Hello TV viewers and welcome back to a spook-tackular week of television viewing.
To be blatantly honest, I’m writing this week’s column passed my deadline. Yes, I know it is a horrible thing to do however extrenuating circumstances some times lead to this happening so it is what it is. As such I’m now writing the column while I’m pondering if I’m really going to watch another hour of Heroes tonight.
In case you haven’t caught the jist of things yet, I have a very love/hate relationship with Heroes. The show had an intriguing beginning in the first season, which lead to almost an entire season of compelling episodes. The heat was on, Heroes was on fire and when the big conflict finally came in the season one finale we we amazed by… nothing. We were given an episode that gave us all of the Heroes in one place to face down Sylar and the fight was just weak.
Fanboys around the world would mostly agree that season 2 of Heroes started off boring, didn’t get much better, and the stike induced premature season finale was just there. We were left with plenty of unanswered questions and a feeling of emptyness where greatness once lived.
We’re already deep in to the first half of this season and so far there are more elements on the show that have me scratching my head instead of being entertained. I feel that I am watching a show that doesn’t really know what its purpose is any more. It has lost its way. All the while the show is getting killed in the ratings by Dancing with the Stars (as is everything else that airs opposite of it).
What I’m really trying to say is that I’m just not sure I even care about tuning in to the show tonight and it really makes me kind of sad.
Let’s get on to the fun stuff instead, shall we?
MONDAY
If you are like me and miss seeing Tony Hale as Buster Bluth than Monday is your lucky night! It’s a Tony Hale Two-fer if you are willing to channel hop (sorry, no Bluth to be seen).
NBC – 8:00 PM: Tony Hale guest stars on tonight’s episode of Chuck as an effeciency expert brought in to shape things up in the Buy More.
ABC – 9:30 PM: Tony Hale guest stars on Samantha Who? as a doctor. Does his fake hand hold the cure to retrograde amnesia? (Darnit, sorry, he’s not Buster Bluth. His hand is real.)
TUESDAY
ABC – 8:00 PM: Part of me is a bit phased by the fact that CBS no longer has a lock on all of the Peanuts specials, but part of me is still very happy to know that even with all that has gone wrong in the world we’ve still got It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown to look forward to. Is this a nice look back at a simpler time or a close study into the dementia of one little boy who believes in a benevolent pumpkin? You decide.
NBC – 8:00 PM: Apparently one contestant is going to lose more weight than an entire team of people on The Biggest Loser Families tonight. Either he really put up a sweat that week or everyone else stumbled into Sizzler.
CWÂ – 8:00 PM: It’s like EVERYTHING is on at 8 PM tonight! Anyway, tonight 90210 finally returns after the overdose cliffhanger.
WEDNESDAY
FOX – NBC – CBS – 8:00 PM: It’s the Barack Obama: American Stories 30 minute infomercial. I think SNL‘s send up is all I need to see of this, unless someone is going to sing, “Solid as Barack.”
HIST – 10:00 PM: With a show named UFO Hunters you pretty much know what you are going to get. The question is do they do it for sport or food?
THURSDAY
NBC – 9:30 PM: I’ve been waiting a long time for tonight’s 30 Rock premiere, and I’m so glad it is here. Yes, NBC, I do in fact wanna get rocked.
NBC – 10:00 PM: If I tell you that Shane West is returning to ER tonight you might scratch your head. If I tell you the doctor that lost his legs is returning tonight you probably have a better clue.
FRIDAY
HIST – 6:00 PM*: The Haunted History of Halloween takes a look at practices of the past that lead to costumes and candy.
TVONE – 6:00PM*: Blacula and Scream Blacula Scream shown back to back.
CBS – 8:00 PM: Halloween falls right on the air day of Ghost Whisperer. Since she can talk to ghosts they are doing something special, right? Nope.
E! – 9:00 PM: The E! network brings us the scariest Halloween special of all: Star Jones: The E! True Hollywood Story.
TMC – 9:00 PM: Snoop Dogg’s Hood of Horror strikes fear in my heart with the name alone.
*Check local listings just to be sure.
SATURDAY
BBCA – 4 PM E / 1PM P: You can take the American out of Gladiators, but it’s the same show. British contestants just make it more polite with their accents.
AMC – 8:00 PM: The Stanley Kubrik version of The Shining is on one day too late to make it REALLY creepy.
NBC – 11:29 PM: This one threw me for a loop, Ben Affleck is hosting SNL. Is it too much to hope for a cameo from Jimmy Kimmel?
SUNDAY
FOX – 8:00 PM: Just in time to b elate for Halloween again, the ninteenth edition of The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror! hits the airwaves. This year they’ll be destroying our fond memories with their own rendition of the Grand Pumpkin. Curl up with a bowl of candy and enjoy.
TNT – 8:00 PM: Witness bad hair and big thinking puzzle solving in The Da Vinci Code.
ABC – 8:00 PM: The Extreme Makeover: Home Edition team renovates a 200 year old farm house. Can you even renovate something that old?
– Will WIlkins hopes you are watching My Own Worst Enemy
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