2005 Fall Season

Fall TV Paperwork 09.08.05

It's time to get cracking on the 2005 fall TV season – and not a moment too soon. Downloadable fall TV guides included.

School's Out Forever! 09.09.05

The fall season kicks off with Reunion on Fox, which squanders a cushy O.C. lead-in with clunky lines like: "A good best friend wouldn't try to talk me out of having an abortion."

No Bones About It 09.19.05

Have you seen the ads? Apparently, there are some new shows starting on the networks this month. In case you missed them, here's the misery you narrowly escaped (or the fun you missed out on!).

Returning Shows, Week 1 09.19.05

Oops, I forgot about the quickie blurb for returning shows, which remains an integral part of the Annual TiVo Gauntlet of New Fall Programming.

Tonight: Lost Pre-Show 09.21.05

I haven't been paying close attention to the Lost buzz because I already know how I feel about the show and I'm afraid if I spend any more time thinking about it, all I'll do is fret that tonight's season premiere won't live up to my expectations and then I'll suffer some sort of identity crisis at the thought of having gone from a five-star-slinging Lost evangelist to a non-viewer in the course of barely a year.

Television by the Ton 09.26.05

The workhorse week in this year's Annual TiVo Gauntlet of New Fall Programming brought thirteen new shows and many returning favorites.

Bizarro World 10.03.05

Which is more realistic – a female U.S. president, or a werewolf on a killing spree in Los Angeles? The answer may surprise you.

The Last Week, The First Cut 10.10.05

As the fall premiere season draws to a close, networks dump their most worthless shows on us, and I start cutting away the fat.

Last Night's Scrubs 01.04.06

All in all, not a great kickoff to the latest season of one of TV's funnier comedies. Not one of the "intern's POV" shots was funny, the stories of both episodes were wildly fragmented, and Elliot's arc was a huge, elaborate diversion just to tell the same old Elliot story. (No one respects her, she makes a move to get some respect, it seems to be working, but in the end she fails, reduced to a whimpering "frick"-spewing frenzy.) I can't see the value in separating her from the others, unless they're planning to edge her character out of the show – which would result in the cancelation of my TiVo Season Pass and possibly a boycott of NBC altogether.

Close Call 01.06.06

I watched the premiere of Four Kings on the "throw Seth Green a bone" program, because nobody watches a KoMut show without having a special reason.