Medium's Season 4 premiere is 1/20/08.
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Article from Film dot com about Life, Bionic Woman, Journeyman, and Chuck.
Unlike Chuck, which built from a highly touted pilot, Life has caught on via word of mouth, and a very vocal and passionate online fanbase that has been begging critics to speak out in its favor. As time has gone on, Life has begun to remind me a bit of the late, great Homicide: Life on the Street, with its creative use of music and its odd bits of seemingly random dialogue. Crews and his partner Dani Reese (Sarah Shahi) invert the usual stereotype: the older man comes across as eccentric and often unserious; the younger woman is cynical and quiet. With all the procedurals around (one of which, CSI: NY, is the main competition for Life), there's a place for a character-based cop show that's aimed a little higher intellectually than Women's Murder Club.
Thanks for the info about Medium. For some strange reason, I absolutely LOVE Medium. I hated the premise, got caught up on Lifetime and now I'm hooked.
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A fan-based initiative to show support for Journeyman.
Yeah, I don't know about that. Seems to me that you either support the strike or not, and I'm in favor of the writers.
Here's an earlier Journeyman plug from the same source:
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Medium has the best married relationship on TV, period (maybe ever?), and it is so good, it makes me love the show even more.* Alison is a terrific character. It's going to be interesting to see how she deals with being outed. I'm a little sorry they did that; I liked the set-up, but it makes sense.
- and the one time they intimated that they
might
break up the relationship, I was ready to throw tomatoes at the network and writers. Thank DOG they didn't. Alison and Joe are just... wonderful.
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Here's an interesting article about how Nielson tracks the live-plus-seven [timeshifting] numbers of viewers.
Although live-plus-seven provides a more accurate assessment of how many people are actually watching a given series, data is not available until 15 days after the broadcast week. Advertisers won't pay for any viewing that takes place more than three days after an episode's original airing. Known as C3, this measures how many viewers are watching advertisements both live and up to three days after the commercials originally air.
Live-plus-seven "will not save a marginal show," Manze adds, "but it is a factor we would consider if it were a marginal show and (the lift) were significant."
He went on to add, "The old-fashioned rating, the one that's on your desk the next afternoon, is still very much the one that decides your fate."
Hmm. Nielson households, take note.
sorry about the flurry. I read, I post, I go away.
It's a bit of a stretch to compare it to Homicide, but I think if it had some room to grow and for them to figure out exactly what works, it could be a consistently excellent show.
They're right about the music, though, which is unbelievably good. And the cinematography.
Holy mother of fuck, that episode of Life almost killed me. I'm a wreck.
No new episode until God knows when! I'm gonna CRY.
Nice bit of HSQ there at the end about the daughter. Didn't see that coming at all.
Now THAT's good TV!
Hot damn! I flove this show!!11! Intense, what will Charlie do next?
And I *knew* that girl was Rachel!
Best music cue ever? "Did you fall?" (this show sure does love it some
The Frames)
