athelind | The Hoard Potato checks his timers.

Wow, what a dead TV season. The only new Fall show that has even kind of gotten our interest is Eastwick, an adaptation of Guess What; The Human Target may be worth a peek, but it's not coming up until later in the season. I had to look all this up online, incidentally -- there's been no hype, no buzz, nothin' about the new season in my usual haunts.

The only word that really describes this is "abrupt". The last couple of years have been brimming with new shows that have, for one reason or another, gotten our extended social group and the blogosphere with which it intersects a-humming. This year, suddenly, nothin'.

Oh, there may be some ads that we fast-forward through on the few summer shows we watch, and the "First Look" adumentary reels in the movie theaters have hyped one or two new shows -- but nothing that really grabs us.

And it's not just us. Nobody's saying anything online about... anything. Not on LJ, not on FurryMUCK, not in the entertainment blogs I read.

I'm not sure if the Cater To The Geeks fad has faded; honestly, I didn't recognize many new non-SF shows on the schedule, either.

It's a dead season. Nobody cares. There's nothing to excite the fandom.

Or were there were just too many successful new shows in the last few seasons to make room for more this year?

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Not to say that I'm biased or anything (which I truly am), but listening to the radio in Spring an interviewee indicated that we were ending a golden age of TV and the last show of that age was Battlestar Galactica.

Not that there won't be another "Golden Age", but there'll be a lag and it certainly looks like his prediction may be true. At least at this point.

Oh, I didn't say there wasn't anything worth WATCHING. We've still got a full array of timers set up, and some of these shows, we really like.

But they're all... old.

I will try desperately to shoe-horn your response into something that validates my post! You will see through this not-so-clever ploy.

Though I'm funny about television... I'm not an avid watcher but Amanda is. I've got this wonderful short-attention-span thing, so if I'm not fully engaged I may wander off during a commercial and not realise what I was doing until hours later. We solved this by buying a little PVR, but now that I don't see commercials I'm not as acutely aware of what's on, either.

I actually came across a blog related to the "Second Golden Age" of television, the I referenced earlier but the actual radio show was far more interesting.

I probably need a nerd-o-meter attached to my TV so that I know what I would like.

Maybe they'll bring Firefly back, only to cancel it again after a few episodes. ;)

I've lost count of the good shows I've watched in the past that haven't had a good run before going off the air for one silly reason or another. These days I do most of my TV watching on the intarwebs. Defying Gravity and Flashpoint are definitely worth watching. :)

I almost want to say I don't watch TV, but that'd be a lie. I just wait a couple of years until it comes out on Netflix. :p I am perpetually behind.

To address your point, however, I sorta figure that they might be flirting with geek overload in an economic downturn. Fans will spend, as we know, but times are stressed and with plunging DVD sales and other merchandise sales it might be making production firms hesitant to start expensive sci-fi shows where a lot of the profit doesn't come from advertising but marketing. That's my thinking. That they don't feel like spending that kind of money in a tight market.

I think it's that budgets are lower, due to the recession. So, genre shows - who either have or are perceived as having higher costs due to spfx - are avoided in favor of 'five guys on a couch talking' shows.

Being Human on BBC America has been interesting, if brief. It's only six episodes long. Good news: They're playing ALL SIX episodes this Saturday in a marathon.

I've heard good things about Defying Gravity on ABC. My free time has been nil this week, but I plan to watch it on hulu then start recording it. About the time I catch up, it should be cancelled.

Oh, jeez! Yeah, we're watching that, but we're watching it On Demand... so we... kinda... forgot for a couple of weeks.

I'm hoping Being Human gets another series (as they call it in the UK). I haven't heard anything about Defying Gravity -- and didn't see it on the schedule.

I didn't hear about Being Human until last week, but saw it was on OnDemand, and caught the first four episodes there.

I don't watch TV.

I watch BIG SCREEN TV. Get it right, peasant. :)

I do wonder where all the hype is. Maybe they're too poor to advertise like they used to right now. Still, I mostly crave actual fictional shows, and not the massive glut (har har) of reality shows. A few reality shows like Dirty Jobs are good, but anything watching rich whiny teenagers live in a mansion together is just horrible.

Pfft. This is the One-And-Twenty, chummer. "TV" is ASSUMED to be wide screen, High Def, and at least a yard wide. Low Def is OUTLAWED. If you're still running an old CRT with a converter box, THEN you have to specify.

"BIG SCREEN" means "THE MOVIE THEATER".

I dunno. I've been around a batch of discussions where people have been going on and on about Venture Brothers. The only other shows that I've heard mentioned at all have been out for a while - Dexter for instance.

So either Kehza's right about it being cyclical or there's some sort of even less predictable thing going on, perhaps - it certainly sounds like there's got to be some sort of preponderance of mass here, as in all things, to get stuff really going.

Venture Bros. is heading into its fourth season. I love it, but I'd never subject Quel to it; it's totally not her thing.

Flash Forward seems to be getting some buzz.

I know there's been a lot of buzz about V, but I have no idea when it premieres (though, judging from the total lack of ads, midseason would be my guess). There's also Day One, a post-apocalyptic limited series that'll be running this spring. That looks interesting.

It's going to be a pretty light fall, but spring will be *crazy*. Now's a good time to catch up on shows you've been meaning to, I guess. ;)

Any interest in Warehouse 13?

It's on "SyFy," and reviews of it so far seem to suggest that it's about of the quality one expects from That Network.

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