Fall Season 2006

[Triligors]

I thought I would start a somewhat different thread. Basically this is a general discussion and hangout to talk about the new fall television season. A place to talk about all the new shows you're interested in, what shows you believe will survive or get axed, and your overall thoughts on the fall television season.

Poll question is multiple choice.

ABC

Brothers and Sisters. Drama. Sunday. 10-11.

The Knights of Prosperity. Comedy. Tuesday 9-9:30.

Help me Help you. Comedy. Tuesday 9:30-10:00.

The Nine. Drama. Wednesday 10-11.

Ugly Betty. Comedy. Thursday 8-9.

Six Degrees. Drama. Thursday 9-10.

Men in Trees. Comedy. Friday 9-10.

CBS

The Class. Comedy. Monday 8-8:30.

Smith. Drama. Tuesday 10-11.

Jericho. Drama. Wednesday 8-9.

Shark. Drama. Thursday 10-11.

FOX

Vanished. Drama. Monday 9-10.

Standoff. Tuesday 9-10.

Justice. Drama. Wednesday 9-10.

Happy Hour. Comedy. Thursday 8:30-9:00.

'Till Death. Comedy. Thursday 8-8:30.

The Winner. Comedy. Friday.

NBC

Heroes. Drama. Monday 9-10.

Studio 60. Drama. Monday 10-11.

Friday Night Lights. Drama. Tuesday 8-9.

Twenty Good Years. Comedy. Wednesday 8-8:30.

30 Rock. Comedy. Wednesday 8:30-9:00.

Kidnapped. Drama. Wednesday. 10-11.

 

[Speedball]

WOW!!!
NBC has some appealing shows this season.
Don't really care about the last one, but the other 5 I'm definantly gonna watch.
ABC- Knights of Prosperity (YES! Donal Logue is back!) and Ugly Betty look pretty good.
CBS- Smith looks appealing because Amy Smart looks like she's finally gonna be allowed to kick some ass.
Fox- Nothing really looks like I need to watch it. I'll stick to watching Prisonbreak and 24, and Celebrity Duets (LUCY LAWLESS FTW!!!). Can't wait til the Star Wars series is on the schedule.

 

[Triligors]

ABC- interested in The Nine, might be good

CBS- I was able to see both the pilot episodes of Shark and Jericho. Both were good. The pilot of Shark is actually directed by Spike Lee. Jericho's pilot is directed by Jon Turtetaub (National Treasure, Phenomenon)

Fox- Interested in Standoff, going to give it a shot- Tim Story is the director of the Pilot. Might be good. Saw Vanished, didn't think the Pilot was that great- but sources are stating that the pace picks up in the third episode, so going to give it a shot.

NBC has the majority of the new shows that I'm interested in. Heroes was a good pilot and has great potential. Friday Night lights, I'm someone that rarely plays and watches football, was my favorite Pilot I have seen so far. Kidnapped was great, second favorite Pilot, can't wait to see what happens next. And Studio 60 looks like it might be good as well.

BTW, some Pilots have been either 'leaked' online or can be found on their website (Vanished Pilot uncut(?) is on the official site for the show).

 

[Rexkwando99]

I am seriously freaking out about this season. I think my DVR might blow up, i have so many shows i am excited about that I think I might have to make flow charts and utilize highlighting sytstems. Does this say something about my life at this point? Maybe, but who cares...I'm revved.

You know the one I'm most intersted to see how it does is prob. The Class. I saw the pilots for that and Jericho, both of which i was really impressed with. But I found out that The Class is being done by the same folks who produced Friends and Mad About You. I think that says alot for any show, esp. when it is another ensemble show like this one looks like it is turning out to be. Should interesting to see how this one plays out.

 

[Avalanche]

Wow, Heroes is the only one out that entire list I'm interested in.

 

[WorthyStevens]

The only ones I'm really looking forward to are Heroes and Friday Night Lights.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

