The critic in me is grumbling and I can’t help but speak up about one of the shows that I love and my confusion at what they are doing.
If you haven’t watched My Name is Earl than let me explain the concept: The lead character wrote a list of everything he did wrong to people and he’s trying to fix every one of them to live a better life. The problem? Right now he is in a coma and his hapless rag-tag group of friends (and his brother) are carrying on his work to try to get him out of the coma. Meanwhile, in his head, he’s living life in his own sit com.
What it really boils down to, however, is that My Name is Earl is not doing what we have come to expect and giving us instead some nonsense premise that only has an effect of completely jarring me out of the moment. I’m not saying the show isn’t enjoyable, I’m just saying that I don’t like this direction and I almost wish he was still in prison. Sadly we have at least two more weeks of this to endure.
On a different note: the light is at the end of the tunnel and new shows are popping up with each passing week. Two weeks from now we’ll be in the throng of new shows and we’ll almost forget that we only have a few more weeks of them before the summer hits us.
Fans of LOST also got some good news this past week: Instead of just five new shows we’ll be getting six. Look for these new episodes starting next week in the new 10:00 PM time slot.
If you have ever been a fan of Smallville than my top pick of the week is this week’s all new show. Someone will die and Lex goes all kinds of bad. Hopefully soon that Clark kid will trade in his red and blue t-shirts already for something a little more cape like because his arch-nemesis seems to be coming in to his own.
Now back to our regularly scheduled programming…
MONDAY
FOX – 8:00 PM: Bones is finally back! This show is like CSI light, and this season they have a bad guy called (I kid you not) the Gormogon. Not sure if there will be any Gormogon tonight, but there will be human remains and sexual tension (not related).
FOX – 9:00 PM: The last episode of New Amsterdam. Not sure if it will be the last ever but I did enjoy the 8 episode run. You can watch the whole season after Tuesday at this site.
AMC – 8:00 PM – 2:30 AM: It’s Don Knotts-irific on AMC tonight with The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Reluctant Astronaut, and The Shakiest Gun in the West. The Incredible Mr. Limpet would have made this the perfect quartet, but sadly they instead are airing How to Frame a Figg after Gun.
TUESDAY
FOX – 8:00 PM: American Idol’s finalists will be singing the hits of Mariah Carey. I can’t wait to hear David Archuleta to sing Honey (yes, I had to look that up… no really).
NBC – 8:00 PM: If you are “husky†person like myself than there is nothing that will make you feel like less of an achiever than the finale of The Biggest Loser. My money is on Ali. Don’t watch the show? Tune in any way to see the jaw dropping results these people get.
TCM – 10:00 PM: If you have never caught Mel Brook’s Blazing Saddles than tune in for a time when political correctness didn’t exist.
WEDNESDAY
ABC – 8:00 PM: Get ready to rumble with the Barack vs. Hillary in Philly. I just wish it was more like Thunderdome (two candidates enter, one candidate leaves!) because we really need our Democratic candidate already.
MTV – 10:00 PM: The 20th edition of The Real World sets up shop in Hollywood. Since I remember the first season of The Real World I am suddenly feeling a part of The Older World.
THURSDAY
ABC – 8:00 PM: It’s two hours of LOST tonight to try to catch us up on what happened just a month ago. Tune in to get caught up and let me remind you again that the show moves to 10:00 PM next Thursday.
CW – 8:00 PM: Like I said, Lex goes really bad on Smallville. I hear good things about this one. Tune in.
FRIDAY
COMEDY CENTRAL – 10:00 PM: Lisa Lampanelli: Dirty Girl is not for the squeamish. If you aren’t easily offended, you will enjoy this.
SCIFI – 8:30 PM: It’s a new season of Dr. Who and tonight the good doctor is trying to save people on board an orbiting cruise ship called Titanic. Who’d have thought something could go wrong on a ship with that name?
SATURDAY
E! – 8:00 PM: About a Boy is one of those great films that I can’t tell you why I like so much. Hopefully you will too.
ABC – 8:00 PM: One of the darkest and most enjoyable adaptations of the Harry Potter books is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
SUNDAY
ABC – 8:00 PM: Breathe out a sigh of relief with me as the finale of Oprah’s Big Give is here.
COMEDY CENTRAL – 8:00 PM: Napoleon Dynamite a.k.a. the film that made GOSH! a household word.
HBO – 9:00 PM: The final episode of John Adams airs tonight. That is all.
ABC – 10:00 PM: Fans of night time drama will be happy to know that Brothers & Sisters is back tonight with new episodes. I’ll be in bed by this time.
– Will Wilkins is not The Biggest Loser.
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April 15th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
’ Am I the only one seeing that all through the review. ’ ’ ’ ’
April 16th, 2008 at 11:14 am
when are new eps. of heroes starting back????
April 16th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
I only get basic cable and I like to watch Medium at 10 o’clock on Monday night. What up?
Yes, it is based on a true, real person.
TV gets worse and worse.
My other favorite every day is That 70’s Show. I even laugh out loud at all the reruns. Can’t get enough.