The pick of the new US shows (week two)

16 October 2009 Rob Buckley US TV Post a comment

Just to update the list of new US shows worth watching, now a few more results are in. I’ve added their current Live Feed status if there is one, in case you worried they might be cancelled once you start watching:

Watch
Community (NBC): Review (Carusometer rating: 1) [OK]
Modern Family (ABC/Sky 1 – October 15): Review (Carusometer rating: 2) [Safe]
Cougar Town (ABC/Living – 2010): Review (Carusometer rating: 2) [Safe]
The Good Wife (CBS/More4-Channel 4 – 2010): Review (Carusometer rating: 2) [Safe]
Stargate Universe (SciFi/Sky 1 – already airing): Review (Carusometer rating: 2)
Trauma (NBC): Review (Carusometer rating: 2) [Endangered]
The Middle (ABC): Review (Carusometer rating: 2) [OK]

Don’t watch
Brothers (Fox): Review [Endangered]
The Vampire Diaries (The CW/ITV2 – 2010): Review [Safe]
Bored to Death (HBO): Review (Carusometer rating: 3)
The Forgotten (ABC): Review [Endangered]
Accidentally on Purpose (CBS/E4 – 2010): Review [OK]
Eastwick (ABC/SciFi – 2009/2010): Review [Endangered]
FlashForward (ABC/Five – already airing): Review (Carusometer rating: 3) [Safe]
Mercy (NBC): Review [Endangered]
Hank (ABC): Review [Endangered]

I’ll update the list again, once shows like Hard Target starting showing up on the map.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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