Fall TV DVR Lineup

This is where the internet discovers that I watch entirely too much television. How do I manage to watch so much TV, write and still read so many books? Multitasking. I am easily distracted and find I can focus better when doing more than one thing at a time. That means it is not uncommon to see me, laptop in tow, watching a show, with a book next to me in case I decide to put the laptop down. I know I’m weird, but hey, it works for me.

Anyway, I thought I’d do the DVR list early for Fall, instead of putting it off until the shows were almost over like I did for the Summer DVR lineup. I actually have scheduling conflicts this year, something that hasn’t happened since I got the DVR in the first place. I also got some sad news – one of my favorite shows, The Dresden Files, has been “put on hold” or “canceled”, depending which sources you believe. Of course, I think Dresden Files is technically a “mid-season” show on Sci-Fi and not a “Fall” show, but still. Very sad.

I’ll just go day by day. I haven’t decided how the scheduling conflicts are going to play out yet, either. I am such a television junkie that I actually, for one brief moment, considered buying a second TV. So I could get a second DVR/Dish combo. So I could record more shows. But that would be totally KRAZEE, right? Right?? Right.

Sundays:

Sunday is currently full of shows that are already on DVR Season Pass status.

8 PM ABC Extreme Home Makeover – Ty Pennington (sex-ay), sobbing homeowners, fabulous remodels, the amazement of watching a house get built that quickly – what’s not to love? There has been some debate over whether or not the houses actually get built in a week. I’m guessing because of the tight filming schedule it is a week or pretty fucking close to it, and I can tell you, living with a very good contractor? That. Is Amazing.

9 PM SHO Dexter – Why are you not watching Dexter yet? If you missed last season, rent the DVD and catch up quick! This show is based on a series of books about a serial killer who only kills serial killers, and who’s day job is working in the crime lab for the police. Stars Michael C Hall of Six Feet Under fame.

9 PM LIFE State of Mind – Another Six Feet Under alum, Lily Taylor, plays a psychologist in practice with several other psychologists, a psychiatrist, a dysfunctional office manager who hates people and a lawyer. I like this one a lot, except for the stupid dream sequence in the opening credits of the show.

10 PM LIFE Side Order Of Life – 90210 alum Jason Priestley’s new show, I was leery about it when it first began two weeks ago, but it has now sucked me in somehow. Thus, it stays on the DVR. A good compromise show for couples, kind of like a light date movie with not much substance. I don’t know why they switched it from 9 PM to 10 PM, as there is not a lot of questionable content, but… whatever.

Mondays:

Mondays have surprised me by being the day when I have possible scheduling conflicts. That is so weird. I remember when Mondays were the worst night in television, and now that dubious honor falls to Saturday.

Already on DVR Season Pass status:

9 PM NBC Heroes – Duh. Are you kidding me? Of course I watch Heroes. Why don’t you? I cant wait to see how it turns out and who the new “evil” one is.

9 PM CBS Two and A Half Men – We weren’t expecting to like this one last year, but we both do. Besides, I’d always wondered what happened to Jon Cryer… his career that is. It seems there is life after Duckie.

9:30 PM CBS Rules Of Engagement - David Spade is still playing David Spade… and it is still funny. This time he plays “that friend”, the single one all married and engaged guys have that gets them in trouble.

10 PM TNT Saving Grace – Still watching it until it ends sometime in mid-Fall. Still not sure how it hooked me, but hook me it did, as I mentioned here.

Here’s where the scheduling conflict may come in, with the show I want to add to the Monday night DVR lineup:

9:30 PM ABC Samantha Who – Christina Applegate’s new vehicle about a horrible person who gets a do-over in life. I like her, but I already know I like the David Spade show, and I’m already recording Heroes. You can only record two at a time, so this poses a problem. Heroes stays, that’s a gimme. I’ll have to run it by the honey, but I’m guessing he’ll want to keep Spade’s show in this spot, as he doesn’t have many male centered shows right now.

8:30 PM CBS The Big Bang Theory – Bringing back Rosanne’s Johnny Galeki in this comedy about two super smart geeks fumbling with life, Big Bang Theory has promise. Since I don’t have anything on at 8:30 yet, this one gets added to the line up.

Tuesdays:

Two shows already on DVR Season Pass are:

8 PM FOX Bones - The small screen adaptation of the Dr. Temperance Brennan mystery book series by author Kathy Reichs has both of us hooked, much like House. I’ve heard complaints about the main character acting wooden, but the character is written that way. Her inability to relate to other people is key to the plot. If the show unfolds like the books have, you will get to see her transform as she learns more and more about human emotion. Plus, you get disgusting, gross, bloated, gassy, bloody, very dead bodies, murder, mystery and forensic anthropology – what more do you want?

