The new season is only two days old but as I've watched or read about most of the new shows out, I thought I'd give you a little background how things are doing. So far, the new shows I've watched have done well, and the ones I haven't have sucked moose puckey.
Monday was a good day for any new show that didn't rhyme with Bone Mar. NBC scored both with critics and ratings with their new serialized drama The Event with Jason Ritter, Blair Underwood and a host of other well known character actors. The pilot was well shot, skipping through time over the past year, to show Jason Ritter's character go from ordinary guy about to propose to his girlfriend on a cruise to psycho hijacking a plane. How did he get to this point? What happened to his girlfriend and her family? Why dies every president on TV lately have to be black or Hispanic, or both in this shows case? We get it. The show was very exciting, but then again so was Flashforward's first episode. Let's hope the momentum can be kept up for what could be the networks new Lost. Ratings were solid, but let's see how much it slides by next week.
Also up were two new CBS shows Mike and Molly and Hawaii 5-0. Both were solid in their debut ratings wise and while both have room for improvement, they delivered a good first episode. Mike and Molly was very cute in the way that having two overweight people meet and fall in love is somewhat new. Instead of being an established couple, the series will focus on their new relationship, as well as Mike's surly partner and Molly's odd mother and stoner sister. This could be a big (pardon the pun) hit. Hawaii 5-0 was at heart another police procedural at a time when there are way too many. However the scenery is great, especially the skinny but attractive Grace Park who they found several reasons to keep in her bikini or underwear, and Scott Caan is quite funny as Dano. Let's hope the plots improve because the first week's was weak. Still both did well in the ratings.
The big loser was Lone Star, Fox's new drama about a con man in Texas. It bombed bigger than anyone had expected with an anemic 1.4 rating for the night. This show is doomed doomed doomed. If you watch it, get your licks in now because in the next few weeks this one will be off the air. A second episode even seems unlikely. Experts predicted at least a 2.4, hampered by Fox's terrible promos and an iffy premise. Spider Man reboot director Marc Webb dirceted the pilot and was one of the show's producer. Can't say that makes anyone optimistic about the next spidey feature with this radically untested director.
Tuesday was Glee's night to shine as the number one show of the night followed by NCIS and the spin off NCIS:LA. ABC scored well with Dancing with The Stars and Fox floundered with more of its new shows (who keeps picking this crap at Fox), the two new sitcoms at 9 both underperformed, although not as badly as Lone Star the night before. ABC hit the rocks with ANOTHER police procedural Detroit 187 which is actually filmed in Detroit. Who wants to watch a burned out husk of a city? Nobody apparently as the ratings were a low 2.4 and huge drop off from DWTS. The worse news was the this show did worse than last year's premiere of the Forgotten (awesome title fools) which does not bode well for it's prospects. Opposite the cable hit Sons of Anarchy, this may not last this month. NBC did it's usual Biggest Loser/Parenthood block which help up to respectable numbers.
Wednesday brings back lots of old favorites and little new programming. It is the busiest night of the week for me with all four networks putting on good programming. Thanks for spreading it out guys. More on these stories as the week progresses.
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