So what happens...

...when you aren't clear to a past government official on the whereabouts of his wife?

Jericho: Season Two

I do hope that you are watching the second season of Jericho. So far we have had two episodes Tuesdays at 10. You can probably see the 1st of those online now. And the second one I think will be replayed on Saturday night if they repeat what they did last week.

So far...

Last Season....

There was a nuclear attack on the United States and it left the country without power. A small town named Jericho had to survive on its own. Then a neighboring town decided they wanted Jericho's supplies and they tried to invade.

Second Season
A new government based in Cheyenne arrives and stops the fighting and they start to rebuild the two towns. They are the Allied States of America. They responded to the nuclear attacks by wiping north Korea(or at least its suggested they did) and one othe country out. Now they are trying to consolidate the old United States by gaining Texas's support.

This last episode the president of the Allied States visited Jericho and announced there would be a new Constitutional convention to draw up the law of the Allied States. The mayor of Jericho has been invited

Oh and there appears that the Cheyenne government had a little something to do with the nuclear bombs that hit the US. You might want to check out this show. Its good.

Tuesdays at 10pm on CBS

Anyone like Mannix

I watched this on I think A&E or one of those channels a while back and really enjoyed it. I saw in the paper in the entertainment section back in November or so someone writing about this show never being available on DVD. Well it appears that the article which apparently was actually syndicated has caused CBS to put the show on the schedule for June 3rd.

Most likely out of my price range but someone might like the show.

ABC fined for 2003 NYPD Blue Episode

Is it me or does taking five years to decide to fine the network seem a bit too long? I think that it should be in a matter of weeks or a months at the latest. Not years. What's next? Are they going to start fining for stuff done a decade or more ago?

X-Files Movie to start filming December 10

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On Wednesday, Fox announced production will start December 10 on the sequel, which reunites the show's stars, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. The studio also picked July 25 as the U.S. release date.

Series creator Chris Carter will direct the still-untitled film. Carter also co-wrote the screenplay with "X-Files" veteran Frank Spotnitz. The duo also are producing. Shooting will take place in Vancouver.

It is about time. I didn't think a sequel was ever going to be made with there being rumors about one just about every year since the series went off the air.

24 Disaster

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Kiefer sent to jail for 30 days and maybe 6 months. This is horrible news. I hope they get filming done before 12-21.

CBS's Moonlight gets retooled

Funny. The only show that even sounded remotely interesting on the CBS new show schedule has been destroyed. Any time executives say something like this:

Joel Silver, executive producer of CBS' upcoming vampire detective series Moonlight, told SCI FI Wire that he helped retool the original presentation to make the show more contemporary and hip.

"When we saw the show, we realized we wanted to make it younger and cooler and hipper,"

just says doomed series. We're going to make it hip means we're going to make it really stupid because that's what we executives think is required for hip.

Thus this show might as well never even air. It doomed to an early cancellation as the vast majority of people decide "this is not hip".

And then there's some quotes that make you wonder, "do cbs executives spend their days coming up with new ways to destroy their brains?"

"It really was just a presentation, It wasn't really a show yet. And we had to create the show, and now we have, and it's pretty, pretty strong. ... There was a script, but it was never approved as a pilot. They wanted a presentation. So it was a smaller project. And now that it's completed, and now that we've got a script, it's very different than what we started with

What kind of presentation that was good enough to originally knock Jericho off the scheule? So they never even saw if the show worked?
Its sort a like Macey's deciding that people are so stupid they need to make all their employees wear black. Otherwise they just won't know that the people with NAMETAGS on them are employees. Assume people are stupid and give them "hip" or brainless stupidity.

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Traveler

Traveler is an ABC series on Wednesdays at 10pm. Its about two graduate students that are set up for a terrorist act by their "friend" They are now on the run with the FBI hot on their trail. And friends and family really can't be counted on as its a huge conspiracy that has been built over two years and it could involve them.

This Wednesday, I believe the 5th episode is on. Its a pretty good show with lots of tension throughout.

You can watch the first few episodes on ABC.com to get caught up. If you like serialized dramas this one will at least conclude since its first season of 7 episodes has already been filmed. Its ratings apparently are increasing each week if certain posts I've read are true.

