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Which Fall TV shows will you be watching? - 2012 Edition

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RatskyWatsky

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Hulu Sets Streaming Start For New Season Of Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Thick Of It’

Episodes of the fourth series of Armando Iannucci’s British political sitcom will be available on Hulu and Hulu Plus beginning Sept. 9, immediately following their broadcast on BBC Two in the UK. In July, Hulu and BBC Worldwide Americas said they were teaming to co-produce the new season of The Thick Of It, marking the first international co-production for the streaming service. Hulu has had exclusive U.S. rights to the first three seasons of the foul-mouthed comedy since July 29. The show focuses on spin doctor Malcolm Tucker and the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship. After a three-year hiatus, creator Iannucci (Veep, In the Loop) introduces a new Secretary of State to stir things up while Malcolm and MP Nicola Murray adapt to working in the opposition. All seven half-hours will be available via Hulu on Oct. 21.
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
The Daily Beast - Fall TV 2012 preview: 7 shows to watch, 7 shows to skip

Watch:

Nashville
Ben and Kate
Vegas
Last Resort
Elementary
The Mindy Project
Call the Midwife
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Skip:

Revolution
Partners
The Neighbors
Made in Jersey
Guys with Kids
Beauty and the Beast
The Mob Doctor
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Cornballer said:
- THR's The 100 Fresh Faces of Fall TV gallery

Sort of like expensive prom photos or something. Worth a quick look to figure out who's on which new shows.
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Ahaha, they do look like prom photos!
 
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ivysaur12

Banned
That's an odd list from The Daily Beast. Vegas and Last Resort? And Ben and fucking Kate? Really? Can we stop this Shawn Ryan circle jerk just because he made The Shield and this isn't a police procedural on network television?
 
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TripOpt55

Member
I have always thought Last Resort looked rather meh. If Shawn Ryan wasn't involved I imagine most wouldn't be paying it much mind. I have only seen the trailers though, so what the hell do I know.
 
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Wes

venison crêpe
Along with the trailer just posted, Downton Abbey Season 3 start date for UK audiences is 16th September.
 
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Cornballer

Member
ivysaur12 said:
Can we stop this Shawn Ryan circle jerk just because he made The Shield and this isn't a police procedural on network television?
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I like the concept and the cast, plus Shawn Ryan's put together a couple great shows and another good one. Obviously, you've seen the pilot and I haven't, but I'm not sure why you're surprised there's a little hype about this one.
 
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ivysaur12

Banned
Cornballer said:
I like the concept and the cast, plus Shawn Ryan's put together a couple great shows and another good one. Obviously, you've seen the pilot and I haven't, but I'm not sure why you're surprised there's a little hype about this one.
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I never said that I was surprised, just that it's utterly unwarranted.
 
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Solo

Member
First year in a LOMG time I'm not picking up a single new show. Nothing is doing it for me.

So I'll be watching the existing stuff:
- Homeland
- Justified
- Fringe
- Californication
- Game of Thrones
- Breaking Bad
 
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Cornballer

Member
ivysaur12 said:
I never said that I was surprised, just that it's utterly unwarranted.
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Fair enough. I guess I'll find out for myself in a couple of weeks.

I'm anticipating this is another one-and-done for Shawn Ryan in any case given the time slot, subject matter, and price tag on the series (which I'm assuming is somewhat high.)
 
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
Decado said:
Arrow? Really? I'll be really surprised if it doesn't turn out to be another snore-fest.
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Or maybe it could be the next Nikita! We can only hope.

The Lamonster said:
I can't bear to watch Go On after those terrible ads during the Olympics. I also refuse to watch any show that has a soft filter to hide aging celebs' wrinkles. It makes me feel like I've got chlorine in my eyes!
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Those commercials were awful. Matthew Perry was made up to look like he had plastic skin.
 
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
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Lookin good.
 
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Steelyuhas

Member
Returning Fall Shows I'll be watching:
-Modern Family
-30 Rock
-Parks and Rec
-New Girl
-Sons of Anarchy
-The Walking Dead
-Boardwalk Empire
-ASIP

New shows I might try:
-Vegas
-Revolution
-Last Resort

Not really excited much for any of those. Weak fall season of new shows for me personally, but plenty of returning strong ones, so it's not a big deal.
 
