Every year we get together here at TVgasm and predict which new Fall shows will last through the season and which will tank. It's mostly just an excuse to rag on TV we haven't seen yet and to hang out together. Join us, won't you?
MONDAYS
Trauma (NBC)
Tiny Elvis: Trailer-based prediction: pulled mid-season. Medium and Numbers are still on the air prediction: we get a few years out of this crap.
The Miki: I had no idea stuff in San Francisco exploded so often. Is the whole city made of c4? Are you guys just covered in shrapnel all the time? Is it because God is angry about all the gays?
bBitz: What friggin' city is on fire or exploding every 5 seconds?! I mean, I saw lots of flamers when I visited San Francisco - but none of them big enough to take down a helicopter. At first I thought it was a comedy, but then I realized I was laughing because I'm a sick, sick person. It's ER on steroids. FAIL.
Flipit: Third Watch without Eddie Cibrian shirtless. Boo. Is that Enya playing in the preview? Puhleeze. Guess what I don't wanna see EMTs do? CRY. Man up and get me to the hospital, wuss!
PottyMouth: Spunky Blonde paramedic with a never quit attitude? Check. Paramedic with a death wish? Check. Pen jabbed into someone's neck to save their life? Give it time. Zzzzzzz....It will probably run for eight seasons.
Cherie: It kinda grabbed me when it turned from lame ass hospital show to a Die Hard movie. I say it's a hit.
Moorels: Anastasia Griffith looks so much like Jodie Foster I would write her a bunch of letters if I were planning to assassinate the president. Two seasons.
WaffleBoy: For all the explosions and blood it looks kind of lame. Might make it to the end of the season, but probably not.
TVgasm Predicts: 60% chance of survival.
Accidentally on Purpose (CBS)
Monamonzano: Jenna Elfman's rubbery face re-emerges. Yikes.
Flipit: Knocked up without the talented people. Whoever keeps putting this woman on TV, please stop. Scientology works. WE GET IT.
WaffleBoy: Oh fuck me, is Jenna Elfman is reproducing? If there is a God it gets cancelled mid-season.
Moorels: This TV show about empowered female friends living in a city and having lots of sex seems REALLY original. Canceled.
PottyMouth: Didn't you know all women in their thirties want a baby, even if they didn't know they did? Blarf. Cancelled mid season. PLEASE.
The Miki: You see Christian extremists? If there weren't such a stigma attached to abortions we wouldn't have to put up with this show for three or four episodes before it gets cancelled.
TVgasm Predicts: 0% chance of being good, 35% chance of survival.
The Jay Leno Show (NBC)
PottyMouth: I give it a month tops.
TheMiki: By what stretch of the imagination is Jay Leno doing sketches from the last fifteen years of The Tonight Show a "New comedy"?
Cherie: I think it's gonna be a hit, or not. Don't really give a shit either way.
Moorels: I've always been on Team Letterman, and I'll always be on Team Letterman. Forty seasons.
WaffleBoy: I liked the working title for this show "Fuck that Conan O'Brien Sideways!" a lot better. Too bad it didn't test well. The only way this show doesn't at least a season is if they give Jay back The Tonight Show after he completely submarines it.
Flipit: Americans are idiots! Nice premise, Jay, but we've got VH1 for that. Thanks for freeing up five hours of my week, you cheap bastards at NBC.
TVgasm Predicts: 70% chance of survival.
TUESDAY
V (ABC)
Flipit: Aliens are out to destroy the world. After watching the Dharma and Jay Leno previews, I'm kinda on their side.
WaffleBoy: I'm calling shenanigans on this one. How do you have a show about evil aliens without Lou Dobbs? Still it looks kind of cool and is on ABC, it has a chance at running multiple seasons if it's halfway decent.
Moorels: Poor Juliet! Apparently the bomb from the Lost finale blows you
to a significantly worse sci-fi show. I kind of have a feeling I'll watch
it. One season.
TVgasm Predicts: 75% chance of success.
NCIS Los Angeles (CBS)
Monamonzano: Some white washed-up actor meets a black washed-up actor and a hot chick to solve crime? Revolutionary.
Cherie: Cherie-Oh Dear Sweet Jesus when will it end? My Mom makes me watch the other one with her every week. This just means more "quality time". Kill me.
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Comments (12)
My husband made a great suggestion on how to get rid of Accidentally On Purpose when it's finally cancelled.
