the new tv season

By Mike Sadowski | Published: September 3, 2009 | Comments closed

It’s the really exciting time of the TV year — the start of the fall season. It gets underway next week, so that’s when we’ll start the PopRox season preview.

Just to get it out there, some shows that look like they’re worth watching:

–Glee: Already gone on about how this is one of my favorite pilots ever. Watched the rerun last night, and felt just as exuberant as I did the first time, so it’s in the rotation.

–Vampire Diaries: Has guilty please written all over it. Although I see myself tuning out after a month using the “It’s sooooo copying off Buffy and Angel.”

–The Cleveland Show: What a randomly weird character to spin off from Family Guy. For some reason, that intrigues me.

–Melrose Place: Morbid curiosity and nothing else.

–Modern Family and Cougar Town: Ed O’Neill with the younger wife he always wanted on Married with Children. Sounds good to me. And a horny Courtney Cox trying to find a younger guy just screams comedy gold. They’re up against Glee which I’m already DVR-ing so these look like they’re online specials.

–FlashForward: Great cast, interesting concept, as long as it doesn’t turn into The Nine.

Already one thing we know for the fall season — when Grey’s Anatomy comes back, Katherine Heigl won’t be around as much. I’ve said before I watched the first two episodes of it when it premiered and stopped watching for fear that my testicles may disappear if I continued watching, but the writing was on the wall with this. This girl is going to get herself kicked right out of Hollywood if she keeps this up. She’s already assured that she will never work with Judd Apatow again — not a smart move — and now the show she helped build is fine with giving her a nudge out the door.

Finally! We now know where Michael Jackson is going to be buried. That’s good news for the hundreds of people who were going to put their lives on hold to try and find the spot. And you think I’m kidding.
No one is saying the Disney buy of Marvel isn’t a great thing for The Mouse all around. They acquire most of the Marvel characters, almost all of whom make great stories and even better movies. They’ll get the rest of the really elite characters probably within 20 years or so. They get a very profitable comic book line. And best of all, they can finally get someone  to watch who doesn’t carry a purse. They’ve got no trouble getting girls to watch from the very young (the Hannah Montana empire) to the old (casting Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean). But there isn’t anything on Disney’s 2010 slate other than possibly Tron and Secretariat that any guy would want to see. Getting the Marvel properties is exactly what Disney needed. Marvel, on the other hand, we’re not so sure about why it would marry Disney for anything other than money.
 
Happiness is one of those great movies that you only want to see once and that’s more than enough. You can recognize its magnificence, but it’s so painful to watch that once is plenty, right up there with There Will Be Blood and Passion of the Christ. So if it’s so painful, then why make another? Weren’t we all pretty pleased that we put these characters to bed 10 years ago? I know I was.
 
Prepare to hear the thoughts of a technology-wary blogger — do we really want to watch a movie on our cell phones? I’ve watched a couple episodes of 30 Rock, a few out-of-market basketball games and a couple other things on my cell, and man, it sucks. The problem with watching something on your phone is that the way we’ve been accustomed to use our cells is that we always want to be doing something else. We’re never worried about what we’re doing, we’re worried about what we’re going to be doing next. That’s fine, because most things you do on your cell take about 30 seconds. But just sitting with your cell for a half-hour watching a picture approximately 1 million times smaller than what you usually watch it on, that just doesn’t interest me. Things like there are meant for New Yorkers on subways and busses and that’s it. No one else has the time or inclination to hang out on their couch and watch a show/movie on a cell phone unless they’re on a train.
 
There aren’t enough women getting breaks in comedy, so applause for SNL for picking up two more women into the cast. Whether they’re funny or not is another thing, but we won’t know that for a couple months.

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