Rich's Views

I love my favorite TV Shows even though some are very predictable. Let’s take my favorite Comedy, The Big Bang Theory; it is doing what almost every sitcom TV Show has done for the past twenty plus years. Put a single attractive woman near a “quirky” single guy and let them come close to a relationship but not quite get there. In this case the show is in its second season and the guy knows that the woman is interested in him but because he is a wimp won’t ask her out a second time. A second time, you ask, well the first time did not go so well and they decided to just be friends. This has lead to a series of events that lets us the viewers know that they are great for each other, yet they cannot figure out how to let the other know that they care for each other as more than just friends.

So I have about ten hours worth of regular shows that I watch and for the most part I can predict what is going to happen in each on of them. Every now and then I do get a surprise, but not very often. The last show that gave me a twist was the now cancelled Life. The twist was that an integral but not regular character was alive instead of dead. Now, once it became obvious in the final episode that the character was alive; I was pleasantly surprised and was looking forward to more revelations and character development of the regular characters now that the “conspiracy” was revealed. Now I don’t get the chance.

Okay let me tell you a pet peeve of mine about TV scheduling. When you have put a lot of money into a show and give it a regular night and time slot leave it there for more than a week or two. Let us viewers have a chance to find it and make it a success. Don’t give it six different time slots with special nights and times that are not going to be the regular time slots. Leave well enough alone. After all how many seasons did it take for Seinfeld to finds its grove?

I do have a suggestion that I think the Networks, both paid and regular, should adopt. Four – thirteen week seasons, here is how this will work, lets take Tuesday nights at 9pm on CBS, currently NCIS is in that time slot. Produce thirteen episodes and then run them. Then when that is done you have another show that takes its place for the next thirteen weeks and so on. This means that instead of having to rely upon reruns and weeks with no new programming the viewer is always just a few weeks away from another show. This will keep costs down and keep revenue high as you are more likely to keep audiences watching your always fresh programming. It also means that if a series is not a success the network is not out a ton of extra money for a normal twenty two episode season. Imagine how much more you will enjoy watching fifty two weeks worth of new TV Shows.

And for those who want to know what I like to watch on a regular basis here is the list in no particular order:
The Big Bang Theory
How I Met Your Mother
Two and a Half Men
NCIS
The Mentalist
Life
Criminal Minds
Bones
Burn Notice
Flashpoint
Numbers
In Plain Sight

Other shows but not on a regular basis:
The Closer
The Unit
Cold Case
Battlestar Galactica
Castle
CSI Miami
CSI
House
Fringe
Eleventh Hour

The above list is the 2008-2009 schedule.

One more note that really should be it’s very own blog.

David Caruso and his total inability to act is a travesty that needs to end. Please for the love of all that makes TV worth watching, somebody please realize that this man needs to be taken aside and told three very important things:
1. SPEAK UP – nobody in their right mind would want to have a conversation with Horatio Caine without some sort of hearing aide.
2. STAND UP STRAIGHT – can we agree that only a person with a crippling degenerative disc disorder would walk around with his neck attached to his shoulder.
3. STUPID ONE LINERS – Okay this really is not his fault, I hope, but he has to say them, so I’m blaming him along with the writers, stop the stupid one liners that make you want to groan out loud and throw things at the TV.

The only reason I even watch the show is because I like Calleigh and Eric as characters.