It’s the Upfronts!: CBS
Posted by Maggie
May 16th, 2007 at 10:48am
In All Things TV How I Met Your Mother
CBS, will this finally be the year that makes me care about your programming, other than How I Met Your Mother, which has thankfully been renewed? We shall see…
The I’m Actually Excited In a Serious Way Category: Finally, the world is taking notice of my demand for a musical television drama. (I was too young for what I can only assume was the ahead-of-its-time Cop Rock.) Viva Laughlin is a drama with music, starring Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman! A musical! On TV! Oh my god. I really hope this show is as good as it is in my mind.
The Has Potential But I Won’t Commit Category: Cane looks like this year’s Smith, a very, very high-prestige project that will probably fold under the weight of its own expectations. This is not to say it’s not a little intriguing, I suppose. Swingtown stars Jack Davenport, and even though it sounds totally silly, that’s reason enough for me to give it the benefit of the doubt.
The Yeesh, Don’t Bother Category: The Big Bang Theory, a comedy for the Monday-night block that includes HIMYM. I like loveable geeks as much as the next girl, but I’ve never liked any of the other shows in that block. Kid Nation, a reality show which sounds like it’s sort of based on Lord of the Flies, except trying be all feel-goodery. Which, now that I type it out like that, I realize I may have put this one in the wrong category.
The Seriously, Guys, WTF Category: Moonlight. This show is Angel redux, right? Why? I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love me some vampires. The more vampires the better, I’ve often said. But is there really only one way to do a vampire TV show?
Tomorrow we’ve got Fox and the CW, and then the fun’s all over. First impressions of CBS’s slate?
7 Comments Add your own
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sara | May 16th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Jack Davenport! Lloyd Owen! HUGH JACKMAN!
CBS has made me so happy by bringing all the beautiful accented men to TV. The TiFaux tournament next year? BRUTAL.
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sara | May 16th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Oh, and they broke up the Rhyming Jerry Bruckheimer Sunday (Amazing Race, Cold Case, Without a Trace). That’s a programming exec with a serious lack of whimsy, if you ask me.
3. Jeremy | May 16th, 2007 at 11:55 am
I want to cancel The Big Bang Theory already, if possible. I’m a twenty-something geek who loves science and I am 100% ready to hate that show. Has a network show ever portrayed nerdy characters that were not ridiculous stereotypes? And of course there’s a sexy neighbor. *sigh*
I love Kid Nation, but we’ve got to be prepared for how far this is going to go? Is there kid law enforcement in this town? Will there be a power struggle? My dream is that Kid Nation becomes a dictatorship, and there’s freedom fighters and everything.
Viva Laughlin has some serious potential. We’ll see if it lives up to it or is just a ridiculous camp-fest.
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sara | May 16th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
I am totally okay with a ridiculous camp-fest.
5. Vance | May 16th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
It’s probably going to be a total mess but i cannot WAIT for Viva Laughlin anyways, singing, dancing, Lloyd Owen, Pres. Palmer Part 2, Hugh Jackman (though only guest starring people so don’t get too excited though I’m sure he will make a few more appearances to pump it up like Salma Hayek did for Ugly Betty. another ridiculous camp fest that totally worked)! and CBS picked this show up? Watch them cancel it after 3 eps…
6. Michael Rebain | May 16th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
and they get major points for cancelling the Class and Jericho.
7. Ali | May 16th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
The one and only damper on Viva Laughlin — I hear they want Rob Thomas to run it. I don’t want Rob Thomas to need a job. Glad that he’s in demand, but … meh.
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