Top 5 New Shows
My favorite sport started this week… yep the 2007-2008 TV season kicked off. So in honor of all the addicting TV we will all be watching between now and May I figure I should point out the top five new shows of the season:
Pushing Daisies
Premise: This is the kinda show that you just can’t describe. You just need to see it yourself to truly understand it. The basic premise however is that the main character has the ability to bring things back to life by touching them.
Review: This is from the creator of “Dead Like Me” and “Wonderfalls,” that alone is reason enough to watch the show. It’s also the most talked about show of the season and although I’ve only seen the pilot it definitely lives up to the hype.
Think: “Ed” meets “Dead Like Me”
The Bionic Woman
Premise: A woman is in a car accident and is put back together to be a super-cyborg. Did I mention the woman is hot?
Review: If you’re a geek and you watch TV you’ll be watching this show. It’s being produced by one of “Battlestar Galactica’s” producers and has “Galactica” stars for cameos and as series regulars.
Think: “Bionic Woman” re-made like “Galactica” was re-made and updated.
Chuck
Premise: This show is from the creator of “The O.C.” and the premise is basically a Seth Cohen-type character (I.E. Uber Geek) grows up to work for the Geek Squad at Best Buy. Then one day he discovers top secret information and accidentally downloads it to his brain and is forced to work as a secret agent.
Review: It’s funny. It’s one of the few shows this fall that actually have laugh out loud moments. If you ever liked the quirkiness of The O.C. then you’ll love “Chuck.”
Think: “Alias” if Marshall was the lead character
Reaper
Premise: Sam’s parents sold his soul to The Devil and The Devil shows up wanting to claim it. To keep his soul, Sam agrees to be a Reaper by tracking down evil beings who escaped from hell.
Review: Yes it’s on The CW and yes it doesn’t seem like the kind of show you or anyway would enjoy because it just appears to be stupid. However it actually is funny. Kevin Smith directed the first episode and has been a script-consultant on every episode since then so it definitely doesn’t feel like your regular WB/CW type show.
Think: “Dead Like Me” meets “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” meets “Grounded for Life”
Gossip Girl
Premise:T he privileged prep school teens on Manhattan’s Upper East Side first learn that Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively, “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”) is back in town the way they learn all the important news in their lives — from the blog of the allknowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl. No one knows Gossip Girl’s identity, but everyone in this exclusive and complicated vicious circle relies on her website and text messages for the latest scoop.
Review: This is pure drama indulgence. This is the kinda show that you know really insn’t that great but for some reason no matter how hard you try you can’t stop yourself from watching. Besides Kristin Bell is the narrator of the show!
Think “The O.C.” meets “Cruel Intentions”
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:12 pm
The major shortcoming of Alias always was that it wasn’t about Marshall. That would have been a great show.
I must resist adding another obligatory hour to my TV-watching schedule.
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:40 pm
You know you wanna try it! Besides you have to watch Bionic Woman anyway. There is a possible actors and writers strike that will happen in the next year (writers in Nov and actors come summer). So if the strikes happen it may be a long long long time before you get new TV shows.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:13 am
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000131161
If you go to the link above you can watch the full pilots of “Chuck” “Bionic Woman” and a bunch of other pilots for free.
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Oh, no, not another writers’ strike! Frack.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
I was looking forward to Pushing Daisies, but then we heard that Molly Shannon was going to be in it and we took it off the TiVo.
Looking forward to checking out Bionic Woman. There’ve been some rumors of behinds the scenes conflicts and problems with the show, so I hope that doesn’t wreck the show.
September 24th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Molly Shannon just has a multi-episode arc for sweeps. She’s not a main character and will be gone after her run. Its dumb to not even try the show when she’s not even going to be in it for a while and when she’s not staying on it.
September 24th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Craig REALLY dislikes Molly. It’s an obsessive dislike - she makes him cringe, just her name does that. I don’t know what she did to him, but he really can’t stand her.