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Boomtown: The Love of Money, 9/26/03
Saturday 09.27.2003
alice ttlg || 07:02 PM
Damn. They've ruined a perfectly great show.
I had misgivings when I heard about Vanessa Williams joining the cast and as I saw previews this last week, my misgivings grew. Within the first 20 minutes into the first show with her, it's awful, they've got her grandstanding all over the place, saving the day and being a show-off know-it-all. yuck.
And so far, they've completely abandoned the original premise of the show, the mixed up chronology of different viewpoints. They are still showing it from different viewpoints but with one (ordinary) exception, it's all completely in order.
And they started off the season with a vendetta. Instead of different cases, different events, and usually one primary event with one or two minor events, we're off on a vendetta against the supposed mastermind behind the station snitch from last year who got two cops murdered. The two murdered cops turn out to be good friends of Joel and so of course he's got to break regs and go after them. And it's a rehashed plot that Fastlane did better last year, it's the kind of plot that isn't believable and can only be done by shows into flash and glitter like Fastlane. Boomtown isn't, well, wasn't that kind show. I guess it is this year.
And for some weird reason they've got Joel dressed up in shirts and ties this year instead of casual stuff, what's the deal there??? He looks so uncomfortable, like he can barely swallow or breath. Yuck. Fearless is still wearing his sweat suit outfits, why did they make the change in just Joel's wardrobe?
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! I want my Boomtown back!!!!!!
[chrisk adds] What happened to Boomtown after the series opener? I can't find it on my local (Seattle)schedule? (November 11, 2003 03:01 PM)
[Cathy adds] Did Boomtown get cancelled (February 29, 2004 10:04 AM)
[alice ttlg adds] Yes, NBC aired two eps of the second season and then cancelled it. They showed the remaining filmed eps (3) on a weekend a month or so ago. IMHO the changes that were made, abandoning the out of sequence timeline and adding Vanessa Williams to the show ruined it anyway so cancelling it was better than letting it continue on so badly. It was a great show and it was ruined - I suspect the changes were mandated by NBC and that's a damn shame. (February 29, 2004 11:05 AM)
[sarahjeanne adds] I have been looking for some time for the answer to my question, "What happened to Boomtown?!" I have finally found it. I guess the best new show in many years is gone forever. Considering the fact that critics and viewers felt it was so good, why would the producers have mucked it up? I have to agree with a previous comment - Vanessa Williams?! Why?! She didn't add anything to the show. It looked as if she was related to the producer and he insisted that a show be written to revolve around her. Three's an old Saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Thank you for letting me vent my disappointment and see that I'm not the only one looking for something at least tolerable to watch on television. (September 9, 2004 07:01 PM)
Alias, Angel, Boomtown, Buffy, Smallville, TV Awards: Matt's Awards
Sunday 06.01.2003
MattM || 12:09 AM
So here we are at end of a wretched TV season. Which I so correctly predicted. This season I would say is the worst ever but next year shapes up to be even worse. Every new show save Boomtown that was worth a damn got cancelled. Even Boomtown I give slim odds of making it past mid season of its second year. Returning shows went down in flames such as Friends, 24, all the L&Os (all they had been sliding badly for years), Enterprise, and on and on. This season SUCKED. On the bright side it sure makes handing out the awards pretty easy when you only have one choice instead of the myrid number of choices I had last year. So here we go:
Best New Show: Lets see the nominees are Boomtown.....John Doe oops that got cancelled uh how about Haunted oops no thats gone too.......lets see now uh um Firefly? nope never mind....uh ok Fastlane right? hahahahahahaha what that got cancelled to? Truely I think the second best new show might be 8 Simple Rules thats how pathetic this competition is for the award. Boomtown clearly wins this in a Regan/Mondale fashion. Novel idea a show that makes you think has gripping character development and solid dialogue mixed into good to great cases. No wonder its going to fail. Nice to Graham Yost no longer be the bus guy and really come into his own. The actors on this show did an awesome job on this show. There are no honorable mentions for this category as there is no other good new show that survived but honorable mention would have gone to John Doe if only FOX hadn't cancelled that.
Best Season For a Returning Show: Now this is a slightly more interesting field. Although most of the year shows sucked three really stood out. Smallville, Alias, and Angel. The award has to go to Alias. Last years winner of the Best New Show makes it for Best Returning Show because from start to finish (despiste my gripes) it was an excellent outstanding show. I don't think there is a bad actor on this show despite the fact that half of them came from Felicity (wonder when Keri Russell will turn up as the invincible secert agent who gets beaten when Garner cuts her hair off). I really was nervous about the direction of the show but they handled everything perfectly and kepts us guessing and on the edge of our seats the whole way. The ending shocker was by far the biggest surprise and most unforeseen twist any show could have put on us. Honorable Mention goes to Smallville which was shaky at times but by the end of the season had pulled it all together and was simply outstanding. Ditto for Angel but I think Smallville was just a little bit better.
Favorite New Lead: Well I was ready to do a shocker here and give it to Dominic Purcell but so much for that idea. So now I have to go to a show that really has two deserving people on it but in the end due to the finish about the baby I give it to Donnie Wahlberg. Nice to see the Earthy member of NKOTB make it. His performance although at times outshone by his co-stars from start to finish delivered a gripping and interesting character. The whole thing about his marriage and the baby was played perfectly by him. It was realistic it was fascinating and it was right on the mark. Honorable mention of course goes to his co-star Neil McDonough who was just as fascinating all year long. It was a real contrast to see one blowing up his family and one almost losing it but finding a way back home.
Favorite Returning Lead: This was a pretty weak field but much like Boomtown there was only one real performance that stood out for me. Sarah Michelle Geller in her farwell performance on Buffy. Having to play a dual role of a good and evil character was remarkable enough but also to show a heroine finally grow, take and fully accept her role, and most of all despite setbacks come out guns blazing in a heroic ending/beginning. Although her work has always been outstanding and this award is as much a nod to the last 6 years as it is for this year I think based purely on this year she still would have won it. She is an outstanding young actor that could play any part she wanted and shine. If only she would stop doing Scooby Doo movies. Honorable Mention does go to Jennifer Garner who is clearly establishing herself as one of the best actors on TV.
