ve seen it- I watched this for my Good Wife blog and to fulfill my promise to watch a midseason replacement on FOX the season that it started. Description- This is a medical drama that features different doctors, some new, and there are various problems at the hospital at times. It seems a rather complicated plot that is hard to sum up easily. It should make more sense as it goes along. Notable People- This has Matt Czuchry who used to star in The Good Wife and Gilmore girls. Pros- It points out the flaws that can happen in a hospital, but does it in a good way. It can seem more humanizing than most medical dramas that I’ve seen in the past. Cons- It seems similar to House. The lead can be strange and arrogant. It is often too focused on sex at times. There are some medical stuff that you don’t know why it is there. Note to Parents- It airs with a content adversary warning in some episodes so that’s all you really need to know about it. Recommendation- I’d say that this is good to stay into if you want to. My Viewing Habits- I plan to watch this until the very end. Whether I’ll be able to see every episode or not remains to be seen. Prediction- This should last until it hits syndication. Reception: mixed. Grade: B.

 

FBI: Status- Currently on CBS at 9/8 Central on Tuesdays. Why I’ve seen it- It aired on CBS. Description- Needless to say, this is about the FBI and it features various threats that the team has to face. Notable People- This stars Missy Peregrym, who used to star in Rookie Blue. Dick Wolf, who created the Law and Order franchise and the Chicago franchise, also did this as well. Pros- It seems better than most shows are nowadays. Cons- Its main problem is being too generic. Note to Parents- This has the same sort of problems that you would often see on shows nowadays, but it is not nearly as bad as what you might see on other shows. Recommendation- I would say that one should watch this if one is able to. My Viewing Habits- I have watched this since the first episode, but have not seen every episode. Prediction- This will last until syndication. Reception: mixed. Grade: B.

 

FBI: International: Status- Currently on CBS at 9/8 Central on Tuesdays. Why I’ve seen it- I watch the other FBI shows so I might as well watch this one as well. Noteworthiness- This is the third show in the FBI franchise. Description- An FBI team investigates cases internationally. Pros- I like what I’ve seen of it. It works as a show. Cons- A lot of it can be cliché. Note to Parents- There have been sex scenes at times with potential romance issues that shouldn’t be happening. There are also the usual problems with crime and violence. Recommendation- This is worth the watch even if you don’t see the other shows in the franchise. My Viewing Habits- I haven’t seen all of the episodes, but I have seen this since the first episode. Prediction- It seems likely to last for now. It is renewed for another season beyond what it is airing now. Reception: good. Grade: A. New review

 

La Brea: Status- Currently airing on NBC at 9/8 Central on Tuesdays. Why I’ve seen it- It looked good and interesting. Description- A sinkhole appears in LA, but it appears to be in a wormhole to the past. This causes a man who has visions to seek for the people in the sinkhole to prove that they are alive as people seek to figure out what’s going on. Pros- It is quite interesting. You probably want to see what keeps happening on the show. Cons- This shows has typical science fiction clichés. It seems that some of the bare, basic elements of this could be ripping off Chrono Trigger. Note to Parents- Outside of maybe just the usual violence and a character obsessed with weed with other drugs being brought up as well, this doesn’t have much wrong with it. Recommendation- It is worth keeping up with as long as it lasts on TV. My Viewing Habits- While I have seen this from the first episode, I haven’t seen all of them. I plan to watch all that I can. Prediction- I think that this will last for now. We’ll see if it lasts longer and keeps up the good ratings that it currently has. Reception: negative. Grade: B. New review

 

Professionals: Status- Currently on the CW at 9/8 Central on Tuesdays. Why I’ve seen it- I pledged to watch every new CW show at least once. Noteworthiness- This is a foreign show that is airing on the CW. Description- I’m not entirely sure what it is about, but I can say that it appears that a criminal has been hired to help someone through a crisis. Notable People- Movie star Brandon Fraser is in this. Pros- It was good in some aspects. Cons- I couldn’t tell what it is about. Note to Parents- There were some issues with crime and violence. Recommendation- It is overall not worth keeping up with in the long run. My Viewing Habits- I watched the first episode of this and won’t be seeing it again. Prediction- I have no idea how much it has lasted internationally or if that means it will last in this country or not. Reception: somewhat good. Grade: D+. New review

 

Monarch: Status- Currently on FOX at 9/8 Central on Tuesdays. Why I’ve seen it- I vowed to watch a new FOX show at least once. Noteworthiness- This was meant to air last season, but delayed due to the pandemic. Description- What is described as the first family of country music has a lot of drama going on. Notable People- Some of the cast, be it regulars or guest stars, are notable celebrities. One of them is country music star Trace Atkins. Pros- It might work if you liked Empire. Cons- It didn’t really work. It seems to just want to be its own take on existing things, not being that good or different. Note to Parents- In the first episode, suicide was mentioned. Other violence and affairs happened as well. Recommendation- Don’t bother with it. My Viewing Habits- I watched the first episode of this and that will be all that I see of it ever. Prediction- The fact that this has not already been cancelled could be considered baffling. It will be. Reception: mixed to negative. Grade: F. New review

 

New Amsterdam: Status- Currently on NBC at 10/9 Central on Tuesdays. Why I’ve seen it- I forget why, but I think that I wanted to see it and a new fall show on NBC at the time. Noteworthiness- This is inspired by a true story, based off of a book that a doctor wrote about patients. Description- This is more or less a typical medical drama. Notable People- Ryan Eggold, who used to star in The Blacklist and The Blacklist: Redemption, is on this show. Pros- The main character is wonderful and you don’t see hook-ups like you normally would on most shows like this. Cons- It is hard to see what is different between it and other shows like it. Note to Parents- I think that this has always been TV-14 so it might not be a show that preteens and younger should watch. Recommendation- I think that one should watch it if one is able to. My Viewing Habits- I got into this a bit late, despite wanting to see it since the beginning. I have only seen the first episode of season 2 and haven’t watched past it thus far due to constant issues with this channel’s reception where I live until a bit after season 3 started. Prediction- It is officially airing its final season. Reception: mixed to negative. Grade: B.

