Monday Question!
Posted by WEREbal in LD
Now that the Olympics are over and ol' Swimmy Joe has his 8 gold medals, it's time to look towards the future. As the summer concludes and our pale skin returns to its natural pallor, we geeks have only one source of comfort: hookers. But, since those are expensive, we are often forced to use television as a poor substitute. Today's question:
What new TV series are you anticipating the most?
Y: I'm going to go with Knight Rider. Michael Knight had a son? Instead of the teacher from Boy Meets World, K.I.T.T. is voiced by Val Kilmer? What could go wrong?
LD: I saw the 2-hour "premiere" last season. It gave me scabies. True story.
LD: The Xtacles Show - Whoever decided to spin the best characters from Frisky Dingo off into their own show is a genius whose hand I want to shake. I don't really get excited for network television, because so much of it is formulaic. But, taking an established property that I love in a whole new direction gets me excited.
N8: "True Blood" which has excellent marketing going for it will start on HBO on Sept. 7, only a week before Y's nuptials. My "anticipation" consists of equal parts hope for a truly compelling vampire series in the vein of what we lost with the cancellation of Kindred: The Embraced and terror that it will be a final nail in the coffin of well-crafted vampire television (who will try if HBO pours all this money into it and it tanks? No one for a long, long time...). Still, if it refuses to flinch in the manner of Six Feet Under and uses the freedom of premium TV to get creative, True Blood has the best shot of getting me to follow any show week-to-week.
Y: Kindred the Embraced was such a promising, promising series. I hadn't thought about your point about what happens if it tanks. Then we'll NEVER have a decent vampire show.
SN: News tv shows remind me of new recruits back when I was fighting the Viet Cong - you didn't want to get too attached to them, because they were likely to be eliminated at any moment. I've looked over the list of new shows for this fall, and probably won't watch any of them except for "Office Spinoff," and that, like most spinoffs, may very well end up sucking balls, but we shall see. For this question, though, I'm gonna have to pick "Surviving Suburbia", in which Bob Saget plays a man who starts thinking "bad things" about the young girl who just moved next door - I mean, how could that go wrong?
Grimbil: I'm going to venture off the beaten path of fictional shows and pick The Rachel Maddow Show, soon to be starting on MSNBC. Maddow has been skewering the Right for a couple of years now and it's about time she got her own show. Thank jeebus for the internet so I can watch her bits on all the different shows she appears on. This is gonna be fun!
E: I pick Dollhouse, because Joss Whedon can really do no wrong in my eyes. I'm ridiculously hungover, so I have no pithy, witty remarks. It just looks awesome.
