{"id":49,"date":"2011-05-26T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/wp\/2011\/05\/26\/tv_season_2010-2011_recap\/"},"modified":"2011-05-26T19:01:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T19:01:01","slug":"tv_season_2010-2011_recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/kdlb\/2011\/05\/tv_season_2010-2011_recap\/","title":{"rendered":"TV season 2010-2011 recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was &#8220;upfronts&#8221;, where tv networks declared their fall plans, including what shows were officially canceled, and more prominently, what pilots they are picking up for next year.&nbsp; Seems like a good time for me to review my <a href=\"http:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/kdlb\/2010\/08\/tv-season-2010-2011.php\">plans for 2010-11<\/a> to see how it turned out.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll do a post about what&#8217;s new on my radar and my full schedule as we get closer to the fall.&nbsp; A great resource for upfronts is The Futon Critic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefutoncritic.com\/guide\/2011-12-season-scorecard\/\">2011-2012 Season Scorecard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Chuck<\/b>: watched in chunks when E wasn&#8217;t around.&nbsp; picked up for 13 eps next season as the &#8220;final season&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Event<\/b>:&nbsp; first time I referred to it as &#8220;The Crappy Event&#8221; I knew I just was too far gone.&nbsp; I really liked the idea, the actors, but they didn&#8217;t go fast enough to keep me interested.&nbsp; Plus, a giant hiatus made it worse.&nbsp; I hope Jason Ritter gets another show, he was the most interesting part of The Event for me.&nbsp; canceled, but the whole season was shown.<\/li>\n<li><b>Chase<\/b>: didn&#8217;t even watch the first ep, it got poor reviews and I had too much on my Monday.&nbsp; canceled.<\/li>\n<li><b>House<\/b>: watched all season.&nbsp; Liked some storylines, towards the end I was less happy.&nbsp; renewed for next season, probably as the final season and without Cuddy.<\/li>\n<li><b>Castle<\/b>: watched obsessively all season.&nbsp; SO GOOD.&nbsp; renewed for next season.<\/li>\n<li>Hawaii Five-O: watched initial eps but later in chunks when E wasn&#8217;t around.&nbsp; Pretty good.&nbsp; renewed with good ratings.<\/li>\n<li><b>No Ordinary Family<\/b>: watched 5 or 6 episodes and just wasn&#8217;t feeling the writing.&nbsp; I liked the storyline idea, and the characters and the actors.&nbsp; But it just wasn&#8217;t strong enough to keep me tuning in.&nbsp; canceled with poor ratings.<\/li>\n<li><b>Running Wilde<\/b>: watched and enjoyed.&nbsp; It actually got better as episodes went on.&nbsp; Watched all episodes (9).&nbsp; canceled with 4 episodes unaired &#8211; hopefully can see these on DVD.<\/li>\n<li><b>Undercovers<\/b>: watched and gave up after 4 or 5 episodes.&nbsp; Actors were gorgeous and I really wanted the story to be as bright and shiny.&nbsp; It was a poor fit for the timeslot and network, IMO &#8211; billing it as having sexploitations and then putting it on at 8pm really took away the option of sexy storylines. canceled with several unaired episodes<\/li>\n<li><b>The Whole Truth<\/b>: watched and gave up when I heard it was canceled.&nbsp; E didn&#8217;t enjoy it at all, but I really wanted to give the great actors a chance.&nbsp; Seeing Rob Morrow in such a diff character than on Numb3rs was more hilarious to me than the storylines.&nbsp; canceled very early on, 7 eps weren&#8217;t aired!<\/li>\n<li><b>Bones<\/b>.&nbsp; This season was not my favorite.&nbsp; I mean, it&#8217;s still a good show, but I don&#8217;t jump and sit down to watch immediately anymore.&nbsp; I left eps sitting to watch in bunches instead.&nbsp; renewed for next season but with most likely a shorter episode order to accommodate Emily&#8217;s real life pregnancy.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Office<\/b>.&nbsp; Watched a few episodes and then deleted the season pass.&nbsp; It got stupid, IMO!&nbsp; renewed for next season.<\/li>\n<li><b>Human Target<\/b>.&nbsp; Watched and the writing didn&#8217;t feel as good as last season.&nbsp; Music really drew me in last season and Bear McCreary&#8217;s absence this year really was felt.&nbsp; Trying to bring in women wasn&#8217;t very successful either.&nbsp; Too bad, I had high hopes.&nbsp; canceled.<\/li>\n<li><b>V<\/b>.&nbsp; watched in a big marathon and enjoyed it.&nbsp; A little more gimmicky than first season.&nbsp; canceled but the whole season was shown.<\/li>\n<li><b>Mr. Sunshine<\/b>.&nbsp; midseason replacement and we felt it got better as it went along.&nbsp; canceled with 4 unaired episodes.<\/li>\n<li><b>Big Bang Theory<\/b>.&nbsp; wasn&#8217;t on my list for last year, but we got caught up on DVD and then started watching.&nbsp; Very great, totally our kind of show!&nbsp; renewed for next season.<\/li>\n<li><b>Fringe<\/b>.&nbsp; wasn&#8217;t on my list for last year, but we got caught up on DVD and then started watching obsessively.&nbsp; Very good show, I&#8217;m so happy we gave it a chance.&nbsp; renewed (surprise!) for next season.<\/li>\n<li><b>Glee<\/b>.&nbsp; wasn&#8217;t on my list for last year, but I started watching without seeing any of season 1.&nbsp; With friends to catch me up, I enjoyed this a lot and now am watching first season too.&nbsp; renewed for next season.<\/li>\n<li><b>Leverage<\/b>, <b>Warehouse 13<\/b>, <b>White Collar<\/b>. watched, loved, will keep watching.&nbsp; The seasons are offset, so we&#8217;ll be watching these over the summer and into the beginning of the next year.<\/li>\n<li><b>Eureka<\/b>.&nbsp; wasn&#8217;t on my list for last year, but we are catching up on DVD to be caught up for next season when it starts this summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was &#8220;upfronts&#8221;, where tv networks declared their fall plans, including what shows were officially canceled, and more prominently, what pilots they are picking up for next year.&nbsp; Seems like a good time&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/kdlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/kdlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/kdlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/kdlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/kdlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/kdlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/kdlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/kdlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/kdlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}