 

The Rookie: Feds: Status- Currently on ABC at 10/9 Central on Tuesdays. Why I’ve seen it- I watch the original show so I might as well watch this as well. Noteworthiness- This is a spin-off of the show called The Rookie. Description- We see a new, older woman train to become a fed in addition to the other agents. Notable People- This has Britt Robertson from Life Unexpected, Under the Dome, For the People, and The Secret Circle. Pros- It works and is pretty good, even if you haven’t seen or don’t watch the original. Cons- It can be too much like existing crime shows. Note to Parents- This has about the same amount of problems that you would see in other shows. Recommendation- It is worth keeping up with and one should see it. My Viewing Habits- Prediction- It seems like it will last for now. Reception: bad. Grade: B. New review

 

FBI: Most Wanted: Status- Currently on CBS at 10/9 Central on Tuesdays. Why I’ve seen it- I watch the original so I figured that I might as well watch this too. Noteworthiness- It is a spin-off of FBI and by the same creator as it. Description- An FBI team tries to find the most wanted criminals. Notable People- Dylan McDermott from Law and Order: Organized Crime, Hostages, and Stalker. Pros- It seems like a good show that you would like and expect. Cons- I say that the problems with it are it seeming generic and like a carbon copy of the original with new characters instead of something new we could get from it. It is also much darker than it needs to be. Note to Parents- This probably doesn’t have as much of an issue as other shows do, but I would say that it might not be safe for the younger ones, but is probably fine for older kids. Recommendation- I think that one should watch this and one doesn’t yet have to see both this and the original in order to understand it. My Viewing Habits- I have seen this from the beginning and plan to watch it until the end. Prediction- This will last a while. It is renewed for next season. Reception: somewhat good. Grade: B.

Fridays in Primetime Version 8

Fridays are the least competitive nights on television although there are some good shows out there. Viewers aren’t regular, but those that are and even those that aren’t give the show these ratings. The CW shows Penn and Teller: Fool Us and Whose Line is it Anyways? CBS is showing Blue Bloods, Fire Country, and S.W.A.T. ABC is showing 20/20 and Shark Tank. NBC shows Dateline, Lopez versus Lopez, and Young Rock. FOX is now just airing Friday Night Smackdown, also known as WWE Smackdown. Beware that most of the shows come here to die and they are only here right now to enjoy them before they are gone, although some shows have thrived here since they have never really seen another night throughout most of their run or even after having previously not been on Fridays.

 

Lopez versus Lopez: Status- Currently on NBC at 8/7 Central. Why I’ve seen it- I now try to watch every new NBC show at least once. Description- This is a family sitcom with a woman reconnecting with her father and now roommate after a long time. Notable People- This stars George Lopez from the sitcom George Lopez and the late night show Lopez Tonight. Pros- You know what to expect from this. Cons- It was pretty dumb and didn’t work. Note to Parents- I didn’t think that there was much, of anything, wrong with this. Recommendation- Don’t watch this. My Viewing Habits- I watched only one episode of this and I’ll never see it again as I didn’t like it. Prediction- I’d put this as a toss-up for now. Reception: average. Grade: F. New review

 

S.W.A.T.: Status- Currently on CBS at 8/7 Central on Fridays. Why I’ve seen it- I always watch a CBS show once under most circumstances. Noteworthiness- This is a remake of a show with the same name. Description- This is about a team of people who try to help others in different situations. Just insert standard CBS drama into the plot line here. Notable People- It stars Shamar Moore, who used to star in Criminal Minds. Pros- The show works and has interesting plots. Cons- It doesn’t seem that different from other shows. Note to Parents- This has the standard amount of material that you would find wrong with a show. It has more violence in it than sex, but there is a bit of the second one on occasion. Still, there are worse shows in terms of violent content. Recommendation- I think that it is good to watch, unless you have better things to do with life. My Viewing Habits- I missed the first episode due to issues with the recording of it, but stayed with it from the second one onward. Prediction- This seems likely to last. Reception: mixed. Grade: A.

 

Shark Tank: Status- Currently on ABC at 8/7 Central on Fridays. Why I’ve seen it- I was flipping channels and stayed here because it seemed interesting. Description- A reality show where a group of rich sharks, as they’re called, decide whether or not to buy into a business of an entrepreneur. Pros- The segments are usually short and the decisions are interesting. It can be very intense. These are actually proceedings among people which makes it more real. Cons- You may not like their decisions. It is hard to find a rerun. You might not watch unless you’re a regular viewer. Note to Parents- Mostly everything in this is acceptable for kids. Maybe some products pitched aren’t for kids, but most of the episodes are okay for younger audiences. Recommendation- Take it or leave it. I like it and you might but whether you should watch or not is up to you. My viewing habits- Prediction- It will stay on as it gets good ratings on Fridays. I’m not sure what could end it, although it getting different people doing the deals might cause some problems. Reception: positive. Grade: B+.

 

Penn and Teller: Fool Us: Status- It airs on the CW at 8/7 Central on Fridays. Why I’ve seen it- It being a magic show interested me enough into watching it. Noteworthiness- Originally, this was a foreign series that had lasted a single season and was cancelled. It aired in Britain, but not in America for a while. After it aired in this country, the show was brought back for a second season and it has been on the CW during the summers and oddly timed reruns and other episodes since then. Description- Various magicians compete for a chance to be an opening act for Penn and Teller. They get to do a trick for them and get to be the opening act if Penn and Teller can’t explain how the trick was done. Pros- With a standalone format, this is the type of show that you don’t have to watch every week. The tricks are entertaining, regardless of if Penn and Teller are fooled. You get to see them perform a trick at the end of the show to keep things interesting. Cons- Whether or not Penn and Teller are fooled, we don’t know what the secret is behind the trick. So, basically, if people don’t fool Penn and Teller, we still don’t know how they aren’t fooled. I will say this, though, the tricks that fool tend to be better. Also, it can be rather annoying when people who have been on before, especially if they have already fooled them, are back on another time. Note to Parents- Anything potentially offensive in this show is relatively minor compared to most other shows. I’d be wary of the sexual things that show up from time to time. Recommendation- If you can watch it, then you probably should. My Viewing Habits- I haven’t always watched this compared to other shows. I do watch it if there is nothing notable I feel competes with it, which it doesn’t at the time. Prediction- I think that this show will last a while, although it will obviously end if something happens to Penn and/or Teller. Whether or not the buyout of the CW means that this could be ending soon is unknown, but likely. Reception: positive. Grade: B-. Move to Fridays

