https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73pxMWMOWrc
Last week, ABC banished Ten Days in the Valley to Saturdays starting in December and today CBS pulled Me, Myself and I from the schedule effective immediately. They say they will air the remaining episodes at some point, but I won’t my breath because I want to live.
When it comes to cancelling the show, I say thank you for putting it out of my misery. I love John Laroquette, which is why I will still watching, but I had several issues with the show. First off, the stories for the young, middle age and older versions of Alex Riley did not mesh together. It was not cohesive. Thus, it never made sense why we were looking at his life during three different time periods of his life if they were not all going to come together at the end like Modern Family. The next problem was even more frustrating, it is the casting. It is the absolute worst casting job on television. Not only did the three Alex Rileys not look remotely alike, even though they were the same person, neither did anyone else. C’mon Tim Reid and Jaleel White look nothing alike, even though they are playing the same character 25 years apart. Did the casting department not learn anything from This Is Us? Guess not, and with that I am glad Laroquette can return to TNT’s The Librarians.
When it comes to what will replace it, starting on Monday, 9JKL moves to 9:30p and the following week Man with a Plan returns to its 8:30p slot.
Why did they make the move now? Most likely because with The Big Bang Theory no longer leading the night, the whole lineup collapsed in the ratings. Hopefully, it will do better now because I do not want to lose Superior Donuts and 9JKL. I truly enjoy both comedies. Who doesn’t love Judd Hirsch, Katey Sagal, Linda Lavin, Elliott Gould and Mark Feuerstein?
What will be the next show to get the axe? I would not be surprised if it is The Mayor and/or Kevin (Probably) Saves the World. The Mayor needs some work, it is missing something I cannot quite put my finger on. And Kevin is a really good show, but ABC did not enough to promote it and do it properly. Check it out on the ABC app or OnDemand and you will fall in love with the endearing family drama. It is the feel good show we all need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru9UVYdmv5I
Even though Kevin Can Wait started its first season top of the charts, it ended somewhere in the middle. Then Leah Remini guest starred on the show and people started talking about the sitcom. Then shortly after the first season ended, they announced that they fired Erinn Hayes and were hiring Remini as a series regular for this season. Therefore, people wondered how they were going to explain what happened to Kevin’s wife? Over the summer, they announced they were killing her off and they did it with barely a mention.
Now 2 weeks into the 2nd season and the ratings are again so-so, James finally revealed why they really switched up the show. He told The NY Daily News, “The plot of the show didn’t have enough drive,” Then he added, “If we got through a second season, I wouldn’t see us getting through a third one. We were literally just running out of ideas.” How do you run out of ideas after just one season. I mean, he did 9 seasons of King of Queens and you are going to tell me they had 9 years of ideas for that show?
He also said, “Now, I have to deal with my daughter in a different way, and she’s gonna go to college, or one’s getting married, or the holidays. And it deals with things in a different, weightier way.” Hard not to make a weightier joke here, so I won’t because it is way too easy.
Why can’t they just admit the show was not doing well and they wanted Remini to save it. At least that is how I and a lot of other people see it.
On a personal note, it is the only show I do not watch Mondays on CBS. Never got King of Queens, and I will never get this show.
https://youtu.be/k0WHKP7hCz8
We are three weeks into the new TV season and today a third show found out it will be around until the end of it. CBS’s SEAL Team joins The Big Bang Theory spinoff Young Sheldon that was picked up after 1 episode and ABC’s The Good Doctor after 2 episode. Since the David Boreanaz starrer got the order after 3, I am assuming that The Gifted will get its order next week, NBC’s The Brave after 5 and Ghosted after 6. Somewhere in the middle of all of that SWAT, which has yet to premiere, will join them.
This season follows the trend of the last few by not any cancelling shows, but I am not sure how much longer ABC can stay with Ten Days in the Valley that is getting painfully low numbers. I also suspect that CBS’s Me, Myself & I and Wisdom of the Crowd, plus The CW’s Valor will be 13 and done.
