The Good:
-Justified, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Shameless, Cougar Town, Archer, 30 Rock, Eastbound & Down all coming back
-premieres of Luck, House of Lies, Girls
-Don't Trust The Bitch in Apartment 23 is still not on ABC's schedule

The Bad:
-premieres of Work It, ¡Rob!, Are you there Chelsea?, Good Christian Bitches, Touch, Napoleon Dynamite
-Awake shut down production and is off NBC's schedule
-Community on hiatus until Whitney fails on Wednesday nights

The Maybe?
-premieres of Alcatraz, Smash, The River

What are you people excited about or ready to dismiss?

12/14/2011 3:09:47 PM

Walking Dead in February

12/14/2011 3:12:49 PM

I, for one, cannot fucking wait for ¡Rob!

12/14/2011 3:21:42 PM

^^yeah the last episode of The Walking Dead was perhaps the best one since the pilot, it will be interesting to see if it improves now that Frank Darabont is no longer involved at all.

^haha, I couldn't even make it through the 2 minute promo

[Edited on December 14, 2011 at 3:26 PM. Reason : .]

12/14/2011 3:25:12 PM

don't forget the final season of One Tree Hill!

12/14/2011 3:33:00 PM

i want to see work it bite one hard

http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2011/11/work-it-the-most-insultingly-stupid-sitcom-of-the-year

[Edited on December 14, 2011 at 4:00 PM. Reason : add: lol "man up!" got cancelled Ø]

12/14/2011 3:59:53 PM

holy shit I can't wait for Mad Men

12/14/2011 4:13:56 PM

Wait Cougar Town is coming back? I thought I read where it went from midseason to not showing at all this year. I'm really hoping it comes back, really enjoyed that show. PENNY CAN!

12/14/2011 4:15:12 PM

^ABC left it off the midseason schedule, but then told Deadline it's coming back in March after Work It finishes it's run. We're only getting 15 episodes instead of 22 but whatever.

12/14/2011 4:16:58 PM

Quote :

"Napoleon Dynamite "

I saw the commercial for that and lolled. Not because it looked funny but because I knew that somebody somewhere thought Napoleon Dynamite would make a good cartoon. I'm not gonna lie, I liked the movie a lot, even after all that "Vote for Pedro" stuff got popular, but I just can't imagine why they thought it was a good idea to make a cartoon out of a movie that came out 8 years ago and has already been parodied to death.

12/14/2011 5:39:58 PM

Lights Out reunion on SVU? Might be enough to get me to break my L&O moratorium.

12/14/2011 9:21:50 PM

It's Bloody Tuesday over at HBO, How to Make it in America, Hung and Bored to Death all got cancelled. Enlightened got picked up for a second season.

12/20/2011 1:38:16 PM

about Hung and Bored to Death. I loved those shows. Enlightened is already but Bored to Death is waaaay better.

[Edited on December 20, 2011 at 1:43 PM. Reason : ]

12/20/2011 1:42:48 PM

yeah I enjoyed Bored to Death, the others not so much.

12/20/2011 1:45:20 PM

So apparently the House of Lies premiere has leaked on the internet for those of you so inclined.

12/21/2011 1:28:40 PM

I'm going to give Alcatraz and The River a shot, not expecting much

12/21/2011 1:39:07 PM

I am super sad about bored to death

the big black cock of time

12/21/2011 4:31:40 PM

Ricky Gervais has a comedy coming to HBO in Feb..Life's Too Short, staring Warwick Davis....should be funny

12/21/2011 4:35:17 PM

HBO posted this year end wrap up video on youtube, it has some clips of new shows/new seasons of returning shows at the end including the first footage from Aaron Sorkin's new drama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2NQGOZHgi4&feature=player_embedded

12/22/2011 12:58:09 PM

Work It premieres tonight, if you hate yourself enough you could watch that. There's also a new episode of Frontline (PBS' excellent documentary series) called "Opium Brides" which looks pretty cool.

1/3/2012 2:16:55 PM

I'm going to DVR it just to see if I can make it past the one minute mark

1/3/2012 2:18:45 PM

insanely down about awake. pilot was fantastic, hopefully it finds a home somewhere

1/3/2012 2:34:42 PM

Quote :

"“Lilyhammer,” follows New York mobster Frank “The Fixer” Tagliano as he enters the federal witness protection program after ratting on his boss. A sports fan, Frank wants to make his new life in Lillehammer, the Norwegian town that hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics – or as he calls it “Lilyhammer.” Frank has visions of a paradise of “clean air, fresh white snow and gorgeous broads” far away from the temptations of the Big Apple and from mob hit men. Reality, of course, turns out to be spectacularly different. All eight first season episodes of “Lilyhammer” will be available on February 6 so Netflix members can enjoy the series by streaming over the Internet to connected TVs, tablets, game consoles, computers and mobile phones. "

http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/netflix-sets-february-6-release-for-lilyhammer/

The trailer for that looked pretty damn good iirc.