Favorite New Show Supporting Role: Another for John Doe but I guess not since the show is gone. So lets see....um well there isn't anyone on new shows I can give this too because John Forsythe was the only one in contention here. So I am going to have to make a huge reach here. The winner is Emily Procter. Yes she was consistenly in the shadows never given a chance to really show what she could do on CSI:Miami but the finale showed just how good she is and what she can bring to that show. Honorable mentions go to no one.
Favorite Returning Show Supporting Role: This one was pretty easy for me. Victor Garber from start to finish of Alias this season is what makes that show really work. He does such a fantastic job of playing a very conflicted man who can't let anything pierce his shield. I really believe that despite Garner's talents the show would not work if it were not for him. She might be the heart and soul but he is the backbone and strength of Alias. Honorable Mentions go to Nathan Fillion for his creepy Caleb, Gina Torres for giving us Shiny Happy People, and although its a streach to call her supporting because she is somewhere between leading and support I think Marg Helgenberger was outstanding this year as well.
Biggest Surprise of The TV Season: Was just how amazingly right I was when I called this year as being a horrible year for TV. I did not want to be right. I would have much preferred to be wrong but instead I was dead on. This season we lose Buffy, Firefly, John Doe, The Agency, Birds of Prey, Girls Club, Haunted, Miracles, and Mister Sterling. On top of that Sorkin leaves West Wing. Friends, ER, Third Watch, and 24 suffer huge drop offs from last year. Other shows didn't bounce back and got worse L&O all three of them, Boston Public, and The Practice. Networks execs are stupid and thats a given but the quality of writing is dipping dramatically. The sad thing is I expect next year to be even worse. I just hope this time I am really really really wrong.
2003-2004 Season, Boomtown, Crossing Jordan, ER, Ed, Frasier, Friends, Happy Family, Judging Amy, Las Vegas, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, Lyon's Den, Third Watch: NBC's schedule...
Monday 05.12.2003
alice ttlg || 04:36 PM
Eeeesh. ALL the descriptions on the NBC site for the new shows are so dripping with marketing-speak, they are truly horrendous! Badly written, overblown and thoroughly sensationalized. Ack.
See the show grid for the NBC Fall Preview and click on the spoiler link below to read the rest of my comments.
...there be spoilers below...
Sunday
Hmmm, looks like I may not be watching NBC at all on Sundays, I never watched American Dreams (useless glamorized nostalgia), L&O: CI was good sometimes but usually bad more than good and so uneven, I got tired of wasting time watching it hoping it would be good. And Lyon's Den sounds so unbelievable and soap-opera-ish, in spite of a few good people in the cast, it hardly seems worth watching. Matt Craven is good, I first saw him years ago in High Incident, a terrific cop drama with a great cast that got cancelled after one season. Frances Fisher, I've seen her in other things, can't recall what right now but I think she's good too. But Rob Lowe's character....eesh. Yeah sure, the managing partner dies and they decide to pick a young guy running their street law clinic to bump all the way up to managing partner overnight??? Why don't they throw in a bridge for sale while they're at it?Monday
Fear Factor, I don't watch reality shows. 'nuff said.Tuesday
Whoopi, Happy Family, again the descriptions are really badly written, but I like Whoopi, if they don't overdo the one-liners, it could be good and John Larroquette and Christine Barranski sound like a good match, they could really make the show good, but the kids sound atrocious. I'll give them both a chance since I'm taping Frasier at 8pm anyway. I'll skip Good Morning, Miami tho just like I did when it was on Thursdays too, I've never cared for Heather Locklear in comedic roles. L&O:SVU at 9pm, hmmm. So now I'll have three mediocre shows to watch at 9pm on Tuesdays, Judging Amy, NYPD Blue and SVU. I'm about to stop watching NYPD Blue tho because they've totally massacred Connie's character, done a complete 180 on her this season, taken her from being a strong female cop, able to hold her own in the squad to this wimpy nagging thing with a father fixation for Andy, the whole Andy/Connie/baby plot line just makes me gag. Judging Amy is still good tho, I think I'll skip both SVU and Blue and just watch Amy.Wednesday
Er, didn't NBC move Ed to Fridays? Why are they moving it back? Just couldn't find anything better to put there??? West Wing could really start sucking next year with Aaron Sorkin and Tommy Schlamme leaving, but I'll keep watching and see how it goes. I dropped L&O ages ago, they stopped doing all the stuff that made it so good the first six or seven years.Thursday
Friends, Scrubs, Will & Grace, Coupling, the last one sounds terrible and I have no interest in it but I think it will do fantastic, it'll fit right in with the other shows and get good ratings. But I never liked Scrubs and Will & Grace went to hell in a handbasket two seasons ago. Friends has been pretty bad this year, I guess I'll stick it out thru their last year but I don't have any expectation that it'll improve. ER was pretty bad too this last year, it's been renewed for two more years, I dunno, maybe it's time to start watching CSI and Without a Trace instead of taping them.Friday
Miss Match could actually be pretty good, the plot is reminiscent of Clueless and if they do it right, it could work. And there's nothing else to watch on Fridays (I want my John Doe!) while waiting for Boomtown in L&O: SVU's old time slot.Saturday
Nothing but movies here, but the rumor is that Crossing Jordan will go here at 9pm when it returns mid-season, that's the kiss of death for it. And what happened to the spin-off for Woody?It's interesting to note that NBC only has six new shows, they're keeping most stuff, I suspect all the other networks will have more new shows than NBC. Overall, best shows on NBC are Boomtown and, and...well, Boomtown. West Wing, Third Watch and ER are iffy but the sitcom lineup on Tuesdays could be good.
[MattM adds] Forgot to comment on Las Vegas and Third Watch there but did comment on Fear Factor coming back for its third season hmmm interesting should I take this as a slight to Third Watch and Las Vegas? Also your right what did happen to the Crossing Jordan spin off???? Man it must have stunk BAD to not even get a nod either that or they plan on putting both on Saturday nights in mid season HAHAHA (May 12, 2003 11:23 PM)
[ValB adds] What the heck happened to Kingpin? It really was must see TV for me! (May 14, 2003 10:36 AM)
[MattM adds] Well either its a mid season replacement or its gone completly. I tend to think its gone because I haven't word one about it. (May 14, 2003 10:59 AM)
[hammerdown415 adds] I love Crossing Jordan and I was looking into the same field of work. I hate that they took it off of the air. But Jordan Cavanaugh is pregnant in real life and I would want some time off to stay home and be with my newborn. I am just glad that it will return. Maybe one of these lame new shows will hit bottom and it will be returned to the weeknight schedule. (October 14, 2003 08:31 PM)
[LUCY adds] While I like Law and Order SVU I beieve it could be better if they stick to the format of the show, SVU means Special Victims Unit about sexually based crimes and sometimes some of the stories do not have a sex crime in them, also I believe it could be better if they get rid of the new ADA Casey Novak, she is as bad as the one on the regular Law and Order (March 10, 2004 03:40 PM)
[Jim Smith adds] I really enjoyed Lyon's Den. Too bad they did not give it the time to develop. (July 14, 2004 08:15 PM)
2003-2004 Season, Boomtown, Frasier, Happy Family, Las Vegas, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, Lyon's Den, Third Watch: NBC
Monday 05.12.2003
MattM || 03:28 PM
Ok the first one out of the gate is NBC and despite Variety's bogus reporting Boomtown is being moved UGH. Click on the spoilers link for the breakdown and my thoughts.
