KT Update-Fall is here!

You know things are bad when I don’t even want to report on the emmy’s. They were ok. The best part of the show was Conan’s intro. He “dropped in” on a few of the top shows. Going from Lost-The Office-24-House, even South Park. It was definitely the best part of the evening. As for the awards themselves, I’m happy for 24 & Keifer, it is about time they got some love. I also can’t really hate on The Office, although I think emmy voters could have waited a year and given the award this year to either Scrubs or Arrested Development. Other than that…blech. I don’t care. I don’t even care to comment on the fashion! Emmy’s do you hear me?? Make the show better before I lose all interest!!!! Like the VMA’s.

Wow, I’m so dangerously close to never watching that EVER again. I think it is highly amusing that a channel that shows videos for about an hour a day can muster up the nerve to have an award show for videos. I mean, I can’t even really have an opinion anymore because I only see the videos I seek out. I’ve seen Justin’s & Christina’s and, oh I saw that Dance, Dance video (that was cool, that danced to Thriller) and uh……uh…..the Madonna video! Yeah, yeah where she is wearing the unitard and leggings. Ok, so that’s 4 videos and one of them is too new to be a nominee. So I tivo’d the show (KT side note, I love my tivo for a variety of reasons, but the best may be its function during an awards show. I start watching 2 ½ hours into the show and finish up in about a half hour. I can zoom past commercials, stoopid presenters & awards. It is awesome! Although because the VMA’s went over I did miss Axl & the Killers—which I saw last night, I didn’t really miss anything great, oh and ya know what, I still don’t know who won video of the year.) But back to the show. Wow. LAME. Justin & Timbaland were pretty good, Beyonce channeled Janet Jackson, there was a lot of rap that I fast forwarded through, there were some guys on a treadmill. Kelly Clarkson & Pink won awards. Britney & K.Fed did a horrendous skit that I fast forwarded half way through…and let’s not forget Jack Black. TERRIBLE!! TERRIBLE!! Sometimes I worry that I am old and out of touch, but then I’ll see a good performance (none on Thursday though) and just realize that MTV sucks now a days. They stink and I don’t like them!

Let’s move on to something a little more pleasant, the new fall season. I’ve decided to take one for the team and really try to watch every new show this year so that I can tell you with full confidence which shows stink and which shows you should watch. Plus my tivo has the nifty feature where it will automatically tape every pilot for me! Yay! I *super heart* TIVO!!! By now, you should all trust me and my taste. I’ve gotten the Veronica Mars club to include 5 new members this year (all by watching my dvds) and there is still time until the Oct. premiere, so if you want to borrow them let me know!!! Oh, and a special shout out to Marianne, who never watches tv (she runs triathlons for the love of god) but watched the entire season of Veronica Mars in a weekend. That’s what I like to see Mare!!! TV=Good!

Every week I’ll review the shows that I’ve watched & give you a little preview of what lies ahead the next week; so get ready kids of fall premiere time!!!!

Here’s my rating scale:
* One Tree Hill (I do not endorse this show)
** Smallville (I’ll watch it, but it hasn’t made it to my season pass list)
** ½ Prison Break (I hate this show but I can’t stop watching!)
*** Desperate Housewives (One of my tivo shows)
**** 24 (Nothing will keep me from watching this show!!)

Shows that have already premiered:

Vanished (Mondays, 9 Fox) Unfortunately this premiered before I made my decision to watch all the new shows. But I haven’t heard anything too great so I don’t feel bad that I missed it.

Justice (Wednesdays, 9 Fox) I hate lawyer shows. I use to watch The Practice but I got annoyed with all the whiny lawyers. So needless to say I wasn’t too excited to watch this, but it has Jack Bristow & Jack from the Creek so I had to give it a chance. It is pretty crazy to see Kerr Smith all grown up from his creek days, he still has that little sensitive face, but he’s a lawyer now!!! And Victor Garber has gone from stoic Jack Bristow to swarmy, smart lawyer!!! Garber is the best part of the show, and I have to say I mostly enjoyed it. You get to see all the pieces of the trial and at the end of the hour they show you what really happened, if the person they were defending did the crime. I’ll probably give it a few more episodes before I ultimately decide. It would be good filler for when there are Lost repeats on. **

Stand Off (Tuesdays, 9 Fox) I like Ron Livingston. I don’t really like his show. Standoff is about a negotiator and his partner (who are sleeping together). So it is an action-romance. Yelch. Didn’t buy the chemistry between the two leads. And I’ so bored with the whole, negotiators are trying to save lives while the tactical team only wants to go in there and shoot up the place. Although I do agree with jimmy, the show did have one outstanding moment of dialogue. Some spoiled kid with mommy issues has a bomb strapped to his chest. Ya know how usually the family gets on the horn to say something comforting? Well, said mommy writes a note that the negotiator reads verbatim. “I’m sorry, I never wanted children.” Yikes! That’s rough. Poor kid, no wonder he had to strap a bomb to his chest to get some attention. **

As you may have noticed, I included one half star rating 2 ½ for “I hate this show yet I can’t stop watching it”. I really, really hate Prison Break and I keep telling myself that if Jay didn’t like it, I wouldn’t be watching. I don’t know if this is true. I just can’t help myself. The show is so frikkin ridiculous. The fact that 8 convicts could out run a line of police cars to even start season 2 is asinine. Then T-Bag gets a vet to re-attach his hand that was chopped off hours earlier? And he stays conscious during the procedure without meds? And has enough strength to kill the vet? And can immediately regain control of his hand? And what about the idiots who are going to see their families? They would have cops staking them out & taps on all the phones. Are you telling me that only ex-prison guard Bellick thought to trail Scoffield’s wife? WTF!!! And, Lincoln is just strolling around town without any kind of disguise, no hat, no nothing? Oh and I know we just escaped prison but hey let’s go to the courthouse and pick up my son. And tweener could not be a more obvious escapee. You know that scene in Stand By Me when Vern is on patrol and has the gone and every time something moves he points the gun? That’s how my man Tweener is. So you see, I could fill 15 pages of these ridiculous plot points yet I need to keep watching so I can keep on being floored with how outrageous this show can get. Plus I have to give them points for shooting Veronica in the forehead in the premiere. That was cool.

Tonight Fox premieres Til Death & Happy Hour. Til Death stars the brother from Everybody Loves Raymond and the only thing I know about Happy Hour is that it is expected to be the first casualty of the season. So I’ll try real hard to watch them so I can report back, but I may have to make an amendment to my rule of watching all the new shows and just make it all the new dramas & some select comedies. (KT Update Note: Today is friday. I couldn't watch them. I tried. I did. But the Mets & Football were on so my fiancee had control of the tv...and I didn't really want to watch them either)

What’s up for next week

Not too many new premieres, the week of the 18th is the big premiere week.

The Simpsons, American Dad, Family Guy, The War at Home (Sept 10)

Men in Trees (debuting Sept 12) ABC
Anne Heche is in Alaska ( I think) looking for a man. I’m going to Tivo this. I’m interested, but I’ve always been an Anne Heche fan. Hey, when you know and love someone from back in their Soap days (Another World) it is had to turn your back on them. Plus she was good on Everwood. I’m not saying it is gonna be good, I’m just saying I’ll check it out.

Survivor (Sept 14)
Wow, everyone is getting their panties in a bunch about this grouping along racial lines. Hate to break it to all the non survivor fans, but this is not new for the show. They’ve split the tribes by sex and age, so naturally race is next. Survivor has always been a social experiment, to see what bonds last when $1 million is on the line. I don’t think the race card is going to be as controversial as everyone expects.

Talk to you next week!