Thoughts: 01-May-2010

Lots of stuff to post about today.

Sports Update.

Boston Bruins: Boston won its first playoff series by eliminating the Buffalo Sabres. Next up, the Philadelphia Flyers. Last year the Bruins were heavy favorites in the second round over the Carolina Hurricanes and were eliminated by them. Boston has not had too much luck advancing beyond the second round in the NHL playoffs, so I am thinking the Flyers take this series.'

Boston Celtics: Boston eliminated the Miami Heat in the first round and now face the Cleveland Cavaliers in round 2. James and O'Neill may be too much for the Celtics to handle, I am thinking that Cleveland takes this series.

Boston Red Sox: They started out slow with the pitching not coming through for them. Then Buchholz and Lester pitched two great games. Right now they are hovering around 500, I hope their pitching can settle down, at least they are scoring runs.

Ancient Aliens (History Channel): Episode 2 was on this week and they are really doing quite a stretch in filling two hours of this dribble. Two guys who are so talking out of their asses, Giorgio Tsoukalos (publisher of Legendary Times, a magazine devoted to ancient astronaut theory) and David Childress (wrote a book called Technology of the Gods and has no credentials as an archaeologist according to Wikipedia), spent most of the two hours repeating themselves over and over again without presenting any evidence at all. The first part of the show dealt with the practice of primitive people artificially elongating their skulls. This we are told, started because they wanted to look like the space gods. Then in the second hour, the same people argue they the ancient astronauts look like us, so why would they elongate their skulls? Why can't the History Channel bring some real archaeologists on board to dispute this nonsense? F

Doctor Who (BBC America): Matt Smith has taken over the role of the Doctor in his 11th regeneration. So far so good, I like what he is doing and I think his new companion, Amy Pond, is just great. A

Private Practice (ABC): This show just gets worse and worse, my god do all these doctors have to act like they are still in junior high? An original cast member is going to get killed off, please let it be Cooper or Violet though I think it is going to be Charlotte. D

Shows that I like that may not be getting renewed.

Cold Case (CBS): Last year, CBS picked this show over Without a Trace in the renewal sweepstakes. This year, while the ratings have been good, it looks like no renewal. Too bad, but I think that 7 seasons provide plenty of episodes for syndication money for the producers. And this crap with sport events running over and screwing up my DVR recording is really getting kind of tiresome.

Law & Order (NBC): Depending on whether TNT is going to commit to buying syndication rights for beyond a 20th season, this show may be on its way out. NBC really does not have anything better to show, which may save it, gut feeling tells me, it will get saved.

Human Target (FOX): High production costs and lackluster ratings may kill this show, too bad one of the better things on TV. NBC, how about saving this for us?

Lie To Me (FOX): The possible cancellation of Human Target could save this show, but Fox is not showing much love for this show. Why delay new episodes until June? 50-50 chance this gets renewed.

Ghost Whisperer (CBS): Show has not really grown in its concept since season 1, more like a stagnant Touched by an Angel then the ever changing dynamic of Supernatural. Also, syndication has this show on all the time over on other channels. Still it is a rating winner on Friday night, so it may get renewed.

Heroes (NBC): The rumor is that there will be a 13 episode pick up by NBC. I say, kill it dead and get the rights to Human Target.

Oh well.