ABC
Brothers and Sisters. Drama. Sunday. 10-11.
-Heard nothing but bad news about this.
The Knights of Prosperity. Comedy. Tuesday 9-9:30.
-Never heard of it.
Help me Help you. Comedy. Tuesday 9:30-10:00.
-Never heard of it.
The Nine. Drama. Wednesday 10-11.
-Lost meets 24, might be decent, I'll check out the first couple eps.
Ugly Betty. Comedy. Thursday 8-9.
-Have no interest in seeing this, it's about the fashion industry right?
Six Degrees. Drama. Thursday 9-10.
-Boooo, JJ Abrams should stick with Alias/Lost type shows, stay away from the Felicity stuff
Men in Trees. Comedy. Friday 9-10.
-Never heard of it.
CBS
The Class. Comedy. Monday 8-8:30.
-Never heard of it.
Smith. Drama. Tuesday 10-11.
-Never heard of it.
Jericho. Drama. Wednesday 8-9.
-Nuke hits the middle of nowhere, not interested. Lost meets the three Alien shows last year.
Shark. Drama. Thursday 10-11.
-Never heard of it.
FOX
Vanished. Drama. Monday 9-10.
-Watched the pilot, not impressed. Lost meets FBI/cop procedural meets the DaVinci Code, we all suffer until midseason and the show fades away
Standoff. Tuesday 9-10.
-Not interested
Justice. Drama. Wednesday 9-10.
-Jack Bristow may be a reason to watch this, but FOX doesn't really have a good track record with legal shows.
Happy Hour. Comedy. Thursday 8:30-9:00.
-Never heard of it.
'Till Death. Comedy. Thursday 8-8:30.
-Cookie cutter, formuliac sitcom, if you liked the War at Home, you'll love 'Til Death
The Winner. Comedy. Friday.
-Never heard of it.
NBC
Heroes. Drama. Monday 9-10.
-The one show I'm really interested in. Sure it looks like Lost meets the X-Men, but I'm a comic geek and this show looks like it could be interesting.
Studio 60. Drama. Monday 10-11.
-This is one of the two shows loosely based on SNL right? SNL hasn't been worth watching in 10-15 years so why would I want to watch a show loosely based on it.
Friday Night Lights. Drama. Tuesday 8-9.
-Didn't like the movie, not gonna be interested in the show. Plus with the exception of Buffy and MASH, no show based on a movie has ever worked well.
Twenty Good Years. Comedy. Wednesday 8-8:30.
-Will probably check it out only because George/Oscar Bluth is in it, but haven't heard good things.
30 Rock. Comedy. Wednesday 8:30-9:00.
-Let's see take the best piece of crap out of a pile of crap and see if it won't stink
Kidnapped. Drama. Wednesday. 10-11.
-Which new show is this, the one about the kidnapped wife, no. The one about the bank robbery gone bad, no. The one about the hostage negiators, no. Oh yeah the one about the kidnapped kid! Uninterested.

 

[JackBauer]

jeez, it's like everything is "Lost meets..." with you...

 

[The Squirrel]

Just Heroes really.

 

[JackBauer]

I've seen the pilots for the following:

The Nine. pretty good. great cast, nice structure. the writers have to be careful, though, cause it could easily turn into melodrama. I'll keep watching it.

Jericho. not the biggest Skeet Ulrich fan, and it didn't change here. I'll give it a chance, but mostly because I love post-apocalyptic scenarios.

Heroes. the pilot was good, but I expected more from it. if the writing doesn't improve, I don't see myself becoming a fan, or even a viewer.

Studio 60. GREAT pilot. GREAT chemistry between the cast. I'll follow it without a doubt.

Kidnapped. it's certainly not original, but there's A LOT of potential here. the pilot was pretty well done, and the kidnapping scene was AWESOME. Sisto's character is pretty damn cool. I'll gladly watch it if it keeps the quality of the pilot.

I'll keep watching all of those, and depending on how it goes, I'll make a final judgement on wether I'll keep watching or not.

other than that, I might check out Smith.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Well, most of the new serialized shows are trying to emulate Lost in some way;
Heroes - Extradonairy circumstance brings strangers together
The Nine - Each episode will show the events that bought one of the hostages to the bank.
Vanished - This has much more of a DaVinci Code vibe to me, but also you can't deny some influence from Lost as well.
Jericho - The nuke thing is giving me a Lost vibe, big tradegy brings people together type deal.

I could be completely wrong about this, but these shows just seem like they're trying to take elements from Lost and put it into their show becuase it's worked once, it might work again. Television usually only comes up with one or two really good original ideas every couple years and if it's a hit, it's replicated in some form. For proof, just look at the reality genre and inside that all the America Idol clones that were on air over the summer.

 

[Tempest19]

Actually, you're right and wrong. The fall 2005 shows were inspired to take the Lost route- the year of serialized science fiction shows. While ALOT of the fall 2006 shows were heavily inspired by the Prison Break route- crime drama serialized. It's a trend with TV to try to come up with a succesful show based on a tried and proven formula- this year it's the serialized crime drama.

