Now that we’re a week or two into the fall TV season, what’s everyone watching? Maybe we can start up a few open threads on some shows (other than Lost, which I know will get its open thread back in the spring for sure).
Here’s my current schedule, though I do tend to start off watching waaay too many shows and dropping some as I run short on time. Non-bolded shows are more likely to fall off the schedule than bolded ones.
Monday
How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
Castle (ABC)
Tuesday
V (ABC; starts in November)
NCIS (CBS)
So You Think You Can Dance (FOX; also Wednesday)
NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)
Wednesday
Glee (FOX)
Top Chef (Bravo)
Thursday
(aka, the day all the networks gang up to try to kill me and my DVR)
FlashForward (ABC)
Survivor: Samoa (CBS)
Bones (FOX)
Community (NBC)
Parks and Recreation (NBC)
Fringe (FOX)
The Office (NBC)
30 Rock (NBC)
The Mentalist (CBS)
Project Runway (Lifetime)
Friday
Dollhouse (FOX)
Stargate Universe (Syfy)
Sanctuary (Syfy)
Sunday
The Amazing Race (CBS)
The Simpsons (FOX)
The Cleveland Show (FOX)
Family Guy (FOX)
Mad Men (AMC)
I’ve already dropped Numb3rs and Criminal Minds – I just can’t do that many procedurals, and those two were not holding my interest last year. I may watch House on hulu, but I’m kind of not missing it, so I might not. I quit Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and Heroes last year and am not going back; I’d like to pick back up with Ugly Betty, but I missed some eps and will just finish the whole thing on DVD later.
This discussion currently has 5 responses.
October 7, 2009
Holy television, Jandy! Where do you find all of the time with all of the other stuff that you do?
The only show you mentioned that I watch is The Office. The other shows I watch weekly are all on Sundays: Californication (Showtime), Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO), and Bored to Death (HBO). I’ll watch the occasional House episode, although I’ve haven’t even watched nearly half of the episodes ever aired and sometimes on Thursday after The Office I’ll switch over to Comedy Central and watch It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but that is about it.
October 7, 2009
Oh, and I forgot South Park. I do watch every episode of that. It actually starts again tonight, I believe.
October 7, 2009
I don’t, Jonathan, that’s why so many of them are marked for probably deletion.
I think I have twelve hours a week that I’m not giving up, which is nine hours when you take out commercials. I usually a show or two a night before I go to bed, and catch up the rest on the weekend.
And see, you get the premium channels. If I had Showtime and HBO, I’d be in real trouble.
How’s Bored to Death? I saw a promo somewhere and was intrigued.
October 7, 2009
I guess the reason I lean towards the premium channel TV shows is because of the boundaries they are able to push that network television would never allow. None of these three premium channel shows I watch could ever air on NBC without it being butchered down terribly.
Bored to Death is unbelievably good though. It’s a real dry, witty kind of humor, but still very accessible. If you tend to like the movies Jason Schwartzman is usually in, you’ll love this.
October 7, 2009
Yeah, definitely. I like watching the premium shows on DVD later, but it’s not worth it to me to pay to see them when they first air. A joint factor of watching too much network/basic cable TV and not having friends who watch them, so there’s no water cooler factor.
I like the Wes Anderson movies that Jason Schwartzman is in. I don’t know how many other ones I’ve seen, actually…I wasn’t that big a fan of I Heart Huckabees. Loved Marie Antoinette, but not because of Schwartzman, particularly. Bored to Death is going on my watch-on-DVD list, for sure, though.