US TV

In the US: Tuesdays, 9/8c, SciFi

In the UK: Sky One at some point, cunningly retitled A Town Called Eureka

Eureka bored me. I saw the first few episodes and there was pretty much nothing remarkable about it. Tuning in for the first episode of this second season, it almost occurred to me that I had been wrong and the writers and producers had started to give this generic sci-fi show about a town of government scientists some depth and edge.

Whoops. My mistake. It’s just the same as it always was.

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In the US: Fridays, 10/9c, USA Network

In the UK: Probably Hallmark, as per season one

Kids? What do they know? If they need to waste an hour, they’ll get out an XBox or poke each other to death on Facebook. Plus they’ve got no cash anyway. So it’s no wonder that Psych has slowly targeted itself at thirtysomethings – people who can remember the 80s fondly rather than hazily and sat through enough hours of Riptide, Simon and Simon and Tucker’s Witch that they can spot a format aimed squarely at them.

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