Finding the next TV season
Aug. 28th, 2010 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynpre-script: Tomatoes from the farmers market really make a sandwich delicious.
Hulu has video clips for each of the major networks pitching new shows for this season. I've had trouble finding new shows ever since we got TiVo because the TV wasn't just on while I was in the kitchen getting drinks. Plus we fast forward through ads just like we did with the VCR, but for years I haven't watched anything live. It means I can skip ahead when they recap what's already happened on cooking shows (one can watch a Rachel Ray show in about 60 seconds after removing all the recap, all the "here's how to chop an onion" which they show EVERY time, watching her carry stuff, watching while the camera zooms in on her giggling, and zipping through the rest in the low-level fast forward and the idiotic part where she dishes up even though no one is going to actually eat it and regular people cooking for one serve out of the pot. I save a lot of time and got to watch even more TV because of the TiVo. But it seemed like there was never anything on.
I found the show Life 3 episodes before it was canceled. I started watching Castle after season 1. I didn't start watching Criminal Minds until the middle of season 2 (and that's really hard to catch up on because they didn't put out the first season DVD until season 3 had started). We completely missed Blood Ties--- though admittedly it didn't take long for that to drift into the prejudicial attitude, I sometimes think that if I'd been watching it from the beginning, then my posts about the show would have affected the directions the writers took indirectly.
I haven't managed to watch the previews for the new seasons yet. It looks like there's a buttload of reality programming upcoming and even more stupid shitty sitcoms. But if there's a diamond in that rough, at least I was looking for it.
Hulu has video clips for each of the major networks pitching new shows for this season. I've had trouble finding new shows ever since we got TiVo because the TV wasn't just on while I was in the kitchen getting drinks. Plus we fast forward through ads just like we did with the VCR, but for years I haven't watched anything live. It means I can skip ahead when they recap what's already happened on cooking shows (one can watch a Rachel Ray show in about 60 seconds after removing all the recap, all the "here's how to chop an onion" which they show EVERY time, watching her carry stuff, watching while the camera zooms in on her giggling, and zipping through the rest in the low-level fast forward and the idiotic part where she dishes up even though no one is going to actually eat it and regular people cooking for one serve out of the pot. I save a lot of time and got to watch even more TV because of the TiVo. But it seemed like there was never anything on.
I found the show Life 3 episodes before it was canceled. I started watching Castle after season 1. I didn't start watching Criminal Minds until the middle of season 2 (and that's really hard to catch up on because they didn't put out the first season DVD until season 3 had started). We completely missed Blood Ties--- though admittedly it didn't take long for that to drift into the prejudicial attitude, I sometimes think that if I'd been watching it from the beginning, then my posts about the show would have affected the directions the writers took indirectly.
I haven't managed to watch the previews for the new seasons yet. It looks like there's a buttload of reality programming upcoming and even more stupid shitty sitcoms. But if there's a diamond in that rough, at least I was looking for it.