 

Young Rock: Status- Currently on NBC at 8:30/7:30 Central on Fridays. Why I’ve seen it- When I was wanting to see the last episode of Mr. Mayor live, this was what aired with it so I watched it once to see what it was like. Noteworthiness- This is based off of the life at past of Dwayne Johnson. Description- Dwayne Johnson tells the story of his life set in multiple parts of the past. Notable People- Notable wrestler and actor Dwaine Johnson is the star of the show. Randall Campbell from Fresh off the Boat is another character as well. Pros- It works as a story structure. Cons- It seems dull and uninteresting. Note to Parents- I don’t think that much was wrong with it. Recommendation- Don’t bother with this show at all. My Viewing Habits- I watched it once and won’t be seeing it again. Prediction- It seems likely to last for now. Reception: good. Grade: D. New review

 

Whose Line is it Anyways?: Status- Currently on the CW at 9/8 Central on Fridays. Why I’ve seen it- I liked the original show and am a general fan of improvised comedy. Noteworthiness- It is the remake of an ABC show and retains much of the original cast. Description- A group of comedians make up stuff and make us laugh while competing for meaningless points. Notable People- There are guests from certain shows that are noteworthy, whether they are the fourth member of the group (which changes) or a different special member. Aisha Tyler, who used to co-host the Talk, is the current host of this show. Pros- This is more or less the same great show that we all knew and loved when it first aired. Most of the original cast is back. Even though everything is made up, it still manages to be really funny. Cons- There are normally guests on the show that tend to slow things down and take away from the talent of the true part of the show. There tends to be some sexual related things that come up often enough. Note to Parents- Some of the humor is not things you’d want your kids watching, but most of it is okay and shouldn’t cause any problems if they watch it. Recommendation- You should probably watch it. I don’t know why one wouldn’t like this. My Viewing Habits- I try to watch this as often as possible, although I know that I miss it a lot. I watched the original version when it was on too and plan to keep watching it until it ends. I haven’t seen it when other shows I like compete against it. Prediction- This is officially airing its penultimate season right now. Reception: positive. Grade: A+.

 

Dateline: Status- Currently on NBC at 9/8 Central on Fridays. Why I’ve seen it- Nothing else on and it seemed interesting. Noteworthiness- It is the longest running primetime news show on NBC and sometimes airs multiple times in one week. Description- Pretty much an NBC version of 20/20. I don’t know which came out first. Pros- It can be interesting. Cons- It can only be interesting if you like it. I haven’t seen enough of it to find out how different it is from other networks versions of this show. They mostly only do murder mysteries from real life. The promos for it make it seem like if you watch TV on your own, you are better off without it. Note to Parents- This show is gruesome a lot with what they show on it. They even promote it in a way that implies that the squeamish shouldn’t watch it, at least by themselves. So you probably shouldn’t let your kids watch this. Recommendation- Take it or leave it. My viewing habits- I watch at times but normally don’t care enough as I don’t like true crime shows that much, although this does catch my interest at times, but not always. Prediction- It will last forever. Reception: mostly positive. Grade: B.

 

20/20: Status- Currently on ABC at 9/8 Central on Fridays. Why I’ve seen it- It looked interesting when I first saw it. Noteworthiness- It is the longest running primetime news show on ABC and the longest running ABC show in primetime at least. It premiered when Jimmy Carter was president. Description- This is an in-depth news show regarding issues relating to current events or just anything like a murder mystery. Pros- Can be quite interesting if you don’t watch anything else at that time. Cons- There’s a show like this on every network. Re-runs rarely exist. Some episodes are better than others. It can be hard to watch all the time. Note to Parents- If you typically let your kids watch the news, then this is something you can let them watch. Although, I’d honestly stay clear of letting most kids watch this as it is far too grim for them. Recommendation- I like it, but don’t watch it unless I know that I want to. Maybe you’ll like it or consider it a complete waste of time. My Viewing Habits- I don’t watch all the time, but I do when it works out although I tend to avoid the murder mystery episodes. Prediction- It will last unless something weird happens. Reception: currently positive, although the first episode was panned which lead to a retooling of the good show we know today. Grade: A.

 

Blue Bloods: Status- Currently on CBS at 10/9 Central on Fridays. Why I’ve seen it- It is on CBS. Nothing else good was on. Description- This is a cop show where the cops are related. It is set in New York City. Notable People- Tom Selleck from Magnum PI and movies is a character. Donnie Walburg, who is in the band New Kids on the Block, is a character as well. Pros- Something good exists on Friday nights for you to watch. A partial family aspect is added to the show which makes it more relatable. They rarely deal with murder and seem to deal with every sort of crime and problems that you might hear about in real life. Cons- The ways the officers catch and interrogate some of the suspects/criminals is unethical some of the time. It can be like a lot of other dramas. They have made some questionable off-camera choices regarding at least one actress who works on the show. Some episodes are better than others. There have been some episodes which use unfair stereotypes for villains. Note to Parents- This is better in terms of what is acceptable to show your kids than a lot of shows are. Recommendation- Take it or leave it. I like it. You might too. My Viewing Habits- I have seen most episodes and watched this from the very first episode. Prediction- It will stay around for a while unless they decide to end it. It could wind up on the chopping block with little to no warning. Reception: mostly positive. Grade: B-.

Fall Shows 2022

In case you were wondering where this post was, there really was no reason for me to write it much earlier and what has been cancelled so far hasn’t been something that I needed to watch that was new. I can tell you that this is the first time in quite a while in which I didn’t have to split one of these into multiple parts. Now let’s get to the post that won’t include some streaming shows that are out now that I haven’t yet seen for other blogs.

