The TV fall schedule review continues, with Thursday's exciting lineup. I deeply apologize that this does not have a picture of the Thursday Fall Lineup with it, but I have been unable to get my printer to cooperate. I will post a picture as soon as I can get it to work.
Please note that I am giving information about all shows except reality or news program. Nothing wrong with them, just not a focus of Ripping Good Yarns, which concentrates on fictional storytelling.
CBS starts at 8 with The Big Bang Theory in it's 7th fall season. We are latecomers to this show, so we am trying to catch up on DVD. The Big Bang Theory is a wonderful character-driven show that appeals to the nerd in all of us. The neurotic Sheldon is a television Hall of Fame Classic! At 8:30 is new show The Millers, featuring a kooky family, and has Will Arnett of Arrested Development fame. Then at 9 is one we definitely will check out, The Crazy Ones, starring Robin Williams and Sara Michelle Gellar at an ad agency. Sort of a cross between Mad Men and a comically mad man. At 9:30 is the 11th season of Two and a Half Men. At 10 PM, is Elementary, a modern riff on Sherlock Holmes in it's second season.
NBC starts at 8 with the sixth awesome season of Parks and Recreation. Amy Poehler's Leslie Knope is another TV Hall of Fame classic, a government bureaucrat who has not lost her enthusiasm for civic solutions. At 8:30 is new comedy Welcome to the Family, about......teen moms and their families. Uhhhh, ok. Continuing the cliche premises is Sean Saves the World at 9, featuring a gay divorced Dad suddenly the primary caretaker of his teenage daughter. Then at 9:30 is The Michael J Fox Show, another show we will check out. We have great affection for this man, and if it is a quality show, we will add it to our list. At 10 Pm is Parenthood, one of Alison's favorite shows.
Fox has Glee at 9. Those who like this show really, really like it. And this year they have to cope with the tragic loss of Cory Monteith, who played central character Finn. This is its fifth season.
ABC has Once Upon A Time In Wonderland at 8, a new spinoff of Once Upon A time, a show that I will be checking. Grey's Anatomy is back for its 9th season at 9, and wraps up at 10 with the awesome Scandal. Yes, it's politics are highly unrealistic ( a moderate Republican President - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!), but it such an awesome freight train of a show, I am willing to forgive that.
CW has The Vampire Diaries (3rd season) at 8. I've never seen The Vampire Diaries. Is it more like Twilight or Salem's Lot? Brand new at 9 and worth checking out is Reign. I have to see this period drama, based on Mary, Queen of Scots and figure out if it is more like Game of Thrones or Gossip Girl. If it's closer to the former, it's in! If it's closer to the latter, it's out!
So Alison will be watching Parenthood, and we will watch together Parks and Recreation and Scandal. We will sample The Crazy Ones, The Michael J. Fox Show, and I will be sampling Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and Reign. What will you watch or try?
Grey's Anatomy and Scandal are it for me. I Hulu Parenthood. :)
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