Awake

[Rollo Tomassi]

I watched the premiere tonight. I rather enjoyed it. The premise is very clever. Jason Isaacs plays a detective who is living in two different realities simultaneously. In one, his wife was killed in a car crash and his son survived, and in the other, the reverse is true. He's seeing two different shrinks in each reality, each assuring him that THAT reality is the waking one, and the other one is a coping mechanism he's created to deal with the death of his wife/son.

Since I'm stuck with what's offered on Network TV only, I've been having to settle for a lot of mediocre crap, like Hawaii 50, Person of Interest, Unforgettable, and pretty much 95% of what's on TV (Thank goodness for The Good Wife ). Now I've got something decent to watch again.

[Tom Foolery]

Sorry to say your show didn't get renewed.
Probably because nobody watched it.

Ha ha! Burn.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

Yeah. Harry's Law got canned also. Which I enjoyed. I can't bother to get invested in new shows because they only last 8 episodes. I'm Just gonna wait until a show is raved about for five years and then get the DVDs.

Pretty soon every show on TV is gonna be a goddamn "competition" show. There's already like 10 singing shows, 3 dancing shows, 3 fat people shows, 20 Cooking Gordon Ramsay being an asshole shows, and a couple fashion shows. Not to mention Celebrity Apprentice, Celebrity Dancing, and Celebrity singing. And the fucking Bachelor(ette), Survivor, Amazing Race, etc.

Eat a dick, TV.

[anarky]

Renegades got canned. Everything remotely educational is gone from channels like History, but I can see fucking reality shows about morons chasing the nonexistent Bigfoot or other morons ignoring evidence so they can say that aliens did everything in history.

Fuck TV.

Wanna hear something really fucking funny? Planet Green started off as environmental programming. Somewhere along the line, they realized it wasn't profitable (because, hey, shows about Tommy Lee and Ludacris seeing who can out-clean the other are what people want when they're looking for info on how to live green, right?), and started showing leftover shit from other Discovery-owned networks. So they changed the name to "Destination America" over the weekend and said it was going to be all shows about America (actually just the US--fuck Canada and all them places to the south).

The funny part: by noon on the first day, they were airing something about another continent. It took them less than 24 hours to go against their purported mission.