Notes and Thoughts in a Virtual World

08:00 PM:
ABC: Wife Swap (Sept. 12)
Reality show.
Official website.
TV.com website.
not interested


CBS: King of Queens (Sept. 19)
Comedy, Sitcom.
About: Married couple and the wife's father living together in Queens New York.
Stars: Kevin James, Leah Remini ("Saved by the Bell," "First Time Out," "Fired Up") , Jerry Stiller ("Seinfeld")
Official Website.
TV.com website.
Been awhile, might give it another shot.


NBC: Surface (Sept. 19) AKA Fathom
Science Fiction/Drama/Mystery/Thriller
About: New sea creatures, appear, the world reacts.
Stars: Lake Bell ("Boston Legal" "Miss Match"), Jay Ferguson ("Glory Days" "The Outsiders"), Rade Sherbedgia ("Vecernja zvonia"), Carter Jenkins ("Unfabulous"), Leighton Meester ("Tarzan").
Official Website.
TV.com website.
not sure, might give it a shot.

FOX: Arrested Development (Sept. 19)
Comedy
About: A man has an insane family and must run the family business.
Stars: Jason Bateman, David Cross, Jeffrey Tambor, Will Arnett, Alia Shawkat, Portia de Rossi, Jessica Walter, Michael Cera, Tony Hale.
Official Website.
TV.com website.
not interested.


WB: 7th Heaven (Sept. 19)
Drama/soap
About: A religious family.
Stars: Stephen Collins, Catherine Hicks, Barry Watson
Official Website.
TV.com website.
not interested

UPN: One on One (Sept. 19)
Comedy
Stars: Breanna Barnes, Flex Alexander, Kyla Pratt, Kelly Perine, Robert Ri'chard.
TV.com website.
not interested

08:30 PM:
ABC: Wife Swap continues


CBS: How I Met Your Mother (Sept. 19)
Comedy.
About: A man reveals how he meat his wife.
Stars: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel ("Freaks and Geeks"), Alyson Hannigan ("Buffy TVS"), Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris ("Doogie Howser, M.D." "Stark Raving Mad"), Bob Saget (narrator).
Official Website.
TV.com Website.
Selkie pick
maybe
NBC: Surface continues

FOX: Kitchen Confidential (Sept. 19)
Comedy
About: Based on real life chief Bourdain.
Stars: Bradley Cooper ("Alias"), Bonnie Sommerville ("NYPD Blue"), Owain Yeoman, Nicholas Brendon ("Buffy: TVS"), John Francis Daley ("Freaks and Geeks"), Jamie King.
Official Website.
TV.com website.
Selkie pick
I'll give it a shot.

WB: 7th Heaven continues

UPN: All of Us (Sept. 19)
Comedy
About: An entertainment reporter.
Stars: Duane Martin, Terri J. Vaugh, Elise Neal, Tony Rock, Khamani Griffin.
TV.com website.
not interested

09:00 PM:
ABC: Monday Night Football (Sept. 12)
Sports: Football.
About: Two NFL football teams compete against each other late into the night.
Official Website.
TV.com website.
only when my team is playing


CBS: Two and a Half Men (Sept. 19)
Comedy, Sitcom, family.
About: Two brothers living together after one of them is divorced (and a son).
Stars: Charlie Sheen ("Spin City"), Jon Cryer ("Partners"), Angus T. Jones, Holland Taylor ("The Powers that Be"), Marin Hinkle, Melanie Lynskey, Conchata Ferrell ("Hearts Afire")
Official Website.
TV.com website.
will watch.


NBC: Las Vegas (Sept. 19)
Drama
About: A Casino in Las Vegas.
Stars: James Caan, Josh Duhamel, Nikki Cox, Vanessa Marcil, Molly Sims, James Lesure
Official Website.
TV.com Website.
maybe, not likely

Fox: Prison Break (August 29: 2 hour premiere, Sept. 5: Time Spot debut)
Drama
About: A guy that helped design a prison robs a bank so that he can go to the same prison of his brother, and try to escape.
Stars: Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell.
Official website.
TV.com website.
Television Without Pity.com page.
Selkie pick
not sure


WB: Just Legal (Sept 19)
Drama/Legal
About: a young lawyer is shown the ropes by an old guy.
Stars: Jay Baruchel, Don Johnson.
Official Website.
TV.com website.
Television Without Pity.com page.
Selkie pick
not likely

UPN: Girlfriends (Sept. 19)
Comedy
Stars: Persia White, Golden Brooks, Reggie Hayes, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jill Marie Jones.
TV.com website.
not interested

09:30 PM:
ABC: MNF continues


CBS: Out of Practice (Sept. 19)
Comedy.
About: A family of medical doctor's and the misfit, who became a psychologist.
Stars: Christopher Gorham, Henry Winkler ("Happy Days"), Stockard Channing, Ty Burrell, Paula Marshall.
Official Website.
TV.com website.
maybe

NBC: Las Vegas continues
FOX: Prison Break continues
WB: Just Legal continues

UPN: Half & Half (Sept. 19)
Comedy.
About: Half-sisters - father one thing have in common.
Stars: Essence Atkins, Rachel True.
TV.com website.
not interested

