What's on everybody's schedule?

Returning shows I'll watch when they air: Himym, Parks & Rec, Community, The Office, Dexter, The Walking Dead (maybe)

Returning shows I'll DVR for later: Tosh.0, Workaholics, The League, It's Always Sunny, Modern Family

New shows I'll try: I don't see any new shows that look all that great. Might check out Pan-Am.

[Edited on September 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM. Reason : forgot about Modern family]

9/19/2011 10:18:08 AM

Returning Shows (either live or DVR): The Office, Parks & Rec, Community, CSIs, L&O:SVU, Criminal Minds, Workaholics, Tosh.0, South Park, The Walking Dead, Chuck, Fringe, Raising Hope, Bored to Death

Shows I am attempting to get into: The League, Modern Family (maybe), Boardwalk Empire (maybe)

New Shows: Up All Night, Terra Nova---might be missing some others, but I can't really think of any new shows I'm just dying to watch

9/19/2011 10:36:38 AM

it's a fairly weak season for new dramas. The only one I have more than modest interest in is Person of Interest with Michael Emerson and Jim Caviezel. Pan-Am i'll check out because the GF wants to watch it. Terra Nova, with all the struggles it's had will get a fair shot but i'm not letting myself get attached to many shows anymore.


With the lack new stuff really catching my eye i'm going to try and pick up a few older shows and watch some back seasons. Dexter is one.

9/19/2011 11:04:15 AM

In terms of new programming, I'm going to watch just about everything that doesn't involve crime solving. So far...

I could not make it through the CW's Secret Circle. But I'm going to stick with Ringer so I have something to talk to my one TV-watching friend about, but it is really bad/cheesy.

Up All Night was surprisingly alright. Will Arnett/Christina Applegate are very funny people.

Free Agents was no good, but I'll watch it one more time.

And I heard Playboy Club sucks really bad, but I'm still gonna tune in.

Watched a long preview of New Girl, and it wasn't horrible.


Obviously, the list of new shows I'm going to try is too long to post, but you both^^,^^^ are missing American Horror Story (http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=617420) from your new lists. Where are y'all finding info about upcoming shows? I've been using sidereel, and I feel like I'm going to miss something!

[Edited on September 19, 2011 at 11:11 AM. Reason : ]

9/19/2011 11:10:48 AM

Returning: Leverage, The Mentalist

New: Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Pan-Am

9/19/2011 11:14:23 AM

I just keep up with Sepinwall and hitfix

Entertainment Weekly reminds me of things occasionally

9/19/2011 11:14:26 AM

tvline is a good site along with those already listed. tvguide always has a fall preview section complete with calendar so you can set your DVR ahead.




american horror story i will check out, but solely for the fact that it's on FX. I really have no interest in the premise.

9/19/2011 11:22:03 AM

Returning shows: Office, Community, The League, How I Met Your Mother, Parks and Rec, Modern Family, It's Always Sunny...I might be missing one or two.

New Shows: A few look decent, so I might DVR some...but not sure yet.

9/19/2011 11:32:25 AM

Returning shows: Parks and Rec, Community, The League, Sunny, ModFam, Boardwalk, Archer, assorted reality tv bullshit.

New shows: No clue. Any recommendations?

9/19/2011 12:29:50 PM

I saw the pilot for Whitney (the new NBC sitcom set to air after The Office) and it's pretty fucking terrible. Also I will check out Two Broke Girls for Kat Dennings and it's latent racism.

9/19/2011 12:59:13 PM

There is an asian character named Rice Lee on 2 Broke Girls. And that was only one of the racial stereotypes in the diner.

[Edited on September 19, 2011 at 10:10 PM. Reason : .]

9/19/2011 9:54:12 PM

Yea that was definitely nothing special (2 Broke Girls).

Ashton did not really impress on 2.5 Men. The rest of the cast brought some lulz, but it was not the OMFG show they were hyping it to be.

HIMYM was pretty good though. Out of the CBS comedy night that one was the best tonight.

9/19/2011 10:05:05 PM

I don't want to get too opinionated before everybody has a chance to watch this crap, but whatever...

I found all the bad lines in 2 Broke Girls to be very distracting from whatever was supposed to be funny about that show.

2.5 Men is bad as usual.

I can't believe there will be another 3 seasons of How I Met Your Mother. I need to get better at tuning out whenever present Ted starts talking or when future Ted wraps up the episode with the banal lesson/moral of the show.

Playboy Club is interesting in that I think it was conceived and written by a moderately precocious 12-year-old.

^^I hope that they were trying (and failing) to be edgy or something with the stereotypes. Obviously, it's bad TV regardless.

9/19/2011 11:44:06 PM

The writing on 2.5 Men is so bad they're still doing Microsoft Zune jokes, in 2011 for fucks sake.

9/19/2011 11:52:16 PM

not fall, but i'm looking forward to awake. midseason replacement. saw the pilot at comic-con and loved it.

9/20/2011 12:17:56 AM

I have no idea why but I actually watched Two and a Half Men last night.

