* On Thursday night it all happens at 10.00 – on CBS we have a new episode of Flashpoint
* While NBC has another Fear Itself. I have no faith it’ll be good no more, so my surprise in reading that it is on the bubble for a second season, is that they would actually consider ordering a second season…
* And finally on USA comes a new episode of Burn Notice
CBS ordered a script for a remake of the classic The Streets Of San Francisco, the 1970s cop series that starred Michael Douglas and Karl Malden.
Sheldon Turner (The Longest Yard) and Numb3rs producer Robert Port are penning the script, with Simon West on board to direct the pilot if/when ordered. The show s said to keep key elements for the original : the title, the names of the two main characters, Steve Keller and Mike Stone, and of course the backdrop of the City by the Bay. Other than that, it should try to bring the spirit of the original series into the new millennium, explained Turner.
According to him, “the times are very similar — it was the Vietnam War in the 1970s and the Iraq War now. There is the same sort of tension between generations, and we wanted to carry that to the new series.” I’m not really sure that’s right, but whatever.
It’s a recurring question that I’ve been asking myself on many occasions. While it seems widely accepted by every major party on the business that, however flawed Nielsen ratings maybe, they have been an established ratings measurement institution for many years and everyone just agrees to accept whatever numbers they come up with because, at the end of the day, they are believed to represent an overall “accurate” representation of which TV shows are the most watched every day, one can’t help but wonder.
I know many fans of Jericho have repeatedly said that Nielsen wasn’t right, and many more of them were watching the show than was reported. Fans from (many) other shows have also complained, and while it’s easy to say they’re only doing so because they love their shows, sometimes you have to wonder if, really, after all those years and so many spin-offs, CSI remains one of the most-watched series to this day, or if Nielsen families are just not really representative (anymore) of the current households in the United States ?
Not much on tonight, really, but there’s at least one thing you don’t want to miss, because it will be lots of fun sor sure, just as was the first season…
* Yes, at 10.30 Comedy Central has the second season premiere of Lewis Black’s Root Of All Evil This new season opens with “Ultimate Fighting vs. Bloggers”and for a little taste, here are the opening statements, from Andy Daly and Patton Oswalt…
Based on what I just saw here, I vote Bloggers! You?
(S01E03) After the two first episodes, I wasn’t too impressed with this show, which in many ways did not managed to grab my interest really. I’ve also said a few times that while we’re always sold the idea of Banks and his work as helping people getting ride of their addiction, that’s not really what we were shown so far. Instead, Banks and his crew only had to locate their client and send her/him to a rehab center. In other words, it was more a P.I. job that was getting done.
This week things changed a little, because all along we knew who was having a drug problem and where she was, it wasn’t about locating her, it wasn’t about some P.I. job – well, a little at first still, but there was more to it. That was a good move, and yet I’m not really sure I like this episode, much less the show.
If you watch Late Night with Conan O’Brien you’ve probably heard already of Triumph The Insult Comic Dog. He’s always brilliant, and he’s at his best when surrounded by all kinds of geeks. And after a new Star Wars move opening, what best place could there be for him than Comic Con ?
So here he is, insulting about all the possible people who could ever attend Comic-Con, hilarious as always :
(S04E07) I think this episode has a very misleading title, because it makes it sounds like things are possible, and in fact it even has that little sound that says it’s possible to do new things, better things, to improve what’s been done before, to change from mistakes of yesterday and prepare a better tomorrow. That’s what this little title seems to imply with those three little words, and that couldn’t be further from the truth, really.
It’s not really new, it’s been around for a few weeks now, this feeling that despite everything that has been said about this new season, despite the relocation of the Botwins and their friends, things weren’t getting any better. In fact, it was the same load of crap we’ve been getting for way too long last season already, and we had enough of.
I really wanted to see this season be an improvement over the past, and the show be great & funny again, but alas, we’re far, far, from from it.
They all keep telling everyone who wants to hear it that Mad Men is absolutely brilliant, it’s loved by the critic, won many Critics Awards, received an awful lot of Emmy nominations, many of which will surely transform into actual awards, so it’s only normal that it got people curious.
And that they were, for the second season premiere of AMC drama, followed by close to 2 million viewers on Sunday night. That’s only twice more than the first season did, as it averaged around 915 000 viewers each week. Among 25-54 only, this new episode was followed by 996 000 viewers, where the series premiere “only” had 731 000 of them watching.
The real question will be to see how many of those new viewers will stick around for weeks to come, but one thing for sure is that all the attentionpraises awards the show received lately surely boosted AMC, and one can expect this to continue when the show will take home a few Emmys soon…
By fred | July 31, 2008 
CBS ordered a script for a remake of the classic The Streets Of San Francisco, the 1970s cop series that starred Michael Douglas and Karl Malden.
It’s a recurring question that I’ve been asking myself on many occasions. While it seems widely accepted by every major party on the business that, however flawed Nielsen ratings maybe, they have been an established ratings measurement institution for many years and everyone just agrees to accept whatever numbers they come up with because, at the end of the day, they are believed to represent an overall “accurate” representation of which TV shows are the most watched every day, one can’t help but wonder.
(S01E03) After the two first episodes, I wasn’t too impressed with this show, which in many ways did not managed to grab my interest really. I’ve also said a few times that while we’re always sold the idea of Banks and his work as helping people getting ride of their addiction, that’s not really what we were shown so far. Instead, Banks and his crew only had to locate their client and send her/him to a rehab center. In other words, it was more a P.I. job that was getting done.
(S04E07) I think this episode has a very misleading title, because it makes it sounds like things are possible, and in fact it even has that little sound that says it’s possible to do new things, better things, to improve what’s been done before, to change from mistakes of yesterday and prepare a better tomorrow. That’s what this little title seems to imply with those three little words, and that couldn’t be further from the truth, really.
They all keep telling everyone who wants to hear it that Mad Men is absolutely brilliant, it’s loved by the critic, 