Dirty Sexy Money

Dirty Sexy Money is another conception of Arrested Development.

Journeyman

I recommend Journeyman.

Back To You

The new Fox Show "Back To You," which is about local news, is OK. It's a lot of sexual innuendo and double entendres--so it's a sitcom. The woman who reads the weather isn't really a meteorologist and spends much of the time flaunting her sexuality, so...

Right now "'Til Death" is on and it's funnier, if that means anything. Actually, this show is pretty funny anyway. I really like this show. It makes me laugh. So there's that.

TV and Food

Sitcoms
It astounds me how many truly awful, awful sitcoms are in syndication much of the day. I can't believe America has reached a point in which Two and a Half Men is syndicated. Oh wait. I do believe it. It just makes me appalled. People like this show. People watch this show. There is no hope.

But Two and a Half Men is only the unfunniest of the awful sitcoms. Flip the channels, and you'll see According to Jim or King of Queens. I recently got visibly angry at Everybody Loves Raymond: I just couldn't fathom that after Robert was caught smoking, some writer, somewhere, thought it was not only funny, but funny enough to put on TV, and funny enough to get a laugh out of the studio audience, if Raymond called him Puff the Magic Dragon.

Good sitcoms like Seinfeld, Arrested Development, The Office, The Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and much of the stuff Britain gives us have raised my expectations. I can't stand all the inane schlub that's on TV. After flipping around and seeing things like Malcolm in the Middle and That 70s Show on TV, even a show like Friends can get out loud laughter out of me (occasionally. very occasionally).

But some syndicated sitcoms don't achieve the level of art as Seinfeld does, but remain watchable. Frazier. Scrubs. But most of what we see is atrociously unfunny, uninspired, unoriginal, uncreative, and ungood.

(note: I'm a TV snob, strong on my own tastes, and I don't mean to offend you if you like some of these shows. Except Two and a Half Men. That show is just bad).

Sorry, 10:00 Local News
Yep, this blog is devoted in part to local TV news. But now The Simpsons is on at 10:00. I've been waiting for The Simpsons to be back on after 10:00 for a long time. That's the time I want to unwind with the show. It doesn't work to put a DVD in: that feels like doing something. It's nice to unwind with the show just on TV.

Cotton Candy Blizzard
Today I experienced it. Once it touched my tongue, I marvelled that God had placed me in a time and a place where such sensual pleasures are possible.

New TV shows we're excited about

It's fall and that means there are new TV shows. For me, that means that I'll get excited about a few particular shows that will get canceled within a month, and I'll miss out on the beginning of a hit show and not want to catch on late. So here are the shows doomed to failure because I'm interested in watching them.

Journeyman (NBC)
This is the one I'm most excited about. It's some sort of sci-fi, time travel show. It is starring Lucius Vorenus from Rome. In the commercials he's talking to Detective Kellerman from Homicide. Any one of these facts would get me to watch. It starts September 24th, and NBC is putting it on after Heroes, which encourages me that people might actually watch it. Cruelty-Free Mommy watches Heroes. And she loves Lucius Vorenus.

Dirty Sexy Money (ABC)
There is one reason I'm going to check this show out: Nathan Fisher from Six Feet Under is the star. It starts on September 26th.

Cavemen (ABC)
Why am I watching this? Because it can do nothing but fail. I like the commercials. I really do. They make me laugh out loud. And the sitcom is probably going to be horrible. The first and possibly last episode will be on October 2nd.

Back to You (FOX)
If you haven't noticed, we write a blog that is about local TV news. Here is a TV show about local TV news. We'll watch, even if it features stars from sitcoms I didn't really care for. It starts next Wednesday.