Sunday, May 22, 2011

Upfronts 2011: FOX

Green TV: Watch.
Yellow TV: Try pilot and see.
Red TV: Nooope.


I like FOX. They gave us some good stuff in the past. And then they canceled it.

Terra Nova -- Hmm. I had so many FEELINGS watching this trailer. First: I gotta respect FOX for giving us the quality genre shows no one else will (Dollhouse, Fringe... oh. Maybe that's it.). Second: filling the gap LOST left. Will it live up? Green lighting a show like this is clearly a risk because Nielsen has showed dozens of times over that your average American likes his cop/lawyer/doctor shows but is undecided on colonizing new planets in the Future. If you're the least bit science fiction-y and not created by J.J. or Joss, you're on cable. And this one's got dinosaurs.
Alcatraz -- J.J. again. If Giacchino scores, I am so in. (Ah. Even if he doesn't!)


The Finder -- I don't watch or like Bones but I'm willing to try any crime shows TV offers up next season. Turning over a new leaf. Trying things I know I won't like just to prove I don't like them. Maybe I'll be surprised.
Allen Gregory -- I don't regularly watch any of the FOX animated lineup, but they're good every now and then.
The X Factor


Napoleon Dynamite
I Hate My Teenage Daughter -- Unfunny trailer with Neon Trees in the background. The last American show with a laugh track that I liked was probably Friends.
New Girl -- Sorry, Zooey! You're such a dear, bringing your quirky alternative self to network TV, but I'm 99% sure I'll find it just really really annoying.

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