...there be spoilers below...
Mondays
Fear Factor - Waste of a good hour on TV. Bad show worst concept when is this going to go away? Las Vegas - Well score on for simple to the point naming. This show has pedigree with good actors and a solid written, directing, and producing cast and its worth a watch but um the descripations sounds bad. Really really bad. I am going to give it a whirl because James Caan is very good and Molly Sims, Nikki Cox are solid but here is the shows premise: You can bet on high stakes and high-speed action in this adrenaline-fueled drama from the writer of The Fast and the Furious (ok thats not a good sign either). Big Ed Deline, former CIA, runs the best surveillance company in Vegas. Big Ed's best employee is Danny McCoy, an ex-Marine and Vegas native, who loves living life in the fast lane. Mike Cannon, head valet, keeps track of who's coming and going. Mary Connell, Danny's childhood friend, is a high-class escort who has a knack for learning people's darkest secrets. Danny's best source just might be Jane, the savvy new casino host. Both exude a seductive style -- a lot like the city itself. Third Watch - I am giving this show a trial run after such a horrid season but given its pattern it might be good this year. I think the time slot bump is probably better for it in the long run.Tuesdays
Whoopi - I will NEVER EVER watch anything other then STNG (and god that was horrible enough) with Whoopi in it. She is overrated this series will suck and go down in flames. Happy Family - Really good cast (Larroquette and Baranski) and Solid Pedigree but this just looks HORRIBLE. Might give it a shot but I have little or no hope for this bizairre family sitcom about parents who think they are going to be empty nester but kids all come home for varying reasons. Larrquette seems really out of place in this. Frasier - This one lost me a long time ago. Good Morning Miami - Sucked without Heather Locklear and will suck even more with her. L&O: SVU - Interesting Time move will have to see what this does to the series since its has been solid in Friday's 9 pm slot for so long.Wednesday
Man I thought we didn't like Ed in the 7 slot here well this scedule is back to what has been for the last two years really kind of weird.Thursdays
Same as it has been for a while. Friends and ER did not have a good year so I hope they bounce back. Will and Grace jumped the shark a long time ago. Scrubs I never got and then theres.... Coupling - Some British TV redo for America which about seeing how many times they can couple possible pairings. This of course equals another Thursday night flop.Fridays
Miss/Match - Alicia Silverstones come back vehicle about divorice lawyer by day match maker by night somehow I think Alicia hit her peak in Clueless and hit rock bottem with Batman....until now. Any show that says in its press release says 1) Based on a true story REALLY! and 2) juggles the conflicting world of divorice and true love is in deep deep trouble. Boomtown - Following dateline at 8 this might be an ok slot if it can grab the SVU audience which I think it could and do ok here but still this is hard slot to do much with.Sundays
American Dreams - Never got this show except it seems to be about pop stars playing old pop stars. L&O: CI - No surprise here Lyon's Den - This looks like a mutant practice drama. Still the role does seem to fit Lowe pretty well as the do-gooder in the house of evil and the pedigree is there. Of all the NBC new shows this one looks like the best bet to be something but then again none of the NBC new shows look like much of anything it would be ironic if NBC produces only one good new show and its in the same slot as its one good show (that survived) from last year.Bottom Line:The new shows look bad on NBC. I am not sure any of these will make more then a season run. The old shows kept most of their slots but the changes might be for the better or could kill Boomtown. I have a sinking feeling by mid season Boomtown will be replaced by SVU on Fridays.
[Sasha adds] Actually, American Dreams is not about pop stars playing old pop stars. At the moment it's focusing on the racial difference between two of the charecters and the riots going about in the town becuase of police brutality against blacks. Bandstand (or whatever it was called) was just a show that was popular during that time period. Sort of like Soul Train. But the show doesn't focuse on that. It just incorparates it in, so you know what time period they're talking about. Just thought I'd mention it so you dont think it's all teenybopper. (May 19, 2003 08:53 PM)
[MattM adds] Uh I wasn't being totally serious about that comment, I realize the show isn't about that but the way NBC promotes it you would think it was. To me the show is just another Wonder Years type show and I didn't really care to much for that show either. I realize Wonder Years and maybe this show are above average to very good but it just doesn't interest me. (May 20, 2003 12:21 AM)
2003-2004 Season, Boomtown, Crossing Jordan, Ed, Frasier: Boomtown made it!!!!!
Monday 05.12.2003
MattM || 08:30 AM
Well after so many horrendous TV exec decisions its about time we have a good one. Congrats to Boomtown for not only making it but keeping its same slot. Of course much to my shock Ed made it too and kept its same slot as well. Good Morning Miami aka WE HAVE TO GET HEATHER LOCKLEAR ON TV SHOW also made it and will follow Frasier on Tuesdays. The official schedule will come out later today but all this is per Variety and looks like a done deal. Third Watch will move back an hour and in the "We have to punish her for getting knocked up" Jill Hennessy's Crossing Jordan (amazing they aren't going to make that part of the show) is slated for a late start and gets moved to 9 pm on Saturdays after a Movie......damn thats harsh!! Although there is a lot of vague information about new shows it looks like Lyon's Den is the lead off for Wednesdays now and Alicia Silverstones comeback vehicle leads off Friday nights (is it just me or does Dateline seem to be getting squeezed off the schedule). So more to come later on this afternoon when we get to see the rest of the new shows from NBC.
Boomtown: Lost Child, 04/20/03
Tuesday 04.29.2003
MattM || 11:31 PM
The best new show to last a whole season by far lived up to its billing with just a terrific season finale. Now if we could only have it back for season 2. I really liked showing two parents struggling with equal guilt over the death of a child and even though it was predictable the death would have been unpreventable I think that was a very good move. I like showing a fractured marriage healing too thats not something they do often on TV. Still I really loved Tom and his role in this and his father too that was a great subtext to it all and probably something we would see more of in season 2 (I hope I hope).
Boomtown: Blackout, 04/13/03
Tuesday 04.22.2003
MattM || 11:59 PM
This seemed sort of a repeat of an earlier very well done episode "The David McNorris Show". I figured we were returning here to give us some sort of resolution or step forward but they didn't seem to do any of that. I thought it was an ok episode but when your this close to the finish line I was hoping for something better. It was just way to predictable that it was going to be animal blood not human and the rest was just a repeat of the other episode.
Boomtown: Fearless, 03/30/03
Tuesday 04.15.2003
MattM || 04:24 AM
How does this show do it? Every show that has tried to touch on molestation has come off wrong but yet this show takes a topic and hits the mark. There was so much to like in this even if they did cut most of the cast out of it. I really liked Ray giving him that hammer and I liked Joel knowing and wiling to be there. The killing fantasys were so in line with what many survivors go through. God there was so much to like here. Even the religion angle was played so well. I think it gave us great insight to Fearless and his own demons.
Boomtown: Storm Watch, 03/16/03
Monday 03.31.2003
MattM || 02:18 AM
Ok this one wasn't that good either. A second striaght episode that would qualify as a disappointment. That so over the top cop with that horrible accent was predictable as it was stupid. They seemed to be all over the board with out making any real points or character development. Its nice to see more of Joel and his wife but having Hechler just cold bloodly executing that guy seem very quesitionable at best. I get this sinking feeling the networks maybe screwing with the show and might just kill it all together.
Boomtown: Execution, 03/09/03
Tuesday 03.25.2003
MattM || 11:45 PM
Ok this episode was my least favorite of all the Boomtown even surpassing that early on episode with the ice cooler. I admit the reason for hating this episode are personal. I did not like McNorris dealing with the scum bag. If I am the cop I do not want someone giving him a pass for my life. I think most cops would feel that way. As a veteren I feel the same way about the POWs and most service men feel the same. I see it on the news about should we back off because they have our men in capitivety and the answer is no. Should that guy have gotten a free pass for kidnapping a cop. Absolutely not. Its part of the price you pay and part of what makes servicemen and cops and paramedics and firefighters heros. I think McNorris look stupid. This episode was over the top in its message and I did not like it one bit.
[jim adds] what is the title and artist of the rap at the episode's end? (August 29, 2003 10:37 PM)
[MattM adds] Ok don't quote me on this but if I'm remembering right the rap your referring to is Scarface's rap "Safe" from "The Fix" album. I can't find anything to back this up but its also the only thing mentioned when it comes to music on this. (August 29, 2003 11:42 PM)
Boomtown: Home Invasion, 03/02/03
Saturday 03.22.2003
MattM || 08:11 AM
I don't think this one of there best episodes but still even a slight let up is better then most television on this series. I think the way they are handling Joel and Theresa and his wife is just absolutely perfect. He came so close to cheating now he is going to pull away and try to make it work with his wife but that temptation that tension will there and will they or won't they will probably drag on to next season. I hope they have the guts though for the won't. I think he should get close a few times more but in the end make it work with his wife. A novel concept for TV I know two people don't get into bed. It was nice to see Joe Spanos get some work he is a great actor in a support role and I can't figure out for the life of me why he doesn't get more work.
Boomtown: Marathon of eps on Bravo!
Monday 01.27.2003
alice ttlg || 08:45 PM
Everyone must watch Boomtown!
Bravo will air a 12-episode marathon of the NBC drama Boomtown on Sunday, March 2nd. The marathon will run from 10 am to 10 pm (9 am to 9 pm Central), ending right before Boomtown returns to NBC's schedule after a month off for Kingpin.
Set your VCRs! Stay home that day, it's Sunday, rest and relax with Boomtown!
[charlie adds] Does anyone know what the name of the picture is on the intro of BOOMTOWN? Its the one of the old man and the child holding an apple... If anyone does please e-mail me ive been looking everywhere!! charliemd1@yahoo.com (February 8, 2003 11:26 PM)
Boomtown: Sinaloa Cowboys, 01/12/03
Thursday 01.23.2003
MattM || 11:06 PM
After so many good episode this mediocre one was a huge let down. Yes some of it was funny with the Fearless quiting smoking and some interesting with both Theresa and Joel doing their dance while McNorris continues down his self destructive path but really just not that interesting of an episode. The crime itself I think was pretty poorly done by Boomtown standards and seemed to be more about flashy then about real substance.
Boomtown: Sinola Cowboys, 1/12/03
Sunday 01.12.2003
alice ttlg || 09:17 PM
Sheeeeeiiiiitttt! Damn, I thought for a minute there this series was going to let me down but once again, they pulled it out beautifully. They've been skirting Joel and Teresa getting involved and they spring this scene of Joel kissing her in the back of the ambulance but just as I'm staring aghast at the screen, they cut and we see it's just Teresa having a brief fantasy about Joel! Wow, incredibly well done.
And damn, no new eps till March??? I am going to be in serious withdrawal!
Boomtown: Monster's Brawl, 01/05/03
Saturday 01.11.2003
MattM || 12:31 AM
Boy is this series just schooling L&O. L&O never gets a page 1 story right but Boomtown is 2 for 3 on them now. A great episode that was not most notably for the page 1 rip of Bum Fighting but for the subtly and grace that they showed Joel dealing with their baby's death and his wife's suicede attempt. Up to now we had no clue just how bad it was but now we do and I was amazed at Donnie Wahlberg's performance in not overplaying it but playing it subtle like his character and the pain he had in his face eyes and voice. Just a truely terrific episode although I still think Neal McDonough has out paced him he is not far behind.
Boomtown: Coyote, 12/08/02
Monday 12.16.2002
MattM || 05:14 PM
Even though this wasn't their best episode they have done there were three things that really jumped out at me. One is a week after giving us insight to McNorris we got insight to Andrea and why she is drawn to him. I liked how she also shows strength and resolve in trying to be his friend but not just running back to him. I also liked Rebecca. Instead of showing this cowering little girl she fought back she thought quick and did everything she could. She didn't just lay there acting weak and stupid. Lastly, I liked the homeless guy. Instead of him just being crazy homeless man he was a hero depsite his madness he was still good. I liked how they made him the obvious suspect but in the end we find out he's the good guy even if he is crazy. Again this shows takes chances and has guts in being different from the standard formula. I really hope this show never loses that.
