Welcome back for a very special TV or Not TV.
OK, it’s not really all that special. This week we’re taking a look at the new shows on the ABC Fall Schedule. There’s a reason why, however, I’ve been saving ABC for last. They’ve got two new shows. Yes, that’s right, just two.
Opportunity Knocks (Premieres 9/23) – This new show from Punk’d creative team Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg’s is a reality show made me think they almost lifted Brian Lynch’s Party Truck USA idea. Instead the show concept is this: semi-truck game show pulls up infront of your house and uses objects and clues in the house to quiz the family as to how well they know one another. Cash prizes involved. I’ll wait to see to base judgment.
Life on Mars (Premieres 10/9) – This show is a BBC import. The Americanized version was executive produced by David E. Kelley and stars Jason O’Mara as a present day police detective who, after a car crash, wakes up as a detective in the 70’s. The show has had lots of buzz because Kelley’s pilot “didn’t hew close enough” to the BBC original, so Kelley walked. A new pilot, a change of location and an entire recasting of everyone but the lead means this is one you have to catch just to see what turned out in the end.
Well, I hope you were able to get through all of that and now you still have an appetite for the TV viewing opportunities out there this week.
MONDAY
SCIFI – 7:00 PM: If you’ve put off getting caught up in LOST-mania but you’ve always wanted to watch it from the beginning, now is your chance. You can sit back, relax and enjoy four hours of lost every week on Monday night.
ABC – 8:00 PM: Oh look, someone else is airing Batman Begins.
CBS – 8:00 PM: Get ready for the return of The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother and Two and a Half Men by watching tonight’s repeat of the season finale.
TUESDAY
NBC – 8:00 PM: Last year’s edition of The Biggest Loser using couples was a great one, so they are keeping the concept going with this year’s edition: The Biggest Loser: Families. Husband-Wife and Parent-Child teams vie to lose big and win bigger. This show is a great motivator and great entertainment.
CBS – 9:00 PM: Will it be Dan or Memphis who walks away with the half mill tonight? Which one of the jury members will win the $25,000 pity prize from America’s vote? After tonight you won’t hear me say Big Brother again for at least four months.
FOX – 9:00 PM: Let’s see if Fringe can keep up the creepy momentum that they started with the pilot.
ABC – 9:30 PM: The ABC news department is stretching for ratings with Primetime: UFOs… Seeing is Believing. I haven’t seen a hubcap hung from fishing line in a long time, this should be fun.
WEDNESDAY
CBS – 8:00 PM: Two episodes of The New Adventures of Old Christine try to prime you for next week’s season premiere.
HIST – 8:00 PM: How could you not watch Monster Quest tonight with a title like this? Bigfoot in New York.
CW – 9:00 PM: If you missed this week’s new episode of 90210 yesterday than you can catch it tonight.
THURSDAY
MAX – 8:00 PM: Matt Damon steps away from F’ing Sarah Silverman long enough to try to uncover his real identity in The Bourne Ultimatum.
NBC – 8:30 PM: Get ready for next week’s premiere of My Name is Earl and The Office by watching both shows season finales.
USA – 10:00 PM: Unfortunately after tonight we’re going to have to wait until 2009 to see more of Burn Notice. Don’t miss it.
FRIDAY
You know the recommendations aren’t going to be good for a night when the writer leads off with…
OXYGEN – 8:00 PM: The entertaining Legally Blonde and the dismal Legally Blonde 2 are back-to-back tonight.
BRAVO – 8:00 PM: More proof that a sequel is too much of a good thing comes from Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Dangerous.
BBCA – 8:00 PM: Forget all that other crap. Enjoy 80 minutes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and enjoy the universal language of pure comedy.
SATURDAY
TNT – 8:00 PM: Queen Latifah finds out she is terminally ill so she does what we all do, sells all her stuff and lives it up in Europe in Last Holiday. I’m not really recommending this, this is what we call filler.
FOOD – 9:00 PM: Two hours of Dinner: Impossible lead up to Iron Chef: America. Keep healthy snacks handy or this could be trouble.
NBC – 11:29 PM: James Franco hosts SNL. I predict a Seth Rogen surprise visit.
SUNDAY
ABC – 8:00 PM: Every fashionista and star f’er will be tuning in for the 60th Prime Time Emmy Awards. I’m not one of them. No, really, I’m not.
NGC – 8:00 PM: At last Titanic: The Final Secret is revealed! Wait, was there something we still didn’t know? Turns out there was. The guy who found the famed cruise ship was actually on a secret Navy mission to examine submarines lost during the Cold War. Who knew?
FOX – 9:00 PM: Robot Chicken did a much better Star Wars special, however you might find the Family Guy’s Blue Harvest chuckle-worthy. Some items I found funny, a lot of it felt like too drawn out of a joke. You decide.
– Will Wilkins really wishes there were better things to watch on Friday nights.
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