TV Right Now: The good, the bad and the totally sucky

[bentgyro]

Strange, indeed.

[doodler]

Larry?

[killersmom]

Well, CSI NY episode tonight could be the end, or could be room for a new season.

And they have cancelled "A Gifted Man". Crap! But I figured this was going to happen, since it has disappeared.

The others cancelled this week:

"Are You There, Chelsea?" (NBC)
"Ringer" (The CW)
"Alcatraz" (Fox)
"Harry's Law" (NBC)
"Pan Am" (ABC)
"Awake" (NBC)
"Breaking In" (Fox)
"Bent" (NBC)
"GCB" (ABC)
"Missing" (ABC)
"The Finder" (Fox)
"Best Friends Forever" (NBC)
"I Hate My Teenage Daughter" (Fox)
"The Firm" (NBC)
"The River" (ABC)

[jack]

awake is the only thing i might have liked, if i had ever found out where & when it was.  i am just hoping touch or whatever its called gets the green light.  i find it intriguing.  i always talk about needing to like at least some of the characters to connect to a show.  that's my main problem with smash.  so many characters and so few i care about, or would, if they got more screen time.

[bubba]

"Harry's Law" (NBC)
 

[doodler]

For me, the biggie is Missing. I love the show and look forward to it every Thursday. (Jack, Awake has been on Thursday at 10 since it started. I watch it every week too, but am not as attached to it as to Missing and Touch.)

Also really liked The River, even though it's not my usual thing. And am still watching The Firm every week.

Shucky darn.

[doodler]

Tony, you were right about the Hank seeing Monroe as a blutbad thing. Too bad. The guy needs something to spice up his character. If the girlfriend is as freaked out as she seems, guess she's not one of them... at least until next season.

[doodler]

from zap2it.com
CBS Fall TV 2012 predictions:
Will 'The Good Wife' move, and will 'CSI: Miami' and 'CSI: NY' both survive?
By Rick Porter
   
May 11, 2012 8:06 PM ET

CBS took much of the suspense out of its upfront by renewing the great majority of its lineup back in March. "Two and a Half Men" wasn't on that list, but it's a lock to return.

The only questions now are, where does the network put all those shows? And of the remaining shows not yet renewed, will both "CSI: Miami" and "CSI: NY" make it to next season?

"The Good Wife" is already picked up for 2012-13, but there's been a lot of speculation that CBS will find a new timeslot for it. We don't mind it staying at 9 on Sundays -- but in our schedule, it waits until midseason so it A) doesn't get pushed back by NFL overruns in the fall and B) can have a mostly uninterrupted run starting in January. The network is also reportedly considering expanding its Thursday comedy block, which would move one of the two current Thursday dramas (most likely "The Mentalist") to a different night.

As for which "CSI" show joins the original in returning to the lineup, it's kind of a tossup. "Miami" had better ratings than "NY" this season, but it also aired on a night with higher overall viewership (Sunday vs. Friday). "NY" is two years younger than its counterpart (and therefore probably a little cheaper to produce). Our coin flip gives the spot to "CSI: NY," but we wouldn't be surprised to see "Miami" -- or even both shows -- make the cut.

Here's what we think CBS' schedule for fall will shake out. All times are ET/PT, and new shows are in italics.

Monday

8 p.m. "How I Met Your Mother"
*8:30 p.m. Untitled Nicholas Stoller comedy (aka "My Idiotic Twenties")
9 p.m. "Two and a Half Men"
9:30 p.m. "Mike & Molly"
10 p.m. "Hawaii Five-0"

The 8:30 spot was a good place for "2 Broke Girls" this season, and if CBS expands its Thursday comedy block, we figure it will move there. In its place goes the Nicholas Stoller show, about a guy whose girlfriend breaks up with him -- but still works in the next cubicle. Stoller is a Judd Apatow protege who has worked a couple times with "HIMYM" star Jason Segel, so we'd expect the new show to be a tonal match with its lead-in.

Tuesday

8 p.m. "NCIS"
9 p.m. "NCIS: Los Angeles"
*10 p.m. "Ralph Lamb"

"Unforgettable" didn't take full advantage of its potent two-hour lead-in this season, which is why you don't see it here or anywhere else (the bar is simply higher at CBS). "Ralph Lamb" has a big-name cast led by Dennis Quaid, Michael Chiklis and Carrie-Anne Moss, which could offset the potentially tricky period setting (1960s Las Vegas).

