Jimmy Kimmel Live drinking game

I really don't know if I'll have time to do all of the writing that I should for this and other blogs of mine. You see, since I don't have time to write any real post, but still want to stick with the regular update, here is yet another drinking game for this blog of mine. There are so many summer posts that I need to write, although some of what I have written around this time in the past might wait until later as it doesn't need to be updated on time as one might think. Anyways, here are my thoughts as to a drinking game related to the ABC late night show called Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Take a shot if any of the following happen:

• Matt Damon is referenced.
• Matt Damon actually appears, but is cut in some way as usual.
• If the monologue continues after the first commercial break.
• Any of the usual people appear such as cousin Sal.
• Any mention of the Bachelor or any of its spin-offs.
• The Jimmy Kimmel Live concert series happens.
• They end the show with a song but don't show all of it.
• Any sports event is mentioned.
• If anything delays the show, take a shot for each minute it is delayed.
• Another ABC show is mentioned

Expectations of the Charmed Reboot

Since the original Charmed show that I was a fan of is being rebooted, I thought that I would say what I would want from a reboot of it. I might go through a rundown of what I liked of the original series and where I could see things improved in a reboot.

The main things that you need to know about Charmed is that it is a grown up version of the magical girls genre where a group of women have magical powers and use them to fight against all sorts of evil with it. It was an adult version as it had a lot of sex and violence that you wouldn’t see in kid’s shows. The recurring plot was the main draw for me as I kept wanting to come back to see what would happen to the characters in the next episode.

One of the problems that could happen in a female centric show is that the villains tend to always be men or a group of men. Now, while men are often villains in fiction and generally in real life, it can come off as seeming mean towards them in a way. While I plan to do a post in the future about whether or not it would be good in terms of gender equality to have female villains, I won’t talk about that here. What I do know is that the only recurring female villains in Charmed either lasted very briefly or were second fiddle to the greater, male villains. Isn’t that a problem?

It wasn’t that often that one was surprised by the original Charmed. It had great writing at times, but it seemed that they never kept the audience in dark about anything. The only real secret that they kept was Chris’s identity for most of the sixth season. Something I would like to see in the Charmed reboot is them being less open to the audience about things so that there can be some real shocks and we aren’t just relearning things when the characters do.

Another change that I hope takes place is that there should be a whole lot less sex than there was in the original series. I would to see strong and independent women and them constantly having sex is just not something that would be ideal in my mind. I’d be fine with them having romantic partners. But if it is just one sexual conquest after another, that would just be another problem with it in my mind.

It is hard to tell for sure what to know from the upcoming show in advance of its airing. But I hope that they go with some of the suggestions here if they can. The show had interesting plots and the elements that would recur in it would be nice at times. We’ll see if any of the old elements will be brought back. I hope that the show is good and if it isn’t, then I won’t watch any further.

2018 Summer Cancellation Predictions

Here’s another part of a thing that I do from time to time. While I will get to the planned cancellation predictions in the future, I thought that I would do a sort of spin-off post of it. This will be more of a condensed thing than you’ve seen with other posts. But let’s get to my predictions of what will be done with and cancelled or otherwise not coming back this upcoming summer season.

Let’s start by picking again anything that I already picked in the main post that still could be cancelled in the end. The Bachelorette was one of them. Match Game is another. Bachelor in Paradise could be a good choice as well, although that will fall into another category. Reverie was another one mentioned in the last post and though it looks good, a lot of great science fiction shows never last. Only I might never know if the show is good or not. Making it, originally named something else, was on the last list too. And I will include The Awesome Show, even though it no longer seems to be moving forward anyways. 48 Hours: NCIS fits the mold as well.

Changed predictions: I originally had To Tell the Truth as a safe prediction. I’m going to change that now to something that I think will be cancelled. You see, it was originally going to be part of the fall season back in 2017. This didn’t happen. And it is not often when a delayed show has stuck around long term. I can think of only one example of a main season show that fits that mold.

