Heads Up: Fall TV 2005 premiers
The new season starts in earnest this week, with lots of premieres, both season and series. After careful consideration of my Entertainment Weekly, here is what is going to be on our Tivo this season:
Sunday: nothing
Monday: premiers tonight! 9/19: Arrested Development, followed by Kitchen Confidential, Fox, 8 to 9, EST. Not sure about KC, which is adapted from Anthony Boudain’s memoir of the same name, but will give it a try, since it’s just 30 minutes.
Tuesday: premiers tomorrow, 9/20: My Name is Earl (redneck karmic comedy), starring Jason Lee. NBC, 9 to 9:30 EST. Already premiered: Bones (David Boreanaz, channeling deadpan Duchovny, plays another former killer who wants to atone for his past, aided by far-too-fashionably-dressed-to-be-as-out-of-touch-as-she-says anthropologist Emily Deschanel), followed by House, Fox 8 to 10 EST.
Wednesday: premiers day after tomorrow, 9/21: Lost, followed by Invasion (produced by Shaun Cassidy! Starring William Fichtner! Not necessarily about aliens!), ABC, 9 to 11 EST. Also, premiering next week is my last year’s fave, girl detective Veronica Mars, UPN 9 to 10 EST.
Thursday: nothing
Friday: as if sci-fi Friday needed another entry. We’ve got Firefly and Battlestar Galactica on the Sci-Fi channel, and are adding Threshold (aliens and Carla Gugino!), which debuted last week, CBS, 9 to 10 EST.
So if we add in our weekly half hour of Ebert and Roeper, then it’s ten hours of TV a week, averaging more than an hour a night. I’m guessing this will be whittled down as we actually watch these shows and see how they are. Rescue Me has just finished, coincidentally just when G. Grod and I decided we were finished with it. And I just cannot bring myself to care about the O.C. any longer.
A few questions. Where did I pick up the crush on Fichtner? I think it was already there when Blackhawk Down came out, and the IMDB is no help. Also, why was it Matthew Fox in wet clothes on the cover of EW, and not Sayeed? WHY???