It was terrible but I'm not sure how it compares to the Sheen 2.5 men since i haven't watched an episode in a long time.

[Edited on September 20, 2011 at 8:23 AM. Reason : .]

9/20/2011 8:23:03 AM

i thought that two and a half men was pretty good for the first episode without sheen. I think ashton will do a good job but they had to first set up his character.

9/20/2011 8:32:30 AM

Playboy Club was laughable. NBC will axe it within a month. Didn't get a chance to watch the second block of CBS comedies due to Hell's Kitchen, but i'll check them out tonight.

9/20/2011 8:52:03 AM

Returning shows:

Gossip Girl
90210
Vampire Diaries
The Office
Community
Its Always Sunny
Workaholics
Tosh.0 (Doesn't it come back tonight?!)

Oh and I'm watching Arrested Development on Netflix. Halfway through the first season.

[Edited on September 20, 2011 at 9:26 AM. Reason : f]

9/20/2011 9:26:26 AM

NBC's Thursday night lineup was just about the only TV I watched in the past. Parks and Rec is the only show left that appeals to me. All the other sitcoms have either fallen off or just don't appeal to me at all.

That said, any sitcom is, at a minimum, better than _____ Dancing with _____, American Talent/Idol, Doctor/Lawyer/Cop/ESP Chick Solves Crimes Drama, etc. I don't see how anyone watches those shows.

9/20/2011 9:30:31 AM

Returning: Boardwalk Empire, Hung, Bored to Death, How to Make it in America, Modern Family, Dexter, Parenthood, 90210, Community

New: Up All Night & The New Girl

9/20/2011 10:01:30 AM

returning: tosh.0, modern family, the walking dead, community, parks & rec, grey's anatomy, the office, dexter, SVU, fringe, house, american idol (maybe), family guy, american dad, cleveland show

new: pan am, the new girl

9/20/2011 10:53:31 AM

I can't believe CBS still uses a laugh track for its shows, like that was ever a good idea...

9/20/2011 10:57:09 AM

I'll watch Terra Nova just because I think TV needs more sci-fi shows.

I'll also try out The New Girl and maybe Up All Night if I can remember to watch them.

9/20/2011 2:27:01 PM

i might try terra nova. i laffed when the commercial for it said a critic said "like nothing else before" or something like that...while the whole time i was thinking "oh so they're reviving jurassic park?" i don't actually know the premise of the show though. just that it involved dinosaurs, people, and fencing.

9/20/2011 2:38:05 PM

super excited about parks & rec and the office

9/20/2011 2:49:33 PM

If you come across anything watchable(especially something unexpected) be sure to post. I can't keep up with all the new shit and what is good and what isn't, but I have some serious gaps in my TV watching schedule and need to fill in the DVR. Going to even lower the standards, just seems like I have tons to watch on Thursday and not much the rest of the week.

I think outside of Thursdays its like, HIMYM, Tosh, Modern Family.

9/20/2011 2:50:08 PM

Are you only looking for new show recommendations? Like, what about shows that already have a season or two under their belts?

9/20/2011 3:08:40 PM

Quote :

"I have some serious gaps in my TV watching schedule"

The best cure for that isn't always more TV.

But I agree, the shit far outweighs the quality.

and motherfuck Jon Cryer.

9/20/2011 4:19:47 PM

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"Ashton did not really impress on 2.5 Men. The rest of the cast brought some lulz, but it was not the OMFG show they were hyping it to be. "

I was not impressed. The cameos from other sitcom characters was the only redeeming quality of the night. I thought it was a thinly veiled attack on Sheen, and I think the show is ultimately going to fail without him. Perhaps if they hadn't spent much of the episode attacking Charlie Sheen, I mean Harper's, lifestyle, they would have had a bit of a chance. Instead, it fell kind of flat.

9/20/2011 4:23:43 PM

^^The DVR ends up being a real reason for that. I actually don't watch much TV, but since I watch most everything on DVR it makes shows only 18 minutes or whatever they are without commercials. So you can churn through some TV each night when you are never watching it live.

I feel like there are a few good older shows I missed the boat on and could catch back up, but I'm more curious about anything new that might be decent. Going to rely on TWW to let me know if there might be something watchable that I missed.

[Edited on September 20, 2011 at 4:25 PM. Reason : .]

9/20/2011 4:25:17 PM

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"cameos from other sitcom characters was the only redeeming quality of the night"

An appearance from Dharma and Greg does not redeem anything in any way.

9/20/2011 4:27:03 PM

Returning: Survivor, Amazing Race, No Ordinary Family, Office, Glee, Justified (sometime I guess?), Storm Chasers, Big Bang Theory

New: Terra Nova, Once Upon a Time

We need a thread that tells the premiere date for all of these shows..

last year we had one and it helped me out because i can't keep up with when they all start, date and time

9/20/2011 4:31:02 PM

^hate to break it to you but No Ordinary Family got cancelled, and Justified won't be back until 2012.

[Edited on September 20, 2011 at 4:34 PM. Reason : .]