 

[hey yo its sean]

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. The pilot was amazing. Gotta catch that.

Early reviews of Heroes say it's s**t.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I really don't see much of the Prison Break "formula" in these shows though. Maybe Vanished, since there seems to be a conspiracy involved beyond the kidnapping, but the conspiracy seems much more influenced by the DaVinci Code.

However, last year I didn't really understand the comparasions that Surface, Threshold and Invasion got to Lost. Since all three of those involved aliens a subject Lost has never brought up, but then I also see Lost more as a mystery/character drama than sci fi.

 

[darkdaz]

There doesn't seem to be much new Sci-Fi.

 

[Tempest19]

CRIME/SERIALIZED:

- The Nine (bank robbery/hostages)
- Smith (main characters are criminal)
- Vanished (crime conspiracy)
- Kidnapped (crime serialized)
- Runaway (crime conspiracy/ wrongfully accused)

All of these link back to aspects of Prison Break. Crime conspiracies, crime, main characters are criminals, serialized around a crime.

Similarly to how last year 5 shows were linked to Lost- Surface, Invasion, Threshold, Supernatural, and Nightstalker.

Whereas last year was year of science fiction, this year it's year of the criminal/crime conspirsts.

This year has one/two shows that could be linked to Lost. Jericho, I personally don't think it could be linked since it is more of a

Spoiler

country during a time of crises- not only one place as been attacked.

While Heroes seems more along the lines of a Lost/4400 connection in it's serialized science fiction type elements.

 

[Rexkwando99]

CBS
The Class. Comedy. Monday 8-8:30.
-Never heard of it.

Jericho. Drama. Wednesday 8-9.
-Nuke hits the middle of nowhere, not interested. Lost meets the three

I got my hands on these two pilots and i have to say i was pretty impressed. I just posed about The Class, call me a little *****...but I loved Friends. So since it is by those same people, it all about this. Then Jericho...yeah it is reminiscet of lost, but not in a riding on the coat tails kind of way. And I'm not sure if it is a nuke or not, they leave it very open...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Just Heroes, really. I haven't heard much about most of the others, but the few I have heard about seem uninteresting and, looking through the links up there, the rest of them don't look much better. I may check out Shark for James Woods if I happen to see it, but I doubt I'll go out of my way for it.

 

[JackBauer]

Well, most of the new serialized shows are trying to emulate Lost in some way;
Heroes - Extradonairy circumstance brings strangers together
The Nine - Each episode will show the events that bought one of the hostages to the bank.
Vanished - This has much more of a DaVinci Code vibe to me, but also you can't deny some influence from Lost as well.
Jericho - The nuke thing is giving me a Lost vibe, big tradegy brings people together type deal.

those are complete gross generalizations. can't say about Vanished as I haven't and don't plan to watch it, but the other ones... it's akin to comparing Lost to X-Files. they're nothing alike, except for a single, VERY broad similarity.

I could be completely wrong about this, but these shows just seem like they're trying to take elements from Lost and put it into their show becuase it's worked once, it might work again. Television usually only comes up with one or two really good original ideas every couple years and if it's a hit, it's replicated in some form. For proof, just look at the reality genre and inside that all the America Idol clones that were on air over the summer.

still, none of the shows you mention can be called Lost clones.

and come on, it's not like Lost came up with the concept of serialized mystery and flashbacks.

 

[JackBauer]

However, last year I didn't really understand the comparasions that Surface, Threshold and Invasion got to Lost. Since all three of those involved aliens a subject Lost has never brought up, but then I also see Lost more as a mystery/character drama than sci fi.

then how come those aren't comparable to Lost, but Heroes is?

those three shows suffered from the same generalization you're guilty of in this thread.

 

[JackBauer]

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. The pilot was amazing. Gotta catch that.

Early reviews of Heroes say it's s**t.

I wouldn't call it s#!t, but it's definitely overhyped.

 

[hey yo its sean]

Yeah, i've read on a couple of different sites that it's nothing special.

 

[tzarinna]

I think I might be missing some but I voted for Six Degrees,Heros and Kidnapped. Those all look really exciting. I really hate to get caught up in Kidnapped,I'd feel the need to not miss an episode and torture myself over it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, i've read on a couple of different sites that it's nothing special.

Do you have links? I'd like to read what those sites thought was wrong with it. I find I tend to disagree with online reviewers on a lot of shows.

 

[lars573]

So of course The Soprano's and Heroes have to be on at the fame sucking (not a typo just switch S and F for what I really mean ) time!