Spring TV schedule?

[V]

Okay, what's the spring TV schedule for scifi shows?

I think Lost or even Heroes are back, but I'll have to watch both on DVD because I was so busy last Fall I fell behind.

Likewise, I don't have time to catch up on Terminator. So Heroes, Terminator, and Lost are in the "summer DVD marathon" list. As for Pushing Daisies, also on there, seeing as I'm a season behind and its ended.

This leaves for me, BSG which starts January 16th

and I think Dollhouse starts up....February 13th?

Are there any other new "mid season replacement" shows?

Otherwise, I think "Robot Chicken" is new again, and otherwise, there's really only "Code Geass" on Adult Swim these days. (I have to catch up on that)

 

[nx1701g]

and I think Dollhouse starts up....February 13th?

Yes that is correct. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles returns and Dollhouse premires on February 13th.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Here's eonline's list.

Jan 2 - SG:A
Jan 7 - Knight Rider (not dead yet?)
Jan 12 - Kyle XY
Jan 15 - Smallville & Supernatural
Jan 16 - BSG
Jan 20 - Fringe
Jan 21 - Lost (can't get here soon enough! )
Jan 28 - Life on Mars
Feb 2 - Chuck & Heroes
Feb 13 - Dollhouse & Terminator
Mar 17 - Reaper
Mar 19 - Kings
Mar 24 - Cupid
Apr 9 - Harper's Island (maybe sf/f?)

 

[V]

I thank ye kindly, Temis

 

[Greg Cox]

NBC is supposed to air the new "Merlin" series at some point, but no definite date has been set.

There's also Nathan Fillion's new detective series, "Castle," which isn't genre but may hold some interest for "Firefly" fans.

 

[V]

Jan 2 - SG:A

when does Stargate: 90210 start? yeah my parents will tape those last two SGA's and I'll watch with them. And I'll TRY OUT Universe so I can laugh at it, but otherwise, I've given up on Scifi Channel in general and Stargate's current leadership in particular.

Jan 7 - Knight Rider (not dead yet?)

This NightBoat ripoff is still on the air?

Jan 12 - Kyle XY
Jan 15 - Smallville & Supernatural

I don't watch those.

Jan 16 - BSG

Yes; will we finally get the answers we've been teased about since the Miniseries?

Jan 20 - Fringe

Yes; I watched the pilot, found it enjoyable, then missed all subsequent episodes; need to catch up, thought thankfully my parents DVRed the whole thing. Not that I'm a "DVR+100 days" viewer, but I was very busy this past Fall (I'm not a typical viewer)

Jan 21 - Lost (can't get here soon enough! )

I'm multiple seasons behind and will have to marathon in summer to catch up.

Jan 28 - Life on Mars

ugh

Feb 2 - Chuck & Heroes

I dont' know why they even make Chuck; and Heroes I'll take out the DVD for season 3 in summer seeing as I missed all of this season already....and dude, enough of this "Volume, not a Season" stuff; it's a SEASON. (Though I guess BSG ran into similar problems in the dichotomy between "Season 2.0" and "Season 2.5")


Feb 13 - Dollhouse & Terminator

I've missed so many Terminator episodes even from season 1 that I really want to do it justice and watch it over the summer; I do think its a great show. "Dollhouse" is of course, appointment-television must-viewing.

Mar 17 - Reaper

I feel sad for Reaper, because it's not a bad show, but it just didn't grab me after the good pilot episode. Like, there were other shows that struggled for a while but that "found their stride" in season 2 or 3 then turned into a great hit show. So I'm not against Reaper but given my limited time I can't watch it given how little it "hooked" me. What I'm saying is that I hope I get pleasantly surprised a year from now and it turns out Reaper became a "sleeper hit". But in this economy, I doubt it will last.

Mar 19 - Kings

An odd idea, I'll try it out.

And oh yeah, I don't get HBO so I have to get the "Tru Blood" DVD in summer.

So....

Stuff I'm Actually Watching:

*January 16th - Battlestar Galactica (Final 10 Episodes)

*January 20th - Fringe returns (catch up on all episodes I missed before then)

*February 13th - Dollhouse

*Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion - need to marathon all 26 half hour episodes form season one, and the 6-8 from season 2 that will have already aired. (Death to Britannia!)

...seriously Code Geass is the best "Scifi" out there at the moment, everyone just ignores it because its anime.