Wednesday

8 p.m. "Survivor"
9 p.m. "Criminal Minds"
*10 p.m. "Elementary"

"CSI" moves out of the 10 o'clock spot to make way for "Elementary," a modern Sherlock Holmes tale starring Jonny Lee Miller as the great detective and Lucy Liu as his Watson. "Criminal Minds" is still a strong enough lead-in to give a new show a good foundation.

Thursday

8 p.m. "The Big Bang Theory"
*8:30 p.m. "Super Fun Night"
9 p.m. "2 Broke Girls"
*9:30 p.m. "Partners"
10 p.m. "Person of Interest"

"Big Bang" and "2 Broke Girls" are CBS' No. 1 and No. 3 comedies among adults 18-49 (sandwiching "Two and a Half Men"), so they anchor each hour of the new Thursday block. "Super Fun Night" sounds almost like a female-lead "Big Bang Theory" to us, so it makes a good fit there, and the network is said to be high on "Partners," which comes from "Will & Grace" creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick. "Person of Interest" should do just fine at a later hour.

Friday

8 p.m. "Undercover Boss"
9 p.m. "CSI: NY"
10 p.m. "Blue Bloods"

Status quo here -- unless CBS renews "CSI: Miami" instead of "NY."

Saturday

8 p.m. Drama repeats
10 p.m. "48 Hours"

'Twere ever thus -- or at least it seems that way.

Sunday

7 p.m. "60 Minutes"
8 p.m. "The Amazing Race"
9 p.m. "CSI"
10 p.m. "The Mentalist"

Although the original "CSI" was revitalized some creatively this season, it's still getting a little long in the tooth. It could slide to another night when "The Good Wife" comes back.

Midseason: As we said above, we'd like to see "The Good Wife" get an unbroken run in the second half of the season. "Rules of Engagement" will likely continue to be a utility player for either comedy block. We'd also figure at least one more new drama -- female private-eye show "Applebaum" and "Trooper," starring Mira Sorvino, are seen as contenders -- and one new comedy, possibly the Martin Lawrence vehicle, to get a pickup.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

Really bummed Alcatraz was cancelled.

Every show that CBS has moved to Sunday nights at 10pm I have stopped watching.
Without a Trace and  CSI: Miami.  Now they're moving The Mentalist there? Whyyyyy
yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

[doodler]

With Awake being cancelled and POI moving to 10, I might watch it more often. Although, Scandal has been renewed and I'd like to give it a shot.

[jack]

you speak as if i knew when thursday was..  i am SERIOUSLY retired.

For me, the biggie is Missing. I love the show and look forward to it every Thursday. (Jack, Awake has been on Thursday at 10 since it started. I watch it every week too, but am not as attached to it as to Missing and Touch.)

Also really liked The River, even though it's not my usual thing. And am still watching The Firm every week.

Shucky darn.

[CellarDweller115]

In honor of Mother's Day, Yahoo has done a list of the 10 worst moms on TV this year.

 

Apparently they do this list every year, and have a said that there are no repeats from last year, the 10 worst moms are all new horrible moms.


10. Lily ("Gossip Girl")

One daughter is wreaking havoc as Gossip Girl, and Lily is too busy with her own struggling marriage to notice. Her son is completely missing in action, and she seems to care not. Her stepson (from a different, and maybe still valid, marriage) is going through some messed-up issues with his birth parents, and she ignores him. Her stepdaughter could be dead for all we know. To make matters worse, she's manipulative, money grubbing, and mean to her (fake) niece and isn't much better to her actual one.


9. Catherine ("Ringer")

When we first met Juliet, we thought she was your run-of-the-mill spoiled brat, but then we were introduced to her mother. Crazy, vindictive Catherine manipulated her daughter into making a fake rape claim in order to rip off Andrew (the father of her child) for $10 million. Then she faked an attempted suicide so she could try to kill (Bridget-as-)Siobhan with some drugged tea. We're glad things didn't work out with her lover Olivia, because clearly Cattie is -- to paraphrase Juliet -- "an evil bitch" who should just "get over it" already.


8. Mitch ("The Killing")

Her daughter may or may not have been a prostitute or involved in some illegal doings at a casino. And she ended up dead seemingly because of it. But instead of hunkering down and paying more attention to her remaining children, Mitch left her sons to be raised by a depressed father and their hooker aunt while she went off to live in a motel and act creepy around wayward runaway girls.


7. Selina ("Veep")

She's the vice president of the United States, so she's got a lot on her plate, but her daughter is absolutely the last thing on her agenda. She makes a lunch date with Catherine only to look like a good mother, and then cancels it and makes her daughter sit around her office all day. She also promises the college-age girl a dog (which Catherine wanted as a kid), for appearance' sake. And she ignores her daughter's one request: to not try to control the weather. Self-involved much, Madam Vice President?