As for newly announced shows that I don’t think will last, Phenoms doesn’t seem like it will stay around. I don’t know whether or not My Last Days is new or not (it might be returning somehow, but I still think that it won’t be lasting much longer than the early summer. TKO seems likely to only last this season and like other shows, won’t even be cancelled officially.

Burden of Truth might suffer the same fate as last season’s Hooten and The Lady. That means that it is a foreign show not up to good ratings in our country similar to how bad ratings here normally don’t mean a reversal compared to good ratings of the same shows internationally. I don’t have high hopes for The Outpost, even though it might be cool. I don’t think that The Last Defense will last much longer either. I don’t have high hopes for The Proposal. And Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell & Back might go the way of a lot of his other summer shows.

Returning shows predictions: Salvation just doesn’t seem like it will last. The promo for this newer season makes me wonder how long it takes for a meteor to strike the earth. I don’t think that either The Gong Show or Marlon will last much longer. I also don’t have high hopes for Love Connection. I’m also going to put Midnight, Texas on this list, although I’m not sure if we will see it this season or not. While I’m pretty sure that it is over, I’m not 100% sure that Trial and Error is ending. Still, I’m putting it on this list of mine.

Cancelled via not returning from previous seasons: It is at this point that I might as well do a round-up of all of the shows that aired last summer that don’t appear to be coming back at all. Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly does not appear to be coming back. Neither does CBSN: On Assignment or Superhuman. Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge seems to have no future. Somewhere Between is more than likely over, although this one might be official. Surprisingly, it seems that Hollywood Game Night is now a thing of the past. The F Word is over, it seems. Boy Band and Battle of the Network Stars are both over as well. Candy Crush has no future. And that might be it, unless I’m missing something.

Freebies: This next list will include shows already cancelled or already renewed. First, I’ll go through a roundup of all the shows either on or that will be on their official final season. Shades of Blue is ending. Code Black is ending. Quantico is ending. Living Biblically is coming back to burn off the rest of what still hasn’t aired before. The same applies to Me, Myself, and I. Taken is burning off the rest of its episodes as well. The Originals will be ending soon. Once they are all over, the shows will never air or make new episodes again. As for what of the summer shows are staying around, Elementary will be back next season. The 100 will return as well.

Safe predictions: Here, I will just list all of the shows that I think will stick around for the future. They are Masters of Illusion, Penn and Teller: Fool Us, Big Brother, The Four: The Battle for Stardom, Little Big Shots, and Primetime: What Would You Do? As for others that will probably last, they should be Take Two, World of Dance, America’s Got Talent, American Ninja Warrior, MasterChef, Beat Shazam, Running Wild with Bear Grylls, Celebrity Family Feud, The $100,000 Pyramid, and Whose Line is it Anyways? Also likely to keep lasting is So You Think You Can Dance?

Man, that took longer to write than I had wanted it to. But I am done with this post as of this finishing of this writing of this paragraph. There’s not much else to say except that I hope to be back with all of the normal posts as usual when you expect them.

Regular Series versus Limited Run Series versus Miniseries

When one wants to look at TV in general, they need to know some of how the changes are between one show and another. A lot of shows are what would be considered a regular series. But that’s not the only type of show that it exists. There’s also a limited run series which seems similar in some ways, but has a key difference that I’ll explain more about later. Yet another different thing is a miniseries. I might as well explain the differences between all of them since there are enough of them and not everyone is aware of them. Not all shows are the same.

The regular series should, in theory, be the most normal of all of them. They normally always have a full season of 22 episode or at least 18. They would never have as low as 13 episodes under most normal circumstances unless they are just starting out or they are at midseason. If a new show doesn’t get an order for more episodes, it will probably not last. A regular series is more likely to have episodes airing all year round and airing reruns during the summer.

