Since loads of people keep coming here to find out when Medium will be back, I thought I’d let you know that it’s going to be in Kidnapped‘s Wednesday night slot, starting from mid-November, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Year: 2006
US TV
Review: 30 Rock 1×1 (US: NBC)
In the US: NBC, Wednesdays, 8/7c
In the UK: Nowhere yet. But it will.
So here’s weird. On Monday night on NBC, we have a show, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, that looks behind the scenes of a fictitious comedy sketch show. Meanwhile, on Wednesdays, over on… well, still on NBC, we have 30 Rock, which, erm, looks behind the scenes of a fictitious comedy sketch show.
The first is by award-winning writer Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing. The second is by Saturday Night Live alumnus, Tina Fey. Which one’s going to be better? Go on, go on. Which one, which one?
US TV
Third-episode verdict: Dexter
A slightly speedy third-episode verdict, I know, but that’s the power of the preview for you. Anyway, to cut a long story short, after a very promising first episode, Dexter has gone on only to impress. Darkly comic yet scary, it really is a great show.
Michael C Hall is truly upsetting and outstanding as the apparently normal Dexter, and although the other members of the cast are more than acceptable, it’s on Hall’s shoulders that the entire show rests. He’s more than up to the task
It would have been easy for the show’s producers to create a show that watered down the motivations of the average serial killer to create a nearly loveable anti-hero, but although Dexter does indeed only pick on bad people, at no point do you feel like you’re being asked to root for Dexter or to feel much sympathy for him.
So catch it if you can: it’s on Showtime on Sundays in the US, and will be on FX in the UK next year.
Review: The Outsiders
A longer, different version of my review of The Outsiders is over on Off The Telly. It’s also after the fold, in case you want to stick around. I must confess to having recycled a couple of ‘jokes’ though.
US TV
Third-episode verdict: Heroes
I’ll put in my third-episode verdict on Heroes. I’m not sure if it’s technically the third episode or not, given that the first two episodes were the pilot episode chopped in half, but here it is anyway.
I am recommending this, particularly since NBC has booked the show for an entire season, unlike Kidnapped, of course.
It’s proving, so far, to be a pleasing mixture of comedy, drama and sci-fi. The show’s been going for a slow build since the first episode. But, as well as a catastrophic menace the emerging heroes will have to prevent in just under a month, we also have an adversary in the form of a super-powered serial killer who’s hunting them down. Worse for them still, this guy appears to have all of their powers, not just one of his own. So we certainly have something to look forward to.
We still have the thorny issue of their not knowing what their powers are, how they work or whether they’re just mental cases imagining the whole thing. Or if they’re going to use those powers for good or evil.
It’s not 100% compelling but still intriguing. Worth sticking with for a little while longer, anyway.