Fall Premiere Week - Wednesday
Wednesday night doesn’t look like much now but in a few weeks it will look a lot better.
ABC has yet another hour of Dancing with the Stars (that’s five hours total for those counting) followed by a two-hour David Blaine extravaganza. ABC’s real Wednesday night lineup of Pushing Daisies — last season’s best new show, Grey’s Anatomy spinoff Private Practice, and the (somewhat) promising Dirty Sexy Money does’t launch until Wednesday, October 1. All three shows had their first seasons cut short due to the writer’s strike, so ABC doesn’t know how they’ll preform or even if viewers will remember them.
CBS tries again to launch a second night of laughter with Julia Louis-Dreyfus in The New Adventures of Old Christine and Gary: Unmarried, a show about, you got it, a single guy called Gary. Following all the yucks, CBS has crime time with Criminal Minds and CSI: New York.
NBC apparently didn’t learn anything from the failed revival of Bionic Woman, hence their re-imagining of Knight Rider. Deal or No Deal returns in a couple of weeks but until then Jerry Springer insists America’s Got Talent. Capping off the night is the returning Lipstick Jungle. And no, it’s not a show about Sarah Palin.
FOX has new episodes of the underrated drama Bones followed by an hour of “comedy” with ‘Til Death and the new Jerry O’Connell bomb Do Not Disturb. Apparently the latter is so bad the producers have apologized to viewers and begged critics to give them a second chance “for being the perpetrators of such bad television.”
Sadly, Fox canceled last season’s promising Back to You just as it was starting to find its voice. Kelsey Grammer was so shocked by the news that he suffered a heart attack back in June.
The CW has America’s Next Top Model and more 90210.
September 24th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I have high hopes for the second season of Dirty Sexy Money after watching the interviews with the cast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzurWbsvlCg