I have always been an NBC fan, but in the last few years, they just don't offer much I want to see. The Office is great, but that's about all I watch on NBC nowadays, especially since they cancelled ER. (I'm still mad about that, by the way. I'm not mad the show was cancelled, my goodness, the show had been on t.v. since 1994--it was time. I was mad about the crappy series finale. That show was in institution and it did not get the send off it deserved. And I miss Dr. Luka Kovach.) Anyway, moving on...
The Jay Leno Show--every week night at 9
Huh?? Jay Leno on every night? NBC must be desperate for programming. I've watched the show and it's good. You get all the old antics of the Tonight Show but in a shorter amount of time and earlier in the evening. My knee-jerk reaction is that the show will fail. Miserably. However, the show is good, so it may surprise me. I like Jay Leno and I'm rooting for him, but this is one of those shows that I'll watch if it's on or if I'm interested in the guest.
Mercy--Wednesday at 7
This looks really good. It's, of course, a medical drama, but it might make a nice replacement for ER (if anything could replace ER). It focuses on the work and lives of the nurses, rather than the doctors. It looks pretty good, and I'll give it a shot, I just don't know if it will last with all the other medical dramas on t.v.
Trauma--Monday at 8
Like Mercy, the show looks good, but it also looks like more of the same. It reminds me of ER without all the down time and story line, and everything is a trauma. Since I already watch several medical and cop shows, I'm going to skip this one, but if you really like these types of shows, it might be worth a shot.
Community--Thursday at 7
I'm going to give this one a shot on the DVR. Joel McHale and Chevy Chase look like a fantastic combination, and when I watch the previews, I laugh out loud--really, out loud! I really hope NBC can re-establish that Thursday night foothold for comedy. CBS has done this really well with its Monday lineup, and we could all use another night of laughs. Looking at the NBC Thursday fall lineup, I don't know if I have seen a good comedy schedule since the Friends/Seinfeld days. The only place I see as questionable is that Community will flip back and forth in the 7 p.m. spot with Saturday Night Live Thursday. Since when did SNL need a Thursday show? It's made for Saturdays, hence the title. But what more can we expect from the network that is blocking its ENTIRE Tuesday night line up for the Biggest Loser starring Sammy Brady from Days of our Lives.
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