NBC has Sunday night football which is why they have nothing on Sunday 'til the Spring.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.
This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]
sumi - Sep 21, 2007 5:13:33 pm PDT #53 of 11831
Art Crawl!!!
quester - Sep 21, 2007 5:42:51 pm PDT #54 of 11831
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I love the whole family on Medium. The marriage is one of the best on TV.
brenda m - Sep 21, 2007 6:57:13 pm PDT #55 of 11831
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Sumi, you're suggesting that a network should adapt its schedule when it has live football in the mix? Horrors! If CBS did that, we wouldn't miss half of every Sunday night show.
[And I say that as a football fanatic, ftr. You don't see football fans making dinner plans for 6 pm on Sunday - why can't CBS figure it out?]
sumi - Sep 21, 2007 7:40:12 pm PDT #56 of 11831
Art Crawl!!!
Well, to be fair: the NBC football is at night. The CBS football is in the afternoon. In theory, it doesn't cut into the evening programming -- even though it actually cuts into it about every other week.
Liese S. - Sep 21, 2007 8:59:08 pm PDT #57 of 11831
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Well it's still baffling to me that networks appear to not know how long a football game takes. I always set the tivo for a half an hour longer than their scheduled coverage, 'cause it always runs over at least a bit. Okay, not always. But still. I guess they just would rather have programming scheduled and pre-empt it than have football scheduled and need to fill.
Fay - Sep 22, 2007 2:31:38 am PDT #58 of 11831
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
The only other explanation I could come up with was that the actor decided to leave and this was their way of writing him out.
See, that was totally my assumption whilst watching, because in terms of consistent storytelling - not so much with the sense-making. But in terms of 'well, fuck, he's leaving - let's send him off with a big sexy HSQ bang, and hope the viewers will handwave the logic' it makes sense. Just - disappointing sense.
I need to step away from the whole consistency-of-storytelling thing and just enjoy the moment, I guess. 'Cause it's certainly a retcon narrative choice that brings lots of angsty thrills and spills, and that's always fun to watch.
Vortex - Sep 22, 2007 8:04:55 am PDT #59 of 11831
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I accidentally got a little spoiled for numb3ers because I was checking to see if this week's show was a rerun. feh.
le nubian - Sep 22, 2007 12:15:15 pm PDT #60 of 11831
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
It drives me batshit that CBS can't move their programs 1 hour forward to accommodate football. That is one of the things that drove me away from "Cold Case" and "Without a Trace." That and the depressing subject matter of CC.
CBS just needs to put on some filler game show or something if a game doesn't run long so we can actually predict when a show is on.
Ginger - Sep 22, 2007 12:52:06 pm PDT #61 of 11831
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've thought the same thing. Why not just have a postgame wrapup show until the next hour? To watch Cold Case in football season, I have to keep randomly switching to CBS. It's not like I'm going to watch whatever annoying reality show CBS has on at 8.
Fay - Sep 23, 2007 2:14:22 am PDT #62 of 11831
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I accidentally got a little spoiled for numb3ers because I was checking to see if this week's show was a rerun. feh.
Bollocks! Sorry, should I have whitefonted?