So suddenly, you get the call. Despite never having applied for the position, you’ve suddenly been appointed Head of Scheduling at your favourite TV channel. You’ve been given carte blanche to fill the schedules how you like, and you have the budget to acquire and even make whatever you want.
What’s your schedule like?
Obviously, what’s suitable for Saturday night viewing isn’t necessarily suitable for Sunday or Friday night. So you can restrict yourself to a single day or even a single evening. But it’s up to you: any time slots, any channel.
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.
In the US: Sundays, 9.30pm, HBO. Starts 20th September
Looking for the one – 30? (Manhattan)
Date: 2009-09-16, 7:36AM EDT
Nice looking, gentle, Jewish non-practicing Vegan, writer, stuck on second novel, just separated from girlfriend. Bored. Will offer services as unlicenced private detective to find missing persons, check on fidelity, etc, for $100/day. Looking for like-minded women for friendship, more? Must like pot, white wine, Raymond Chandler’s Farewell My Lovely.
Location: Nyc residents
it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
I’ve already given you some previews of the new shows coming to US TV this Fall (). However, there’s a lovely YouTube channel that collects together all the trailers for all the shows, including the returning ones, in one big, easy-to-navigate place. Perusing it, I found the following exciting trailer for a show that I haven’t really touched on yet: White Collar – a new show starting on the USA Network about an FBI agent and a conman who team up:
In the US: Mondays, 9/8c, The CW In the UK: ITV2 again
When Gossip Girlfirst popped up on our screens, it had a certain something. Okay, it was aimed at teenage girls and was about ridiculously rich people having ridiculously privileged educations and behaving like spoilt brats. But it was sweet, it had its heart in its right, there were some decent male and adult characters, the dialogue was witty, and it was actually quite clever.
Over the next two seasons, it became the must-watch show for teenage girls and indeed older women, keen to find a Sex and the City replacement, as well as a few men. However, as it went on, things became a little sillier. Although the producers promised they weren’t going to make the same mistakes they made with The OC, it all started to go wrong. Ridiculous plots and sub-plots started to crop up (Jenny’s stab at a fashion business, for example); everyone started to play ‘musical boyfriends’, yo-yoing between them all without any real rhyme or reason; and soon the cast had forgotten it was a drama and began mugging it for all it was worth.
So have the producers taken advantage of the summer break to take stock, regroup and come up with some storylines that don’t want to hit your head against a wall at the stupidity of them all?
I’ll give you three guesses. You’ll only need one.
