DYNASTY: Wednesday 9PM on CW – In the Queue The new DYNASTY isn’t the fall’s worst new show, but it’s the most puzzling. Was there really a surge of interest among CW’s 18-34 target demo for a revival of an ABC soap that went off the air 28 years ago? The show has a […]
SATISFACTION: Thursday 10PM on USA – If Nothing Else Is On… Sean Jablonski’s new series SATISFACTION is a rarity for USA Network: a drama that isn’t built around a familiar procedural franchise or fast-talking, quipping heroes. Instead, it’s a story about midlife angst and marriage–there’s a namecheck of “Updike” at one passing point in […]
GANG-RELATED: Thursday 9PM on FOX – Change the Channel I think my favorite cliche in the pilot for FOX’s burn-off drama GANG-RELATED–out of, believe me, plenty of choices–comes at the end of an argument between a fiery Assistant District Attorney (Shantal VanSanten) and the head of the show’s inter-agency Gang Task Force (Terry O’Quinn). […]
BROOKLYN NINE-NINE: Tuesday 8:30PM on FOX – Potential DVR Alert BROOKLYN NINE-NINE is the kind of sitcom that can go very right or extremely wrong: an ensemble about kooky homicide detectives, anchored by former SNL-er Andy Samberg. Happily, series creators Michael Schur and Dan Goor, both veterans of Parks & Recreation (Schur is its co-creator as […]
PITCH: Thursday 9PM on FOX – Potential DVR Alert Dan Fogelman is a busy man. He’s not only the creator of This Is Us, which debuted strongly two nights ago, he’s also co-creator (with Rick Singer) of the buzzy PITCH. And gues what, this pilot has a twist in its final moments too. The Pitch twist is the […]
FARGO: Tuesday 10PM on FX – DVR Alert Previously… on FARGO: It’s chance that puts mild-mannered, beaten-down Bemidji, Minnesota insurance salesman Lester Nygaard (Martin Freeman) beside sociopath Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) shortly after Lester had a run-in with the bully who made his high school years a living hell. But when asked directly […]
FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE: Monday 10:30PM on TBS – Potential DVR Alert It is written, apparently, that all alumni of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show who aren’t starring in movies or sitcoms must have their own comedy news series, and tonight it was the turn of Samantha Bee. TBS’s marketing of the series […]
ALL AMERICAN: Wednesday 9PM on CW The ALL AMERICAN of CW’s pilot may or may not be fully representative of the series going forward, since creator and original showrunner April Blair is no longer involved with the production of the show, replaced by writer/producer Nkechi O. Carroll. (The series is under the overall supervision–as […]