Thundercats movie

Just read here that Warner Brothers is making a Thundercats movie. Thundercats was a popular show back in the early 80s about the same time as He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. I'm pretty surprised that a movie is being made for them since I barely even remember the television show.

I remember LionO had a sword and I think it showed a signal in the sky when help was needed like the Bat Signal from Batman. And their arch-nemesis sometimes looked like a mummy and other times he changed shape. He was a sorcerous if I remember correctly.

Ok maybe its staring to come back to me now.

Jericho could be saved

TV Guide is reporting that Jericho has apparently been saved by the Save Jericho campaign. All that needs to be done is find a new stage and negotiate with the actors. The actors contracts were voided when CBS decided that it would not renew. However, most of the actors have stated that they want to return.

With the exception of Gerald McRaney who decided he wanted to leave the series because of the way CBS was treating the show(The Hiatus). That's why according to some reports his character was killed in the season finale.

To add the case that this is more then rumors, the LA Times has a wonderful quote from Producer Carol Barbee:

"The idea would not be to bring it for eight and out, but to bring it back for eight with the hope that it would keep going," Barbee said. "They're making deals with the actors and there's other logistical stuff to work out too. 'Swingtown' [a new drama] was supposed to take over the same stages so it's a lot about the logistics of how to work out a schedule that works for all of us."

Now lets home that CBS doesn't decide to change its mind in the eleventh hour again.

CBS Cares

One of the trademarks of CBS is CBS Cares. I have to wonder exactly what CBS cares about. Do they care what their viewers think? You'd think they'd be up there since the whole point of the television network would be to entertain viewers. But based on this little song reported in Find The Boots: Save Jericho: Corporate Life it would appear that Gil Schwartz, the Executive VP of Corporate communications does not care about the viewers. Here is his song in response to the largest television viewer protest that CBS has ever seen:

"We're sorry, oh oh ... that we canceled ... Jericho!/You've sent us millions of nuts, it's really a pain in our butts/But it would have been better if you got together/Before the big upfronts in May/When development season gave reason to send you away/ And made you as righteously pissed off as you are today."

Since its not the viewers, you'd think maybe they'd care about their advertisers. But they let their disenfranchised viewers spend over $50,000 on a show without responding to them. That's money that could have been used to buy products that were advertised on their network.

Perhaps CBS cares about their shareholders. But if that were the case, would they not try to please angry fans that are causing an uproar that could damage their share prices?

So you have to wonder exactly what does CBS Care about.

I know one thing, CBS certainly has an immature jackass for a VP of Corporate Communications.

Phenomenon

I just found this on the Sci-Fi's website while looking to see if the Dresden Files have been renewed. This looks really interesting.

NEW YORK (March 21, 2007) — SCI FI has ordered a script for Phenomenon, a two-hour pilot executive produced by Kiefer Sutherland (24), it was announced today by Mark Stern, executive vice president, programming, SCI FI Channel. Maggie Murphy, president of Sutherland's production company, East Side Entertainment, also serves as executive producer. A fast-moving and enigmatic thriller, Phenomenon follows a crack team of experts, led by a mysterious young female prodigy, as they investigate bizarre and supernatural anomalies of nature.

SCI FI consistently pushes the envelope on the limits of human imagination with provocative and thought-provoking stories that explore the supernatural within the world around us. "In Phenomenon, ordinary people have their assumptions about the natural world — their very belief systems — completely shattered when they are confronted by unsettling, unexplained phenomena," said Stern. "Kiefer and Maggie will lend their top-notch creative skills as executive producers to create a viewing experience as intriguing and surreal as the title would suggest."

In addition to starring as government agent Jack Bauer on the runaway hit series 24, Sutherland also serves as an executive producer. He has received a Golden Globe, an Emmy and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for his spellbinding portrayal. A versatile talent, Kiefer has delivered a string of memorable screen performances in such films as A Time to Kill, A Few Good Men and The Sentinel. Executive producer Maggie Murphy has several network television projects currently in development. A seasoned production executive, she has been involved in the development of a string of high-profile shows, including Veronica Mars, Roswell, Ally McBeal, The X-Files and The Simpsons.

