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What Do The Critics Pick As The Best and Worst New Shows Of Autumn??
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Broadcasting & Cable polled a nationwide panel of 41 critics (myself among them) on, among other topics, the best and worst new broadcast shows of the coming fall.
The voting for best:
63% Pushing Daisies (ABC)
15% Reaper (The CW)
12% Dirty Sexy Money (ABC)
5% Bionic Woman (NBC)
5% K-Ville (Fox)
The voting for worst:
51% Cavemen (ABC)
15% Viva Laughlin (CBS)
13% Big Shots (ABC)
13% K-Ville (Fox)
5% Carpoolers (ABC)
You read it right! “K-Ville,” which premieres Monday, made the top five on both the best and worst lists!
Find the critics’ explanations and learn which of the broadcast networks has the best overall slate of new shows here.
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Pushing Daisies is so far out ahead... there has to be a fix in. I didn't mind the show but no way it's that much better than all the rest of the shows, especially those not mentioned like Chuck and Life, both of which I would put ahead of Pushing Daisies.
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And "Chuck" probably didn't make the "best" list because we weren't asked what our second and third favorite new shows were.
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Then this is yet another electoral system that need proportional representation!As entertaining as the pilot was I worry about Daisies' longevity, it's just too... cute.
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Development. Who knows? It might be pretty good. I'm surprised Chuck didn't make the Best of. That pilot was great.
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5% think it's the best, but 13% think it's the worst. I think I'll go with the majority, especially since it's on Fox. If it makes it to Season 2, I'll catch up on DVD, otherwise, forget about it.As for Cavemen, I wonder if it really is that bad, or the critics just hate the idea of a show based on a commercial.
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but excited, as I wanted to check it out, if only for Ray Wise. Looks like Rob Thomas made the right choice by leaving Viva Laughlin
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...because I can't imagine the ratings will be anywhere near good. It might last a full season if it gets a ton of good press like Friday Night Lights or something, but other than that it'll be done. Studio 60 won this category last year, so in terms of longevity it doesn't mean much. I am really curious about K-Ville now though, I think I'll catch the premiere tomorrow.
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I'll agree, that about 1/2 way through the first season we'll see way to much relationship agnst. It will get old VERY easily if so.
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If you haven't seen it yet, you really owe it to yourself to see just how horribly that continuity can be thrown off to make a few bucks. Best idea for a show would have been to be Jerico if they could get it together before Jerico started airing. But they blew that and are stuck with -- I really don't know how to describe it. Terminator Elseworlds??? Really weird, screwed up stuff. I'll take T2-3D instead. How long til the net "Universal Studios" trip???
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and I would have loved it but noooooo. And I don't even get the concept of Viva Laughlin. Hugh Jackman gambles and sings or something. I don't know. I'm not paying attention until LOST comes back.
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K-Ville's theme music is irritating already, and just want to smash Anthony Anderson's face in with a brick.
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...But i'd be gobsmacked if it even lasts a full season. The premise is so black-humored it'll unlikely to catch on in hicksville. I also predict a swift demise for The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The pilot for that one was utterly uninvolving.
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I'm shocked that anyone would put Bionic Woman on their top lists, when it sucked. Not too surprised to see Pushing Daisies at the top, as it's just the sort of thing critics eat up and the general public ignores, (I like it, but there is no way it lasts a season).
I actually liked the Sarah Connor Chronicles pilot, unlike the three who have posted here so far, but eh. Tastes will differ.
My most anticipated shows are Chuck, Life, Journeyman, and Dirty Sexy Money, (which is the only one whose pilot I have not yet seen). -
A sure thing to suck. Would Vegas even take odds on this? As for K-Ville, I guess some people have overdosed on cop shows and some haven't.
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absolutely horrible. retarded as fuck
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Sep 16, 2007 11:37:34 PM CDT
Cavemen looks like shit................................
by crackerfarmboy
I may just have to watch a few minutes to soak in the suckiness. Then again I did, with the trailer and it sucked harder than a vacum!
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I've also caught the pilots of Bionic Woman (not bad, but needs more dramatic thrust), Chuck (great fun) and Reaper (which has gotta find an audience, even on the CW).
As for Viva Laughlin, I haven't seen the pilot for that, but predict it'll be off the air faster than you can say Cop Rock. I also really hate musicals... -
It's far too twee to find an audience in the US. For reference see Wonderfalls.
