2012 TV thread: winter, spring, maybe summer

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Inside Comedy was aight but the rerun of Green Room they put on after it tonight just reminded how much more fun a comedians talking comedy show can be.

what is Inside Comedy?

Its black, decaying heart.

lol

the first post mentioning Inside Comedy featured an informative link iirc

so it's like WTF?

::rolls eyes, looks at watch, taps foot on floor::

sorta actually. listening to jerry actually made me wish i was listening 2 him on wtf. the show is much more brief, jerry & rickles seperately tell some good brief stories & they show clips of each doing stand up, rickles performing for reagan as one & jerry for mccartney & obama

NBC has moved The Firm to Saturday night's to die a death and moved Grimm into its slot until March 1 when it will premiere Awake with Jacob Isaacs, which is destined to fail miserably as it is created by Kyle Killen. No word yet on Community.

Awake looks good. I'm glad I'll finally have a (short) window to see if it capitalizes on the promise of its trailer.

"The Firm" isn't terrible, but there is absolutely nothing essential about that show.

yeah i watched the first episode and definitely felt like i had enough to last a lifetime. let me say again: NO MORE TWO HOUR PILOTS.

It's a pretty by-the-numbers legal show. Josh Lucas is a little earnest AT ALL TIMES, though.

I wonder if the fact that ER was in that slot for so, so long left it cursed for anything that follows. Has any NBC show lasted an entire season at 10pm on Thursdays yet?

nope

George Clooney cursed them.

Here's the trailer for Awake, btw, in case anyone's forgotten the premise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDbF8b9wkMs

Jack's imaginary son from Lost's 6th season and the girl who was in The 4400 and Terriers! Also, BD Wong! Playing another psychiatrist!

Is Awake the one with Jason Isaacs? I vowed to watch that show when I heard about it, but I'm sad we're not getting a third hour of comedy/Community's return.

Also 30 Rock got a 1.3 in the demo last night, which is just appallingly bad, but it might be related to that DVR glitch a bunch of us reported experiencing yesterday. Parks and Rec otoh was up from last week.

i thought the whole thing w/ the low ratings of shows like 30 Rock was that their numbers would look better if DVRs and other recording devices were counted?

DVR ratings don't come out for a bit. That 1.3 is live and yes, it is shockingly bad.

NBC opens February sweeps in strong tie with Univision

the chris rock 'inside comedy' is dope

xp what a disaster for NBC.

"it started to get better, and better, and better, and better, and you get your voice and ya dont care and ya start doing long shows and ppl started showing up like on the club level ya know, theres fights cuz ppl cant get in, thats when i knew i had a little something, it's like oh shit, fuckin fights every night"

saw Smash premiere. thought it was good enough that i'll watch another episode but it didn't blow me away. it feels like it's trying to be a cable drama on network. big ensemble cast, high production values. obv no cursing, nudity or decapitations. i guess NBC is very invested in this doing well?

The River was terrible. Think Awake will be any good?

this close to getting off the smash wagon. so much mediocrity. that scene between debra messing + her son was so hammily acted and so lazily written i was in physical pain.

yeah the stuff with the son was incredibly awful, although i liked the rest of the episode fine, and i figure soon enough they'll realize what a drag the family stuff is and stop bogging down the show with it

Switched At Birth started out as a show that other people were watching while I was in the room doing other stuff, but I'm surprised to find that I'm getting into it. Turns out that dismissing it as just another execrable ABC Family original program (and the others I've seen have, indeed, been execrable) was a mistake. It's very low-key and nothing earth-shattering (aside from maybe its casual and even-handed handling of deaf culture, including long and silent stretches of characters ASL-ing) but also quite smart and engaging. And I really like the cast. I thought I'd pimp it a bit since I couldn't find any mention of it on ILX, and especially since most people with discerning tastes are unlikely to trawl through the wasteland of ABC Family for descent programming (although things might be turning a corner there with the inception of Amy Sherman-Palladino's forthcoming show?). RIYL, say, Gilmore Girls or Men Of A Certain Age.

i love switched at birth! it's dumb about race, though. but it is great otherwise.

between himym + cougar town + raising hope this has been a big week for dramatic relationship shifts in sitcoms

and it's only tuesday!

four if you count New Girl!

four shows*

Justified ruled tonight!

finally watched The River pilot, ugh that was bad. i only checked it out because sepinwall had a generally positive opinion of it, but the acting was poor and the plot choices were ludicrous and it wasn't even particularly scary. v. disappointing.