Brad Follmer and Lauren Iungerich serve as writers for the project. Both previously worked together on the feature films Superhero Summer Camp for Warner Bros. and The Book Club for The Weinstein Company. They have also previously collaborated on such television pilots as Conflict of Interest, Malpractice, and Dumb Girls for the CW.

Launched in 2004 and led by Jane Francis, Fox 21 is the innovative alternative boutique of Twentieth Century Fox Television. Fox 21 produces series spanning comedy, drama and reality, for both network and cable television.

SCI FI Channel is a television network where "what if" is what's on. SCI FI fuels the imagination of viewers with original series and events, blockbuster movies and classic science fiction and fantasy programming, as well as a dynamic Web site (www.scifi.com) and magazine. Launched in 1992, and currently in 89 million homes, SCI FI Channel is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies.

Jericho: The Pittsburgh Numbers

Ok so Jericho supposedly only had 8 or 9 million viewers nationally. Now one person at http://www.jerichorallypoint.com/sm/index.php?topic=1455.0 was able to get the following information from KDKA, the CBS owned Pittsburgh station:

October: Approx 107,000 households, and 139,000 18+ watched Jericho each week
November: Approx. 95,000 households, and 72,000 18+ watched.
May: Approx 1,163,150 people watched here, and 72,000 households.

Now I admit I'm a bit befuddled on how 72,000 households turns into the over 1 million people but KDKA said it so I'll accept it.

Yes the numbers do show it falling from 107,000 households to 72,000. About a third of the viewership. BUT in a region that is considered small, 1,163,150 were still watching Jericho. Now KDKA probably is broadcasted into between 3-5 million people's homes. But that is a complete guess. Allegheny County has a population of 1.2 million and then the surrounding counties are between 72000-370,000. And I'm not sure just how far the KDKA signal is.

But 1,163,150 were watching. So everyone is supposed to believe that the rest of the nation ony had 6 million viewers? Or am I completely wrong when I guess how many homes KDKA makes it to?

Something doesn't smell right. Oh yeah... the Neilsen's.

New Shows for the 2007-8 Season on CBS

And finally this years network with a nice bullseye on it:

1. The Big Bang Theory
A comedy that shows what happens when two intelligent scientists discover a gorgrous woman and realize that they don't know what to say to her. Boring.

2. Cane
Two rival Latin American families run businesses in rum and sugar. And we'd want to watch this why?

3. Kid Nation
Another show that there should be a law being broken. I personally hope that CBS is taken to court for this. This is a disgusting show.

4. Moonlight
A series about a PI who happens to be a Vampire. This could be good.

5. Swingtown
A series that goes back to the seventies to the sexual revolution. Oh boy. Another series to avoid like the plague.

6. Viva Laughlin
A musical about a family that runs a Las Vegas casino. A musical? A FREAKING MUSICAL? Yuck.

So CBS has one show that looks interesting and a bunch of garbage. But since they got rid of Jericho and have made it quite plain that they don't care about their viewers at all I will not be watching Moonlight. Nor will I be watching Shark which I enjoyed nor Criminal Minds. I hope the Save Jericho protest grows and morphs into a movement that can really take down CBS for daring to claim that they are the Network that cares.

New Shows for the 2007-8 Season on CW

Next up is the CW. The CW has the distinction of not cancelling any shows that I'm watching. Of course its only been around for one season. And the only shows I watch are Smallville and Supernatural. So is anything on the schedule:

1. Aliens in America
A Wisconsin family brings over a foreign exchange student who happens to be Muslim. This doesn't sound like anything. Now if it involved UFOS then it would but unfortunately its just bleh.

2. Crowned: The Mother of all Pageants
Reality-Ptooey,

3. Farmer wants a Wife
Reality-Ptooey

4. Gossip Girl
A series about wealthy girls in NY attending private school. Oh boy. A bunch of stuckups. No thanks

5. Life is Wild
A veternarian moves his family to SOuth America to a game reserve. They find life difficult and rewarding. And I wonder who wants to watch this.

6. Online Nation
Now the CW will bring you the entertainment found on the net. Um... and then we'd have to watch commercials. We'd want that because...?

