TV Fall Schedule
With most cablers winding down their half season (resuming January), it’s time to re-assess my TV schedule.
As always, every year, some TV shows launch bigger, with movie stars attached to it, but only time will tell if they’re worth my time. So here goes:
Continued from last year (slightly sorted according to quality):
Prison Break
Battlestar Galactica
Lost
CSI
Boston Legal
Grey’s Anatomy
My Name Is Earl
Everybody Hates Chris
Criminal Minds
Smallville
The Unit
New shows:
Fox (smartly starting most shows early, out of competition, so to speak):
Vanished
Justice
Standoff
Til Death
NBC:
Heroes
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (Amanda Peet)
Friday Night Lights (exec. prod. Peter Berg, writer/director Friday Night Lights and Very Bad Things)
Kidnapped (Delroy Lindo, Timothy Hutton)
30 Rock (Alec Baldwin)
20 Good Years
CBS:
The Class (creator David Crane of NBC’s Friends)
Jericho (director Jon Turteltaub of National Treasure (and sequel), Phenomenon, Cool Runnings)
Smith (Ray Liotta, Virginia Madsen, Amy Smart)
Shark (James Woods, director Spike Lee)
ABC:
Six Degrees
Brothers & Sisters
The Nine
Ugly Betty
Knights of Prosperity
Help Me Help You
Men in Trees (Anne Heche, director James Mangold (Copland, Walk the Line))
CW:
Runaway (Donnie Wahlberg)
So, there you have it. A solid 30 hour week. For my own sake, I hope the quality isn’t that overwhelming, otherwise I’ll have no time to sleep.