Things (Tuesday Edition)
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cadhla reports that Veronica Mars has been picked up for 13 episodes by the CW. No word yet when it will air, though. While not a surprise - Rob Thomas recently said it has seemed 80% certain for a while now - this is a relief. This show is just too good not to give the chance yet again. Hopefully, it will get a good lead-in and thrive.
2. ABC announced that Lost will air seven new episodes in the fall, then take a break and let another new show in for 13 weeks, and then return with new episodes straight through May. The seven early eps will apparently constitute a whole, as will the rest. There will be no more reruns to confuse and annoy viewers. This startegy makes sense, though why they can't just air it straight through beginning to end the way Fox airs 24 is beyond me.
3. ABC and NBC has announced their fall lineups, and I shrug. Lots of shows with Lost-style or 24-style story arcs and plots, but nothing that sounds good from this distance. The weirdest thing so far? NBC is launching a sitcom about the making of TV show like SNL (created by SNL alum Tina Fey) and a drama about the making of a TV show like SNL (created by Aaron Sorkin. Is there a demand for either of these, given how many shows we've seen abut the making of TV shows? (Give me Dick Van Dyke any day.) Maybe once we get to the fall and to actual reviews, things will sound better, but for now, I am merely pleased that at least two shows I like will be back, since I doubt there will be anything else.
4. DC posted its solicitations for its August comics. And to my surprise, I was quite uninterested. Oh, a few things - the books I'm already committed to reading, for the most part - sound promising. But despite all the promise of change, DC looks about the same as it did a year ago. Only the addition of a few writers of note and what's going on in Fables and its spinoff are really intriguing. Judged by this standard, I am ready to say that Infinite Crisis was only a limited success. It's not like it was after the first Crisis, when everything I saw coming from DC was really something to see. Sigh.
5. Compared to Marvel, though, DC is fresh. August at Marvel is all Civil War, all the time, and with little variation from series to series. OK, to be fair I think that diehard Marvelites look at DC and feel the same way. But right now, I feel like Marvel has lost me in a way that it never did in any of its previous Event stories. Well, at least Runaways is not linked to Civil War.
cadhla reports that Veronica Mars has been picked up for 13 episodes by the CW. No word yet when it will air, though. While not a surprise - Rob Thomas recently said it has seemed 80% certain for a while now - this is a relief. This show is just too good not to give the chance yet again. Hopefully, it will get a good lead-in and thrive.2. ABC announced that Lost will air seven new episodes in the fall, then take a break and let another new show in for 13 weeks, and then return with new episodes straight through May. The seven early eps will apparently constitute a whole, as will the rest. There will be no more reruns to confuse and annoy viewers. This startegy makes sense, though why they can't just air it straight through beginning to end the way Fox airs 24 is beyond me.
3. ABC and NBC has announced their fall lineups, and I shrug. Lots of shows with Lost-style or 24-style story arcs and plots, but nothing that sounds good from this distance. The weirdest thing so far? NBC is launching a sitcom about the making of TV show like SNL (created by SNL alum Tina Fey) and a drama about the making of a TV show like SNL (created by Aaron Sorkin. Is there a demand for either of these, given how many shows we've seen abut the making of TV shows? (Give me Dick Van Dyke any day.) Maybe once we get to the fall and to actual reviews, things will sound better, but for now, I am merely pleased that at least two shows I like will be back, since I doubt there will be anything else.
4. DC posted its solicitations for its August comics. And to my surprise, I was quite uninterested. Oh, a few things - the books I'm already committed to reading, for the most part - sound promising. But despite all the promise of change, DC looks about the same as it did a year ago. Only the addition of a few writers of note and what's going on in Fables and its spinoff are really intriguing. Judged by this standard, I am ready to say that Infinite Crisis was only a limited success. It's not like it was after the first Crisis, when everything I saw coming from DC was really something to see. Sigh.
5. Compared to Marvel, though, DC is fresh. August at Marvel is all Civil War, all the time, and with little variation from series to series. OK, to be fair I think that diehard Marvelites look at DC and feel the same way. But right now, I feel like Marvel has lost me in a way that it never did in any of its previous Event stories. Well, at least Runaways is not linked to Civil War.
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Date: May. 16th, 2006 10:56 pm (UTC)Bzuh? They think people have memories of steel?
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Date: May. 17th, 2006 01:04 am (UTC)This fall Lost looking more like "wait for DVD" or "store up 6-8 weeks of episodes at a time." I can't handle these on-again-off-again schedules!