Boomtown: The David McNorris Show, 12/01/02
Wednesday 12.11.2002
MattM || 06:11 AM
Ok WOW. Neal McDonough is incredible as the mercurial David McNorris. This episode took us for a real ride and gave us another insight to a man still fighting and seemingly losing the battle to not be his dad. Just when you think he turns the corner his ambition blinds him. Much like Lex Luther on Smallville seeing him straddle the line between good and evil is just fascinating television. The crime took almost a backseat to watching the man work. I liked how it turned that it wasn't the spoiled rich kid which so many shows have done to death but this clearly shows why this series is one of best shows on TV something I didn't think any first year show could do.
2002-2003 Season, Birds of Prey, Boomtown, Haunted, John Doe, TV Awards: Mid-Season Awards, 12/11/02
Sunday 12.08.2002
MattM || 12:13 AM
I won't be quite as extensive as my sister who I suspect is trying to pile on entries since I have pulled to almost 200 ahead of her. So in short I will only be covering new shows here. My apologies for the last minute edits and changes but since all shows before christmas should be considered I have had a few surprises come in.
Biggest Surprise of the Fall Season: John Doe. Clearly a horrible concept but pulled off brillently by the actors and writers. Totally shocked me although Haunted probably would have won this award but well UPN in its stupidity cancelled that.
Best New Show: Boomtown. Due to the myrid number of cancellation this was a very easy choice to make. This series might even be in the top three for best hours on TV but I never put anything there until after it has been through at least 1 1/2 seasons.
Best Job by an Actor in a New Series: Neal McDonough clearly wins this award after his show stopping performance in Boomtown's The David McNorris Show. Much like Michael Rosenbaum did last year in Smallville he shows a man fighting both his good and evil side in a constant battle. He doesn't want to be his dad but his ambition blinds him and suddenly he is. Still honorable mentions have to go to Matthew Fox, Donnie Walburg, Dominic Purcell, Ashley Scott, and Nathon Fillion.
Biggest Disappointment: Dinotopia. The mini-series really surprised me in how good it was. Then they announced this show and I had high hopes for the series but it was just plain unwatchable. A new cast of inferior actors and writing that belonged in campy syndicated shows like beastmaster and sheena of the jungle this clearly wins this award.
Worst New Show: MDs. Great cast and the most horriffic writing ever to be seen on TV. So bad it was actually funny and the DAMMN IT line in that horrible accent will live on forever.
Worst Cancellation: Again another easy one but still to note that this has to be the worst year I have ever seen for shows getting axed for no good reason but the winner is Haunted. This could have been a great staple show for UPN if they had only given it a chance to find an audience in a less demending of a time slot.
Stupidest Network: Fox who could easily have had 8 shows and been my second most watched network but by seasons end could have as few as 2 or 3 and be ranked with WB and UPN.
[alice ttlg adds] LOL! Yes my brother has a big ego! But I hold the keys and I can reduce his count to a mere dozen whenever I please! ::evil cackle:: (December 8, 2002 06:52 PM)
[MattM adds] Ah yes leave it to my incredibly mature older sister to pull that stunt. Don't matter though I have scoreboard as anyone can see so change the numbers all you like. SCOREBOARD and goodnight!! (December 9, 2002 12:14 AM)
2002-2003 Season, Boomtown, Boston Public, CSI: Miami, Crossing Jordan, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Practice, Third Watch: Holiday Meanderings Part I, Sunday and Monday
Saturday 12.07.2002
alice ttlg || 10:33 PM
So here were are, almost at the midway point, just about to hit the dry weeks of Christmas and New Year's and I thought I take some time to review the fall so far and make some resolutions about what to watch next year and what to stay away from. :)
Sunday
Bram and Alice, gone, good riddance, the girl was great, she'd been in other things I liked, but the show sucked and so did the guy playing her father. Boomtown, Absolute Best New Show of the Season! When I first wrote this up in September, I called it a clone of Third Watch and I expected it to be an average show, but I have to eat my words, it's become the best thing on TV, due to its storytelling style and a great cast topped by Donnie Wahlberg. I look forward to Sunday evenings now just like I waited anxiously for Thursdays back in the 80's to watch Hill Street Blues. Alias, the Practice, Angel: Alias started off well and just keeps going just like the Energizer bunny! The Practice stunk last spring and outside of a few moments, it's been pretty stinko ever since. Angel....fairly mediocre to start with, then I got hopeful as it picked up some and then they threw in Cordelia being pregnant and I tossed the show down to a yellow. It may hit orange before the end of the season. I loved Angel in the first two seasons and in the third up until the moment Darla gave birth/died. Ever since then, it's been downhill, Cordy's pregnancy was the last straw for me. The only reason I haven't rated it lower is because it's Joss Whedon. Law & Order: CI, it's been up and down, some eps have been really good and some have been awful and boring, mostly it's been better more times than bad but it's still very uneven.Monday
Third Watch, started off strong but it's gotten a bit off since then. Much as Bosco and Faith are my two favorite characters, even I miss the old ensemble feel to the show. I know that Kim Raver is pregnant but what happened to everyone else? They've all just disappeared while it turns into the Bosco & Faith show. Crossing Jordan, Boston Public, 7th Heaven: Fair, stinko and fair. Crossing Jordan started off with the mother obsession but then it actually got better and I like the romance thing with Woody, I hope they take that further. Boston Public, waste of words to talk about it, bad plots, bad characters, just bad, bad, bad. 7th Heaven kind of ran off the rails with the dad's heart operations and the whole Lucy always being mad or jealous or both over Kevin is really getting old, they need to move on to other plot lines and resolve that one already. And Kevin's brother needs to go home for good, sheesh. CSI: Miami, I think Kim Delaney ruined this show. Even tho she's gone, it doesn't look to be getting much better. I'll give it a few more eps in January... Girls Club: Sigh. This turned out to be surprisingly good so, of course, Fox cancelled it after only two eps. Sheesh, why couldn't they have cancelled stinko Boston Public or the Practice instead?Boomtown: Crash, 11/17/02
Friday 11.29.2002
MattM || 12:00 AM
I think this episode would have been better as a two parter. It had a lot of ground to cover but it seemed to rush through them all. I like the basic plots and how some times a criminal and cops career can intertwine. I also liked how it showed two people desparate for money to feed their families they wind up breaking the law and how each dealt with it. Although something is definatly going down with Joel because he was sleeping on the couch that can't be a good sign. It also seems more and more that the maybe possibly trying to eventually put Theresa and Joel together. The one flaw in this episode was Theresa waiting for the boy to wake up. Somehow I doubt the City of Los Angeles gives their paramedics the day off when they want to sit with a patient.