 

‘Til Jail do us Part: Show Description- Women who are rich friends have to deal with their husbands being arrested and other issues. Behind the Scenes- Roselyn Sánchez, from Without a Trace and Fantasy Island, is one of the characters. My Thoughts- This show was pretty dumb and didn’t have much to it. You couldn’t gather much from the pilot as there wasn’t much to keep you coming back to this later. I give this one out of five stars. Long Term Prospects- I’m going to guess that this won’t last, even if I have no way of knowing for sure. Where to Find- This is streaming on Peacock, an online streaming site

 

Professionals: Show Description- I’m not entirely sure what it is about, but I can say that it appears that a criminal has been hired to help someone through a crisis. Behind the Scenes- Movie star Brandon Fraser is in this. My Thoughts- It was good in some aspects, but overall not worth keeping up with in the long run. I give this two out of five stars. Long Term Prospects- I have no idea if this will last or not, but it might have the edge over some other CW shows as it might be owned by what owns the network now. Where to Find- On the CW at 9/8 Central on Tuesdays

 

Family Law: Show Description- Family drama comes to a head in various ways as a lot of family members now work together in court dealing with other family cases and their own drama as well. Behind the Scenes- This is a Canadian show that is now airing in the US. It stars Jewel Staite from Firefly and The LA Complex. It also stars Victor Garble from Legends of Tomorrow. My Thoughts- Some parts of this can be absurd, but it is overall an interesting show. I give this three out of five stars. Long Term Prospects- It has already been renewed in Canada. If it doesn’t last here, that’s another story. Where to Find- On the CW at 8/7 Central on Sundays

 

Monarch: Show Description- What is described as the first family of country music has a lot of drama going on. Behind the Scenes- This was delayed from the previous season that it was supposed to air during due to the pandemic. My Thoughts- It didn’t really work. It seems to just want to be its own take on existing things, not being that good or different. I give this one out of five stars. Long Term Prospects- This won’t last. It’s surprising that it has even aired as much as it has already. Where to Find- On FOX at 8/7 Central on Tuesdays

 

The Rookie: Feds: Show Description- A spin-off of The Rookie, we see a new, older woman train to become a fed. Behind the Scenes- This has Britt Robertson from Life Unexpected, Under the Dome, For the People, and The Secret Circle. My Thoughts- It works and is pretty good, even if you haven’t or don’t watch the original. I give it four out of five stars. Long Term Prospects- It seems like it will last for now. Where to Find- On ABC at 10/9 Central on Tuesdays

 

East New York: Show Description- This is a cop drama set in East New York which is something that the show annoyingly says a whole lot. Behind the Scenes- May the wrath of Shebo descend upon you. My Thoughts- It is a pretty good show and I like it. I give it four out of five stars. Long Term Prospects- It seems like it will last for now. However, there is reason for concern since the promos are showing what tweets say instead of what critics say which is normally a bad sign. Where to Find- On CBS at 9/8 Central on Sundays unless delayed due to football or other reasons

 

Criss Angel’s Magic with the Stars: Show Description- Two different celebrities compete against each other for stars while performing various magic tricks. Behind the Scenes- It is hard to say and explain who all is famous in this. But one is a famous magician named Criss Angel. My Thoughts- The stars, that is, those performing the magic, have to work more on the performance part of magic while also trying to perfect the tricks themselves. But it is a good show. I give it three out of five stars. Long Term Prospects- It will probably last even despite its timeslot. Where to Find- On CBS at 8/7 Central on Saturdays

 

Lopez versus Lopez: Show Description- This is a family sitcom with a woman reconnecting with her father and now roommate after a long time. Behind the Scenes- This stars George Lopez from the sitcom George Lopez and the late night show Lopez tonight. My Thoughts- It was pretty dumb and didn’t work. I give it one out of five stars. Long Term Prospects- I’d put this as a toss-up for now. Where to Find- On NBC at 8/7 Central on Fridays

 

Quantum Leap: Show Description- A continuation of the classic show of the same name and set in the same universe as a result, a man leaps through various points in time into various people in order to fix their lives and try to get back home. Behind the Scenes- As stated before, this is a reboot of the show of the same name. My Thoughts- It is a good and interesting show. It better resolve what was left unresolved in the original. I give it four out of five stars. Long Term Prospects- It seems likely to last for now, but we’ll see if it does given its horrible timeslot that I can’t remember what lasted in it most recently. Where to Find- On NBC at 10/9 Central on Mondays

The Ten Worst Episodes of 2021

While I have covered a lot of the best episodes of television in the past, I’ve decided that it is now a good idea to cover the worst of television from the previous year. There are ten that I’m going with this time around. I don’t know if I’ll go with more or less in future years.

 

#10 Celestial Body (Debris): The last episode of this show left too much unresolved in the end. I don’t know why shows do that sometimes. While it was hardly one of the worst series finales, it was bad enough to earn its place on this list.

 

#9 Ariana Grande & Blake Shelton versus Kelly Clarkson & John Legend (That’s My Jam): I think that this type of show would simply work better instead as just random segments of The Tonight Show instead of just a random and meaningless competition show that has no purpose in the end.

 

#8 My Mother, Myself (Our Kind of People): This was the only episode that I saw of this plotless show. The fact that I still have no idea what this show is about after having seen this episode proves just how bad that it was.

 

#7 1999 (Queens): While a lot of the pilots sucked in the 2021-2022 season, this wasn’t nearly as bad as some of the others that you’ll see on this list, but it was pretty dumb. It sought to reunite a girl group from the 90s with all of their current issues coming to light at once. It didn’t work and lots of people didn’t watch it since it was clear that it didn’t have any quality content to it.

 

#6 Plus One (Call Me Kat): Here’s another horrible pilot. I’m not sure if multi-camera comedies are on their way out, but this is more of the reason why they should be since a show that’s unfunny is only going to seem way worse with laughter in the background. A lot of star talent on this show is wasted on such terrible material that just does not work.

 

#5 Repo/Wepas Geri (The United States of Al): The potential goodness of this show didn’t last long as it took me being behind on shows to not just get disinterested in it right after the second season premiere had happened. The plot focused on what seemed like Al stealing cars for a living when he was doing legal work possibly? It was hard to tell and make sense of a lot of it. But it could have focused more on the aftermath of the fall of Kabul, but didn’t.

 

#4 Chapter Ninety-Eight: Mr. Cypher (Rivervale): While I could pick the entire Rivervale arc to be among the worst episodes of the season, it was this episode, where Satan convinced people to sell their souls to him, that was the most absurd of the whole arc.

 

#3 I Want You Back (The Big Leap): The worst of all of the pilot shows in 2021, it is hard to say just how bad this episode was. I don’t watch to watch more of a series that is like this. It mocks reality shows while trying to appeal to them. It has horrible lines like, “[this guy’s] finally gay!” And there was just so much wrong with any and all of the subplots that there was absolutely nothing in here that could keep me into a second episode like this.

