This isn't really a question, since it's mostly been announced for U.S. television (you can see Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC and the CW). What are you excited to see return? What are you bummed to not see back? What are you surprised about? I'm glad to see "2 Broke Girls," "Last Man Standing" and "Once Upon a Time" returning (not that I really had doubts about any of them). Unfortunately, my guilty-pleasure show, GCB, is out.
2 Broke Girls? I haven't seen a single episode, but according to the TV reviewers I trust, it relies on awful stereotypes and crass, unfunny jokes. In other words, it's a CBS sitcom. The only reason I'd watch it is because the "girl" with the dark hair is kinda hot. [face_beatup] Last Man Standing's premise, at least, seemed to be "it's so difficult being a straight white male at a time when the straight white male's dominion over society has eroded about a fraction of a percent!" Though I guess I shouldn't be picking on just CBS and ABC, since NBC inexplicably renewed Whitney for a full season and at least one of their new sitcoms is guaranteed to be just as bad. Yay. Part of me is disappointed that Parks and Rec. and Community will be back, otherwise I'd probably abandon network TV altogether. Well, excepting maybe my diminishing compulsion to continue watching Office and Modern Family, the latter of which has already resorted to the Disney-ABC Corporate Synergy of a Disneyland trip. Ugh.
Yeah, I saw that Whitney had been renewed and that boggled me. I guess NBC can't really afford to trash anything that even has a remotely respectable rating right now, though. I do like that Grimm had been renewed though.
I've seen bits of 2 Broke Girls. It's not really that bad, but it's nothing to write home about. I'm just glad that Parks and Rec and Community are back. Sort of sad that the Office is. It was funny in it's day, but it's time to move on.
i heard the office is going in a new direction next year with most of the main characters leaving. i stopped watching it about six episodes ago, and i still think they should have ended it when michael left, but i'll probably give the first few episodes a shot if they really do try something new.
So 30 Rock is ending next season. Not too surprising, considering some of the buildup this season. Awake is already cancelled? That actually looked kinda good, but then again, it also looked like one of those shows where the premise really can't sustain itself beyond a single season. I agree on both points. Community and Parks have plenty of life in them for a while to come, but this last season of The Office just shows how much it lost with Steve Carell. ABC tried that with Scrubs, and look how well that went.
Paul Lieberstein stepped down as showrunner. Mindy Kaling is leaving for a show of her own that was picked up by Fox. If that Dwight spinoff gets off the ground, that would get Rainn Wilson to leave. AFAIK, there actually hasn't been an announcement as to The Office's renewal yet, but most entertainment journalists are regarding it as a "formality." The idea of a reboot was just something they were throwing around in case they didn't get enough people to come back. Nothing's finalized, last I heard. Jenna Fischer and John Krasinki don't exactly have booming movie careers, so they could be motivated to renew their contracts just for a nice paycheck.
This season, I sadly dropped 30 Rock and the Office from my personal lineup. I knew it was time when I felt the obligation to watch them rather than looking forward to it (cf. Modern Family, which I will eagerly jump on Hulu every Thursday to watch).
30 Rock is pretty much the same as it's always been. I don't get why you'd drop it, ESPECIALLY as it seems they have introduced an actually long-term, endgame story arc with Liz and whats-his-face.
Surprised that ABC let Cougur Town go to TBS instead of canceling it outright. Maybe Alec Baldwin's assholish behavior off - screen has something to do with it? I know I lost interest in any watching it when he called his daughter a pig in that infamous voice message.
The production studio can sell it to whomever they want. Bill Lawrence's previous show, Scrubs, moved from NBC to ABC because NBC let it go and ABC studios produced it.
Not a big scripted television watcher, but I'm greatly relieved House finally got the axe. The last two seasons have been virtually unwatchable.
You owe it to yourself to watch the live episode from this season of 30 Rock, which was one of the best in a long time IMO.
Every time someone mentions "Two Broke Girls", I want to respond with "One Broken Cup". That being said, I'm kind of sad to see "Napoleon Dynamite" cancelled. While it wasn't really great, it was still funnier than any of Seth McFarlane's cartoons have been in the past few years, and keep getting renewed no matter what. Makes me wonder what kind of blackmail material McFarlane has on the Fox execs. That "Bob's Burgers" is still apparently on the fence is a bit distressing....I mean how could they even THINK of cancelling a show that got Cyndi Lauper to parody the Goonies?
I have to completely disagree with you. I know it is synergistic, but honestly... if you have a show about families set in SoCal and you never had them go to Disneyland, it would feel totally fake to me. It's such a part of the culture. I bet showrunners on other nets are sad they can't go to Disneyland
I'm glad both The Office and 30 Rock are coming back- the latter in particular is still just so much damn fun, they've got their system down to perfection. A shame it'll be the final season but at least they'll out strong. I'm very dissapointed Alcatraz was cancelled, though. That show was very solid and actually put a great narrative spin on your typical police procedural, so it's a shame it's originality is being discarded while the generic others of the genre march on. Cast was great (well, the blonde wasn't as strong as the rest but the rest made up for it) and they managed to make both the period and present day stories fascinating. It's also not often that the title screen gives me chills, either. Terra Nova isn't a surprise (beyond that, well, we already knew it was cancelled, I mean)- too many mistakes and didn't recover fast enough. Hopefully Bob's Burgers continues on- after seemingly a decade fo experimentation, they finally found a show that fits in with Simpsons and the MacFarlane block perfectly. And it provides a nice H Jon Benjamin fix between seasons of Archer (not to mentionKristen Schaal). Over on cable, it's still a damn shame that Eureka is ending this season, but at least the backlash convinced Syfy to let them film a wrap-up episode. I'm in the minority it seems in that I was fine with Carell leaving- he brought a lot to the show but he was never the reason I tuned in and often was the reason I cringed. Ed Helms was much more palatable on the whole (though his whole breakdown arc was bad, admittedly).