When it comes to the other shows, I think it is too early to figure out the futures for CBS’s 9JKL, The CW’s Dynasty, Fox’s The Orville (or I think will get picked up for a second season) and ABC’s The Mayor and Kevin (Probably) Saves the World. I am hoping the last one gets a full season even though I think it would do better on a different network.
Pauley Perrette took to social media today to announce that she will be leaving NCIS this season. After 15+ years of playing Abby on the #1 drama, she decided last year that it is time to move on. She did not say what she will be doing next, but she wanted to let us know she is not starting a skin care line. Will she will follow in Michael Weatherly’s footsteps and get her own show on The Eye? We are months away from finding that out.
With her departure, that means that Mark Harmon, Sean Murray and David McCullum are the only actors left on the show since the first season.
Are you going to miss Abby?
UPDATE: NCIS released this statement about her upcoming departure.
Lucifer is back on Fox tonight at 8p and so are his wings. Lucifer (Tom Ellis) wakes up alone in a desert after being kidnapped and now he needs a way back to Los Angeles. Once he gets there, he goes to see Detective Chloe Decker (Lauren German) and she did not even know he was missing. Turns out he is was not the only one who was kidnapped, but he was the one who survived. Now they have to investigate the other victim’s murder.
Meanwhile, Lucy and his brother, Amenadiel (D. B. Woodside), have a heart to heart about who is their father’s aka Gd’s favorite son. This will make things awkward for them and they don’t have mom to bring peace between them since she is in her own universe.
Back to the force, there is a new sheriff in town aka lieutenant and his name is Marcus Pierce (Tom Welling). He does seem to like Decker, Lucifer or Detective Dan (Kevin Alejandro) and you can tell he is going to give the three of them trouble.
Oh and did I mention that Lucy finally decides to show his true face to Decker?
I seriously cannot express how much I love this show. It is one of the very few shows I must watch live because I cannot wait to for each new episode. It has everything you desire!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTzW9rMcbzk
Then at 9p, The Gifted, based on the Marvel comic, debuts and it will quickly become one of your favorite shows. In the world of The Gifted, there are people who are just people and people who are mutants who have powers. Those abilities cause them to be on the run because the government wants to lock them up and throw the key.
They have abilities like Blink (Jamie Chung) who can transport herself by opening a whole in the air. Polaris (Emma Dumont) who can control magnets. Eclipse (Sean Teale) who can manipulate protons. Because of their abilities, they have a knack of running from the law and protecting their own kind.
Something the Strucker family is going to need. Reed (Stephen Moyer) the patriarch is a district attorney who puts the mutants away. He is going to be confronted with the fact that his son and daughter are just like the people he locks up. Andy (Percy Hynes White) can bend metal. When he is confronted by the school bullies, he loses it and exposes himself in a Carrie at the prom type of scenario. His sister, Lauren (Natalie Alyn Lind) can control air and water to protect herself and uses that get her brother out of the school. When they get home, they finally tell their mom (Amy Acker) the truth. Just as they do, the cops come knocking on their door. Instead of turning them in, she flees with her family. Now they are run from the law and the other mutants team up with them.
Remember how good Heroes was its first season, this is very comparable. It is suspenseful and full of action. It is a perfect fit with Lucifer and because of that Fox has a very strong Monday night. Stronger than the mutants.
https://youtu.be/hPYegZi4R8E
Then over at 8:30p on CBS, Mark Feuerstein’s real life comes to on 9JKL. Back when he got the job on his last show Royal Pains, he moved back to NYC and lived in between his parents and brother. His family did not have boundaries then and they are not going to have them now.
His mother (Linda Lavin) and his father (Elliott Gould) love having their son home. So much so they are not going to leave him alone. They will be there when he wakes up, comes home and basically anytime he is in the apartment. His brother (David Walton) and sister-in-law (Liza Lapira), who live on the other side of him, are just as bad. Good thing have a cute baby because so he cannot remain mad at them.
In fact, he cannot remain mad at any of them because afterall they are family and family is always there for you. But they sure as hell can be annoying as hell. And for us, as funny as hell. I can see this being my family which is why I live 3,000 miles away from them. It is that relatable factor that will have you enjoying this show and laughing with them. That and it is truly hilarious.