Boomtown: Insured by Smith and Wesson, 11/10/02
Sunday 11.17.2002
MattM || 03:28 AM
THEY SHOT THE TURKEY!!. I loved that!!! That was almost as good as the flying dead guy and the freak. This show is everything that makes TV so wonderful to watch. Like Buffy, West Wing, and a select few other shows this show makes you laugh, cry, feel good, and all the gamut of emotions there are out there. I loved how they showed this actor who had this series that was good but had it cancelled and never could find his way. Yes I saw it coming that he had something to do it with it but I still loved the way they played it. I also liked seeing a cop dealing with a mid-life crisis and how they interwove a backstory on Ray. This show is probably in the top three shows now even though it is a first year show I probably place it slightly ahead of the Shield but firmly behind Buffy.
Boomtown: The Freak, 11/03/02
Sunday 11.10.2002
MattM || 12:43 AM
Ok when you start seeing your dead friend talking to you I think it might be time for a psych check. I think the show was a bit much from the Rambo one against many fight to the talking to a dead person. I think it could have been handled a bit better and a bit differently. That being said it was still a good episode. A great story but what is with the Russian mob stories lately? Is this some latent day cold war now got to fight those evil ruskies. Still with Haunted cancelled and Firefly and Birds of Prey not yet finding their footing this show is a runaway for best new show of the year. It taken a tired concept and found a new way to tell a tale.
Boomtown: The Freak, 11/03/02
Tuesday 11.05.2002
alice ttlg || 03:40 PM
This show just keeps getting better and better, I don't know what else to say because it's just always good! This episode again took a plot that's been done to death on other shows and did it from a different angle, made it fresh and interesting. I'm not talking about just the narrative format of showing sections from each character's viewpoint out of chronological order, I'm talking about a different angle, a different perspective.
Instead of just showing Russian gangsters killing people and intimidating witnesses, which has been done (and overdone) on Third Watch and Robbery/Homicide most recently and also on Law & Order various shows, they took us inside it, used it to expand and reveal Fearless' past, not just show a cop who's passionate about his job but how his past is so present for him, trying to make up for living, for being the one who didn't get shot that day. And the crossfire between McNorris so intent on making his case, the witness' safety can become a secondary priority and Fearless' obsession that he not let this little girl die with Joel sitting in the middle, wanting the bad guy but not willing to sacrifice innocent people for it.
And I like the out of order narrative style, although it means I usually watch a show twice to pick up on everything but that's what vcrs are for, right? :)
Boomtown: All Hallow's Eve, 10/27/02
Thursday 10.31.2002
MattM || 03:13 PM
A good and solid episode but after last week's episode, just about anything would be a let down. It was a good episode to see a little bit about the Teresa since she has been largely ignored. I also like how it developed the McNorris love triangle and also Joel's wife finally being up and moving around. The thing, however, that rang truest is how Hollywood kills dreams. Two brothers who shot big and missed by a mile. It happens a lot there and I love the way Boomtown captures LA. The real LA, not the glamorous version most of us see every day.
Boomtown: Reelin' in the Years, 10/20/02
Thursday 10.24.2002
alice ttlg || 09:55 PM
This was a fantastic episode! They took a high profile page one story and covered it from a completely different angle. I had read the TV Guide synopsis with trepidation, figuring it would be as bad as the previous week, but this one succeeded beautifully. Instead of covering it from the hippie criminal fugitive turned soccer mom and how terrible this was for her kids and her husband, they showed the other side, the cops. But not just from the she killed a cop angle, they showed how it really affected them, good and bad, then and now. And Patricia Wettig was terrific in the role of the ex-hippie fugitive, playing everyone, exonerating the convicted friend who been in jail all those years while she got married, raised a family and had a good life, and convincingly persuading them that she was just standing there while someone else shot the cop, that she never expected it and was just as upset at they at his death. And the ending of the episode was a good twist on it all.
Now if they can just keep doing it like this...
Boomtown: Reeling in the Years, 10/20/02
Wednesday 10.23.2002
MattM || 11:30 PM
After having their worst episode, they took on a page one ripped from the headlines. This is a bad bad bad move. Somehow, through gutsy writing and a surprise ending, they pulled it off perfectly. Law & Order could learn a lot from this show. The acting was great and the writing, to have the woman be the killer in the end, was a gutsy move since most shows seem to like to stick to happy endings lately. I loved seeing the different relationships that are growing and the ones that have long been in disrepair. It was good to see Andrea separate herself from McNorris and interesting to see how she was a young naive reporter and how their relationship started. Flashbacks are usually a deathknell to a show but this show uses them to expertly weave a puzzle and a story.
Boomtown: The Squeeze, 10/13/02
Saturday 10.19.2002
MattM || 12:01 AM
God, this show is good. This was my least favorite of the three episodes and it was still pretty good. I think the only thing that kind of hurt it for me was the ripped from the headlines crime they did. I really did like the being able to breathe part of it that made it so personal for Joel. Still I do not know what they were doing with Tom and that seemed sort of left open and not done too well. Still this show is one of the best of the new season and even in its weakest moments, it is still above average television.
Boomtown: The Squeeze, 10/13/02
Wednesday 10.16.2002
alice ttlg || 11:48 AM
Watching the opening credits, I paid attention to more than just the actors, they've got a really good montage of images here and I like the movement and the music, really well done.
But for all that it had a good opening, this was their worst episode, they took a page out of Law & Order's book, only it was the wrong page. They chose a plot not only from page one but also already done to death and used it for this episode. It stunk.
The cast was good, there were some nice bits with their characters and the way they told it was good, it was just the completely wrong plot. I hope this isn't a harbinger of things to come, if they're going to copy the worst of L&O, they're going to ruin what could have been a terrific show. I was all ready to agree with my brother in his assessment of this show but now I'm reserving judgment to see what they do in future eps.
