2013 TV Thread: Winter, Spring, definitely Summer - pimp your new finds/threadless wonders here!

NO, NOT 30 ROCK!!!

Coming to this late, but:

compared to cable these new network dramas tend to feel so defanged usually

I caught a few minutes of that (canceled?) Dana Delany forensic doctor show a while back and watched her saw off the top of a corpse's head (that had...gasp! no brain!). Seriously made me a little queasy.

i love how nbc will have a failed high concept drama, cancel it after half a season, replace it with another failed high concept drama, cancel it after half a season, replace it with another failed high concept drama, cancel it after half a season...

They blew it with Journeyman. That show could still be on now, and they wouldn't have this problem.

Hour-long dramas begun and cancelled on NBC since 2010: Awake, The Firm, Harry's Law, The Event, The Cape, Prime Suspect, Law & Order: LA, The Playboy Club, Prime Suspect, Chase, Outlaw, Persons Unknown, Undercovers

Meanwhile the three oldest hour-long dramas on NBC are SVU (since 99) then Parenthood (since 2010) and Grmm (since 2011). Everything else started in 2012

wtf was Persons Unknown? I don't even recognize that name.

BRING BACK THE CAPE

or even better, a Cape/Revolution crossover

Man, NBC some capricious motherfuckers. You'd almost think they have no idea what they're doing.

canceling Prime Suspect was super stupid

Agreed.

Ratings were atrocious though.

It's NBC. Replacing something that has low ratings with something that will get even lower ratings is how they roll.

Will now pitch a show to NBC called 'Capricious Motherfuckers". Concept to follow.

They should really give Homonym a try.

Anyone else watch The Americans pilot? I rather liked it, save for the obvious bouts of pilotitis.

Gonna watch it via ondemand this weekend. It look intersting.

wtf was Persons Unknown?

A summer schedule filler. It was sort of Lost-lite, using the horrible NBC house style. I watched an episode.

Oh right! I remember that now. A bunch of people in a dorm or hotel or something, right?

They were in what seemed like some sort of compound. It was a one-location shoot I think.

a semi-abandoned town iirc

the following is about 90% terrible. script is bad both in plotting and dialogue to a somewhat shocking extent.

The Following is awful but at least it's violent and weird. It has a bit of a so-bad-it's-good thing imo

i think thats the only thing that keeps me hanging on but idk if i will make it past ep 3 unless there is a radical improvement. i wanna avoid spoilers but off the top of my head there have already been somewhere around 5 major plot points that are either absurdly implausible or just str8 up impossible

There was a line in the first episode where he was like "he's obsessed with Romantic-era literature, like Edgar Allen Poe, Emerson, and Thoreau" and I'm like "well, I GUESS Poe is Romantic, but Emerson and Thoreau are definitely n..." and then a lady stabbed herself in the head with a spike.

It has a bit of a so-bad-it's-good thing imo

That's what made me watch '24' for however many seasons it was on.

I really enjoyed the first episode of The Following but everything that's been said about subsequent episodes is making me sad

There was a line in the first episode where he was like "he's obsessed with Romantic-era literature, like Edgar Allen Poe, Emerson, and Thoreau" and I'm like "well, I GUESS Poe is Romantic, but Emerson and Thoreau are definitely n..." and then a lady stabbed herself in the head with a spike.

haha oh man that totally makes me want to watch it! in terms of violent/weird, how does it compare to say, American Horror Story?

I haven't watched AHS but it's violent by network standards, not necessarily by cable standards.

Jeez guys if you want violence, watch Spartacus.

ah ok, i might check out the first episode anyway. AHS is pretty difficult to beat on the "so bad it's good" scale though.

i'm not into violence for the sake of it, just um i don't know... lols-y gore? haven't seen spartacus.

its nowhere near as violent or as weird as AHS

it is however painfully reliant on "surprises". endless parades of them, all ham-fisted. i am starting to realize that i really dont like this show very much actually and might not go back for ep 3, esp since they appear to already be turning to the dreaded multiple love triangle conceit

Just curious--because I actually managed to forget it was still on until checking NBC's schedule just now--but has anybody seen the new version of Whitney? Is the fact nobody talks about it actually working in their favor?

my sister watched some whitney eps this season and she claims it's much better than last season.

Life is too short to investigate

she has that weird talk show on E, I always see the beginning of it at the end of my dvr'd Soup episodes.

sheer secondhand embarrassment is my best description. yipes

i've said this elsewhere but i have a good friend whose husband is a lead character on whitney
i hear some stories

what kind of stories

if they're anything like the stories on whitney they suck

her weird talk show is way way way better than her sitcom, although it is virtually indistinguishable from Chelsea Lately

i hate chelsea lately with the fury of a thousand suns

to me it just sounds like schtinketed hoda + kathy lee but at night.

schtonkered that should be

drunk

Got a friend who's an associate producer on Chelsea and frequently appears on the panel. She says Chelsea is super nice and the workplace is so pro-woman it's like an oasis in the world of comedy. I'm not playing cap'n save-a-chelsea lately, but I definitely think her public persona and her private persona are different.

not gonna lie, I think Chelsea Lately is hilarious

like, I don't get ppl who like The Soup but hate Chelsea Lately

Same here.

Joel McHale vs Chelsea Handler

gee what could be the appeal idk
*thinks*

If that's our criteria now, I want every chat show on tv to be hosted by Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs.

chelsea handler reminds me of my mum's washed up drunk friends after a night on the piss, she gives me the creeps & joel mchale looks nice in a suit & is not drunk-seeming

watching the pilot of The Americans now. Not sure if I have the patience for an hour of draamz right now, might switch to Archer. I liked the music in the beginning though! Now though we have flashbacks and faraway piano music.

TUSK!