Otter's Journal: Television gets awfuller...

Trailers for the fall TV season -- Web 2.0'ish thing where I can't direct link, so you ned to click through the matrix on the right.

Yeesh, a Geico caveman show? A Sarah Connor spinoff? A remake of the Bionic Woman? "New half hour CBS comedy about a group of genuis geeks who befriend a beautiful woman"?!?!?

I'll give Kelsey Grammer a shot, as I'd figured Frasier would suck, also.

The new Fall lineup

[nizo]

now with extra Eye Poking Goodness!!!(tm)

Bionic Woman, shows based on commercials, Transformers movie, Underdog movie; creative entertainment is dead.

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[Otter]

On the plus side, Christina Applegate is returning to TV...

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[WGFELyL5]

Agreed.

My only complaint is, where are the new shows about hospitals?
We almost have enough shows about lawyers, but I am starting to fear hospitals and detective shows are being left behind!

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[Otter]

There's the forensic show where they revive dead people and ask them who killed them (which, as noted on the Ace of Spades post that I should have credited for this link, makes you wonder what the other 48 minutes are going to be about), followed by a Grey's Anatomy spinoff, so I think we're safe.

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[WGFELyL5]

Haha, sorry, I should have used the [sarcasm] tag.

Seems like every other show is about hospitals, lawyers, or detectives.

I'm actually having a lot of fun watching Heroes via iTunes at the moment. [rant]And I still have to download it from one of the groups who rips and encodes tv shows onto bittorrent because iTunes doesn't release the show for download until about 1 AM AFTER it has aired.[/rant]

Re: the sarah connor comment in this thread
Finally we have a show about killer robots!
Unfortunately, it is called

Chronicles

[Captain Splendid]

Shame, really, the Sarah Connor thing had shedloads of potential. Think Lost crossed with Millenium crossed with the Terminator. In the right hands, it could have been a scuzzy little gem, but the promos for it make it look cheap and crap.

So, if I understand this correctly,

[Shadow Wrought]

A couple of geeky cavemen end up dating a hot cyborg named Sarah Conner? Sounds promising.