A limited run series can, does, and will often have multiple seasons. But they do this with less episodes than a regular series and doesn’t need any backorders to keep lasting. You wouldn’t always know what is and isn’t a limited run series except that it is less likely to air all year round. Now that can affect the regular series too. These are just always going to have shorter seasons and never have full ones in most cases. As for if they can ever change to a regular series, I don’t know enough about them to know for sure what might be different, outside of them having less episodes.

A miniseries is different than all of them as it tends to air at weird times and then is never seen again. The main thing about this is that it is a guaranteed short term plan and will not be back no matter what. They will air the shortened time that they will and then they will never be seen again. This is the main thing that separates them from a limited run series. Sometimes they will air in a normal timeslot for a while. Other times, they will air in place of various regularly airing shows for the brief time that they are on. But they will never be back for another season.

There’s not much else to add for this post. Sometimes you think that other people might know what is and isn’t different in television, but other times, they won’t know all that you know. I might need to do a post into what a showrunner is (if I haven’t already), even though you’d think that the name would imply what it really is. But that can be or already is another post.

My Planned Viewing Habits: Summer of 2018

There's not much to add to this introduction other than that this post isn't on a Saturday. You might wonder why that would be. Well, I'm going to do random days in addition to Saturdays. In case I ever miss it, then I'll let you know. And if I'm starting a new day for regular updates, I'll let you know. Now, back to the regular post from here.

Well, I’m sorry that this is later than it should be. I just hope that I can write nearly everything that I want to and I might be adding a lot of new things for the summer posts that I want to do. I don’t know what else I could wind up missing, but the usual things should happen in terms of posting.

One of the things that has changed since the last summer is that I’m working late a lot of the time. But I might have free time every night except Tuesdays and Thursdays. So you might as well not even wonder if I don’t mention much, if any, programming on those nights during the summer. I might make only one exception, although I can record things for later. I’ll mention all of the shows I want to watch and we’ll see what, if any, of them happen.

One thing that I don’t always mention are the shows from last season that I’m not watching again if I ever gave them a chance. For one, I’m not watching 48 Hours: NCIS again due to me not liking true crime shows. As for the summer shows that I didn’t like last season, those are Battle of the Network Stars and The Gong Show. Needless to say, I won’t be watching either of those again. I didn’t like Love Connection either. Those are all I can think of.

Normally during the summer schedule, I only watch one show at a time. I might end up breaking that rule this season. I don’t know for sure if I will or not. But I might see other shows at the same time at least once during the summer. Still, I’ll try to only stick with one of them or maybe switch back and forth between them. During the last season, I watched three things at one timeslot.

I still don’t know the fate of some of the summer shows from last season. I would watch American Grit, but it does not appear to be coming back. Candy Crush is probably not coming back, although I would watch it if it was. Superhuman doesn’t appear to be returning either. I don’t know what happened to Steve Harvey’s Funderdome. And CBSN: On Assignment doesn’t appear to be coming back either.

Some of the shows are affected by spillover into the main season, meaning that they started in April or just a bit later and can be claimed as a summer show at least until it ends. Supergirl is like that this time around. Elementary is also a show like that. Quantico and Code Black are like that as well. Life Sentence fell into that category as well. The Crossing fits this phenomena as it is ending later than the rest of the normal shows. Instinct also applies. And Ransom technically counts for it as well.

What I will want to do is make sure that I tune into the final seasons of any shows that I still care about if I can still watch them. I do want to see Shades of Blue. But that leads to a problem. Typically, I do not get NBC during the summer due to reception problems. If that ends up being the case, then I would only really see the last episode online. I also have reception problems with ABC from time to time and the summer is often one of those more problematic times.

You might be wondering if there are any shows with unaired episodes that I might care about this time around. If there is a burnout of the rest of Me, Myself, and I, then I would watch it. Ghosted is a show that more than likely fits that profile as well so I will watch it if and when I can.