7. Reaper
A twenty year old becomes the devil's bounty hunter. If this is done in a way that's not corny, then it could be interesting. If its a corny comedy. No thanks.

8. CW Now
All the Hollywood Gosip going on today. Um... Ok. I don't watch Entertainment Tonight or Weekly whatever it is so I doubt this will be anything.

So the CW offers one new program that could be worth watching. The rest of the schedule not so.

New Shows for the 2007-8 Season on NBC

Next up for the Microscope is NBC's new shows.

1. Journeyman
Dan Vasser finds himself traveling back in time and impacting people for the better and the worse. This sounds interesting. Well this is a good start for NBC.

2. Chuck
This one’s premise in computer geek by day and government operative at night. Somehow the the government downloads a database into his brain. Sounds dumb. I don’t think I’m interested

3. Bionic Woman
The return of Bionic Woman to television. I don’t know when it was on before but I don’t really find much use for it.

4. Life
Detective Charlie Crews spent years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now he’s out and back on the job with a new mindset. This could be interesting.

5. Baby Borrowers
One kind of stupidity is this? No interest at all. It should be a crime.

6. IT Department
This one centers on two misfits who work in the IT department of a large corporation. Roy and Moss are highly lacking in social skills despite their brains. I’ll pass on this.

7. Lipstick Jungle
About three women who want to be big that will do ANYTHING for successs. Gee I wonder what that could mean. Desperate Housewives meets the office. Oh boy. And I’ll pass

8. The Singing Bee
I’d rather watch paint dry.

9. World Movies
See abover under singing bee

Well they have two shows that look interesting. Of course they cancelled Surface without finishing the story so... I'll be waiting for the second season of The Journeyman and Life. Since Reynes didn't make it, I'll assume I won't be watching any NBC shows except Jay Leno.

New Shows for the 2007-8 Season on Fox

Next we'll look at the new shows premiering on Fox

1. Anchorwoman
Television station owner shocks world by hiring former WWE Diva and gorgeous model to be an anchor. And I suppose I'm suppose to watch because you never know when she'll wear a short skirt and bend over. Well I'm afraid I'm not a 14 year old.

2. Back To You
Kelsey Grammar returns to television as a news anchor in Pittsburgh. This show probably has the biggest chance for success. The only real question about it is will the world accept Kelsey as anyone other than Frasier.

3. Canterbury's Law
A female attorney willing to bend the rules for her clients. Um... and this is different from other court room dramas? What happened to Justice again? Oh yeah... the lead wasn't female so maybe we'll watch it because of the curves...

4. Kitchen Nightmares
A 911 for those that need a chef in a hurry. Ok its original. I have no idea who would want to watch it. But kudos for originality.

5. K-Ville
Two years after Katrina, criminals walk the streets and this tells the story of the police force set on catching them. Could be interesting.

6. Nashville
A story on those in the town of Nashville that want to hit it big. I smell American Idol on a smaller scale. In other words no interest.

7. New Amsterdam
The story of a NY homicide detective who happens to be immortal. This one sounds very very interesting. I always like the supernatural aspect as long as its not done corny. This is probably the new show that I'm hoping succeeds the most.

8. The return of Jezebel James
Can two sisters live together when one agrees to carry the other's baby. Um... who cares?

9. The rules for Starting Over
From what I can tell, a guy gets dumped and so does another guy so they start looking for new significant others. Not interested. Maybe the show should be called To Close to Home.

10. The Sara Conners Chronicles
This is the story of Sara Conners between Terminator 2 and 3 with all kinds of Terminators coming after them. Ok I like the Terminator. Although I do question how this occurs between 2 and 3 when psst.. the narative in 3 says they haven't been any since 2. And 2 kinda put the kibosh on them. But I'm quite willing to overlook that.

11. The Search for the Great American Band
Reality - ptooey

12. When Women rule the World
What if it was “a woman’s world”? What if women made ALL the decisions? If men were their obedient subjects? Um... they don't already?

So Fox has 4 shows that I hope make it to a second season. I won't be able to watch them until then because all I'll be thinking is Brisco County Jr. But I wouldn't get my hopes up since the shows I wanted to succeed from last season: Justice, Vanished, and Standoff all went to the happy hunting grounds.