 

#2 The Last Weekend (Prodigal Son): While there was a lot of this show’s sophomore slump to put on the bad episode list, the last episode was the pinnacle of terribleness in regards to this show. It can represent almost perfectly everything wrong with a show’s final episode. It had a cliffhanger ending, focused on something largely unrelated to the entire series, and just overall failed every other way. I don’t know just how much worse this episode could have be.

 

#1 Watchdog (NCIS): As a long time fan of this show, it is absolutely horrendous that this episode exists. This show largely does good episodes still, but this one doesn’t so much suck just because of how bad the episode was but because of how important it is as a key episode of the show marking a turning point into the series setting up the ultimate departure of Gibbs. Could there really not be something better that he could cross the line with than dead dogs relating to animal abuse? And the rest of the team was briefly in trouble as well. I hate everything about this episode and cannot think of a worse thing to have aired the entire past year.

 

That’s all that I can think of relating to this blog post. There are some recurring posts that I feel need to be done sooner rather than later. We’ll see when or if I get them done in the end. I still need to do the best and the worst of the decade relating to the 2010s. And I have no idea just when I’ll get to the cancelled shows of this past season. I know that I’ll need to cover new shows at some point in time. So you’ll have a lot to look forward to over time if I can get it all done in time.

The My Pillow Boycott: 2022

If the title of this blog post wasn’t any indication, it should be a warning of this post’s content. This will be a more political post in nature than most posts of this blog. But I’m posting this here instead of any of political blogs as it affects more of my TV world than anything else.

 

You see, conspiracy theorist, Mike Lindell, still has his company of My Pillow that is still being promoted on TV. It is kind of annoying that he still has a platform that I can see his ads on. While he may not be able to promote his company on any TV show, I’ve decided to stop watching any show that promotes his company. He shouldn’t be able to have mainstream shows on network TV still promoting him.

 

Before I get to what shows currently have been affected by this thus far, I should explain my relevant late night show watching history. I shouldn’t still be watching them due to how late they air on TV with my job early in the morning on weekdays. Thanks to my mother, I largely started out watching The Late Show with David Letterman. This is partially how I wound up getting into The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson afterwards. Both of those shows were my primary late night shows.

 

I wanted to get into other late night shows potentially for when I had seen the primary one. I wound up liking Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. But I didn’t like The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. I made Jimmy Kimmel my secondary at that timeslot, made better when Nightline and his show switched timeslots with him only getting an advantage on Mondays after an evening college class.

 

After Jay Leno left The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon became my third choice of host at that timeslot. Of course, certain shows may get more priority only due to CBS coming in better making me able to actually watch them. Plus, when Stephen Colbert took over as host of The Late Show, he would have a lot of guests that I’d want to see or other episodes that I felt were more relevant. While I did get into Seth Meyers and his version of Late Night with that show even becoming my primary show after the departure of Craig Ferguson as host of The Late Late Show, I came to realize that I just didn’t like Seth Meyers as much so I gave him up. I always preferred James Corden anyways.

 

When David Letterman stopped hosting The Late Show, it only seemed fair for Jimmy Kimmel to move up to primary, Jimmy Fallon to secondary, and Stephen Colbert was the third choice. Meanwhile, my back up to James Corden would always be Nightline on ABC. The pandemic screwed up the ABC and NBC schedule a lot for that summer. I even watched A Little Late at times when that was on, but she isn’t relevant for this blog post.

 

Anyways, it was Jimmy Kimmel Live that was the first show affected by this boycott. He had done some segments making fun of Mike Lindell, but his show still decided to promote My Pillow. It was one of those rare times where a commercial gets me to change the channel, this time to Jimmy Fallon. While I have seen parts of Jimmy Kimmel after this, I largely have stopped watching that show with The Tonight Show now my primary show at this timeslot and The Late Show now the secondary one.

 

It was later when I was watching The Late Late Show with James Corden when the show also did a promotion for My Pillow so I stopped watching that show right then by turning the TV off and then I wound up going to bed. I have seen a whole episode of his show since then, but largely just watch Nightline now instead of anything else. Will I get back into his show now that he’s ending? Well, that is worth covering later in this post.

 

While I’m unsure how much of my facebook habits I want to make public, I do have this thing where I want to replace certain things. For instance, anything that I might have shared of James Corden that shows up in memories when I check it will have two replacements: something from The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and a Jordan Keppler segment from The Daily Show that I only know about from it being on YouTube. I also will replace anything shared from Jimmy Kimmel with something from Jimmy Fallon instead. Now I’m not sure why I’m using the term replacement since I’m not actually going to get rid of any of these things. I will have to explain more about what I’d do with other late night shows I wind up not watching if that were to happen in the future. I will unfollow any of them on facebook.

 

There haven’t been that many other shows affected thus far in this boycott. I gave up a CBS local morning news show. I could give up this news source again as I have before (also for political reasons), but I won’t yet if I will at all. I’ve also seen My Pillow promoted on reruns of The Andy Griffith Show which is also affected as I have select episodes of that on DVD. The only other show that I’ve seen promote that thus far is He Haw. And I hadn’t even seen a whole segment of that, much less a whole episode. Who knows what else could be affected? I plan to keep track of more in the future, unless this winds up being it in the end.

 

You might wonder, how this could affect other shows such as ones that I blog about? How would this affect any and all of my blogs? Only my TV blog would be unaffected as it isn’t about a single show. I would stop blogging about Elementary, although I’m not sure how I could see it on TV again, even if it is in syndication. Although, I guess anything could wind up being on My Network TV. That blog would have a farewell post and then I’d be done with it indefinitely.

 

If it was Survivor that promoted this product, I wouldn’t do any random posts anymore outside of the ones on dead players and only do blog posts on the current and already promised or ongoing old seasons of the show. I wouldn’t get any old seasons of that for myself again, although I would still watch what I have and could get even after I’ve seen it the one time that I have. If that show were to end, then that would mean a lot less posting until I’ve finished with all of the old stuff that I want to and stop doing that blog entirely.