What are all the old shows that I plan on watching again? Well, I should see To Tell the Truth, Celebrity Family Feud, The $100,000 Pyramid, Penn and Teller: Fool Us, Masters of Illusion, Salvation, Match Game, and Primetime: What Would You Do? I don’t think that I’ll be able to watch much of Whose Line is it Anyways?

There aren’t that many new summer shows that I will end up seeing. I will tune into all of the new CW shows. I’ll see My Last Days, The Outpost, and Burden of Truth. I’ll tune into the new CBS show called TKO: Total Knock Out. As for any other new summer shows, they might be starting too late for me to even know about them yet.

In closing, there’s not much else to say except that I don’t know what could happen in the future with the potential schedule changes. Other new shows could start that I’ll want to see and other shows may not last long enough for me to care. What I do know is that I will only be watching something once to see if I like it before I decide to keep watching it or not.

A Cautionary Tale

How do you get a highly rated show cancelled? Go on a twitter rant. Throughout this day and age, I’m still amazed that people will continue to do stupid things regarding social media. But that’s going to keep happening over and over again, isn’t it? I might as well post a good educational post in this blog of mine about how not to be an idiot online and why you should always be careful with what you say and do anywhere. Do you want to get fired?

This post will largely go over one example, but it applies in a lot of cases. Basically, there was this show called Roseanne that was popular for some odd reason. A lot of things happened here that I don’t really understand, get, or even care about. After the show ended, it was rebooted filling promos with slightly annoying music and a really annoying laugh. It got extremely high ratings and was instantly renewed. What could go wrong?

Well, political parts of the show and political leanings of the main star made things a bit iffy. Then, there was a least one tweet that caused ABC to cancel their highest rated show. It was deemed racist and problems didn’t stop there. First she double downed on the statement before deleting the tweet but not before it was widely spread among people. She apologized, but not for the tweet. She was upset that all of her co-workers were out of a job. And while she might have been sorry for the tweet, she was soon back to her old ways tweeting random crap again.

Of course, it is not without controversy on the other side too. It seems that Roseanne suffers from some mental problems and thinks that a medicine she was on could have lead to this rant. It could be like how the sign language interrupter at the Nelson Mandela memorial who wasn’t using any real sign language was suffering from the effects of schizophrenia. However, people aren’t buying that it could because of this medicine that it happened. It could have been other mental problems that this happened. Or it could just be a person refusing to own their mistake.

People think that this could just be a double standard between how Republicans and Democrats are treated. I don’t buy that. Ask Anthony Wiener if a Democrat has never suffered because of posting what they shouldn’t online. But I’d rather not get into political things in this blog. I have another blog for that. But they might have a point about people who might not suffer from the same fate because of the same thing. But look at all these sexual harassment scandals. Things have to be treated differently each time they happen because it always is a different response for each different controversy.

I might be losing my point here, although I’m not sure that I have a point here anyways. Maybe it is that people have said and will continue to say dumb things online and may or may not suffer because of it. It is hard to tell for sure in each different event what will or could happen. But I have the feeling that this will not be a lesson that people learn. It is like how a former junkie could die from an overdose. I have posted dumb things online. I may continue to do that. I haven’t done anything that’s gotten me fired from anything. It could happen, but I hope that it doesn’t.

Something that remains to be seen is if the decision to cancel the show will be reversed and they will end up going forward with a new season of the show after all. But would that be against the principle of what the things mean? Unlike what the NFL might think, there are more important things than ratings. You can’t change policy just to fit what you want it to mean. It is hard to tell what to do.

If there’s a point to this whole blog post, it’s this: Always be careful what you say and do online. You don’t want to become the next in a set of cautionary tales against why you can’t just say any terrible thing and expect to be okay with it. Your one tweet can cause hundreds of people to lose their jobs. It may just cause you to lose one: your own. But you don’t want Mister T’s catchphrase to apply to you. Others’ mistakes can teach you what not to do.