6. Julia ("Smash")

Her son, Leo, who looks like he's 40 years old, is still living at home and smoking pot with his friends and nearly went to jail. But instead of giving him tough love, Julia totally babies him. The supersensitive kid cries at the drop of a hat, takes his parents' separation way too personally, and is obsessed with the idea that they should adopt another child. And Julia appears to be forcing herself to stay in a miserable marriage in order to make her son happy. That's never a good plan. Also, if you are going to re-initiate an affair, don't do it where your son can watch.

5. Constance ("American Horror Story")

Whether she's locking her Down syndrome-affected daughter in a closet filled with mirrors or badgering her boyfriend into smothering the deformed son that she keeps hidden away in the attic, this faded Southern belle's maternal instinct has clearly gone horrifically awry. On the other hand, she does fight to keep the children she actually wants close to her... like the demonic grandson conceived by her ghostly son, Tate, and her next-door neighbor Vivien Harmon. Since the show is rebooting itself in Season 2, we won't see how the two are getting along, but we're sure that under Constance's firm guidance, that little tyke is going to grow up to be a real killer.

4. Regina ("Once Upon a Time")

Henry wanders off and puts himself in more danger than almost any other kid on TV and is currently in a coma by his legal mother's hand (albeit inadvertently). Why adopt a kid if you are going to ignore him in favor of trying to take down a town? And poor Henry has the double burden of having a birth mom who is almost as terrible as his adoptive mom, since chasing after Emma endangers his life on a fairly regular basis as well.


3. Lori ("The Walking Dead")

How many times does Carl have to almost die before Lori checks to make sure that her son is where he's supposed to be? And then there's her pattern of reckless behavior, like taking a bunch of morning-after pills in order to induce a miscarriage and maybe kill herself in the process. Or taking off in a car after dark to check on her husband, and then crashing it… leaving her son in danger of losing both parents in a world filled with zombies. Plus, she raised a kid who is such a little brat that he stupidly taunts zombies and wastes valuable weapons.


2. Esther ("The Vampire Diaries")

She tried to use a spell to link her children together so that they could more easily be killed. What kind of mom wants to mass-murder her offspring? Granted, some of her children are monsters who wreak havoc on the human race, but a few of them aren't entirely bad, even if they are vampires. Nevertheless, she'd like to purge them all with one stake. Does unconditional parental love have a thousand-year expiration date?

1. Sarah Linden ("The Killing")

She's not actively trying to kill her son, but she may end up doing so anyway. After she teased him with the idea that he was moving to California, he's now relegated to being homeless since she can't keep a place for more than a minute because Child Protective Services is (rightly) breathing down her neck or because a murderer might be stalking her. Linden's son rarely gets to eat anything that doesn't come out of a vending machine, and she keeps him locked up in motel rooms, supposedly for his own protection. And his only "friend" is a meth-addicted detective, while his mom prevents him from being with his father, who could actually maybe take care of him or at least provide him with a safe place to stay. Her main justification for her absentee parenting? He's 13 and not a child anymore.



http://tv.yahoo.com/photos/mothers-day-the-10-worst-moms-on-tv-this-season-slideshow/

[Marz]

So happy 'Cougar Town' will be back, I know its been bought by a new channel but it will stay on Sky Living over here, such a great show, I love it, infact its now the only american show I watch and I used to watch loads!

[Jeff Wrangler]

(Wednesday:) *10 p.m. "Elementary"

"CSI" moves out of the 10 o'clock spot to make way for "Elementary," a modern Sherlock Holmes tale starring Jonny Lee Miller as the great detective and Lucy Liu as his Watson.

That might bear checking out. I like Jonny Lee Miller--I liked Eli Stone. Or, at least, I liked him in Eli Stone, anyway. But if NBC still has L&O: SVU at 10 o'clock on Wednesdays, I expect I'll be sticking with L&O.

I'm sorry to see The Finder go. I like Jeff Stoltz and Michael Clark Duncan, and I liked the quirkiness of the show. On the other hand, I can't say anything because I've been no help since the show was moved to 8 p.m. Friday, when I'm watching Who Do You Think You Are.

As for NBC, I could never seem to remember to look for Harry's Law on Sundays.  Sunday is not a big TV night for me.

[doodler]

ABC has Revenge at 10 on Wednesdays and it is terrific.

I've tried to like The Finder and have watched a number of episodes, but if there is anything else on, I cheerfully skip it. I think I'll like it much better in syndication!