I recorded the first two episodes of Smash, but then deleted them without watching.

AICN ratings update

Had no idea how low The Office has sunk. 30 Rock doing terrible (Whitney, on Wednesdays is beating it!) and Up All Night looks to be in real trouble even if The Office is as low as it is.

Stoked that I really got into Vampire Diaries, as it looks to be sticking around.

Also holy toledo at those Walking Dead numbers.

30 Rock is now opposite Big Bang Theory, which is very popular now. NBC may be accepting low numbers in the realization that nothing will do well in that slot (see Simpsons vs. Cosby Show in the 80s).

Well they benched Community because of its ratings in that timeslot and 30 Rock is doing worse.

I know that Baldwin signed on for one more season after this so I don't think it'll get cancelled. But still.

Maybe 30 Rock has enough prestige (Fey, Baldwin, Morgan) that they think it'll pan out in the long run.

apparently a bunch of normally popular shows saw unexplained dips in their ratings this past week, across all the networks. except fucking whitney, which went UP. hopefully people tuned in thinking it was a whitney houston tribute and then immediately changed the channel when they beheld its true horror.

"When's this Whitney Houston tribute starting?"
"It'll be on when this crap sitcom finishes"
"Are you sure?"
"Shut up"
"But it..."
"I thought I told you to shut up"

29 minutes later, ratings bonanza

Any advanced word on Missing, that new Ashley "Official ILX Crush Object" Judd's new action-chick series?

I only caught a few minutes of Comic Book Men but I can't imagine why anyone would want to watch it.

i'm sure i'm the only person still watching 2 broke girls on ilx, but they decided to pretend this week that kat dennings isn't jewish?

I still watch it. I don't know why.

could just replace "maybach music" drop on all rick ross songs

probably no one on ILX watches this, but has anyone been keeping up with pretty little liars?? i think it's a fabulous show

it's my little sister's fave show.

i saw the first ep of Bullet to the Face. i lol'd a few times. some good stuff in there.

Did anyone watch Copper? It's a bit corny with the diddly-diddly Oirish music all the time (huge pet peeve of mine), but story is kinda intriguing

i saw the pilot and thought it was a little mediocre, but i've heard the second ep was better

tivoing; will try when it gets to four

Major Crimes is continuing on nicely where The Closer left off, though I admit I do miss my weekly dose of J. K. Simmons.

I think I'm going to to give that Revolution thing a try when it airs- the Abrams/Favreau thingy about hybrids full of weeds etc

http://www.avclub.com/articles/fx-automatically-gives-charlie-sheens-anger-manage,84405

i haven't even seen one episode!

I watched a bit of one and it was very, very similar to the tone of 2.5 men

The ratings got better as it went along but I didn't think they were anywhere near the level needed to get the 90-episode renewal.

the show looks even lower budget than It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, so why not

Anger Management and Kutcher-era Two And A Half Men are basically the Beady Eye and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds of stupid sitcoms

Did anyone watch Copper? It's a bit corny with the diddly-diddly Oirish music all the time (huge pet peeve of mine), but story is kinda intriguing

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it's hilarious that the theme song is a transparent "I'm Shipping Up To Boston" knockoff because so is the Rizzoli & Isles theme

haha true

Mob Doctor starts tonight

William Forsythe! Rappapapapapappaapport!

I hope this is as good as I want it to be

If the theme song isn't "Rock Lobster" modified lyrically to "Mob Doctor" I have no interest.

haha

should be in the fall thread, come on veg

I didn't know (or I forgot) there was a fall thread ;_;

i like that we don't lock the old tv threads so if we ever want to go back and rehash the winter, spring and maybe summer of 2012 nbc dramas we can

For convenience, though: 2012 Fall TV Thread