9/20/2011 4:34:16 PM

^are you serious? That stinks...I liked no ordinary family. ended on a good cliff hanger too

When does Alcatraz and The River start?

9/20/2011 4:39:51 PM

Quote :

" An appearance from Dharma and Greg does not redeem anything in any way. "

I liked John Stamos, personally. But you're definitely right. The parade of new faces was not enough to entice me to watch again.

9/20/2011 4:41:34 PM

I watched the Playboy bunny show today on Hulu and it sucked. I suspect it'll be canned after next week.

Watched New Girl and it was cute. Has potential.

Up All Night I thought was hysterical.

Free Agents was pretty good but I love Kathyn Hahn so I hope they really expand on her character more. I loved her in The Goods.

Returning shows: Modern Family, Parks and Rec, The Office, Biggest Loser (don't judge), Glee, Castle, L&O SVU, Flashpoint

New shows: Pan-Am

9/20/2011 8:22:54 PM

Quote :

"I have no idea why but I actually watched Two and a Half Men last night. It was terrible but I'm not sure how it compares to the Sheen 2.5 men since i haven't watched an episode in a long time."

thats the first episode i've ever watched in its entirety. I believe Ashton Kolchak's first line was "Can I use your phone?" and then they blasted the laugh track. apparently "Can I use your phone" passes as a joke on this show, that is fucking sad.

2 Broke Girls had a number of "jokes" involving sperm and/or vaginal secretions, which i found surprising, overall the show wasn't too good.

just watched New Girl on Fox, wasn't terrible, but didn't do too much to make me want to keep watching.

Damon Wayans Jr's other show Happy Endings is much MUCH better, i believe that comes back tomorrow night,

Always Sunny's first episode of the season was better than all of last season, so i'm looking forward to that, the league, parks and rec, community, etc...

9/20/2011 9:51:28 PM

After Cass said something about it, I went and watched Up All Night. I am a huge Arrested fan, so I was interested anyways. Pretty good, and will probably continue to watch. My list is ridiculous right now.

Fall Returning:

Big Bang Theory
The League
Ice Pilots NWT
Psych
The Walking Dead
Chuck
Flying Wild Alaska
30 Rock
Sanctuary
Cougar Town
Castle
Modern Family
The Office
Community
Parks & Rec
Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
How I Met Your Mother
Two & A Half Men (maybe not much longer though)
Parenthood
Fringe

New this Fall:

New Girl
Up All Night
Homeland
Terra Nova
Once Upon a Time
Grimm
Alcatraz

This list does not include midseason or spring/summer returning. I think we watch too much TV.

9/20/2011 10:30:38 PM

Quote :

"If you come across anything watchable(especially something unexpected) be sure to post. I can't keep up with all the new shit and what is good and what isn't, but I have some serious gaps in my TV watching schedule and need to fill in the DVR. Going to even lower the standards, just seems like I have tons to watch on Thursday and not much the rest of the week."

turn yourself into a useful person and read a book

or

watch internet porn

9/20/2011 10:44:19 PM

The ginger on Unforgettable is pretty hot, and there was some nice side-boob earlier in the show.

9/20/2011 10:51:42 PM

For those still unfamiliar with Workaholics (10 o'clock Wednesdays on com central), you're missing out

It puts everything on the networks to shame

9/21/2011 9:10:10 AM

^^^ Ok thanks. You've changed my life.

[Edited on September 21, 2011 at 9:11 AM. Reason : .]

9/21/2011 9:11:28 AM

I was about to say, you can watch a lot of TV and still be "useful". In addition to reading and doing audiobooks, I am halfway through reading The Hobbit with my sons, and then we will commence to read The Lord of the Rings. My wife and I usually sit up for 2 shows after the kids go to bed at 8, and then I watch a show on my lunch break. Not unbelievable to watch quite a bit of TV and still be a productive person who does mentally stimulating activities. I just let the HDD build up with shows when we get behind. Shit we still have the entire 2nd season of Parenthood to watch and the 3rd is rolling now.

9/21/2011 9:24:25 AM

The most useful people in the world are those that read books instead of watching TV. And there is no way, no way, you have time to do both. He made that very clear.

As I've said, that man has changed my life. I am headed to the bookstore now, I will be useful in this world for once. Fuck this thread, and fuck your TV suggestions. Isn't there a thread somewhere around with book suggestions? I'm headed to that thread.

9/21/2011 9:40:23 AM

enjoyed last night's Free Agents. It's by no means a great show, but I laughed enough. that and I kind of have a thing for Katharyn Hahn

9/22/2011 11:59:47 AM

^it's making a strong push to be the first show cancelled

the new Lily on Modern Family is terrible

[Edited on September 22, 2011 at 12:52 PM. Reason : .]

9/22/2011 12:41:56 PM

^WTF did they fast forward a little bit and replace Lilly?

9/22/2011 1:00:43 PM

correct. and yes, new Lily blows

9/22/2011 1:15:19 PM

Anyone else check out Revenge? Pilot was pretty mediocre. I don't really see this one lasting more than 1 season.

9/22/2011 1:20:03 PM