Fall 2010 TV!

Alrighty then, we're a week into the new fall season, so I figured I'd give my night by night rundown of shows I'm watching, as well as a little ratings analysis of the schedule.

On Monday, Chuck started the night off with another great, fun episode with another great guest cast: Linda Hamilton, Olivia Munn and Dolph Lundgren all stopped by.  The story featured Chuck and Morgan on a secret mission to find Chuck's mom, which ended with the back home with hardly any new information and no money, and getting their car repo'd by Harry Dean Stanton.  Good stuff, but as usual, hardly anybody watched.  It scored a 2.0/6 in the 18-49 demo and less than 6 million total viewers. 

Meanwhile, over on Fox, House and Cuddy decided to stay home from work and celebrate there new couplehood, leaving House's team to clean up a mess at the hospital. Also, 13 wouldn't tell anyone the truth about why she was leaving, but we all know it's to visit Tron and then fight Cowboys & Aliens. 4.2/11 Demo 10.692 M Viewers

Then I had to check out The Event, this year's only new entry in the "highly serialized mysterious maybe sci-fi" genre--in other words the latest show that wants to be the next Lost.  I'm usually okay with the whole "___ minutes/days ago" gimmick, but they sure took it to a new level.  Hopefully they'll tone it down a bit as the show goes forward (they didn't in the second episode) but I still enjoyed the show.  The plane twist at the end sucked me in, and fortunately they do answer several questions in episode two. 3.6/9 Demo 10.877 M Viewers

We checked out Mike & Molly, cause we like Melissa McCarthy.  It was cute, but nothing groundbreaking. 3.9/10 Demo 12.227 M Viewers

Hawaii Five-0.  Melissa didn't really want to watch this, just because she never watched the original, but I talked her into it.  It was a fun ride, definitely a big budget pilot.  If anything, I think the show's problem will be maintaining that level of action on a weekly basis.  The pilot has a great vampire pedigree as well: It stars Alex O'Laughlin, who came to fame as Mick St. John on Moonlight, the baddie was played by James Marsters who was Spike on Buffy/Angel (Daniel Dae Kim was also on Angel, but we played a monster much worse than a vampire--a lawyer! Of course he was also on another little show called Lost) and it was directed by Len Wiseman, who directed the first two Underworld movies.  While I enjoyed the pilot, as a procedural, it certainly doesn't feel like something I have to watch on a weekly basis.  3.9/11 14.199 M Viewers

Those were all the shows that I actually watched, but the big story of the night had to be the epic fail that was Lone Star.  This is a risky, unusual show, that would be right at home on a cable net like FX, but was probably not quite ready for broadcast primetime.  Fox said they were going for a cable-type show, and they delivered, they just weren't prepared for cable-type ratings.  They have aired a second episode, but unless it has a miraculous jump in ratings, don't get too attached. 1.3 Demo 4.100 M Viewers

NBC also launched a new action procedural Chase, which launched with an okay 2.3/6 Demo and 7.310 M Viewers.

Leading the night was of course ABC's Dancing with the Has-Beens and Wanna-Be's with a 5.1/13 Demo and 21.294 million total viewers! Castle continued to enjoy it's post-DWTS time slot with a decent 2.7/7 Demo and 10.696 million viewers.

CBS also launched their usual Monday night sitcoms How I Met Your Mother (3.6/10 8.878) Rules of Engagement (3.1/8 8.345) and Two & a Half Men (4.9/12 14.625)

Wow, that's a lot for just one night.  I'll be back for more, but I doubt I'll go into that much depth from now on. :)

My New Blog

All right, here we go.  Why did I decide to start a blog?  Anybody who knows me knows I'm not much of a writer, and not especially opinionated.  I guess I just figure if I write my thoughts down, people can read it if they want to and ignore me if they don't, but either way, my throat won't get sore from talking to much (carpal tunnel syndrome might occur though.)  Anyway, I guess it's the start of the new tv season this week that got me to thinking that I could use a place to put down my random thoughts about various things I'm into, like television, movies and comics.  Hopefully this won't go the way of my twitter feed though, and become mostly forgotten. :)
I'll be back sometime soon with my round-up of the new fall tv season, what new and returning shows I'm watching, and what the ratings are looking like so far.

Later
Rocky