DeathWatch Watch

DeathWatch Watch

Update: Slow News Day

October 11, 2006

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After yesterday's giddy and rapid DeathWatch movement, there was plenty of excitement and speculation over what might happen today. Would "The Class" finally move into the number one soon-to-be-cancelled spot? Would "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" crash into the top ten? What's the next big mover?

And then nothing. No movement.

Last night was a bevy of old standards, with "Dancing with the Stars" and "Law and Order: SVU" leading the night. We sat here all day waiting for even a hint of cancellation. And nothing.

With only two more shows to premiere (tonight NBC will premiere "20 Good Years" and the much anticipated "30 Rock"), the Fall season seems to have hit it's stride. Still hated: "Men In Trees" and "Help Me Help You." Clear winners: "Heroes" and "Shark," which are both burning up reviewer keyboards.

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Comments

Deb wrote:

Lost SUCKS! They jerked us around last year trying to ramp up the advertising time with endless reruns and an absolute coma of a script - who cares that it's back on. They got greedy last year and we all stopped watching.

Gila wrote:

If I'm going to keep watching lost, some things need to start making sense. But then again, this is typical JJ--way to many ideas and plotlines to have a sense of clarity. Yeah, he tells some good stories--most definately some interesting ones and I love where his ideas are at--but they need some major closure and context! Alias--prime example. Just when we were getting into the new story line, boom its two years later. And the whole missing two years thing? Never completely resolved. --okay, way off the topic of lost, but that I had to rant

Jace wrote:

First show I would love to see cancelled but that will never happen...

Law and Order- All of the franchise

They make tons of money, but as an intelligent viewer I am tired of the police always winning. I am tired of their "miracle" breakthroughs in investigations which lead to the end of the show. Just once I would like to see something realistic- A cop being outsmarted, a cop making a mistake, evil winning for once.

Vicki wrote:

Tired of the CSI franchise?? Bite your tongue..er...keyboard! Maybe, just maybe the CSIclones - but not dearly beloved Original Recipe! Viva Las Vegas!

Lost - never really found me. I tried, I just couldn't do it. I'm not as big a fan anymore of Nip/Tuck, or as we call it in my house "The Dr. Christian Troy's Pale White Buttocks Show". The story lines just don't appeal to me and really, is it my imagination or do the previously mentioned buttocks have almost as many scenes as Sean? Definitely more than Annie.

Liptus wrote:

I love "Lost", but I have to say the "recap" episodes are very transparent as money-grabs. They're not needed and just plain stupid in such a well watch "must-see" television.
Also, the whole "plot" advancement seems to have slowed even more than when the show started! We're approaching soap-opera speed here now! Move it along guys, start tying up some of those long standing less important loose ends (at the very least); and either show us the relevance of the interconnections between the survivors lives before the crash, or cut out that part of the show progression-drag altogether! It was kind of cool the first couple times, now it's old hat and a little, check that, VERY boring...

mouse wrote:

No YV show is perfect but I swear to god if the travesty of horrid writing that is Jericho isn't cancelled soon I'm going to need brain bleach. Now I understand (from an industry standpoint anyway) why Kidnapped isn't making the grade; because it's too much like (totoally only superficially like) the movie Ransom or because NBC refuses to hire someone to do their scheduling with half a clue. But it kills me to once again see decent shows like Kidnapped get the axe while cliche ladden tripe like Jericho gets a pass. Sure they are on different networks but that doesn't make it any less disturbing. It's enough to make someone turn to "reality" TV. *shudder*

Manic wrote:

OH come on people. Get over your whining. Why should a show "tie up its loose ends" only 3 seasons into it? The entire reason shows are created are so the writers can get thei creative visions out there and for the networks to make money. If answers were already being posed, this show wouldn't last 4 seasons. Think about it, would you rather watch a show for 2 seasons just so you can get instant gratification, or would you rather enjoy all the entire story that can be had from a show for 5 or 6 seasons?

Kyle wrote:

I have always been a lost fan. I've never missed an episode, but I feel like we are getting more questions and never getting any answers. But, then again, maybe that's why I watched in the first place.

Mel wrote:

I am a HUGE CSI fan (the ORIGINAL, don't watch the others), but I am greatly disappointed in the episodes so far this season. It seems like CBS is trying to create hooks to draw viewers from other shows (Grey's Anatomy?), but they don't need to CSI rocks on its own! I've never watched Grey's Anatomy... but maybe I should if CBS is so afraid of it.

But the winner of the coming axe should be 7th Heaven. I have watched the show religiously for the last 10 years, and it has only gotten worse. Please make it stop. I think Lucy & Kevin could do a cute sitcom spin-off, but lets put all the crazy drama to rest. The cast members are already fleeing from the series.

I am just lost when it comes to Lost. Never watched it before this year, but heard so much about it, I watched the recap and new season premiere. All I could say was "What the heck?!" I seriously have no idea why people watch that show. Discovery Kid's Flight 29 Down is better than that mess. The only promising show I see on ABC is Ugly Betty, but the writter's may have shot themselves in the foot with that one too. All that evil villian business is cheesy and unnecessary (kind of like How I Met Your Mother and the flashbacks with the kids...but worse). But, I haven't had much luck with ABC since the REAL TGIF ended... both shows I loved: Threat Matrix and Injustice, never lived long enough to reach their full potential. And I'm harboring pain over the loss of ABC's Monday Night Football.... Even with ESPN, Monday night will never be the same!

Amy wrote:

I don't watch CSI and I'm sick of it. Heroes has the potential to be good, if it doesn't turn into LOST. I've watched LOST religiously but I feel like they are dangling the carrot in front of us a little too long. 30rock was good,funny, much better than studio 60. And I have to say again, the best show that debuted this fall was Kidnapped, and the only show that immediately hooked me. By far, THE series that I would anxiously anticipate on a week-by-week basis.

Jamie wrote:

I'm VERY particular about what I watch, and Friday Night Lights? NBC...I'm sorry to say that it doesn't deserve as much promotion as it's getting (I'm sorry cause I really like the actor that plays the coach). But the camera shots are weird, jerky. Are they trying to make it look like a documentary? It goes too frequently and too obviously for the emotional strings. It hasn't gotten me to care for many of the characters except for a few. And for people who are not from Texas or big football fans, it's hard to relate. I guess like the title implies, every episode is going to be about a game, but I really thought it should have built to team success, instead of them winning in the first episode. Some struggle and challenge before success is more realistic. The TITANS was a really well done movie. FNL's acting is good but not sure the material is there, and it's gotten so much push from the network, whereas another show like KIDNAPPED, deserved much more, since it has both material AND acting.

Jennifer wrote:

I really hope Studio 60 doesn't make it onto the top 10 deathwatch list. I thought this last episode was the best so far and it was starting to come together.
I do have to agree with the person that said the Law & Order franchise needs to go. I used to enjoy it but it's time to move on.

Amazaun wrote:

Nip/Tuck is so far past the shark they can't even see it anymore. Half Pint?? What the hell happened to you!?

Amy wrote:

Deathwatch = NBC trying to predict it's own demise. Stop putting negative out in the universe method, NBC should apply, mmmmMMM? Yoda says.

What you put out there comes back to you.

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