New TV season plans

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I'm watching Hex, which i am just loving lol, lost and am currently waiting for the 4400 which i can't wait to start!
 
Desperate Housewives (my new addiction), Curb Your Enthusiasm, CSI


I need to check out How I Met Your Mother and Bones
 
I like on Las Vegas how they're setting up the next weeks' shows at the end of the episode. I miss Nessa though....I wanted her and Mike together.
 
thought they'd messed with him too much by the end. and now Morris and Leo are not on the show? forget that.

though the girls are godo to look at.
 
use to watch charmed and gilmore girl.
but i think they messed up both of the shows so i stopped watching.
 
Some prognostications from mediaweek...


Primetime Series Scorecard:
2005-06 Recap

In the event you can't keep up with the status of the freshman class of fall 2005, here is a recap to-date of what is happening with the 31 new primetime entries this season:

ABC
-Commander in Chief: shoo-in for a full-season renewal.
-Freddie: debuting tomorrow.
-Hot Properties: too soon to tell.
-Invasion: expected full season pick-up.
-Night Stalker: the axe could swing before November.

CBS
-Close To Home: too soon to tell.
-Criminal Minds: shoo-in for a full-season renewal.
-Ghost Whisperer: shoo-in for a full-season renewal.
-How I Met Your Mother: waiting for the axe to swing.
-Out Of Practice: on the fence.
-Threshold: expected full season pick-up.

NBC:
-The Apprentice: Martha Stewart: one season failure.
-E-Ring: on the fence.
-Inconceivable: canceled.
-My Name Is Earl: full season renewal.
-Surface: on the fence.
-Three Wishes: on the fence.

Fox:
-Bones: shoo-in for a full-season renewal.
-Head Cases: canceled.
-Killer Instinct: growth out of lead-in Malcolm in the Middle offers minor hope.
-Kitchen Confidential: the axe could swing before November.
-Prison Break: full season renewal.
-Reunion: on the fence.
-The War at Home: expected full season pick-up.

UPN:
-Everybody Hates Chris: full season renewal.
-Love, Inc.: on the fence.
-Sex, Love & Secrets: canceled.

WB:
-Just Legal: canceled.
-Related: too soon to tell.
-Supernatural: full season renewal.
-Twins: on the fence.

http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001263954
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This isn't quite threadworthy in its own right, so I thought I'd tuck it in here. Ads everywhere...the shows are getting smarter, but nets are also getting savvier and more devious in terms of ad frequency and placement. I know it's "free" entertainment and all, but...it makes me want to watch only DVD's now.

I usually just turn off the volume or leave the room or read a magazine or something...

Ad glut turns off viewers

By Gary Levin, USA TODAY

...the number of ads and promos has increased sharply over the years. A typical "one-hour" prime-time series clocks in at less than 42 minutes, down from 44 minutes several years ago and nearly 48 minutes in the 1980s...

...But ABC, which studies show has slightly more commercials than other broadcast networks, has changed its drama format in a way that makes it seem even more loaded with ads.

Until recently, dramas unfolded in four segments, or "acts," often preceded by an introductory teaser that aired before the opening credits.

Starting this fall, ABC required all drama producers to carve up each episode into six portions. For some shows, including Housewives, the first segment runs for nine to 11 minutes before the first break. Once viewers are hooked, they're confronted with four more commercial breaks, each about 3½ minutes long, over the next 45 minutes.

To prevent channel surfing, networks increasingly avoid airing commercials between shows. Instead, they save several minutes of more substantial scenes for a show's ending and then move "seamlessly" into the next program. The upshot is that more ads and promos air within programs....

...Lost and Housewives adopted the six-act structure early last season. ABC quickly expanded the practice to its entire lineup of hour-long series. Competitors followed suit: WB's dramas began adopting the same format last January and since last month has used it on every show. CBS and NBC employ it on newer shows including Criminal Minds, Las Vegas, Numb3rs and Surface, although producers of CSI, Law & Order and ER refused to go along. Fox uses it only on Bones.

McPherson says most producers "like it because you have real content in each of the acts."

But Boston Legal producer David E. Kelley isn't among them.

"There's no opportunity to develop any kind of storytelling momentum," Kelley says, fearing that quiet scenes of dialogue will never hold up to increasingly loud "” and frequent "” commercial breaks. "High-octane shows, or puzzle shows, will be immune to it.

"If a knife is plunged into someone's sternum, you pay attention," Kelley says. "But for shows that don't depend on violence or melodramatic scenes, it's tougher to compete in a six-act show than in four acts, or in 41 minutes instead of 45 minutes. You have to be a little more aggressive with them, musically or filmically, just to get people's attention back."

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2005-10-11-ad-glut_x.htm
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I'm gonna have to disagree with mediaweek that How I Met Your Mother will be cancelled. It is averaging 10 million viewers, which is enough for CBS. In fact, it's getting more than Threshold (8 million), so how can they say Threshold will be picked up and Mother won't? Btw, I love both these shows.
 
I'm not quite sure.

If nothing else, it does seem like HIMYM is sort of filling a vacuum with its young/single/urban conventional sitcom formula. Most everything else on the Big Four (with Fox) is a family/domestic "˜com or "cutting edge""”Arrested Development, The Office, My Name is Earl, etc. And Joey and Will and Grace are all getting a little long in the tooth...

With Threshold, I wonder if there are lower demands placed on friday night shows "˜cause it's traditionally a low viewership night...
 
How I Met Your Mother was picked up for a full season, so mediaweek was wrong! Friday nights have the same expectations as any other night. Threshold's ratings have been steady each week, which is good.
 
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