1/3/2012 3:48:22 PM

i will actually watch ROB!


and i will like it!

1/3/2012 4:36:32 PM

Work It....lol, I can't look away. It's a beautiful train wreck.

1/3/2012 8:41:33 PM

the montage set to "My Humps" has scarred me FOR LIFE

1/3/2012 8:50:37 PM

Quote :

"Since Work It more or less matched the numbers of the recently canceled show it replaced, Man Up!, and ranked as the lowest-rated first-run show in its time slot, it will probably be lucky to survive long enough to play out its entire gender studies thesis and be replaced itself by the returning Cougar Town"

http://www.avclub.com/articles/people-actually-watched-work-it-last-night,67176/

1/4/2012 2:46:07 PM

bring on Cougar Town! I need to find my own Big Carl.

1/4/2012 2:49:47 PM

Quote :

"sepinwall Alan Sepinwall In scrum, Greenblatt expressed confidence in "Awake" and promised it would debut during the season, night/time TBD. #TCA12"

1/6/2012 3:18:36 PM

NBC's woes continue to mount:

Quote :

"THE FIRM totally Lone Star'd its debut. It averaged a 1.4/3, NBC's worst in-season drama debut ever."

1/9/2012 12:21:35 PM

Also Allen Gregory is already in the can.

[Edited on January 9, 2012 at 12:29 PM. Reason : ]

1/9/2012 12:28:29 PM

^that looked TERRIBLE

1/9/2012 2:06:51 PM

i'd take allen gregory before bob's burgers

[Edited on January 9, 2012 at 2:39 PM. Reason : even considering that i actively dislike jonah hill]

1/9/2012 2:38:28 PM

Mad Men is returning on March 25th.

1/9/2012 3:51:02 PM

I've been celebrating that news by watching an episode from season four every night before bed

1/9/2012 4:23:12 PM

The Firm being dead on arrival opens up the 10pm timeslot on Thursdays for Awake to premiere in February after the superbowl.

1/9/2012 11:13:46 PM

Don't Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23 is replacing Happy Endings in the timeslot after Modern Family starting in April. James Van Der Beek fans can now rejoice (all 75 of them).

1/10/2012 1:38:41 PM

and before people panic, Happy Endings' season was scheduled to end by this time.

1/10/2012 1:55:15 PM

It still makes Jamiroquai before labor day sad:

1/10/2012 2:04:26 PM

No Awake and no Community. good to see NBC likes their spot at the bottom

1/10/2012 3:09:20 PM

love it or hate it, Community wasn't going to get them out of the ratings basement

1/10/2012 3:38:46 PM

neither of those shows will. frankly the network ratings will continue to be the same for the foreseeable future in my opinion. Though, if NBC could only string together a few good shows they would not be far from overtaking an American Idol-less FOX when that time comes.

1/10/2012 3:43:22 PM

Co-Creator on Cougar Town's misunderstood title

Quote :

"We're a terribly named show. Deal with it and suck my dick. There's a quote and you can use it."

1/10/2012 4:35:43 PM

not going to lie...I actually enjoyed most of Are You There Chelsea?. I'll be interested to see the ratings.

Did not watch Whitney as its lead in, in fact I never plan to watch Whitney again.



and jeez, Happy Endings continues to get better and better each week. It's starting to become one of my top shows all around

1/12/2012 8:18:51 AM

that Chelsea show was painfully bad. everything felt ridiculously forced/unnatural

my cousin is the bartender dude so I watched for him

1/12/2012 10:18:30 AM

wait, your cousin is Evan Chambers? get-da-fuck-outta-here

1/12/2012 10:24:28 AM

More like Derek Chambers

1/12/2012 11:26:28 AM

Quote :

"The new day/time for Whitney drew a 2.1 adults 18-49 rating at 8pm, up 11% from its last telecast on December 8 (at 9:30p on Thursday, following a new episode of The Office). The debut of Are You There, Chelsea? drew a 2.3 adults 18-49 rating. "

Hopefully they will both drop significantly against Idol next week so we can get a Community/Bent Wednesday block sooner rather than later.

1/12/2012 12:44:15 PM

Quote :

"and jeez, Happy Endings continues to get better and better each week. It's starting to become one of my top shows all around"

agreed. i have to watch it with closed-captions on so i don't miss jokes

1/12/2012 2:07:07 PM

Thursday just isn't the same without Community

At least we have new 30 Rock and Parks and Rec...plus HBO is showing part 3 of their Paradise Lost documentaries.

1/12/2012 3:32:50 PM