You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

Current Stompy Feet: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura

Stompy Emerita: ita, DXMachina


DavidS - Aug 18, 2007 8:40:39 pm PDT #1297 of 6789
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

So....are we thinking about a single thread for Office (which I think would work considering the interest) or a bucket Comedy thread?


DebetEsse - Aug 18, 2007 8:54:45 pm PDT #1298 of 6789
Woe to the fucking wicked.

If there are just nibbles of interest for other comedy, I'd be tempted to make a Comedy thread, even knowing that it will mostly be Office (Although I would expect decent representation for HIMYM and 30 Rock, at least). I can imagine reasonable arguments for leaving those in Natter, though.

If there's a reasonably small bucket, I tend to prefer buckets, which, like Time Lords, can regenerate with each new season, as new shows fit into them. Also, this means that we have less maintenance work as time passes and shows get hot or cold.


Sean K - Aug 18, 2007 9:23:51 pm PDT #1299 of 6789
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Huh. So Sarah Connor Chronicles doesn't have a night yet? It is then maybe a mid-season replacement on FOX?

Yeah. We know how that goes.

Also, the survey made it pretty clear that, outside of various reality-type shows I've been watching, one new show (Pushing Daisies), and a very small handful of returning shows I'm still watching, I'm almost completely uninterested in the fall lineup.

TV is pulling away from me.


sumi - Aug 18, 2007 9:30:19 pm PDT #1300 of 6789
Art Crawl!!!

Yes, it's a mid-season replacement. (I think that they have a day that they're putting it in, but I cannot recall which day it is.)

ETA: It's supposed to be on Sunday nights.


Polter-Cow - Aug 18, 2007 9:51:39 pm PDT #1301 of 6789
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I think Sunday.


esse - Aug 18, 2007 10:13:39 pm PDT #1302 of 6789
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Is BSG mid-season replacement? I'll also be wantin' to talk torchwood come fall, bless Boxed Set.

Thanks for the survey, Brenda, it'll be interesting to see the answers. I voted no on the Drama thread because I really want smaller buckets and I thought there would be more likelihood to pass them now than I did before.

Also, yay, fifteen shows for me. That's slightly less challenging than last year's twenty, though mid-season replacements may be daunting.


Kristen - Aug 18, 2007 10:32:15 pm PDT #1303 of 6789

Most new dramas on FOX this year are scheduled for January/midseason. I think the only new drama this fall will be K-Ville. (New Amsterdam was supposed to be the other one but it's been moved to January.)


Jessica - Aug 19, 2007 2:49:47 am PDT #1304 of 6789
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Most new dramas on FOX this year are scheduled for January/midseason.

Doesn't Fox usually do that, because of baseball?


askye - Aug 19, 2007 6:15:30 am PDT #1305 of 6789
Thrive to spite them

I can't access the survey I get a Cannot Find Server error. How long will the survey be up? Is anyone else having problems?


Kristen - Aug 19, 2007 6:18:47 am PDT #1306 of 6789

Doesn't Fox usually do that, because of baseball?

Last year, they had three new dramas in the fall with two others planned for midseason.