Post by managermike99 on Mar 24, 2014 16:14:25 GMT -5
What's going on at the real networks? After such an abysmal 2013-14 year for new network shows, the second in a row, can it get any worse?
Going through Futon critic the following are the ones I'm giving a chance to right now.
ABC Comedy - NONE
ABC Drama
How To Get Away With Murder
drama about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor who become entangled in a murder plot that will rock their entire university and change the course of their lives. Shondaland!
CBS Comedy - NONE
CBS Drama
Battle Creek
drama about a detective and an FBI agent with very different world views who are teamed up to clean up the semi-mean streets of Battle Creek, Michigan
Untitled Wall Street Pilot
drama set in the world of Wall Street power and money. David Morse and Maggie Grace.
Fox Comedy - NONE
Fox Drama
Backstrom
(from FOX's press release, January 2014) Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX) has given a 13-episode series order to BACKSTROM, a one-hour drama from 20th Century Fox Television, based on renowned Swedish criminologist and novelist Leif G.W. Persson's hit series of books of the same name. Created and executive-produced by Hart Hanson (BONES, "The Finder"), the series centers on Detective EVERETT BACKSTROM (three-time Emmy Award nominee Rainn Wilson, "The Office"), an offensive, irascible detective, as he tries, and fails, to change his self-destructive behavior. Throughout the series, Backstrom leads his team, the Serious Crimes Unit, as they navigate Portland's most sensitive cases. Rainn Wilson. Hart Hanson EP.
Gotham
(from Warner Bros. Television's press release, February 2014) Based upon characters published by DC Comics, GOTHAM is a drama exploring the origin stories of Commissioner James Gordon and the villains that made Gotham famous. Bruno Heller (The Mentalist, Rome) wrote the pilot script and will serve as executive producer. Danny Cannon (the CSI series, Nikita) will direct and executive produce the pilot. Series regulars cast to date are Ben McKenzie as Detective James Gordon, Donal Logue as Detective Harvey Bullock, Zabryna Guevara as Captain Essen, Erin Richards as Barbara Kean, Sean Pertwee as Alfred Pennyworth and Robin Lord Taylor as Oswald Cobblepot (aka The Penguin).Hopefully will be better then Marvel.
Wayward Pines
Actually there are quite a few Fox Dramas that look promising.
NBC Comedy - NONE
NBC Drama
Constantine
CONSTANTINE follows enigmatic and irreverent Liverpool con-man-turned-occult-detective John Constantine, who is reluctantly thrust into the role of defending our world against dark forces from beyond.
CW Drama
Flash
Might only check it out to see John Wesley Shipp who played the Flash in a good but short lived 80's series being given a small role in this one.
What am I currently watching on the networks? or what I did watch this year?
CBS
Big Bang Theory....best show on network television
CSI...Shue and Danson are great
NBC
Michael J Fox Show...was growing on me but won't be overly missed
Law & Order: SVU...actually hanging on by changing focus to some more serial aspects and personal lives of characters
Dracula..it was okay
Crazy Ones, Marvel Agents of Shield, Sleepy Hollow...and others were all disappointments this year.
Most of the good shows are still on cable including Walking Dead, Hell on Wheels, and Made Men on AMC.
Still waiting for the new season of 24 this summer, and Crossbones???
Going through Futon critic the following are the ones I'm giving a chance to right now.
ABC Comedy - NONE
ABC Drama
How To Get Away With Murder
drama about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor who become entangled in a murder plot that will rock their entire university and change the course of their lives. Shondaland!
CBS Comedy - NONE
CBS Drama
Battle Creek
drama about a detective and an FBI agent with very different world views who are teamed up to clean up the semi-mean streets of Battle Creek, Michigan
Untitled Wall Street Pilot
drama set in the world of Wall Street power and money. David Morse and Maggie Grace.
Fox Comedy - NONE
Fox Drama
Backstrom
(from FOX's press release, January 2014) Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX) has given a 13-episode series order to BACKSTROM, a one-hour drama from 20th Century Fox Television, based on renowned Swedish criminologist and novelist Leif G.W. Persson's hit series of books of the same name. Created and executive-produced by Hart Hanson (BONES, "The Finder"), the series centers on Detective EVERETT BACKSTROM (three-time Emmy Award nominee Rainn Wilson, "The Office"), an offensive, irascible detective, as he tries, and fails, to change his self-destructive behavior. Throughout the series, Backstrom leads his team, the Serious Crimes Unit, as they navigate Portland's most sensitive cases. Rainn Wilson. Hart Hanson EP.
Gotham
(from Warner Bros. Television's press release, February 2014) Based upon characters published by DC Comics, GOTHAM is a drama exploring the origin stories of Commissioner James Gordon and the villains that made Gotham famous. Bruno Heller (The Mentalist, Rome) wrote the pilot script and will serve as executive producer. Danny Cannon (the CSI series, Nikita) will direct and executive produce the pilot. Series regulars cast to date are Ben McKenzie as Detective James Gordon, Donal Logue as Detective Harvey Bullock, Zabryna Guevara as Captain Essen, Erin Richards as Barbara Kean, Sean Pertwee as Alfred Pennyworth and Robin Lord Taylor as Oswald Cobblepot (aka The Penguin).Hopefully will be better then Marvel.
Wayward Pines
Actually there are quite a few Fox Dramas that look promising.
NBC Comedy - NONE
NBC Drama
Constantine
CONSTANTINE follows enigmatic and irreverent Liverpool con-man-turned-occult-detective John Constantine, who is reluctantly thrust into the role of defending our world against dark forces from beyond.
CW Drama
Flash
Might only check it out to see John Wesley Shipp who played the Flash in a good but short lived 80's series being given a small role in this one.
What am I currently watching on the networks? or what I did watch this year?
CBS
Big Bang Theory....best show on network television
CSI...Shue and Danson are great
NBC
Michael J Fox Show...was growing on me but won't be overly missed
Law & Order: SVU...actually hanging on by changing focus to some more serial aspects and personal lives of characters
Dracula..it was okay
Crazy Ones, Marvel Agents of Shield, Sleepy Hollow...and others were all disappointments this year.
Most of the good shows are still on cable including Walking Dead, Hell on Wheels, and Made Men on AMC.
Still waiting for the new season of 24 this summer, and Crossbones???