live from my office, first day of upfronts

NBC has released its fall schedule. what really matters:

1. friday night lights: back, but on friday. how fitting, but not really. i'll almost always be out drinking when this is on. VCR tape it is.

2. Law & Order, regular and CI: regular is back (phew), but on sunday night. this is a smart move, and a much better place than fridays. maybe i'll actually start watching it again. 18th season!! as for CI, weirdness.

Criminal Intent's new season will have its first run on USA and then be repeated on NBC, reversing the terms of the previous arrangement.

this is just bizarre. i wonder what days it will be on USA. either way, i'll probably end up watching it at some point. love ya dick wolf, even though my roommate who says he used to work for you hates you ...

3. bionic woman: despite the fact i've never heard of the lead actress (michelle ryan? she doesn't even have an imdb photo up), the new wednesday night show has at its helm david eick, of battlestar galactica fame. plus, katee sackhoff (from BG) will be the villain! i think 3 other people who read the post will care about this, but to everyone else: you don't matter.

4. journeyman:


with a heroes lead-in, i'm guessing people will only be able to stand so much sci-fi. it's got lucius vorenus from HBO's rome in it, and he's a badass, but otherwise i'm skeptical.

[it] has a time-travel element that sounds reminiscent of former NBC hit quantum leap.

sliders > quantum leap > journeyman? only time will tell.

5. lipstick jungle: starring patricia arquette, brooke shields and kim raver. i predict they will show no more than 8 episodes of this, no matter how critically acclaimed it is. it's sex and the city, but with ugly people. no thanks.