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Mr_eX

Member
I watched the Revolution pilot on hulu. It's OK for a pilot, which usually have to do too much establishing plot/characters in 40 minutes to be very good with a few exceptions. It has the potential to be one of my favorite shows if they just let Kripke do his thing.
 
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Dennis

Banned
Elementary - CBS

In a modern-day take on Sherlock Holmes, the iconic detective (Johnny Lee Miller) is taking on New York. Just out of rehab, he's been assigned to live with his worst nightmare-sober coach, Dr. Joan Watson (Lucy Liu). Holmes's unsurpassed skills of deduction and Watson's medical expertise come together to create a dream team for solving the NYPD's most impossible cases.
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wait wat
 
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Dennis

Banned
Shows I follow

- Homeland
- Justified
- Game of Thrones
- Breaking Bad
- Sons of Anarchy
- Parks and Recreation
- Boardwalk Empire
- The Good Wife
- Empowered
- Futurama
 
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DevelopmentArrested

Banned
ivysaur12 said:
That's an odd list from The Daily Beast. Vegas and Last Resort? And Ben and fucking Kate? Really? Can we stop this Shawn Ryan circle jerk just because he made The Shield and this isn't a police procedural on network television?
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Poor Shawn Ryan only made one of the 3 best tv shows in the past 20 years.
And helped create Terriers which was fucking awesome.

You stop.

Anything with Andre Braugher = instant watch.
 
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Puckmarin

Banned
DevelopmentArrested said:
Poor Shawn Ryan only made one of the 3 best tv shows in the past 20 years.
And helped create Terriers which was fucking awesome.

You stop.

Anything with Andre Braugher = instant watch.
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If I'm not mistaken he was also behind "The Chicago Code" which I thought was a great show. Too bad it didn't last past one season.
 
aparisi2274

aparisi2274

Member
For me it will be:

Go On

The New Normal (I caught the pilot, and thought it was pretty damn funny. Ellen Barkin's character is pretty funny)

Ben & Kate

Vegas

The Mindy Project

Revolution

Last Resort

There are to many returning shows for me to list, so I'm just going with the new shows....
 
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ivysaur12

Banned
DevelopmentArrested said:
Poor Shawn Ryan only made one of the 3 best tv shows in the past 20 years.
And helped create Terriers which was fucking awesome.

You stop.

Anything with Andre Braugher = instant watch.
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Sure. He's also made two boring cop shows and a boring pilot about people on submarines. It's a boring pilot with a mediocre writing staff on a show that looks uncomfortably less expensive than it actually was and has a shitty timeslot so yeah.

BenjaminBirdie said:
lol Ben and Kate is fantastic.
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Fantastic? I mean, I get why people might like it. It's just so... bland. I dunno. I didn't really like The Mindy Project, but I thought it showed a lot more promise than Ben and Kate.
 
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Fry

Member
Updating my list:

Dexter
Homeland
How I Met Your Mother
Supernatural
The Big Bang Theory
The Walking Dead

Hoping to catch later:

Boardwalk Empire
Sons of Anarchy
Suits
 
Avinexus

Avinexus

Member
Anyone else use trakt.tv? I figure I'd throw it out there. Once you say you've watched a show or add it to your watchlist it creates a calender of your shows and gives you the dates and times of each episode. Might be useful for other people like me who watches too many shows and can never keep track of when they are on (or what episode you are on).
 
The Lamonster

The Lamonster

Member
There are a lot of awesome shows mentioned in this thread, lots of fun new stuff and great returning series...but the one show I am most pumped to watch again is JUSTIFIED.
 
Avinexus

Avinexus

Member
The Lamonster said:
There are a lot of awesome shows mentioned in this thread, lots of fun new stuff and great returning series...but the one show I am most pumped to watch again is JUSTIFIED.
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It will be awhile then, since it doesn't start in the fall. Probably in January or at least early 2013, I don't think there is an official date yet.
 
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Cornballer

Member
Avinexus said:
It will be awhile then, since it doesn't start in the fall. Probably in January or at least early 2013, I don't think there is an official date yet.
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Yes, January is most likely when they'll air it. We should start getting some casting news in the next couple of months.
 