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I'm bungy jumping with only my balls strung up to hold me...
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since sarah connor doesn't count, I'd have to agree that pushing daisies is the best I saw. I'm kind of scared to get into it though because it feels like a cable show and I kind of doubt abc will give it a chance to find an audience.
Bionic woman and chuck are both pretty good. They cram a lot into the Bionic Woman episode, but I think it will turn into a great series. Plus, there's the Battlestar Galactica connection, so you have to give it a chance. Chuck had great action sequences and was actually funny.
Journeyman and Reaper are entertaining, but there's so many good shows already on, I don't think I have time for stuff that's not excellent. Journeyman is a more complicated, less likable quantum leap.
Life was kind of boring.
Gossip Girl is kinda like Cruel Intentions by way of the O.C., complete with the now standard indie rock soundtrack these kids would never listen to. Veronica Mars narrates though, which is cool. Your fifteen yr old sister is going to be obsessed with this show.
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a small bland band on a major label desperatly trying to make money any way possible?
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If those five shows are worse than Samantha Who, they're all arriving DOA.
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if you are in fact referring to the use of Clutch's "Electric Worry" from the K-Ville promos. These guys have been putting out killer music since 1991, and it just keeps getting better. Maybe FUX should have just gone with Green Day's cover of ""Working Class Hero" cause that would be way more fresh, hip, and marketable on i-tunes, huh? At least Clutch is in good company with John Lee Hooker being used on the other promos.
If you are not, in fact, referring to the "K-Ville" promos than I apologize and retract the accusations of your being either ignorant or a slut.
P.S. The Beatles catalog is being raped to push Luv's diapers, so I guess it's an eventuality for any band, apparently. -
But I won't be holding my breath! I didn't watch the pilot yet 'cause I want to see it in HD, but I hope it's good. New Orleans could use a good show being shot down there right now. (both for the local economy and the PR) It'll probably suck, but maybe not...(any cop show with both leads firing guns chow yun fat, "two-fisted" killer style makes me nervous and hopeful at the same time...)
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Get his ass outta New Orleans and back to Farmington, pronto! Antwon Mitchell was the best thing to happen to The Shield in a long time. I like him on the other side of the badge. Pushing Daisies will have trouble finding an audience...and will end up being the next Arrested Development...a great show nobody's watching. Plus...I worry about it's longevity, too...I mean....How many unsolved murder mysteries can this guy collect rewards on before the cops get suspicious? I think Chuck will have longer legs, just because it's Heroes lead in...but how many times are we gonna sit through him getting rescued by the hot blond every week? Hope Bionic Woman lasts long enough to have a Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner cameo...hell...even Bigfoot would be great. I think the Caveman camp flubbed when they didn't cast the same guys and the same writers from the Geico ads. Reaper has me intrigued...but does anyone even watch The CW? As long as I have Earl, The Office, 30 Rock, 24 and Lost...I could give a shit if ANY of these shows make it.
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I agree with Brody. I mean, after an balls-to-the-wall turn playing a truly gritty, vicious crimelord on "The Shield", being in a cop show on a regular network must make Anderson feel like he's in a sanitized kindergarden.
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I personally thought it was one of the worst ever in history. It tried to play on a reverse position twist on Lost flashbacks (which wasn't what makes Lost popular) with a bunch of characters I could care less about the boring drama in their lives.
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"Quirky" has a tendency to become aggravating really quick. Look at Bjork.
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Pull off being a good Primetime Soap like Dallas in it's glory days, then I'll watch. But I agree with whoever said above that it looks like a dramatic version of Arrested Development. And Pushing Daisies won't last until December. Quirky isn't what people like. It will be Wonderfalls 2007. ABC needed an action pilot, something that will be compatible with Lost when it returns in February.
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I don't really know what K-Ville is or is supposed to be, so I am ignorant about that. I don't think I've seen or heard the promos. My response was to the poster above me.
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Pushing Daisies will be done by November.
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I don't know if it's the worst of the season, but pretty bad. Caveman makes me want to scrape rusty nails across my eyeballs (the big joke in the original pilot was them singing, "I like big mags and I cannot lie, you other mags can't deny, when a mag walks in with an itty bitty mag and a round thing in your mag you get magged")
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were all pretty good fun so I'm looking forward to them. I'll give Bionic Woman a chance but the pilot was so generic and predictable I don't think I will stick with it unless it improves massively.
