Category Archives: Fall TV Preview

Fridays are still the dumping ground for most networks, where they put same-week reruns of shows they want to promote or burn up episodes of shows that will fail. But there are a couple of exceptions. We’ve been reviewing the new shows of the broadcast networks’ fall TV season and begin to wind down big [...]

We’re previewing the new fall TV season each day this week, with Thursday tied with Tuesdays as having the most new broadcast shows — seven. It’s no secret that Thursday is one of the most important days of the week for networks because of the wealth of weekend movie advertising, so the comedies are marked [...]

Our week-long examination of what’s new this season on network television reaches hump day, when a pair of comedies and two new dramas take the stage. Other than that, networks stay in place, with a whole lot of long-running crime fare. The new shows, with the exception of one, all begin next month. NEW SHOWS [...]

We’re reviewing the new fall network TV season night by night all week, and no night has more new primetime broadcast titles than Tuesday. The big marquee item is the strangely under-promoted superhero return for Joss Whedon. Two other dramas are lower key but might bring small pleasures. And there’s just a lot of new [...]

The new fall TV season officially starts on broadcast TV today, the day after the Emmys, an event that is used now almost as much a promotional tool for what’s coming up as for lauding achievements of the past year. We’ll be reviewing the new shows of the season each day this week starting tonight, [...]

It’s no secret that it’s the worst new fall TV season in years. As networks allow cable take the mantle of quality drama, broadcast execs inexplicably play it safe. Really only a couple of shows stood out at all. And in the end we couldn’t. “Last Resort” (ABC, Thursday, 8 p.m.). Shawn Ryan of “The [...]

Here’s the list that was tough to compile – so many shows qualified! How to pick the very worst? Each of the worst shows were different on their own. “Animal Practice” (NBC, Wednesday, 8 p.m.) Monkeys with clothes may be the tipoff. “666 Park Avenue” (ABC, Sunday, 10 p.m.). The super is satan. “Made in [...]

We wind up a week’s worth of looking at the new fall season night by night with what has become the most prestigious night for television (at least on cable). The networks stick largely with what they’ve been doing the past few years – football, cartoons, reality and, new to the night, “Revenge.” NEW SHOW [...]

Fridays are almost as bad as Saturdays when it comes to starting new shows. But there are at couple of new ones scheduled for the last night of the workweek, as we continue our night-by-night survey of what’s coming up in the fall broadcast season. NEW SHOWS “Malibu County” (ABC, 8:30 p.m., Nov. 2). To [...]