Long story short: alternate-history world in which battlemechs are used as the mainstay of frontline military combat, the British Empire never fell but morphed into an apartheid-like "Holy Empire of Britannia" which controls both American continents, then conquers Japan, renaming it "Area 11" and its branding its people "Elevens" (Death to Britannia!) Small resistance cells of basically students throwing rocks periodically riot but get slaughtered by the Britannians. Enter Lelouch: exiled Britannian prince and tactical genius, who has fled to Japan in order to survive (think how Garak had to flee to DS9). He quickly takes command of a small group of rebels, leading them to steal Britannian battlemech shipments, enabling them to within a single battle jump from students throwing rocks at enemy tanks, to an armed and organized paramilitary rebel army. Under Lelouch's genius-level military planning, they are able to take the fight to the Britannian occupation army. Lelouch takes on the masked rebel-leader identity, "Zero" and reorganizes the rebels into the "Black Knights" insurgency army.

Zero leads the Japanese rebel forces to several victories over the Britannian occupation forces, using methods not limited to kidnapping, extortion, terrorist attacks, and personally murdering several of his royal siblings how now serve as occupational commanders; and also luring Britannian army groups into the mountains only to ambush them with rockslides, etc.

Of course, the rebellion's spread infuriates the Britannians and leads to the ultimate reprisals....yeah I really have to catch up on that.

 

[nx1701g]

Here's eonline's list.
Jan 7 - Knight Rider (not dead yet?)

The season/series finale is in February.

 

[Pilot Ace]

*Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion - need to marathon all 26 half hour episodes form season one, and the 6-8 from season 2 that will have already aired. (Death to Britannia!)

...seriously Code Geass is the best "Scifi" out there at the moment, everyone just ignores it because its anime.

I enjoyed the first season quite a bit, but the second has been mostly varying amounts of disappointment to me. I'm up to episode 16 and keep getting frustrated by either great dramatic opportunities being passed up or plain groan worthy developments.

The development of the "geass" powers has been kinda stupid too. The odd balance between school/military has been clunky in the second season... I remember the first one it felt right, this time not so much. It has been a long time since I saw the first though, so maybe I just forgot that it was just as awkward or something.

I also heard there is a third season in the works... That idea alone makes me doubt that R2 ends in a satisfying manner. But, I'm open to being wrong.

 

[Greg Cox]

Feb 2 - Chuck & Heroes

I dont' know why they even make Chuck; .

Because it's delightful? Seriously, it's my favorite new show.

 

[V]

I also heard there is a third season in the works... That idea alone makes me doubt that R2 ends in a satisfying manner. But, I'm open to being wrong.

Actually, the odd thing is that....without being spoilery....Code Geass R2 ends in SUCH a satisfying way....in the sense of that ALL the plotlines are neatly wrapped up and we get a big goodbye, that the news that they want to make maybe a third season (or movie?) sounds crazy. It really wouldn't fit.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Feb 2 - Chuck & Heroes

I dont' know why they even make Chuck; .

Because it's delightful? Seriously, it's my favorite new show.

Chuck was better in S1 than I gave it credit for (I bailed early but caught up on DVD when I saw how good the season finale was) and in S2, it's become one of the best shows going!

And with that last episode, they may be shucking off its one handicap, that being a spy/romantic-comedy mix puts it in a creative straightjacket - if they follow the rules. Solution: make your own rules.

SciFi.com has an article on the upcoming shows.

Despite everything, I'm optimistic for Heroes, even before the final episodes this year where Bryan Fuller will be back in charge (which is when I think the show has a legit chance to get back to its former S1 glory). The "Villains" volume was a tricky topic to pull off - taking heroes and bringing out their villainous side, and vice-versa - and maybe it was just beyond the abilities of the current writing team. But taking likable characters and making them fugitives on the run from the big bad gubmint is a much simpler writing task. Maybe they'll accomplish it better.

Dollhouse - I have this hunch that the threads here will be more interesting than the actual show, but hey, one way or the other, it's all entertainment, right?

Kings - I have no idea whatsoever how this will turn out. Very oddball premise. My hunch is: crash & burn. But since it's on NBC, that's an easy prediction to make.

Reaper and Lost are the ones I'm really looking forward to.

 

[melancholymecha]

I also heard there is a third season in the works... That idea alone makes me doubt that R2 ends in a satisfying manner. But, I'm open to being wrong.

Actually, the odd thing is that....without being spoilery....Code Geass R2 ends in SUCH a satisfying way....in the sense of that ALL the plotlines are neatly wrapped up and we get a big goodbye, that the news that they want to make maybe a third season (or movie?) sounds crazy. It really wouldn't fit.

Ive only seen up to ep 6 of R2 but I heard that it turns into pure crack after a while, but its very entertaining crack.

