With the main fall TV schedule
about to end and the relaxing summertime about to happen, there are still
things that are worth watching on TV. I always watch a lot less over the summer
and tend to watch just one thing at a time instead of various multiple things.
There are different ways the summer schedule could wind up going down and it
depends on what is and isn’t coming back. I’m not sure that everything is set
in stone for sure now anyways. But, let’s start with the two wildcards.
CBS all access decided to put
a season of Big Brother on during the fall, but kept it as an online exclusive
for subscribers of their ironically named service. Because of this, I don’t
know whether or not I’ll go back to Big Brother this season. I might not watch
this upcoming season or any Big Brother season ever again. That’s not to say
that I hate the show now. I just don’t like the fact that it aired online.
Plus, there are other potentially interesting things to watch on at the same
time.
The other wildcard relates to
My Network TV. They air different things in different regions. I’ll talk about
my region, of course. On Wednesdays, they are currently airing reruns of
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I have missed a lot of this show in the past.
This means that I could ignore anything else that airs on Wednesdays to watch
this show instead. That show is likely to be cancelled so if I don’t like the
ending that the show has (provided it is cancelled this season), I might not
watch the reruns anyways.
Outside of the wildcards,
there are still more shows with unknown fates at the moment. For instance, the
show Beyond the Tank hasn’t aired since last spring after filling the gap of
the cancellation of the show Of Kings and Prophets. I doubt it would be coming back
and I doubt that I would even watch it in the first place. I’m not sure if Mad
TV is returning and that seems unlikely right now. That, I would watch if
possible. I only saw part of Maya and Marty once, but I’d like to see that if
the show returns and the network comes in where I live. The future of
BattleBots seems unlikely although I might watch it should it return. Better
Late than Never was renewed, but isn’t on the schedule just yet. I’ll get to
that later. I’m also not sure if there is a future for Primetime: What Would
You Do?
Before I go any further, it is
worth noting that there will be some regular season shows that will be spilling
over into the summer schedule. For instance, iZombie and the final season of
Reign will still be airing in June. I plan to watch them still during the
summer. I’m not sure what else might still be airing in the summer as I don’t
know the season finale dates for a lot of shows just yet.
If they air any more of Doubt,
Time after Time, or Powerless, I should hopefully be able to watch them
whenever they air. I just don’t know when they will air and if I’ll be able to
catch them. Doubt might be the only one of them to continue to air in the
future, although it could wind up only being on CBS all access, which wouldn’t
surprise me.
What are all the returning
shows that I would want to watch? Well, if NBC actually comes in where I live
this year, I might watch The Night Shift. Reception problems are the only
reason why I haven’t given it a shot yet. I might watch American Grit this
season. I didn’t last season then thought it was cancelled, only it wasn’t
actually. There was too much to watch last season when it started. I could wind
up seeing To Tell the Truth at some point, although I’m not sure if I will or
not. It depends on how long it lasts and if it comes in where I live. If I’m
not watching Big Brother, I could wind up seeing Celebrity Family Feud.
Now that I’ve said what old
shows I haven’t watched before, I might as well mention the old ones that I do
plan on seeing again. Of course, there is a note I’ll get to about that later.
The returning summer shows that I will probably watch again are The $100,000
Pyramid, Penn and Teller: Fool Us, Masters of Illusion, SNL Weekend Update
Thursday, and Whose Line is it Anyways?
What new summer shows am I
planning on getting into? Well, I’m not sure that I can watch all of or any of
these considering how some will compete at the same time. One of the shows that
I might watch isn’t new but is a reboot instead. It is The Gong Show. I’m not
sure that I’m that interested in it though. I also don’t know yet if I care
enough about World of Dance, although I am planning on watching it. Since I
normally watch the new CBS shows, I am planning on watching Candy Crush and
Salvation. I am planning on tuning into Hooten & the Lady once since I’m
trying to see any new CW shows if possible. All the other new shows that I
might watch are Steve Harvey’s Funderdome, Superhuman, & Love Connection.
Of course, there is one last thing to add.
Things can change despite what
my original plan was for them. Last summer, I was going to watch Penn and
Teller: Fool Us, but ultimately didn’t as it aired against Big Brother and I
either couldn’t tell that before or it was going to air at a different time originally.
I didn’t end up seeing that much of Masters of Illusion either as I decided to
watch movies on Fridays instead of all of primetime. I would have watched 20/20
most times to fill the gap and only ended up seeing Primetime: What Would You
Do? There were other things that I wanted to watch but wasn’t able to. I may
also five less priority to watching shows on Mondays and Tuesdays since I’ll
want to watch movies then instead. That doesn’t mean that I won’t watch movies
other times, but I will want to keep at least 90 minutes free on those nights
if possible. These movies could disappear from those nights.
That’s all that there is to
say about this blog post. You’ll see over time new reviews over what summer
shows I do wind up seeing. I might even do more than one review of summer shows
given new, weird OCD habits that I have with reviewing primetime. I guess
you’ll see over time what might happen and change over the summer in terms of
how this blog is posted.
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