A killer comes to town...wipes out all the characters...and the BAU experts from Criminal Minds arrive to investigate and capture who did it. When Agent Hotchner (Thomas Gibson)arrives, he comments the blonde victim looks familiar...then goes about his business on a much better show.
1 of 12 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on September 14, 2009 7:15 AM
okay, i say this every time i see that stupid stayin' alive ncis commercial, which thanks to football yesterday was every 15 seconds, so i'll say it to a larger audience here. is there ONE person on the entire planet that watches ncis no less would watch a SPIN OFF of it? i'll give cbs credit, they let their shows have a fair chance at survival (yes, i'm alluding to how you don't nbc. i will always hate you for cancelling studio 60 on the sunset strip) but no one needs more ncis in the world.
2 of 12 | Posted by baymenxpac | Posted on September 14, 2009 8:16 AM
re: Trauma @flipit: Eddie is on CSI: Miami now with plenty of shirtless scenes! WOO WOO! You just have to suffer through the other 40 minutes of the show now.
3 of 12 | Posted by bBitz | Posted on September 14, 2009 10:06 AM
baymenxpac...NCIS is one of the most popular shows on TV...alwasy in the top ratings bracket. It makes sense to try a spinoff.
Oddly, NCIS itself is a spinoff (from JAG.)
4 of 12 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on September 14, 2009 10:40 AM
I inhabit the middle of the road race-wise...and think Tyler Perry is doing more harm than good. That is all :)
5 of 12 | Posted by Tadoq | Posted on September 14, 2009 2:28 PM
The sad part is, if any of you guys recap any of these shows, I'll probably watch them. Because you're all too fucking funny, that's why.
Anyway, the wife and I sort of like Glee. We're waiting to see if it turns on, makes it to the next level. Or if they'll just wimp out and get bland. Which is already kind of happening in the second episode. Don't look good.
Oh well. I only just started watching 30 Rock, so I have three seasons to catch up on. That'll keep me busy until the networks get their shit together.
6 of 12 | Posted by itchy | Posted on September 14, 2009 3:38 PM
Beautifal
People, Melrose Place, Vampire Diaries. You cancel Veronica Mars and give use this? Really CW, really?!?!?! Sorry I am still bitter about that one. The CW people are lucky I loves me some Gossip Girl and Ed Westwick.
7 of 12 | Posted by mystic1477 | Posted on September 14, 2009 6:02 PM
amen!
8 of 12 | Posted by flipit | Posted on September 15, 2009 12:07 AM
Ok, just read Waffleboy's comment for Glee... Somehow some random mix cd wound up in my car, think it's my sis-in-law's, and it has "Don't Stop Believin'" on it. All 3 of my kids love this song now and know just about every word to it!! They are 10, 8 and 4 and insist on Journey every time we get in the car, or as my 4 year old calls it "Jenny". In my own defense, her other favorite song is "All You Need Is Love". Does that make up for it??
9 of 12 | Posted by brattygrl | Posted on September 16, 2009 1:48 AM
LL is HAWT!!! I would watch him drying in paint, they are so lucky to have him on that generic piece of crap . . .
Okay, I might not watch, but tempting, and in a moment of weakness with nothing on and remote in hand, I just might!!!
I'm glad for a new season of Heros . . . does that count!?
10 of 12 | Posted by juddfan | Posted on September 16, 2009 1:25 PM
Tyler Perry has to be a joke that black people are playing on a bunch of dumbass crackers. There is no other way to explain it. I often ponder, mostly at traffic lights, what does it (Tyler Perry's productions) all mean? Or what is it because it isn't entertainment, but something else. An old friend of mine posted as her Facebook status: that she just got back from seeing Medea and it was off the chain. Since I couldn't punch her in the face. I had to banish her from the world -o- facebook.
@Monamonzano: I keep seeing this billboard and want to bone the hunky, ....dude.
I thought I was the only one who still used the word bone. But boning someone is oh so different from just having sex with someone, making love or fucking a person. To bone, is to divine. To bone, is to take it to the next level and you can only bone an incredible hot person. Oh yes. Takin it, I am takin' back the bone.
11 of 12 | Posted by reckless_saturn_11 | Posted on September 18, 2009 6:24 PM
Oh and wasn't there already an alien show called V way back in the 80's or I am thinking of something else. I don't know I remember watching some alien take over show that made me pee myself.
12 of 12 | Posted by reckless_saturn_11 | Posted on September 18, 2009 6:26 PM