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And I have to object to ABC's really stupid promo for Cavemen and Carpoolers last night, in which Lost was referred to as a "chick show". Lost is one of the few non-chick shows on that fucking network.
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I don't think Pushing Daises will necessarily see early cancellation. It's more upbeat than Dead Like Me or Wonderfalls ever were. That may be enough to find it a wider audience. It's also on a bigger network in a good time slot (Fox only counts for reality programming). I didn't come across either of the other shows until after they were canceled. Still, the buzz is likely to be bigger than the share, and the network needs to accept that in advance.
I'm surprised to see so many into Chuck. That was a poor-man's Jake 2.0 and that should be saying something. I'd expect it more of the CW than of NBC. There's no way it lasts. I might not mind watching it if I had nothing to do, but it was too mind-blowingly stupid for me to ever care about. It's for the generation who can't graduate with even basic math skills. Sci-fi for the reality TV audience. Not that Lost is for rocket scientists.
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is this the buffy spin off? and why is bionic woman anywhere near the 'best' list?
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Chuck balances enough humor with just enough character quirks to work. Reaper was like watching the Chuck pilot, but with the pacing slowed down to a crawl, and all the fun sucked outta of it. Sorry Kevin Smith, but Chuck has got the edge here.
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Bad bad writing.
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I think that's the only reason I'm going to watch. I've got a feeling it's going to be another the Inside where the side characters are better than the stars.
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Are you the assholes who kept shit like "Yes, Dear", "According to Jim", and "Still Standing" on the air for so long?
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i don't understand your comment
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Just wondering....
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...but Pushing Daisies is about nine times too precious to really be good, let alone be a hit.And this is coming from one of the biggest Bryan Fuller fans on the face of the earth.
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followed by Reaper. Daises I'm gonna watch again as people talking in background.
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Just watched the pilot on that free Amazon/Tivo dealie and it was a disaster. Directed by McG should have been my first clue...
Journeyman was okay, but not good enough to get me to add to Tivo. Bionic Woman was also kind of dull. I might check out episode 2 to see if it improves.
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They rank thusly: 1- Pushing Daisies. 2 (tie) Chuck and/or Reaper. 3. Sarah Connor (surprisingly good... i'm sure there will be haters, but it's well directed and there's definite potential) 4. Bionic Woman (pretty disappointing) 5. and last and certainly least, tonight's god-awful K-Ville. mind you, these are just the pilots, who knows, pushing daisies could end up being a pain in the ass and bionic woman could get re-tooled into a good hour of tv. Of the pilots, both Chuck and Reaper have limitless potential. I mean, one dude been uploaded with EVERY secret the government has, and the other is dispatching souls back to hell. That's five years of stories each for sure. Christ, i hope people tune in.
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"Don't Forget the Lyrics" took its spot in the fall schedule.
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No wonder I hate the commercials so much. I hope Joel McHale's show turns out good, and can't wait for it to replace any one of these new shows.
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I thought the first one was OK. Hard to imagine where it can go. And the introduction/use of the black cop character was really terrible.
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...checking Viva Laughlin out, since my friend in London raves about the BBC's Blackpool series.
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was involved with was a summer series/maybe burnoff, based on an Elmore Leonard book/character, starring Beau Bridges, that was quirky, visual and gone before you knew it?
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I say canceled in four episodes.
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What about Life? Well acted with an interesting main character. Chuck was cheesy but fun, it could improve. What I saw of Bionic Woman was kinda bland. They should have picked a better lead actress. I'd prefer Katie Sackhoff as the main character and not the villian.
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What about the return of Prison Break? I really wanted to discuss Michael magically having the same hoodie he wore in Fox River, or Lincoln looking like Solomon Grundy at the restaurant. Maybe I'd even talk about how I don't ever want to see Bellick in his underwear again. And Mahone totally kicks ass. Hell, if William Fichtner ran for president he'd have my vote...
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that's 44 minutes of my life I'll never get back...
awful...
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Critics are always right. That's why we know that Studio 60 will win an emmy in 2007 while Tina Fey's derivative 30 Rock copycat sitcom will get cancelled!
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