MONDAY

Sam I Am (ABC) The jury's still out on this sitcom starring Christina Applegate as an amnesiac who realizes she was a bitch on wheels before she slipped into a coma. Most of us are just confused.

Dr. McSteeny: So it's kind of like a TV version of the movie Overboard?

Flipit: Yay Goldie Hawn!

Krank Mills: I was hoping this was a TV version of that Sean Penn/Dakota Fanning Oscar-baiting movie about a mentally challenged dad. It would have been funnier my way.

T.Vo: I thought it was about green eggs and ham.

Screampillar: I have it on good authority that Christina Applegate is a smelly pirate hooker. So there's that.

Ting Lee: Man Oh Man, do I wish my twenties could have been bookended by an 8 day coma, complete with retrograde amnesia. How great would it have been to take a nice long nap and wake up not really remembering every selfish thing you did?

Pachita: Once a bitch, always a bitch. Amnesia my ass.

TVgasm predicts: full season


The Big Bang Theory (CBS):

A couple of nerds drool over a hot neighbor.

Honey Gangsta: Beauty and the Geek in sitcom form. I’m excited for someone to reverse it and have gorgeous guys learning stuff from really smart girls. And it will never happen.


LoLo: I'd like to say it'll be yanked after 4 episodes, but this will probably be watched by the same Americans who have made Two and a Half Men the number 1 comedy. God help us.

Krank Mills: This looks insulting to both pretty women and geeky men everywhere.

Flipit: It's David from Roseanne! But without Roseanne! And Darlene! ....wait. Someone tell him that everyone else has left the building. Poor guy. He always gets screwed.

Screampillar: Is Stephen Hawking involved? That's the only way I'll watch this.

TVgasm predicts: yanked midseason

Journey Man (NBC): Time traveling journalist Dan Vassar tries to change everyone's life for the better.

Dr. McSteeny: So a guy wakes up one day and it turns out he's traveled back to 1987. This gives him the chance to save the life of his old girlfriend who in actual time, passed away. In order to save her, though, he has to sacrifice the life he's been living. Gee wiz, and I thought Marty McFly had problems.

Screampillar: Saw the pilot already. It's abysmal. If you enjoy wooden acting and eighties music crammed down your throat to signify that time has warped to THE EIGHTIES, you will enjoy this show.

Pachita: OOH! A romance-mystery with a meddling time traveller?! Maybe Dan Vassar can travel back to his own conception and talk his dad into using a condom.

T.Vo: Quantum Leap called. It wants its script back.

Flipit: The star looks like the guy from Rome, but he has waaaay too many articles of clothing on. I'll stay in the past and watch him half-nakedly beat the shit out of people on HBO.

TVgasm predicts: Won't make it to Christmas.

Go back!

K-Ville (Fox): It's two years after Katrina, and New Orleans has some busy ass cops.

LoLo: Ugh, picking up where Studio 60 left off, this show is vomiting politics all over the place. Set in a post-Katrina New Orleans, this cop show also features a main character who has just returned from serving in Afghanistan.

Flipit: Now just throw in an illegal alien dying of testicular cancer and a woman who thinks she might be having a retarded baby and you'll have yourself a winner. Heavy handed and lame.

Krank Mills: Leave it to Fox to develop a show about Katrina way TOO SOON.

T.Vo: You mean it's not a reality show that revolves around K-Fed getting his own town?

Dr. McSteeny: Any show with characters nicknamed "Glueboy" and "Love tap" is ok by me. I give it 5 episodes until somebody gets the nickname "Tummysticks".

TVgasm predicts: Yanked before Halloween.

TUESDAY

Cavemen (ABC): The guys from the Geiko commercials got their own show. Oy.

Dr. McSteeny: You should be ashamed of yourself, ABC.

T.Vo: Finally, the right sitcom to push Nair hair removal products and bikini waxes!

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Posted in Awards Shows by Flipit at 3:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (9)
Last Comment: fnllover on Sep 12, 2007 04:12 PM.

Comments (9)

Merick :

I forgot that you guys did this. I enjoyed it.

I want to like Pushing Daisies, but I doubt I will. Looking forward to Kid Nation, although they'll probably annoy me.

1 of 9 | Posted by Merick | Posted on September 4, 2007 3:52 PM

Alexis :

thanks for the preview, guys.

i just can't seem to get excited about any of these.

sigh.

~alexis

2 of 9 | Posted by Alexis | Posted on September 4, 2007 4:46 PM

Wondermutt :

So all of the new shows are just copycat crap of; previously good and bad programs, and, scripts based on reality shows and commercials? Hmmmmmmmmm. It all sounds pretty crappy!!

As long as none of this garbage interferes with the best show on TV...FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS...I'm good

3 of 9 | Posted by Wondermutt | Posted on September 4, 2007 4:50 PM

kdfinjapan :

OMG! What a wasteland network television has become! I won't be able to see most, if any of these shows, but I know I can count on TVgasm for hilarious recaps that will ALMOST make me wish I was back in the States and able to view them. Love McSteeny and Flipit, but tonight I give props to Pachita for correct usage of the word "cavalry". I get really annoyed when I hear people - on TV and in the movies as well as real life - say "here comes the calvary"! What - church time is coming???!! I don't think so! Love the reviews and the snarky comments - keep it up! OH - and a delayed comment on Top Chef to Flipit - HATE.REAL.PEOPLE.TOO!!

4 of 9 | Posted by kdfinjapan | Posted on September 5, 2007 7:44 AM

Dagiana :

Hey, you forgot Moonlight on CBS! Although it sounds an awful lot like Angel (vampire private investigator in the city, saves innocents, has issues with the woman who sired him), that was one of my favorite shows, so I'm going to have to check this one out.

5 of 9 | Posted by Dagiana | Posted on September 5, 2007 8:54 AM

ByeByeBitches :

Pushing Daisies is fantastic, I watched the pilot. It's picture perfect tv!

6 of 9 | Posted by ByeByeBitches | Posted on September 5, 2007 11:34 AM

ByeByeBitches :

Pushing Daisies is fantastic, I watched the pilot. It's picture perfect tv!

7 of 9 | Posted by ByeByeBitches | Posted on September 5, 2007 11:38 AM

herkxena :

My must sees for the fall:

Chuck

Hey, the pilot got a great reception at Comic-Con.

Reaper
Ditto. Plus, I loved Brimstone.

Kid Nation
Let's see how long it takes to devolve into "Lord of the Flies" territory.

Kitchen Nightmares
What can I say. I've watched Hell's Kitchen from the beginning as well as all the various shows featuring him on BBCAmerica (Kitchen Nightmares, Boiling Point, The F Word, etc.)

8 of 9 | Posted by herkxena | Posted on September 6, 2007 3:58 AM

fnllover:

Hi Wondermutt,

Loved your comment on this blog regarding FNL. (I just got the DVDs and I am completely hooked, didn't watch last season).

I agree that none of this sounds too interesting, and I am really not excited for anything. I watched the pilots of Chuck and Like yesterday (DVD from blockbuster) and while I like Life, it isn't a show that I NEED to watch everyweek. And I HATE HATE HATE Chuck. Hate it.

Anways, all the "new shows" I am picking up this season are really "old" shows, such as Friday Night Lights.

9 of 9 | Posted by fnllover | Posted on September 12, 2007 4:12 PM

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