10:00 PM:
ABC: MNF continues

CBS: CSI: Miami (Sept. 19)
Crime, Police Procedural
About: Murder and mayhem in Miami investigated by the cops.
Stars: David Caruso ("NYPD Blue"), Emily Proctor ("The West Wing"), Adam Rodriguez ("Brooklyn South"), Khandi Alexander ("NewsRadio"), Sofia Milos ("The Secrets Life of Men"), Jonathan Togo ("Special Unit 2").
Official Website.
TV.com website.
will watch


NBC: Medium (Sept. 19)
Drama/Supernatural
About: Allison Dubois (Patricia Arquette) is a medium that can see and talk with dead people, see the future and read minds.
Stars: Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber, Sofia Vassilieva, Maria Lake
Official Website.
TV.com website.
not interested

FOX: local
WB: local
UPN: local

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Blog Entries on the New Season:
"SELKIE'S STARTER GUIDE TO THE 2005 FALL TV SEASON" by someone called Selkie.
"i have studied and researched and watched baby-mini-clips of many of the new shows for the fall 2005-05 tv season. i have determined exactly which pilots will get an official selkie screening. bear in mind that i have not seen an actual episode of anything, so some shows might actually suck when watched completely. that was my disclaimer."

"TV: Fall Season 2005 Previews: Fox, CBS, NBC & ABC, WB & UPN" by tomthedog.
NBC: "E-Ring" - "is doomed."
NBC: "Fathom" aka "Surface" - "will fold after six episodes."
ABC: "What About Brian" - to similar to it's lead in "Jake in Progress"
ABC: "Commander-in-Chief" - "shyeah, that'll be a hit."
CBS: "Out of Practice" - don't count on it lasting because it has Paula Marshall in it: "she has killed every show she's ever been in stone cold dead."
FOX: "Kitchen Confidential" - based on a real chef, but changed his first name & looking at the cast photo - "check out Nicholas Brendon in the cast picture. Now, I don't want to go making snap judgments on a show I haven't even seen yet, but if his character isn't gay, I will give each one of you a shiny new nickel"
FOX: "Prison Break" - looks "dopey, but interesting premise for a mini-series," but not as a series.
FOX: "The Loop" & "The Gate" - "which will surely be the finest crime drama set in San Francisco since Nash Bridges."
WB: "Just Legal" - has to be a temp title. "Are they seriously thinking of airing a show whose title is strongly reminiscent of almost-underage porn?"
WB: "Supernatural" - "McG is involved? I'm out! Get thee behind me, McG!"
UPN: "Sex, Lies & Serects" aka Sex, Love & Secrets - "I guess it is fresh and edgy for the "something" in "twenty-something" to mean "fourteen"."

"The Fall 2005 TV Season. Potential Bombs and Breakout Shows" by BUFFTUFF. May 25, 2005: "Yes, as May sweeps wind up tonight, the TV networks have announced their new Fall 2005 TV schedules."

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Blog reviews of tv shows:
"Blogcritics Break It Down For Prison Break" a write up and collection of reviews by Eric Berlin on Dumpster Bust.

"Prison Break: A Potential Breakout Hit for Fox Television" by Raymond Tomlin. Examination and links to USA Today article and Zap2it.com article.

"TV: Prison Break" review by tomthedog: "the most praise I can muster is, it could've been worse. Prison Break is just ridiculous. It's just mind-jarringly, staggeringly ridiculous. But if you can kind of squint and pretend you don't see all the stupid malarkey, it's not that bad."

"TV: Rome" review by tomthedog: "Bloody and sexy and undeniably epic, Rome is another win for HBO. It's not Deadwood, or The Sopranos, but it's a tremendous achievement nonetheless. "Not the best HBO has to offer" still means "better than almost anything on television."

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News articles on the 2005 Television season starting in the Fall:
Kansas.com (Wichita Eagle) - July 11, 2005 article on the Fall season: "Fall TV: Prepare to be scared" by Mike Duffy:
"Six new network series with supernatural, horror or sci-fi themes give the fall season its signature programming trend."

Miami Herald - Aug. 29, 2005 article on the fall season: "Fall TV season banks on sci-fi, mystery" by Lynn Elber:
"There's a network conspiracy afoot and viewers are the target. The cunning fall scheme: Keep 'em guessing. Enigmas and eerie threats pervade many of the 31 new TV series, with strange creatures above ground and underwater and secrets and unsolved deaths among friends."

Sun Herald.com - Aug. 19, 2005 article: "Fall TV full of sci-fi themes" by Charlie McCollum:
"Science fiction is coming back big. This fall will find more television shows with sci-fi/fantasy themes than audiences have seen in five years -- for reasons that may lie deeper than demographics."

USA Today - Aug. 29, 2005 article: "Forget the calendar: Fall TV begins Monday" by Bill Keveney: "It's still hot, the leaves are green and the calendar says August. But fall is here. The first program of the 2005-06 TV season, Fox's Prison Break, premieres tonight (8 ET/PT)."

Variety.com - August 28, 2005 article: "Fierce fight for first" by Michael Schneider: "
"Who's on first? This fall, it's anyone's guess.
The network race -- particularly in the demo that advertisers crave, 18-49 -- has become so tight that any new hit could impact the standings."

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Premiere Dates:
AOL Television list. Starpulse.com list. The Futon Critic.com's list.

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Schedules:
Variety.com Fall Schedule. The Futon Critic.com Fall Schedule. TV Guide Fall Schedule. Yahoo! Entertainment Fall Schedule.

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