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
Premiering today:

The third season of The Voice on NBC at 8/7c

The miniseries The Crimson Petal and the White on Encore at 9/8c

Reviews:

Maureen Ryan - The Crimson Petal and the White

This two-part adaptation of the Michael Faber best-seller about the struggles of a Victorian prostitute has a top-shelf cast -- Chris O'Dowd, Gillian Anderson, Romola Garai -- but it is a highly stylized and atmospheric piece of work. Frankly, it's avant-garde to the point of feeling overwrought and pretentious. Still, it might be worth the time of avid fans of the book, assuming more than five of them actually have the Encore channel.
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SFGate - The Crimson Petal and the White

Carefully adapted by Lucinda Coxon, Faber's 850-page novel is set in the 1870s. From the beginning of the miniseries, Sugar (Romola Garai), the metaphorical crimson petal, is anything but a victim of Victorian-era repression. Instead, she turns that repression on its head as well as the pre-eminent societal position of the male in the ways she knows best: by feigning submissiveness and sexual pleasure with her patrons, and by using her free time to write a steamy pornographic novel filled with scenes of bloody revenge against men who believe women's primary role is to provide pleasure.

The direction, by Marc Munden, is competent, if a little slow in places, but it does correctly replicate the pace of a Victorian-esque 850-page novel.

What truly makes the miniseries, though, are the performances in general and that of Garai in particular. The entire story and theme turn not only on contrasts but also on character evolution, which demands precision and nuance from the cast. Sugar's journey is the most complicated and, in concept, perhaps the most difficult to believe as well. Yet Garai makes it entirely credible, convincing us completely as Sugar goes from hardened, emotionally pent-up prostitute blaming men for her very existence to a woman transformed by love, regardless of whether it is misplaced or not.
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LA Times - The Crimson Petal and the White

And though I am partial to a moody, slowly told story, "Crimson Petal" could lose an hour without sacrificing a single scene or word of dialogue, and it would still seem slow and moody. (The soundtrack favors dreamy electronica.) The added time offers less in physical or psychological detail than in blocks of atmosphere, laid like spacers between one action and the next, this line and that one.

Still, it is far from uninteresting, and there are some excellent performances. With its imprisoned heroines, bad parents and lost and found children, and with its emphatic moral (which is not to say moralizing) streak, it has the bones and flesh of a fairy tale. And it is as something fantastical and even otherworldly, rather than as an authentic story of old England, that "The Crimson Petal and the White" is best read.
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Avinexus said:
Anyone else use trakt.tv? I figure I'd throw it out there. Once you say you've watched a show or add it to your watchlist it creates a calender of your shows and gives you the dates and times of each episode. Might be useful for other people like me who watches too many shows and can never keep track of when they are on (or what episode you are on).
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I actually use followmy.tv (though the website seems to be down at the moment...), though trakt.tv seems to be pretty much the same thing!
 
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BenjaminBirdie

Banned
ivysaur12 said:
Fantastic? I mean, I get why people might like it. It's just so... bland. I dunno. I didn't really like The Mindy Project, but I thought it showed a lot more promise than Ben and Kate.
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Felt the exact opposite. I thought Mindy was solid, but Ben and Kate just has too many powerhouses on the cast with Eve Draper and whoever the dude is who plays Ben's friend. There are good people on the Mindy cast but none of them are actually as funny as Mindy.
 
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ivysaur12

Banned
BenjaminBirdie said:
Felt the exact opposite. I thought Mindy was solid, but Ben and Kate just has too many powerhouses on the cast with Eve Draper and whoever the dude is who plays Ben's friend. There are good people on the Mindy cast but none of them are actually as funny as Mindy.
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Eeesh. I mean, yeah, agree to disagree then. I really didn't think it was anything special at all.

You can now watch Last Resort online, so you can quit hearing me bitch about it.

http://www.flavorwire.com/325852/fall-2012-tv-pilots-you-can-watch-online-right-now#1

EDIT: The New Normal's facebook likes pre-premiere: 55,555 likes (legitimately). I'm gonna keep a running tally.
 
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