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| Tom's choice for number one show coming on Sunday Fall television. |
Finding a grid was a real bear. Neither Entertainment Weekly nor TV Guide had one. After a good deal of searching, I was able to steal this from the interwebs.
As I have in prior years, I will only be talking about fiction programs, with emphasis on serialized shows. As faded out as it may, be, I am still doing this in conjunction with Ripping Good Yarns, a group that I have valiantly tried to carry forward on Facebook.
ABC has Season 5 of Once upon A Time (9/27) at 8 PM. I watched this show up until about mid-season last year, but the Disney connection got to be too much, covering Disney movies and characters I either was not familiar with, or couldn't care less about. I got tired of the constant changes as to who was good and who was bad, and realized that no character was really at risk. ABC has two new programs - Blood & Oil (9/27) at 9 (a highly charged version of Dallas set in North Dakota starring Don Johnson of Miami Vice and Nash Bridges fame) and Quantico (9/27) (an action thriller about the CIA and the search for a terrorist mole) at 10 PM.
CBS has three returning shows; Season 2 of Madame Secretary (10/4), Season 5 of The Good Wife (10/4)and Season 2 of CSI:Cyber (10/4). We don't watch any of these, but I do know people who watch and enjoy The Good Wife - the scripting is supposed to be intense and surprising. I wish they would have kept the name of the original CSI and just morphed the cyber show into it. Sometimes there is no respect for continuity and numbers. I always find it odd when the satellites out survive the mother-ship. For those old school CSI fans, the original will be ending with a two hour movie on 9/27, and yes, Grissom will be back - Alison and I will be watching!
Fox has a bevy of comedies, a mix of animated and live action. 7:30 has Season 6 of Bob's Burgers (9/27), 8 PM Season 27 (!) of The Simpsons (9/27),8:30 PM Season 3 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine (9/27). 9 PM Season 14 of Family Guy (9/27) and 9:30 PM has Season 2 of The Last Man On Earth (9/27) (saw the pilot episode and though it was interesting, but not enough to watch regularly). We see an occasional episode of The Simpsons, but not the rest of it.
PBS is starting a new one, Indian Summers (9/27), at 9 PM, a new series about snooty Brits living in 1930s colonial India - if it works and it's your, uh, cup 'o' tea - it could be your new Downton Abbey.
HBO will be starting Season 2 of The Leftovers (10/4) at 9 PM. This is a great character driven show, where people are dealing with the mysterious, unexplained disappearance of 2% of the world's population. HBO is also starting Season 2 of Doll & Em (9/13). about a female British celebrity and her personal assistant.
Showtime starts Season 5 of Homeland (10/4), the great espionage series with Claire Danes. I have only seen some of the first season episodes, but I am always on the lookout to stream more, as they become available. Showtime has Season 2 of The Affair (10/4) at 10 PM. I guess the affair is a long lasting one.
Starz has new series Flesh and Bones (11/8) at 8 PM centered on an aspiring ballerina and the difficulties of the professional dance world.
E! has The Royals (11/15) at 10 PM, a satire of British royalty starring the gorgeous Elizabeth Hurley.
TNT will start Agent X (11/18) at 9 PM, starring Sharon Stone as a a covert operative operating at the discretion of the Vice President. Joe Biden has his own secret agent to send on special National Treasure style missions? Who woulda thunk it?
AMC has the number one show of the evening, Season 6 of The Walking Dead (10/11) at 9 PM,. At 10 PM, AMC has Into the Badlands (11/15), a martial arts extravaganza set in the distant future of a post-apocalyptic America.
So what is it you watch, T. M. Strait? In all of this plethora of choices, Alison and watch The Walking Dead and The Leftovers. The Walking Dead, in this age of DVRs and delayed viewings, is the one program that we must see on the night it broadcasts.
So what new series are you going to try, T, M, Strait?
Quantico! It sounds like it's going to be a smart, sexy entertaining 'who's the mole' series, Well, it's at least worth a shot!
Thanks for the review. Hmmm. Agent X and Quantico I may try.
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