Fri, Sat. and Sunday Fall '15 Premiere Reviews Part Two

ABC - Grade 6/10

Ken Jeong is back in television and is now in a staring role showing off his past profession in a comedic way.  He does have a very funny supporting cast including Dave Foley (Kids in the Hall and News Radio), Suzy Nakamura (Curb Your Enthusiasm and Ten Things I The About You), Albert Tsai (Trophy Wife and Fresh of the Boat) and Tisha Campbell-Martin (Martin & House Party).  This show is a nice watered down comedy show that ABC produces with a slight edge without offending anyone (kind of).  It's is worth checking out.




NBC - Grade: 8/10

The folks are back and they are ready to mess with and offend.  The premiere season host was Miley Cyrus and I must say that I am still curious on why there is so much extreme hatred for this woman.  She is being herself.  This pattern of her becoming the person she is now is not that shocking.  At least not to me.  Now is she really pushing it too far?  Probably, but that is a matter of perspective.  Like I said, this now that shocking, I kind saw this transition happening since Hanna Montana.  You people need to change your focus.  Moving on.  I felt Miley did great, the skit Hillary Clinton was in was fun, Weekend Update was, as usual, a blast to see and the rest of the cast did a great job in this premiere.  I look forward to a great season.




CBS - Grade: 8.5/10

Patricia Arquette is kicking it strong like she did on the past hit NBC show, Medium.  The last remaining Crime Scene Investigation show enters it's second season.  Now this is the first CSI show that I actually started on season one.  Correction, the second CSI show.  I also tried out CSI NY starring Gary Sinise, but tapered off after season two because of interest and mostly time.  I am enjoying Cyber though I find the cast kind of questionable, including Shad Moss (formerly rapper Bow Wow) and new member, Ted Danson (Cheers and the original CSI series).  I don't think transistioning Danson from CSI: Las Vegas to Cyber in D.C. was a bad idea, just unsure how it will turn out.  We shall see I guess.  I must also add that I am not happy that Peter MacNicol is no longer on the show.  Not sure why he is gone.  They used the story of him being promoted, so maybe he will have a re-occurring role?  Who knows?  He might have a new big project on the horizon.  That's usually how it works.  I like him on Cyber although I rather see him in comedic roles like in Ally McBeal (BTW, curious about Calista Flockhart in Supergirl).  Last, but not least, Mr. James Van Der Beek  I have enjoyed a lot of his work since Dawson's Creek, which I have never seen, but was curious how he would be after that and he (along with Joshua Jackson) are doing great!!!  The ladies  of the Creek, Katie Holmes and Michelle Williams, not so much, but I love you guys, too.  Van Der Beek turns into an ultimate bad ass character both in braun and brain as now only does he shows his awesome skills as a detective/investigator he also shows the techs in the show what he knows in their field as well.   Very impressive, Elijah!  If you haven't checked out this series, try it out.  If you were a fan of the CSIs you may also like this one.  This show can turn into the long survivor for the CSI franchise like Special Victims Unit is for Law & Order.

Tuesday Fall '15 Premiere Reviews Part Two

FOX

John Stamos gets his own show and it seemed cheesy, but worth a look.  You all should know the premise even  from the title.  Middle aged, successful businessman get a huge wake up call when a young man comes in and drops a bomb that he is his son.  Oh, but wait, another bomb has been dropped!  He has a granddaughter, too.  A very cute one at that!  So now he has a choice, pursue this new chapter in his life or run.  You can pretty much guess.   It also stars Christina Milian (also a singer, look her up), who's character I will need to get use to.  She only pops up twice and I don't really like her, yet.  There is also a brief cameo where if you have seen the previews, you would have noticed.  Check out this show.  It is very funny.  I think it could turn out to be a great show as long as they continue to have material.
Status: Keep     Grade: 8/10




FOX

John Stamos and now Rob Lowe.  Lowe teams up with Fred Savage and William Devane to bring you The Grinders.  An award winning actor has his TV series finale and is now trying a new meaning in life.  He returns home and tries to enter the family business that he admired so much that he did a TV show mimicking it except to find that his family does not see him of value and chooses not to have him return.  The youngest brother later realizes that the solution to his struggles in law resides in his older brother and so did older bro.  So of course he returns and all becomes well.  The adventure in this show should be fun.  It seems like an exact cookie cut of Grandfathered.  Worth a check.  Hopefully it will last.
Status: Curious     Grade 6/10




ABC
Well things are getting very intense as Skyy or Daisy heads up the Inhuman division of S.H.E.I.L.D. and tracks down other Inhumans that may spout up after the water supply was contaminated.  They finally achieve in recuing one and also gets an idea on who else are tracking them.  Hint: They are not Hydra.  Since the disappearance if Simmons, Fitz has been crazily determined to find out where she is and how to get to her.  This looks like it will be an amazing season, especially with Daisy and Lincoln showing off their abilities.
Status: Definitely Keep     Grade 9/10

Sunday Fall '15 Premiere Reviews Part One

FOX
The search for a new captain is on.  While the Nine-Nine is preparing to meet their new captain, Captain Holt has moved on to his new assignment working very close to the deputy chief.  Public Affairs is his new domain and it turns out to be much more mundane that he thought.  He is now faced with the dicission of continuing this new assignment or just high tailing it out.  Bill Hader guest stars in a funny premiere that IMO, was not that much funnier that any other episode.  Still a keeper though.  BTW, Andy Samburg did a great job as host of the 2015 Emmy Awards.  Bravo!!!!
Status: Keep     Grade: 7/10