Boomtown: Possession, 10/06/02
Sunday 10.13.2002
MattM || 04:51 PM
This show is running away and hiding for the best new show of the season. I really like how they tell a story and revel in the characters all at the same time. I think the stuff with McNorris and his father was excellent, at the same time I loved the case, how it came in pieces and at times the pieces did not make sense. It is a totally different way of telling a story. At times, it can be hard to follow but I think that is the strength of the show. You get a piece here and you get one there and they make no sense, then you get a piece a little later on that connects all the disjointed pieces. I did not think it was possible for anything to top Firefly, especially another cop show but this one does, far and way. A great cast and writing that blends character development, humor (the doofus man was my favorite), and a great crime story.
Boomtown: Pilot, 09/29/02
Thursday 10.10.2002
MattM || 11:48 AM
This series might be one of the best new series of the season and the only one with a real chance to survive. There are so many good things about this show I barely know where to begin but Dick Wolf could benefit from watching this and seeing the character development it takes you through. I loved seeing one story from so many angles even if the switching was a bit jarring at first. I think Donnie Wahlberg was outstanding in a tough role. I think the weakest point though might be his partner. I did like the scene where Turcotte tried to jump the ditch that the suspect (and a track star) cleared. That was the perfect macho cop reaction to that. I think the story was a very sad one but very well written and went against stereotype by having the white guy be the gangsta wanna be. I also think the DA is perfect, just like a politician to take advantage of just about every opportunity for publicity. This is a first rate series and hopefully it will survive.
Final Rating: Green. I give my vote to this show for best new show just barely edging out Firefly.
Boomtown: Pilot, 09/29/02 (take 2)
Thursday 10.03.2002
alice ttlg || 05:45 PM
I watched this again and it's better than I first thought, I can see what they were doing with repeating things better and I got a better feel for the characters. Donnie Wahlberg is really good in this, he and his brother are really quite good at acting.
It's not as much like Third Watch or L&O as I initially thought, this does cover both their work lives and personal lives, although only within the snapshot of whatever case the episode centers around. I'm not crazy about the DA guy, David, he's just annoying, a politician out for as much good press as he can get and very full of himself, but we're not supposed to like him, the character is obnoxious. But if he's only obnoxious, then he's too one-dimensional so I hope they do more with him. Jason Gedrick's character and his partner remind me of Sully and Davis on Third Watch but also of Bunk and McNulty on the Wire too. The two detectives, the black guy is really great, I love his stories, an old-fashioned balladeer. The paramedic girl is like Kim on Third Watch, they really need to move away from being too much like Third Watch.
I'm not real crazy about the washed out colors thing to signify a change in point of view, a switch from one character to another but I guess I'll get used to that.
So it's good, better than my initial impression but with room to improve.
Boomtown: Pilot, 09/29/02
Monday 09.30.2002
alice ttlg || 09:42 PM
Hmmm, well. I don't know, it's not bad, but it's just kind of all over the place. Big cast, lots of different characters and jobs, beat cops, detectives, reporters, politicians/lawyers and not a lot of help in figuring out who is who. I liked the opening, the mood setting narrative and theme song but then it didn't last into the ep, we got slick guy (politician? DA?) walking around spewing stuff into his cell phone and reporter acting like a detective until she starts chasing the beat cops, who were the best thing in the show, them and the detectives, I liked those parts, nice rivalry between them.
But the funky camera stuff, the zoom in and repeating parts, it's not anything particularly new and not particularly useful here, it's just flash with no substance, distracts from the story instead of moving it along.
I think the show can and will most likely improve and it's way better than Practice but it is also just one more cop show in a season filled with them. We've got three L&Os, Third Watch, Robbery/Homicide, Without a Trace, NYPD Blue, The District and two CSIs, plus Boomtown, that's ELEVEN cop dramas in seven days, if you throw in The Practice, The Guardian, Crossing Jordan and The Agency, that's fifteen law enforcement related dramas. Part of it is backlash from 9/11, cops and firefighters are reassuring, public heroes, so the programming execs are cashing in on it but it's overkill and Boomtown is too much like Third Watch, the L&Os and Robbery/Homicide, but Robbery/Homicide is a standout, it hits the mark like Third Watch does and Boomtown hasn't done that. Yet. It could get better so I'll keep watching...
2002-2003 Season, Boomtown, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Practice: Sunday Nights
Wednesday 09.18.2002
MattM || 02:10 PM
Sunday night is apparently attack of the clones. We have Boomtown aka Third Watch: LA, American Dreams aka Wonder Years II, The Grubbs aka Married with Children and Bram and Alice, yet another among countless remakes of the long lost daughter makes good with the bad father. Alex, can I have original concepts for a 100? Okay, I might be a bit harsh here because Boomtown does look like it might be good but still this looks like bomb night, thank god for Alias and Angel. The Grubbs is going to be horrible, it has Randy Quaid and FOX is on its 100th version of sitcoms with dysfunctional familes (Malcom in the Middle, Simpsons, Married with Children and on and on and on and on), is there such a thing as a good family on FOX? Randy Quaid sucks, concept sucks = October 15th at the latest. American Dreams, ok, great, they got a good talent like Michelle Branch to do music on the show, that will sucker a few young watchers but really now, what is it with this garbage, Wonders Years was good but do they really think they can rehash it with old outdated stereo types? Bram and Alice is not even worth mentioning.
The flip side to this is the returning shows which I am stoked for. Alias should be ready to go with a great 2nd season as we figure out her mother and what happened to Vaughn, etc. etc. etc. Angel is a great mystery at this point but I feel the show is in a decline, even though I liked a lot of what they did last year but I hope it bounces back. Law and Order: CI had a somewhat uneven season and I do not have high hopes for it to get much better. The fact is, this show is like baseball and can be summed up in one word: OVER-EXPANSION. Then there is The Practice, this show so jumped the shark last year and I doubt I will be watching it much past October as it has gotten so awful.