 

The CSI franchise covers a lot. While I blog about both CSI: Cyber and CSI: Vegas, I also plan to start a blog on Without a Trace having the first season of that on DVD and now I’ll need all of them. The other shows in the franchise that also air at times in syndication that I plan to blog about are CSI, CSI: Miami, and CSI: New York. If any single one of them promoted My Pillow, that would prompt me to stop doing the CSI: Cyber blog, only blog about CSI: Vegas until the end of the show before stopping it, and not do any other blog in the franchise that hasn’t already started.

 

Then there are the more complicated ones. While I haven’t mentioned anything about it yet, there might be a subset of political blogs that I do at times starting soon, be it possibly this year, or sometime soon in the next. Regardless of if that happens, there will be something that starts before the one on Madam Secretary ends. That blog would be changed to purely political until it ends with there being a lot of blogs in its place and the one on Madam Secretary would come back after an extended hiatus.

 

Lastly, the blogs that I have on The Good Wife and The Good Fight would also both be changed into purely political blogs until they can be phased out and replaced. Only in this case, they wouldn’t be updated again. I still have only seen the first season of The Good Fight and this would ensure that I would never blog about any other season of that show.

 

You might wonder when any of these boycotts could end. Indeed, I don’t even know which shows may not be affected by it for whatever reason as I can always talk about that in future blog posts. It only has to be one of the following in order for me to give up the boycotts and start watching any of these shows again. Note that I plan to see the last episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden regardless of if I’m still doing other boycotts by then or not.

 

Here are the things that could happen: 1- Mike Lindell dies. 2- My Pillow goes out of business. With it no longer being a company that could promote itself, then there is nothing to boycott. 3- Someone other than Mike Lindell takes control of the company. This person would obviously also not have to be an election denier or otherwise loony. 4- Mike Lindell renounces his conspiracy theory ways. I’d love it if he sees the light. This would be the best and most ideal of all of them.

 

While I’m sure that some people reading this just think that I’m some libtard taking part in cancel culture, I don’t believe that people like Mike Lindell should have the platform that they do and don’t want to take part in anything that promotes him. I hope that I’m not mean and am certainly not wanting him to die. I could just be happy without any of these things again. But I thought that I would let you know about this since this does affect TV for me.

A Look Back at the 2020-2021 Fantasy Schedule

With the 2022-2023 TV season ongoing, you might be wondering why this post has taken so long. Well, I feel that this follow up was a long time coming and should have been done back when it would have made more sense. But I got only the title of this written for quite some time. Now, I’m finally doing this look back of the currently most recent fantasy schedule that I have done. I could have done more or better if only it wasn’t so confusing due to the pandemic. And since I’m not doing look backs on my cancellation predictions again (I found them too bad in a way), then I might as well cover this from time to time in the event that I actually do it. Anyways, let’s get to this post.

 

ABC: What I got right- I was right thinking that America’s Funniest Home Videos, The Rookie, Dancing with the Stars, The Goldbergs, For Life, all of TGIT, Shark Tank, and 20/20 would all air at the times that they did, even if some didn’t start until November with other stuff filling in until it was ready. I was right thinking that some of the summer shows would be Don’t, United We Fall, and Primetime: What Would You Do? I was also right thinking that Don’t and United We Fall wouldn’t last. I was right thinking that The Bachelorette would air at the fall. I was right thinking that Emergence, Kids Say the Darnest Things, The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart, and Stumptown would all get cancelled although it did seem like Stumptown was going to come back at one point before it didn’t.

 

ABC: What I got wrong- I was wrong thinking that The Bachelor Summer Games, Videos after Dark, and Generation Gap would even air that season. Only one of those ever aired in the future. I got a lot of timeslots wrong, especially with the comedy shows. I thought a lot of what did return would return much sooner than it ultimately did. I was wrong thinking that The Baker and the Beauty, Schooled, Single Parents, or The Great American Baking Show would return as all of them were cancelled. I was wrong predicting the cancellation of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

 

CBS: What I got right- I got maybe about half of the timeslots right, not factoring in the delay in the fall season. I got a lot of the obvious renewals right. I was right thinking that midseason would have a new comedy and two new dramas.

 

CBS: What I got wrong- I got a lot of the renewal predictions wrong as the shows of God Friended Me, Broke, Carol’s Second Act, Man with a Plan, and Tommy were all shows that I thought would stay around and be part of this season while none of them were. I was wrong to think that Survivor would be at midseason or that a new should would take its place in the fall. I don’t know what I was thinking by putting Bull as cancelled.

 

CW: What I got right- I was right to think that Hypnotize Me would be cancelled, although I’m certain that they have yet to make that official. If I knew when shows would start by thinking that it wouldn’t be until later in the season, then I would have gotten a lot of the timeslots right. I was right in thinking that Supernatural would air its final season and episodes during the fall. I was also right to think that Walker would be delayed until midseason. I got my prediction of the upcoming season of Supergirl being the last one correct.

 

CW: What I got wrong- I had no idea that most of the regular shows wouldn’t air until the fall. I also did not know a lot of the timeslots right even if you did factor in the long delay of when a lot of those shows were actually starting and scheduled in the end.

 

FOX: What I got right- I got the entire prediction of Sundays correct. I thought that I Can See Your Voice would be on at the fall and was right about that. I was right thinking that Call me Kat, 9-1-1: Lone Star, and Last Man Standing would all be at midseason.

 

FOX: What I got wrong- I was wrong predicting the renewal of   Gordon Ramsey’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back. I was wrong thinking that he would have a new show this season. I was wrong thinking that The Great North would be cancelled. I also thought a lot of the new fall should would instead air earlier during the summer.

 

NBC: What I got right- I was right thinking that the Monday slot after The Voice would bring doom to what aired there as Debris was cancelled and even Small Fortune didn’t last despite it not even being on after The Voice, just in that same timeslot. I was right thinking that Kenan, Young Rock, Law and Order: Organized Crime, and Manifest would all air at midseason. I got a good chunk of the cancellation predictions correct with me not knowing what all would be known.

 

NBC: What I got wrong- I was wrong thinking that whatever aired after The Voice on Mondays would be cancelled as it was brought back. I was wrong thinking that Jeffries would ever air. I got the name of Law and Order: Organized Crime wrong. I got some of the returning shows wrong as they were cancelled instead of being brought back.

