FF:NSW summer tv

The hit new show headland is my guilty pleasure. a friend of mine works in the script department (Not writing them) and her parents worked on the show for awhile after episode 10. They have something like 82 episodes filmed?

Enjjoyed veronica Mars again this week. im still trying to figure out of Troy is a friend or someone screwing with her.

 

Another new show on Ch10: THRESHOLD ("a female government contingency analyst who leads a team of scientists and military personnel who get in contact with a mysterious alien lifeform.")

Starts Sunday 8.30 (after Smallville)


Pilot episode is directed by David Goyer (writer/director of Blade), who produces the show, along with David Heyman (Harry Potter movies), and Brannon Braga (Star Trek) - so an interesting mix of scifi/fantasy folks behind the cameras ...

And it has a viewer rating of 8.5/10, so maybe worth a look (believe it or not, I've never even heard of it before)


EDIT: it must be good, because CBS has cancelled it....

 

Well looky there - they've snuck in AMERICAN DAD under the radar (well, my radar anyway, which aint hard atm) ... tis on tonight (Thursday) at 10pm on Ch 7. I have nae really seen Family Guy, but it's made by the same folks, and I'm told it's very very similar ...

 

damn, Id have watched em both if i hadnt...totally...forgotten.

Crap.

Summer TV wise, Im hooked on Veronica Mars, Ghost whisperer and Third Watch remains a favourite. Smallville are all still episodes i can watch on DVD without ads, so I havent been watching that. Oh, and Im getting annoyingly hooked on The Hit New Show Headland. Katie is hot.

 

I didn't know there was TV in the summer...
At least not over the Christmas period...

 

No no, you must remember the cricket! It's probably the best show all season....

 

I'm calling Joss out. Veronica Mars is NOT the best television ever.

Way too much teen angst.

 

im ok with teen angst. And I can definitely deal with very well written teen angst

 

Only thing I watch is Third Watch if it's on when I am couching. Will Bosco be ok?!?!

 

THE GOOD...

American Dad - hilarious, I love the talking goldfish!

Smallville - I've been hooked for a while, only problem is that some episodes are far better than others, for example the one where Kent found out that he was from Kypton etc - excellent! The one with the cloned little girl - Crap!

Family Guy - Very funny of course

...THE BAD...

Ghost Whisperer - the old "chick-who-talks-to-ghosts-to-help-them-pass-over-to-the-other-side" genre is getting a bit too crowded methinks.

Surface - Sorry I ain't into it, dragon like things which swim in lava and shoot sparks? Count me out.

....AND THE UGLY

Headland - how much crapper could this have been?

 

re: surface

the more i watch it, the more it seems like a cheap made-for-tv knock-off of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (right down to the 'encounterees' automatic art)

 

i quite like Headland Im sad to say. Im vaguely in love with katie...

moving on, Ghost Whisperer is good, and tonight had a bit of a twist at the end that wa sa little creepy.

 

Did anyone realise that the cyclist who died on Ghost Whisperer was the good doctor from Firefly/Serenity?

Coolio.

 

Lando, I think you might be watching GW han solo ...


Meanwhile, just saw an ad for Supernatural, starting in January. So there's some more summer scifi tv on its way.

 

I saw American Dad. It felt like Family Guy all over again, but I liked it. Kinda like comparing Futurama to The Simpsons.

 

Threshhold is pretty cool. Shame it got cnacelled.

And the girl whos dog gt eaten in Surface was hot as hell. rowr.

 

And now I've just seen an ad for ROME, coming soon to CH9.


Gonna be innaresting to see how they handle the sex scenes...


And Carnivale season 2 is soon on ABC. W00t!

 

I have to say that supernatural and Invasion have caught my eye, but I will either download them or wait until DVD, because I refuse to watch another TV series where they either re schedule the show all over the place or spoil the future episodes with the advertising trying to get you to watch the next episode, for instance "one of these 3 characters will die" and showing you 3 characters in a trailer.

 

Supernatural and Invasion are completely different styles of show, but both are worth the effort imho. Supernatural is like a younger, rock'n'roll x-files (it's made by x-files veterans) - looks like an urban-legend-of-the-week show, more style than substance (but the style is so purrrrdy you won't care), and it doesn't take itself too seriously - so it's all good fun. What you see in the ads is what you get in the show (including the music). Invasion on the other hand is a slow boiling psychological thriller, not nearly as action packed as the ads make out (except for the pilot). It's all about mystery and tension and paranoia. All that good stuff.


And if you haven't seen Carnivale, well .. you just do NOT know what you're missing out on.

 

I caught a cute little show called Wonderfalls on afternoon TV (9 from memory) today. It was definitely suited to a mature audience and am surprised it was shown at 4:30.

Kind of the show where I was baffled by the characters so much that I didn't realise I was realy enjoying the show till it ended.

Cute but insane girl with troubled family must fulfil quests set by talking inanimate objects (usually animals such as stuffed bears or the eagle on coins) in the lush surrounds of Niagara Falls.

 

Carnivale in fact starts up again tonight: Sunday 8.30 ABC.

 

Shara and I are both new fans of Wonderfalls after watching the first episode. It'll be interesting to see how many episodes they actually show, considering they made about thirteen but only aired four in the US.

 

I came in here to talk about 'Wonderfalls' too, what a great show!

It seemed intelligent and offbeat, that's probably why it's on at 4:30pm on Saturday - the networks hate original programming.

I'll definately watch it again..I loved the main character, a sort of anti-hero of sorts.

 

Kinda on topic, I have just been advised that the only other TV show I watch (apart from Veronica Mars) is going to start here:

How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM) is going to start in February on channel 7 here in Oz. A TV Guide stated

"That Charming and witty Actress Alyson Hannigan from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and American Pie Movies is coming back to grace Aussie TV screens in her brand new TV Series How I Met Your Mother. We are loooking forward to see this talented and Beautiful Actress Again on our Television sets."

 

Shane, they could put a show on that has a character who just mentions Alyson Hannigan's name every few minutes and you'd still watch it