Thoughts: 21-May-2009

Still not happy about CBS cancelling the Eleventh Hour, a show that had it last three episodes in the top 20. I thought it a show gets good ratings, it gets renewed, bad ratings it gets cancelled. So how does Fox justify renewing Dollhouse whose ratings where in the toilet. Big mistake.

And to add insult to injury, CBS picked up a cancelled series from NBC, Medium to pair with Ghost Whisperer on Friday nights, so let me get this straight, the Eleventh Hour gets cancelled, but you save another show from another network.

Looks like Reaper, as reported by the FutonCritic, is getting cancelled by the CW. Show started out with a lot of promise, was hailed as one of the five best new shows by Entertainment Weekly, only to die after two seasons. While I think this fate was not deserved, I think that they went a little too heavy on the slacker personas and should have smarten up our trio. Tyler Labine will probably be on Fox TV with the Sons of Tucson show that he did the pilot for. Ray Wise should get picked up by another show, he is too good an actor not to be used.

ABC renews Scrubs, but most of the cast appears to be going to other shows. Wonder if this show gets a reboot treatment for the next season with new characters. I watch the show on DVD in marathon bouts.

A couple of weeks ago, I said that the American Conservative was folding. The readership spoke and sent money to save the magazine which is stay in print as a monthly ending its bi-weekly publication rate.

CSI: Miami had an ok season finale, kind of letdown from the previous episode. Eric is missing, I don't care really about his character. I would like to see some new blood and a cross-over with CSI: NY show, that was pretty good when they did that a few seasons back.

NCIS, great season finale, though I wonder why terrorists who captured Ziva would be asking her about NCIS instead of the Mossad. I really don't think terrorists would be that concerned about NCIS, Mossad is the really concern. And give Ziva is the director of Mossad's daughter, I would think she has a lot more value than her knowledge of NCIS. Also have to say that it is a tad unrealistic to assume she would not be sexually abused in that situation, I think NCIS may have crossed a line here.

Goofy Tony from NCIS did not get any respect from anybody for killing this Mossad big time assassin. They had to pull out a big time blood alcohol level to explain how Tony did it. I don't know, Tony is a cop from Baltimore, you are trained to shoot to kill when you discharge a weapon. I thought Ziva's BS rationalization did not work as she claimed Tony's could shoot to wound instead. I also don't think that this storyline is going to help the Tony-Ziva romance. Who knows.

The Mentalist had a nice season finale with another confrontation with Red John. There have been, I think, three episodes that dealt with Red John. A good number as you don't want to make it stale or solve it too fast. CBS is putting this show on Thursday at 10 pm, so let's see if the ratings hold up. Simon Baker has a charming way about him, so I think the show should do fine.

Oh well.