 

And that’s pretty much all of this post. I can’t think of too much else to say outside of doing the usual milking as much random things that I can think of saying the ensure that the closing of this blog, as in the last paragraph of it, has at least three lines in it. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for. You can go about your business. Move along. Move along.

There Were a Lot of Duds in the 2021-2022 TV Season

More so than perhaps any other season before it that I knew about or kept track of in the detail that I do now of certain shows, I have to wonder if there has been an example of so many duds all airing in one single season of television. There sure have been a lot of them. I’m not even going to mention all of the shows that I think are bad. I’m just going to mention the exceptionally bad shows. Let’s start with the obvious: the new shows.

 

Examples: ABC- Queens (this show about the drama of an all girl singing group reuniting later with all of their secrets coming to light was just obvious and dumb with nothing exceptional about it), CW- Naomi (this superhero show lacked substance in a pilot that should have been a good origin story that the network has been good at, but instead seemed more like a fan film of a show were they weren’t even sure if Superman was even real), March (this show is so boring that it lacks a Wikipedia page as this documentary on high school marching bands brought little to nothing to it)

 

NBC- That’s My Jam (I just don’t understand how this one lasted when nothing about it seemed good and the fact that everyone gets the same amount of money regardless of who wins makes me wonder what the point of the whole “competition” even is), CBS- How We Roll (this sitcom based on a true story would have been boring, dull, and unfunny, certain to be cancelled, even without it starting so late in the season that it was doomed from the start)

 

FOX- The Big Leap (how does this have a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes when it was so terrible that it mocks the very idea of reality shows in a way that won’t get any of those viewers or any other ones in ways that simply wouldn’t happen on reality shows), Pivoting (she can’t fit into tiny pants and winds up in the hospital in a comedy where death is important in some way and, yes, it’s as terrible as that sounds), Domino Masters (this should have been much better than it was, but only seemed to milk the drama between contestants more than anything else)

 

Continued: Our Kind of People (you can tell that a show is bad if after having seen an episode, I can’t even tell you what this was even supposed to be about in the end), The Real Dirty Dancing (even if I had seen the movie that this is based off of then I wouldn’t be interested in this crapfest that seems very boring with no real point), Welcome to Flatch (Sony bribed its way into a second season since this so is so unfunny that it is more cringe worthy than anything else), Alter Ego (the voting mechanism made no sense in a wanna be Masked Singer with no famous people except judges)

 

And it’s not just new shows that were bad. Big Sky had one of the worst sophomore slumps that I have ever seen in a TV show as it went from being an interesting missing persons drama to a show about drug running that I have no interest in seeing ever again. Rivervale was just the arc that started out the new season of Riverdale that was beyond absurd. It was too late into the show for it to introduce any of the supernatural elements that could be in the show and it still work. It was as if they let people submit fan fiction and that become episodes of the show. While I don’t yet know when I’ll be covering the best and worst of the decades from the 2010s, I can tell you that Riverdale might almost be certain to win the jumped the shark award worst of the decade in the 2020s.

 

Then there are shows with bad endings. There are a lot of them. Most of them were cancellations that came as a surprise, especially regarding the CW shows, but it is still hard to like any of these shows now. Legends of Tomorrow had the heroes arrested by time cops with other aspects of it unresolved. Batwoman set up a new villain that won’t be resolved. 4400 seemed to undo some of its canon with its cliffhanger. B Positive left one of the main characters alone without resolving things with her planned love. Ordinary Joe had a cliffhanger for each of the three timelines. Mr. Mayor had a terrible ending in the middle of a debate with a bombshell revealed.

 

Monarch was supposed to be part of this season, but was delayed like a lot of the FOX shows were to the next season. The reason given was due to the pandemic. It was also a terrible show since we got basically all of what we had wrong with Filthy Rich only with the show focusing on country music stars instead of “religious” hypocrites. I’m only including this here since it could have been part of that season that just happened.

 

I will be doing posts of this blog on every Sunday now for the foreseeable future. I’m doing this since the day of the week was made available now and I made use of it right away. I can only hope that this does not mess up anything regarding my CSI: Vegas blog. Also stay tuned for different things relating to this blog on Fridays, potentially. Otherwise, things will be even weirder than they are now.

Why Networks Don’t Care about Friday Shows

Well, the name of this post is a bit misleading. It seems as if networks don’t care about shows that air on Fridays. Few networks try that hard and some don’t seem to try at all. Others try for a time and then give up. Others try some of the time, but not all of the time.

 

I’ll admit, I didn’t always use to care about shows on Fridays. I would normally eat pizza and watch a movie from a video rental store. I would not see what aired on TV. That started to change when the show Moonlight premiered and I could watch that. I have more or less watched Friday shows a lot ever since that time frame. I probably watch too much.

 

With many new movies being released when they are, Friday is when less people would watch shows. Others are out enjoying their weekend in some ways. It is hard to say much about why there isn’t as much things on. But that is the main set of reasons.

 

I need to work more on getting intense posts done that require a lot of time to get done. I’m at least glad that I’m able to get some posts done. I just need to get the right posts done and I’m not doing that. I don’t want to wind up like December of last year where I had a lot of large posts to get done all at once, but didn’t, and still haven’t, gotten one of them done. I am hoping that I can get stuff done soon and am already expecting shorter posts than I would like.

The Craziness of the CW’s Schedule has Actually Just Begun

Once the pandemic hit, the CW started acting strange with its schedule. It wasn’t that unexpected that there would be changes as a result. But this network was weirder than others. It didn’t cut a lot of the show’s episodes’ counts to a logical lower number the first time around. The next season after that, it cut back a lot of the episode count and now stood the chance of regaining normalcy. But then there was the fact that this network was for sale. And a whole lot of shows were cancelled that never would have been before. Which leads us to this season.

 

With the CW network under new ownership, the vast majority of its shows are still owned by either CBS or the WB. But they have just 12.5% of the network now each with Nexstar owning the other 75%. They can carry these shows longer than just this one season, but it is unknown how much they will or if they will do any at all. It is known that The Flash and Riverdale will be ending.

 

The shows that could have a better chance of survival are the third season shows of Superman and Lois, Kung Fu, Stargirl, and Walker. What I do not yet know is who owns what and how much Nexstar owns of anything. It seems that two of the notable new CW shows are spin-offs (Walker: Independence and The Winchesters). One is a foreign import (Family Law). And the only new fall show that isn’t either of those last two is Professionals.

