Magnet#586 - ReflectionsAnother stockhouse swag magnet that I just realized had a tiny tv on it. Perfect, as I reflect upon the fact that this time last year, my year-round TV Dance Card had 64 shows on it.
Now, it's the end of September and we're smack in the middle of fall premieres, I find my DVR at 65% full.
A sad state of affairs. Of course, that's after I wiped off a good 30% this past weekend, and have three hours of that Ken Burns' National Parks documentary sitting on it.
I can't figure out if we're still feeling the effects of the strike, or the dismal economy, but I don't know what's up with Fall TV this year. This is the first time in years that I haven't gone to the Paley Center premiere parties, where they preview the new shows a couple of days before they air.
Not a one show was worth rushing up to Midtown after work for me. Sad.
So what's left on the roster, and left to try when they air*?
ABC (7)
Private Practice, Brothers & Sisters, Grey's Anatomy, LOST, Castle, FlashForward, V*
(Tried and Dumped: Eastwick)
CBS (5)
NCIS, Ghost Whisperer, Numb3rs, Flashpoint, Three Rivers*
(Tried and Dumped: NCIS: Los Angeles and probably The Good Wife)
NBC (2)
Chuck, Friday Night Lights
(Tried and Dumped: Mercy and probably Trauma)
FOX (2)
Fringe, Bones
(Tried and Dumped: Dollhouse and Glee. Yes, that's right. I dumped Glee. You know there's a magnet a-comin'.)
The CW (5)
90210, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, Supernatural, Vampire Diaries
(Tried and Dumped: Beautiful Life, and probably Melrose Place)
TBS (2)
The Closer, Saving Grace
USA (5)
Psych, Burn Notice, In Plain Sight, Royal Pains, White Collar*
BBC-A (3)
Doctor Who, Top Gear, Skins
(Hiatus/in production/not airing stateside yet, so doesn't count: Torchwood, Gavin & Stacey, Robin Hood, MI-5, Merlin, Being Human, Primeval)
AMC (1)
Mad Men
ABC Family (1)
Greek
FX (1)
Sons of Anarchy
Lifetime (1)
Army Wives
Sundance (2)
Architecture School, Iconoclasts
Total: 37