FOX

So Phil and Carol has escaped Tuscon, AZ and is kind of living it up around the nation, again, except this time together.  It looks like they are having a blast, but later they felt something was missing.  No guest stars on this premiere and the episode was pretty funny for the sophomore season.  We shall see what helps them find out what was missing and if they will meet any new people in this new world. 
Status: Keep     Grade 7/10







ABC

I know this show is known for it dark sides, but this season premiere is shown a one of the most darkest so far as Swan struggles with her new decision of becoming The New Dark One.  We also learn of a new twist that hopefully explain the origins of the blade that controls The Dark One.  Everyone runs to try to same Swan from her new role, but of course, something bad has to happen.  Hell it's the season premiere, something bad has to happen.  Geez!  Like every season, I am looking forward to seeing how this one turns out.  Everyone is back along with a few others.  Oh and Regina was able to out smart someone for a change.
Status: Keep     Grade: 9/10



FOX

The fam is back and a new adventure has started.  Quagmire and Peter take on a long lost dream of Glenn's that at first was a great idea, but of course Peter had to do something that made it go oh so wrong.  In the meantime, Stewie and Brian took on an extra special trip that turned out to not be a fun one.  The season starts off with a blast and was very entertaining.  I can't see any reason why this show would be ever cancelled, unless the public becomes intolerant again.
Status: Keep     Grade: 8/10



ABC

Talk about something new!  This show, IMO, comes out of left field and takes on a new scenario in a region of the United States that is usually not touched on a TV show.  A young ambitious couple takes a community investment and heads north to head up a huge business and promise a big return to them.  Things don't go a planned and they had to make small detours to make end meet.  Eventually a huge opportunity knocks and they go in head first.  Starring some acting legends including Delroy Lindo and Don Johnson.   This show seems like a reincarnation of the great hit show, Dallas.  Too bad it's reboot or continuation didn't do so well.
Status: Keep/Curious    Grade 7/10



ABC

Talk about very, very complex.  You would have thought that Shonda Rhimes had something to do with it, but nope she has not.  This show is brought to you by Joshua Safran who helped produced Smash and Gossip Girl.  A huge handful of new possible agents enter the FBI training camp at Quantico.   Things start out very well until a huge disaster happen in a major city and one of the leading agent students is placed with the task to find out who of her class could have committed this terrorist act.  Some insane parts and intense moments made this premiere very intriguing, IMO.  Check it out if you haven't already.
Status: Keep     Grade: 8/10

Name-Spray

So I am now getting fixated on the show, The Bachelorette.  I got pulled into the show by my wife mid-season of the last Bachelor.  I always knew the premise of the show, but refused to watch it because I thought it was extremely silly.  I did find it intriging, but just would not watch it, until now.

The first few episodes were good.  I definitely found a trend where someone gets kicked out or quits before the rose ceremony.  The most entertaining one was this Healer named Tony (I think).  The show had an event that offended him so much that he ranted for most of the day and then decided to quit.  The most hilarious part was even though he was supposed to be a peaceful, mature, and mindful person he is screaming and does a couple spits of to the side of the balcony.  We were like "seriously?".  It just through us off a bit.  It was just too funny.

So I don't know how many of these blog entries I will do on this show, but if I see something that makes me say, "WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?", I will post about it.

Later.........

October Cancellations

So 4 shows have gotten the axe; Lucky 7, We Are Men, Ironside and Welcome to the Family.

I never really checked out Lucky 7 so I can't tell you much about it.  I was going to check it out on Hulu and may still will, but I can probably see why it became a victim.

We Are Men starred an unkown actor with three veteran stars including, Jerry O'Connell, Kal Penn and Tony Shalhoub.  This show was pretty funny with some dumb antics that single guys who think they are still young do.  There were a lot of very good comedies that it was up against and it was eventually going to be dropped regardless of the cast.  The premise was too weak.  Sorry Tony.

Ironside stars Pablo Schrieber and the great Blair Underwood.  I hate to say it, but I did kind of call this one.  As I said before Remakes usually do not survive; Knight Rider and Bionic Woman were recent others.  Hawaii 5-0 is the only one that I know of that is still running strong, but now I think it may be in trouble.  I hope not.   I know they were trying to keep the Ironside remake similar to the original with a modern twist, but it had a hard time keeping my attention, even though I have not missed an episode.  Oh well.  Best of luck to Blair, Pablo and the rest of the cast.  They will have new projects very soon.  They are too good of actors not to.

I was pretty shocked by Welcome to the Family.  I thought Fox's Dads with Green and Ribisi would be cancelled before this one, but I was wrong.  I really like this show.  I was very funny and even the young, soon to be parents, teenagers kept me interested.  Chavira and O'Malley really sold the show in my opinion and McCormick was just as funny as she was in USA's In Plain Sight.  I think they were dropped because NBC is still more strict on their Thursday comedies than anything else.  Parks and Recreations are the new veterans and going very strong.  The other new comedies on Thursdays for NBC are Sean Saves the World (Stupid Title) starring Sean Hayes and The Michael J. Fox Show (Again stupid title).  I think NBC held on to those two shows (for now) simply because of who is in them.  I never had any interest in them.  I may check out an episode of each to see, but I doubt I will stay with them.  I feel that canceling this show was a bad idea, but I am not in the show business.

I predict the next possible cancellations; Dads (Fox), Betrayal (ABC), Michael J. Fox Show (NBC) and Back In The Game (ABC).

Later..........