 

While a lot can change at midseason, it seems weird that only one new show might be on at least at the fall that Nexstar owns. Plus, you do have to wonder if they would keep lower rated shows that they own over higher rated shows from the WB or CBS. What’s weird and this might just depend on the news sources that I keep track of is just how little press coverage this has gotten so far. The CW was for sale and I’ve never heard people talk about it outside of one source.

 

There is a thing that happens at times where some networks effectively do a throw the bums out thing. This has largely in my mind only happened with sitcoms and even then, only rarely outside of the one network that just kept doing it over and over again. But I can’t remember much about this thread. Will we have a phased out way of getting rid of all of the old shows on the network? There is no way that they would get rid of all of them at once and start with brand new shows next season outside of what they could take over from this season. Or, at least, that’s what I think.

 

So while the scheduling of the shows may be going back to normal or already back that way, we may never see shows last long that aren’t owned by Nexstar in the future until nothing from the WB or CBS is left on that network. And that is how the network’s craziness has just begun.

Wishlist for Final Season of The Flash

 As I get to this way late post of this blog, I might as well cover just the basic idea of what I might want done. I have no way of knowing if all of what I even want will be mentioned. But I figured that this is a good thing to put in this blog, even if the likelihood of them doing any of this is slim.

1- Revisit a lot of what has happened. I almost want them to do a season heavy on time travel, but that could just become too similar to what they did on the final season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Still, there could be other ways to take that general idea in their own, original direction.

2- Finally resolve the Eobard Thawne storylines. I know that I have already mentioned how Thawne is a continuity nightmare within the world of Arrowverse. But it wouldn't be that bad an idea to give him his own episode as the big bad of the series in order to explain once and for all how everything possibly makes sense in his timeline. Heck, they don't have to limit this to just one episode.

3- Have Iris West-Allen be pregnant. This would be the ultimate great act of fulfilling the show once and for all with this being a good closing arc to include. While I'm glad that they've never shown Barry and Iris in a sex scene, at least having them as expecting parents would be a nice touch since we all know that they become parents in the future.

4- Resolve Legends of Tomorrow. It makes the most sense for anything regarding the Legends and potentially Booster Gold to be done in this show instead of Superman and Lois. In fact, it might be better for this show to touch upon what happened towards the end of Batwoman as well, unless Gotham Knights winds up being part of Arrowverse.

5- Bring back as many of the former cast as possible. You should especially do this with Ralph Dibney, preferably played by Hartley Sawyer, but can be played by someone else. This would be a nice way to help resolve the show.

The Number One Thing All Courtroom Dramas Get Wrong

I used to have a job for three different counties and two different companies where I did background checks on people and it required me to spend time at different courthouses. While I have never once seen a courtroom in action, I can tell you that television gets a major thing wrong about how it comes to handling cases in a court of law. And it’s all of them too. I know that the title of this post makes it seem like I’m singling out just courtroom dramas, but I do mean that it could be considered any show on TV that features courtrooms in it at some point or another.

 

That thing is this: cell phones. You cannot bring cell phones into a courthouse. You will get in serious trouble. And, yes, this includes lawyers and judges. You cannot bring cell phones in there. There is a sign outside of the courtrooms that says absolutely no cell phones allowed. If this happens in a small town like what I live in, then it certainly would happen in the big cities that shows are often set in.

 

What would the punishment for having a cell phone in a courtroom be? I’m not sure. But I’m almost certain that it wouldn’t be what you’d see in TV shows. It wouldn’t be judges getting mildly annoyed. It would likely be them being arrested on the spot for contempt of court.

 

That’s why it’s annoying that every show that uses scenes in a courtroom gets this wrong. I mean, you’d think that with all of the legal analysis and experts that they use to get a show as accurate as possible, they would get something as simple as no cell phones in a courtroom right. Have none of these writers done something as simple as visit a courtroom to see a case happen? I would at some point. That is why I’m upset that this is always wrong.

Notes on the Current NBC Schedule: 2022 Version

This might be the only time that I do a post like this covering this network, but we’ll see. It could happen again, but I’ll never know for sure. With me now possibly watching every new show on this network for the foreseeable future, I might as well cover what this network will be like.

 

It is just a bit difficult actually to keep track of this network entirely as it airs Sunday Night Football and then airs shows on primetime on Sundays only after football season is over. I might do a part two of this post then once we know what the midseason schedule is like. It is hard for this network to get viewers for their Sunday shows, which is ironic since its primetime Sunday Night Football is the highest rated show each television season. The Sunday shows that had aired new episodes last year were Weakest Link, Transplant, and The Courtship after the Olympics and the summer show of Who Do You Think You Are? I don’t care about the summer schedule when I do posts like these.

 

Let’s cover the new shows. I’m first going to cover the fall ones, then midseason. The only two new fall ones right now are Quantum Leap and Lopez versus Lopez. The midseason ones that are coming are Found, LA Fire and Rescue, Night Court, and The Wheel.

 

The NBC shows that were cancelled shows from last season that we know thus far are America’s Got Talent: Extreme, The Courtship (which moved to USA Network), The Endgame, Home Sweet Home (which moved to Peacock), Kenan, Mr. Mayor, Ordinary Joe, The Thing about Pam, and This is Us.

 

When it comes to what replaced what, let’s see if I can figure this all out. I’m ignoring the Sunday shows as I don’t know what could happen with them yet. I won’t know until later what Magnum P.I. will be replacing on this network. I hope that it doesn’t turn into Brooklyn Nine-Nine where it airs later and later each season over and over again. There are other things I won’t know until later.

 

Anyways, both Ordinary Joe and The Endgame were replaced now by Quantum Leap. La Brea returns to replace the show This is Us which had already once replaced La Brea. Meanwhile, Capital One College Bowl is temporarily replacing The Blacklist. Mr. Mayor is effectively replaced by Lopez versus Lopez. Kenan was replaced by part of The Voice. That’s all that I can think of mentioning for now.

 

Note that this will be the last Saturday update for a while. Some might reappear from time to time in the future. The updates will be random at times as usual and continue weekly on Fridays for a while now for the foreseeable future. Enjoy them while you can.