9 PM FOX House, MD – Hugh Laurie plays genius, asshole, addict doctor Gregory House in truly yummy fashion. This season is causing me a great deal of angst already, as the writers are messing with the formula. The formula makes me happy. Previous messing with the formula (the Trigger plot, the Stacey plot, the Vogler plot) has not been good at all. Hopefully, the team will return somehow, and fast, because I am not looking forward to the story arcs without them. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised, but more likely… not

New to my Tuesday line up:

9 PM CW Reaper - Trying to throw more sci-fi in there (honey loves all sci fi, and I like some sci fi – though generally I like fantasy and magic sci fi, not robot sci fi). A show about a 21 year old “grim reaper” who has to be a soul bounty hunter (it’s hard to explain), this show will either fail miserably or be amazing. Either way we will be able to tell by episode two if it stays on the DVR or not.

Wednesdays:

8 PM FOX Back To You - This new Kelsey Grammar / Patricia Heaton vehicle about two newscasters who hate each other but have to anchor the same show should be funny. The two actors are comedic geniuses. If they can shake their typecasting from Frasier and Everybody Loves Raymond, we should have a show to watch for years to come.

8:30 FOX ‘Til Death – This show stars another Everybody Loves Raymond alum, Brad Garrett, and is a funny take on what happens when a jaded married couple going on 20 plus years together is suddenly faced with shiny, happy newlywed neighbors next door. This is on Season Pass from last year.

9 PM FOX Kitchen Nightmares – Super chef and asshole hottie from across the pond Gordon Ramsey, of Hell’s Kitchen and BBC TV fame, back in your kitchen and even more in your face. What’s not to love? This guy is the House, MD of the restaurant world, but with more cussing.

9 PM NBC Bionic Woman – I was such a huge fan of the 70s version of this show that I’m giving this one a try. I’ve heard it is an entirely new and much more edgy take on the original premise, so I’m looking forward to it. Plus, 20 odd years later you know it will have better special effects.

10 PM ABC Dirty Sexy Money – new show with Peter Krause of Six Feet Under fame.

Thursdays:

8 PM NBC My Name Is Earl – This funny Jason Lee drama is back on my DVR for another season.

9 PM CBS CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – The only CSI in the franchise that we watch, thanks to characters like Grissolm, we both love this show. It is a standing Season Pass holder, and we both can’t wait to see what happens to Sara in the season opener.

9 PM CW Supernatural – Another sci fi themed show we’re trying. We missed the first season last year for some reason, so now we’ll have to catch up to the plot. The jury is out on whether it will stay on DVR or not.

10 PM Big Shots – last minute add because it has Christopher Titus. We’ll see how it goes.

With two 9 PM shows, there is no room at 9:30 for Scrubs. Hmmm. I just noticed that. Oh well.

Fridays:

8 PM SCIFI Dr Who – This one is on there solely for honey. I do not watch this show at all. I didn’t watch it as a kid in its original form either. I am not sure why, but this telephone booth riding space doc just never grabbed me. Maybe it is because they change actors playing the doctor more often than Spinal Tap changes drummers, making it hard to invest in the character. I dunno. It was on DVR for honey last year and got booted from DVR. Not because I don’t love honey, but because SciFi channel couldn’t make up its mind when it wanted to show it. So head’s up, SciFi channel – if you change the day and time like you did last year, it’s coming off the DVR again. We’re too tightly scheduled in this television watching house for that kind of horseshit.

8 PM Fox The Next Great American Band – A reality show about the next mediocre band to hit the airwaves? Sign me up. After all, I need at least one or two reality contest trainwrecks in the lineup

9 PM ABC Women’s Murder Club – Another television show based on mystery books, this one is taken from James Patterson’s female detective series. Half CSI, half sisterhood, this one should be a fun watch.

9 PM CBS Moonlight - Vampires, private detectives, crime and romance, what’s not to love? I hope this show will be as good as it sounds.

Saturdays:

Saturdays has become a television graveyard. We spend many Saturdays watching some of the shows from the rest of the week, or watching movies from Blockbuster (Yes, somehow, in the middle of the TV, the writing, the social life, the reading… we find time to watch movies too. We rule.).

9 PM BBC Torchwood – We heard good things about this series, so we are trying it out. It supposedly has extraterrestrials monsters, crime solving, science fiction and paranoia. Cool.

Hope you enjoyed the concrete proof that I am a television junkie. That should be enough television to tide me over until Lost and American Idol return in January/February. I hope.

Where I got the fall schedule from: Futon Critic

Tags: Samantha Who, Big Bang Theory, Two And a Half Men, Rules Of Engagement, Heroes, Bones, House, Reaper, Kitchen Nightmares, Bionic Woman, Back To You, Til Death, CSI, My Name Is Earl, Scrubs, Supernatural, Women’s Murder Club, Moonlight, Next Great American Band, Dr Who, Torchwood, Extreme Home Makeover, Dexter, Side Order of Life, State of Mind, Saving Grace

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