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Fall TV fare arrives at the right time
(October 10, 2008) – Aaaaaaaaah!
That’s a collective sigh of relief for those of us who have transitioned from summer TV fare to the fall season.
For sports freaks, college football games abound on Saturdays (plus a few on Wednesdays and Thursdays); and NFL games proliferate the airways on Sundays – on FOX and CBS in the afternoons and on NBC at night – and wind up a sports weekend with a Monday night game on ESPN.
Panther fans are salivating, too – especially after that miraculous final-second win over San Diego in the season’s opener, plus wins over KC, Chicago and arch-rival Atlanta. Pros like to quarter the season – i.e., 3-1 in the first four games. If the Panthers stay the course, they could finish 12-4 and be playoff-bound come January.
And, sports freaks, the NCAA basketball season gets underway in about a month with North Carolina and Duke looking like upper echelon teams. Aaaaaah! Heaven!
As for television, my favorite summer shows -- Burn Notice, Monk, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, In Plain Sight, Eureka and Doctor Who are on hiatus. I miss The Women’s Murder Club and Canterbury’s Law, but am filling my airtime with my favorite dramas, CSI, NCIS, CSI: New York, Criminal Minds, Without a Trace and Bones.
I thought Oct. 9th would never get here. CSI followers knew, from media reports, that Warrick Brown was going to die in the season premiere. With Sara Sidle returning, it was a heart-wrenching show that brought out the hankies and gave us another view of the usually strongman Grissom. It should be the No. 1 show for the week when the ratings are announced. I do not look forward to the show in which we will say good-bye to Grissom and hello to a new character to be played by Lawrence Fishburne. Alas, life goes on – even on CSI
Thank goodness Jethro has been reunited with Tony, Ziva and Tim on NCIS I miss Director Shepherd, though. I don’t like Leon, the new director. He’s hiding something.
House and CSI: Miami have fallen by the wayside. At some point a season or so ago, I lost interest in House, but still catch an episode of CSI: Miami on occasion.
I watched the premiere of Fringe but lost interest after the second episode. Although I was a big fan of The X-Files,, I find Fringe a carbon copy. I have, however, placed it on my “Rerun Watch List.”
I think newcomer The Mentalist will be a keeper, but the jury is still out on The Eleventh Hour. -- after one episode.
Two and One Half Men remains the only comedy worth spending 30 minutes on – although The Big-Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother are good to watch if the Monday Night Football game features two teams that fail to whet your sports appetite.
After scuttling the young next door neighbors, ’Til Death is ready for the scrap heap. I’ve viewed new comedies My Worst Week, which drove me up a tree, and Kath and Kim, another mother-daughter yawner. There are a couple of other comedies that I will have to place on my “Rerun Watch List” because they go up against a couple of my favorite dramas.
NOTE TO READERS: I thought about writing my webcolumn on the presidential race, but found myself unable to put into words what I actually feel about the Obama-Biden vs. McCain-Palin battle. Maybe something in retrospect – after Nov. 4th.
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