Kings - I have no idea whatsoever how this will turn out. Very oddball premise. My hunch is: crash & burn. But since it's on NBC, that's an easy prediction to make.

what is Kings about?

 

[Starbreaker]

I'm going to be inundated with stuff next semester. I've narrowed my TV watching down to three shows to keep myself form exploding.

Lost
Battlestar Galactica
Chuck

Everything else will have to wait until the summer.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Kings, NBC, debuts March 19 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Set in a fictional modern monarchy, this midseason replacement reimagines the King David story from the Bible. But Kings is really "stealth sci-fi," according to creator and executive producer Michael Green. "We took elements of that classic tale of King David, the rise of a young shepherd boy who becomes king himself, and we modernized it and found ways of making it be about a soldier who's from a small town who ends up, through an act of bravery and courage and sort of blind stupidity, ... in the royal world he'd only read about in magazines and seen on TV," Green said. Kings stars Ian McShane, Susanna Thompson and Christopher Egan.

Hey, it's got the Borg Queen as a regular queen, but other than that...sounds like a very strange thing to attempt. It's basically the modern world but with medieval/Biblical elements.

 

[Pilot Ace]

Actually, the odd thing is that....without being spoilery....Code Geass R2 ends in SUCH a satisfying way....in the sense of that ALL the plotlines are neatly wrapped up and we get a big goodbye, that the news that they want to make maybe a third season (or movie?) sounds crazy. It really wouldn't fit.

Finished R2 tonight and it was a fairly satisfying ending. R3 is a stupid idea. Overall, a worthwhile series if you can stomach a lot of problems.

I feel like the series kind of collapsed under the weight of its plot somewhere around episodes 15-20 or a little later when a major portion of the show's motivation is dealt with in R2. It took a little while for them to build up steam again as they reshuffled the deck for the final stretch.

Ultimately, like Full Metal Alchemist, I think the show could have done with a lot of trimming to make it more cohesive. Code Geass is particularly more bloated than FMA though, towards the end of the episodes I was just throwing my hands up in annoyance trying to keep track of who was on what side and why so and so was doing this and that. Very laugh at, rather than with, moments throughout.

I'd consider it an average sci-fi series at best. A mixed bag.

 

[nx1701g]

I just wanted to add that Medium returns on February 2. It joins Chuck and Heroes.

 

[IndyJones]

Kings, NBC, debuts March 19 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Set in a fictional modern monarchy, this midseason replacement reimagines the King David story from the Bible. But Kings is really "stealth sci-fi," according to creator and executive producer Michael Green. "We took elements of that classic tale of King David, the rise of a young shepherd boy who becomes king himself, and we modernized it and found ways of making it be about a soldier who's from a small town who ends up, through an act of bravery and courage and sort of blind stupidity, ... in the royal world he'd only read about in magazines and seen on TV," Green said. Kings stars Ian McShane, Susanna Thompson and Christopher Egan.

Hey, it's got the Borg Queen as a regular queen, but other than that...sounds like a very strange thing to attempt. It's basically the modern world but with medieval/Biblical elements.

It does seem odd...But I LOVE Ian McShane, so I'll give it a shot.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Kings, NBC, debuts March 19 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Set in a fictional modern monarchy, this midseason replacement reimagines the King David story from the Bible. But Kings is really "stealth sci-fi," according to creator and executive producer Michael Green. "We took elements of that classic tale of King David, the rise of a young shepherd boy who becomes king himself, and we modernized it and found ways of making it be about a soldier who's from a small town who ends up, through an act of bravery and courage and sort of blind stupidity, ... in the royal world he'd only read about in magazines and seen on TV," Green said. Kings stars Ian McShane, Susanna Thompson and Christopher Egan.

Hey, it's got the Borg Queen as a regular queen, but other than that...sounds like a very strange thing to attempt. It's basically the modern world but with medieval/Biblical elements.

It does seem odd...But I LOVE Ian McShane, so I'll give it a shot.

I just finished Deadwood, yeah, he should be a blast. Kings and Dollhouse are two shows that even if they don't really work out as stories should give us a lot of thread fodder. Beats yet another iteration of the cop show with sci fi window dressing.

 

[sportzkid]

Okay, what's the spring TV schedule for scifi shows?

I think Lost or even Heroes are back, but I'll have to watch both on DVD because I was so busy last Fall I fell behind.

If you mean fall 2008, you have not missed any of Lost since, it has not started it's season yet.

 

[Barbados Slim]

And don't forget 24 starts this Sunday!! Redemption was a good enough change to get me excited for it.