Hope your DVRs are ready folks! The new fall season is just around the corner. If you are anything like me I’m sure you’ll have quite a few new shows you want to watch, and I’m sure you will have some you want to avoid. Let’s take a look at the new Fall pilots for NBC.
Trauma
Worth watching? Well, if you love over the top spectacle with hammed up performances. The trailer for this makes the show look exciting in some parts and ridiculous in others. The trailer contains enough Michael Bay worthy explosions that I can’t help but wonder if this is to cover up for lack of story. Having not seen the full pilot I can’t judge this one fully. From what I gleaned from the preview, the characters look very two dimensional and a little overly dramatic. I think one of the things I liked about ER so much was it’s ability to sober you up with it’s intense medical drama. Yes, in all honesty it contained just as much spectacle. This one just looks a bit too overdone. We’ll see how long a show with a big budget like this lasts in the face of still much worse, but cheaper reality programs. This is a show that will most likely collapse because of its own weight. Does this remind anyone else of the other NBC show, Third Watch?
The Jay Leno Show
Worth watching? This is really NBC atoning for not realizing they could have kept Leno on the Tonight Show for much longer. Although, way to turn a strike into a home run. Leno already has a built in audience and he’s cheap to produce compared to scripted shows. This will guarantee them some ratings, it won’t beat a lot of other scripted shows though. Most people are willing to watch a talk show at night because that is all that is on. No matter how entertaining a talk show host is, you’ll find it hard for it to beat a decent scripted show. Leno will do best during reruns when people will turn to his shows for something that is original. I wonder if Conan O’ Brien is a little upset that he has to play second fiddle to Leno yet again? Well, only time will tell if this experiment works. If it does, expect other networks to follow closely on NBC’s heels.
Mercy
Worth watching? Oh wow, another medical drama from NBC…imagine that! Ever since the success of ER over 15 years ago NBC has been trying to recreate that same formula with little success.You can’t blame them, it to this day remains their most popular show critically and best rated drama they have ever had. Lightning doesn’t usually hit the same spot twice (or so I’ve been told), and it really doesn’t look like it is going to happen this season. Of the two medical dramas they are premiering this fall Mercy actually looks the better of the two. The cast looks interesting, but the situations they are put in seem like they have been done many times before on other medical dramas. I like the fact that we are following mainly the nurses instead of the self important doctors like we usually see in medical drams. They may not have as high of a pay grade, but they can get just as much done. My one hope with this show is they figure out a way to make the main character, Veronica a little bit more relatable and likeable otherwise they are going to have a hell of a time selling this show to the general public.
Community
Worth watching? It isn’t the strongest comedy to come out of the fall season (ABC’s The Middle and Modern Family both have stronger pilots), it is still a worthy effort. Many of the jokes work in the first episode, but it leaves you with a feeling that it hasn’t found its stride. There is a lot of comedic talent on the bench of this show and it will be up to the writer’s to tap into it. Joel McHale seems to transition from host of Talk Soup with relative ease, but his character is just enough of a jerk that sometimes you can’t really respect or relate to him. I like seeing Chevy Chase back on the network that launched him to stardom. Let’s hope he can bring luck a second time around and give me another good comedy show to keep on my DVR.
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Whoops! Freudian slip or just cut-n-paste happy?
"Let’s take a look at the new Fall pilots for FOX."
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Fixed, thanks! :)