2002-2003 Season, Boomtown, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Practice: Whining Part II, Sunday and Monday
Friday 09.06.2002
alice ttlg || 05:00 PM
Sunday
Bram and Alice, okay I have no idea if this show will be any good and I don't even know what it's really about, but my online nick is alice ttlg and I have a friend on a mailing list who goes by the nick of Bram so people have made jokes about us having our own TV show so I have to watch it! :) Boomtown, clone of Third Watch but it's got a decent cast, including Jason Gedrick (as I sit here watching my tapes of Murder One) and I can watch it instead of the wretched mess that David Kelly has made out of the Practice. Alias, the Practice, Angel: Alias is now one of my favorite new shows from last season, along with Smallville, I think I'll rewatch my tapes of that before the new season starts. Angel, well, it's sort of a mess now too and not in a good way but I'll see if they can salvage it this year. Law & Order: CI, I always forget about this one! It was kind of boring at the beginning of last year but then I watched the tail end of the season and reruns during the summer and it got better. Plus it's rerun on USA after prime-time so I can catch it then if I miss it on Sunday nights.Monday
Third Watch night! Best show I found late, thank God for reruns on A&E! Don't bother calling me between 10 and 11 pm on Mondays thru Thursdays! And I sure hope they don't kill off Faith's husband, I don't want to see her as a single mom/widow, although since the Blackout ep was supposed to be beginning of the season last year (till 9/11 happened and they rewrote the first three eps), I wonder if they would have killed him off and spent the season with Faith dealing with that (and with cancer). Instead they dealt with 9/11, Taylor and her dad and brought to a head a lot of stuff that's been following Bosco around for awhile and gave us some of the best TV expressions of 9/11. Crossing Jordan, Boston Public, 7th Heaven: Crossing Jordan started to get better near the end of last season and then they trashed it in the last two eps with the whole mother plot line and it starts the 2nd season. I sure hope they resolve it in the first ep and move on, the show is much better when it focuses on the entire cast, Mel Ferrer is fabulous as a jazzy retro 60's guy with a teen age daughter and ex-wife and the aborted romance with Lily was fun to watch. Then there's Bug and the English guy and his attempts to get married for his green card, the ensemble cast makes this show, the poor little girl who lost her mom unravels it all. Boston Public, ick, another show that Kelly is busy making a nasty mess of. 7th Heaven, my bit of sugar overdose, I wish they were keeping Matt's new wife around, she's great, fits in well with the family, too bad she has to go off to Columbia with hubby (and sorry to hear about the actor's illness, I hope he gets well soon!) CSI: Miami, maybe, just maybe, David Caruso has found another good TV role, now let's hope he's learned his lesson and doesn't pull any stunts after the first year or two. I love CSI, but I hope they vary this show enough to give it its own personality, not just a clone of CSI with bikinis thrown in. Girls Club, I plan to watch this, but seriously I have no real hope for it, given the state of the Practice and Boston Public (and the departed Ally McBeal), I'm beginning to think that Kelly has lost his touch and the plot of this show doesn't even sound good.2002-2003 Season, Birds of Prey, Boomtown, Charmed, Dinotopia, Frasier, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Push, Nevada: NBC, WB, and ABC
Tuesday 05.14.2002
MattM || 04:00 PM
Well, the first batch of new shows is in and so far, it isn't too promising on NBC. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday all remain unchanged (with the exception of flip flopping Scrubs and Just Shoot Me) in what has to be a record amount of stability. Still, the few remaining new shows are not very awe inspiring. Tuesday will consist of two comedies past their prime in Frasier and Just Shoot me and two new comedies that will probably not last a month, Hidden Hills (secret lives and hilarity of surburbanites) and In Laws (married couple moves in with wife's parents, um, how many times has this been done, a 100? 200? probably more). Thursday will see only one new comedy in Good Morning Miami, a creation by the people of Will and Grace. These shows might have possibilities but it's way too early to say at this point. Moving to Sundays, where the big changes occurred, has the only two new NBC dramas. Leading off will be a family growing up in the 60s and 70s (can you say Wonder Years?) in American Dreams. Then comes Law and Order: CI. And to conclude the night, the only show on all of NBC I might watch, Boomtown. That being said, this is just Third Watch goes to LA. Bottom line: Very below average look for new shows on NBC.
The WB new line up looks even less promising. By and large, the new shows look awful. The only good news is moving Angel behind Charmed on Sunday nights (VCRs will be burning with Alias and CI also on at 8). The only new show that I have any excitement for is Birds of Prey. This is a Batman spinoff with alternate twists. In this show, the Joker has succeeded in killing Catwoman and driving Batman from Gotham for good. Batgirl, now seriously injured and in a wheel chair, Barbara Gordon transforms herself in to the Oracle. Ashly Scott plays the daughter of Catwoman and Batman who becomes Gotham's next hero. Word is also Harley Quinn figures into this somehow but previously she was insane and had been the Joker's side kick, so I am not sure how that will work. I have a lot of hope though for this series as it is from the creators of Smallville.
ABC comes with an equally weak schedule. Philly will not be back and I feel that is a loss as they have not replaced it with anything of merit. Bonnie Hunt's sitcom shows some promise and maybe Dinotopia can capture some magic.......but somehow I doubt it. The other shows are doctors versus evil HMOs (Meds) and Back to the Future (That was Then). Maybe Push, Nevada can get some Twin Peaks magic but again I doubt. So far the fall line ups with half in look to be very bleak with only Birds of Prey really capturing my attention. Well here's hoping CBS, UPN, and FOX do better.
[Siris Crabb adds] This thing wasn't good,yet it wasn't bad.They need better actors.I watced it for intertainment and Le Sage was a little funny.I would give it a 6.As I said,it was rather intertaining. (March 27, 2003 04:09 PM)
[Marion Waldo adds] When I first saw the siries,two words poped into my mind."poor actors"I was a little confused when I first saw it,with a diffrent cast and all.After the first comerical brake,I caught on to it.ABC did a wonderful job with the movie,so this was a big D-I-S-S-A-P-I-O-N-T-M-E-N-T !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The outsiders never exsisted before.It was confusing,I mean VERY confusing.ABC did not do a good job on this. (March 27, 2003 04:35 PM)
[MattM adds] Ok I have no idea what you two are talking about but I am guessing Dinotopia? If thats the case I agree with you Marion disappointment is the right word. They did a great job with the mini series then just blew that apart with bad acting. (March 28, 2003 06:32 AM)
[glo adds] I can't find Whoopi on t.v.anymore. What happened? One week it is on Tues. the next, Wed. Then a rerun. What's going on? I love that show and want to see it every week the same night and time. Not this back and forth, up and down. (February 17, 2004 10:53 AM)
[alice ttlg adds] It's still on Tuesdays at 7pm but I guess it's getting pre-empted a lot. It's not on tonight (2/17) but it is on next Tuesday, 2/24. (February 17, 2004 11:38 AM)
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