New Shows for the 2007-8 Season on ABC

I know that since I have two blog entries on the Save Jericho movement, most will think I'm hard on CBS's new shows because of their decision to yank Jericho. So I will now look at all the new shows coming this coming Season over the next few days. CBS will be last.

First let's look at ABC

1. Sam Am I
So lets see someone doesn't know who they are because of an accident and now they need to rediscover themselves. All while finding out that they weren't really a nice person at all. Is it me or does this sound a lot like Val Kilmer's movie where he's shot and doesn't know that he's the hitman sent to kill the President. This sounds more like a 2 hour tv movie then a series. No interest.

2. Cavemen
A series about the Geico cavemen. Oh yeah just what I need. A show about the commercials that annoy me.

3. Carpoolers
A story about four men living in modern suburbia. Um... could you give me a reason I'd want to watch?

4. Pushing Daises
A series where the pi talks to dead people to figure out who killed them. Um... didn't NBC just cancel Reynes?

5. Private Practice
Just what we need another show that's Grey's Anatomy but in a different city. Boring

6. Dirty Sexy Money
A lawyer does things for the wealthy of New York. Sounds like the opposite of Shark. Or well Shark before he turned to the DAs office.

7. Big Shots
CEOs that jump into bed with people to get on top. Oh yeah just my thing. This will get as much attention as Desperate Housewives got. In other words... NONE

8. Women's Murder Club
Women team up and solve murder cases. Because you know no one takes the women seriously on the three CSi's of the world.

9. Cashier Mafia
Four women help either through bad marriages, ect... and with their normal lives. Um... is this Deperate Housevives again?

10. Eli Stone
An attorney show where the lawyer begins to care about his clients and now fights for the little guy. Hey is this based on Erin Brockovich? I liked that movie.

11. Mis Guides
A woman returns to her old school and acts a Guidance Councellor. But an old nemesis joins the faculty and now her old school day memories are returning and she apparently was the butt of jokes. Hey sounds like a female version of Peter Parker.

So lets see, one show could potentially be interesting. But something tells me that I like Shark because the scum bags get put in jail. So I probably won't like the opposite version.

But I won't be able to tell until it makes it to season two. I don't watch first year shows on ABC after they cancelled a show I was watching without finishing it.

Find The Boots: Save Jericho: You Can't Control The Monster

Find The Boots: Save Jericho: You Can't Control The Monster

A very interesting read.

If its true that CBS has hired an outside PR firm to fight the Save Jericho campaign then CBS is officially the dumbest network in the history of Television.

Think about it.

CBS claims the show didn't have enough viewers. But the protests just get louder. So instead of recognizing that perhaps they're numbers were wrong, they hire a PR firm to fight the movement. Now call me silly but if a television show doesn't have enough viewers to stay on the air then why on earth would the in house pr people need help battling the disenfranchised viewers that are taking a stand. After all the viewers that stand up and fight probably represent 1% of the actual viewers.

How many signs does it take CBS? You had a hit and you're not recognizing it.

Jericho's Crusade

Its an amazing thing what the Internet can do. It used to be that network executives could cancel shows and they disappear without a trace. With the fans only realizing months later and after the casts have found new work so its to late to do anything. Now today the internet allows immediate news to reach the fans.

And http://www.nutsonline.com/jericho happens. Or for those not interested in clicking the link. 10 tons of nuts and counting gets sent to CBS in protest. Or over $29,000 at this writing.

Now some might hold up their nose at this and start acting all high and mighty about how this money could have been spent another way. To those people, I say mind your own business. People can use THEIR money for whatever they want. They can fight whatever causes THEY want to fight. Just like YOU are capable of fighting whatever cause you want to fight. People should not be ridiculed because they care about something. They should be ridiculed when they don't do something and then whine about it.

Just like I have voted in every election since I was 18. That gives me the right to express just how disgusted I am with the current regime. If you don't vote, you have zero right to whine.

If all you want to do is sit at home and whine because others are doing something they care about then you are the one that should be ridiculed.

Anyone that stands up and says NO to the corrupt politicians or the corrupt corporate spin doctors should be applauded.