Like CBS, your website is difficult to navigate. Additionally, when you’re trying to create buzz around the shows that you invested money in and need to garner ratings so that you can gain and keep advertisers, you should have those glaring on the homepage, instead of placing a two-color link to “2010-11 FOX Schedule” at the bottom of the page. Please see what ABC does.
Love,
Dr. Irlbeck
Putting all annoyances aside, FOX has some interesting new shows in the fall lineup. Here are my picks and pans for the new shows by night and time:
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| Lone Star is the new Dallas. And I still want Lucy's hair. |
Lone Star (Monday at 8)—Anyone remember Dallas? I sure do. Oh, how I longed to be Pamela Ewing and have my own swimming pool and work at a cool department store in downtown Dallas, all while having my own horses out back that I could ride when I got off work! I also wanted to be just like Lucy Ewing and have long blond hair and get to invite my friends over for pool parties. Well, Lone Star is the new Dallas, only sleazier. The show is about big oil in Texas and follows a father and son who are ruthless.
The show has some heavy hitters in the cast…starting with Jon Voight. Brangelina’s baby granddaddy isn’t the main character, but as in all of his movies, he has that “I’m gonna kill ya just by lookin at ya” look in his eyes. David Keith plays the mean dad. You have seen him before, but it’s hard to pinpoint where. His list of guest-starring roles is extensive on IMDB.
The difference between this show and Dallas is that the dad is mean and tries to get his son to be mean. Jock Ewing would never be mean; Miss Ellie would have left him. He left that up to his ruthless son, J.R., who many people think looks like my dad. I never thought so.
Anyhoo, I’m interested in this show, but I already have five seasons of Dallas DVDs sitting on a shelf collecting dust. I think with this one, I’m going to watch it online during my lunch break before I make a full DVR commitment. I’ll let you know what I think.
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| This show looks hilarious. Add it to your DVR. |
Raising Hope (Tuesday at 8)—This show follows my new favorite show, Glee, so FOX better bring their A game if a brand new show is going to follow the television genius of Glee. From what I can tell, FOX brung it.
Raising Hope looks hysterical. I was laughing out loud during the preview. The show is the story of a single dad trying to raise a newborn and he has no idea what he’s doing. He doesn’t have a stroller yet, so he wheels the baby around in a used shopping cart. He pukes on the baby when she has her first dirty diaper. It’s funny! Martha Plimpton plays the mom/new grandma and I have been a fan of hers since The Goonies. Cloris Leachman plays the grandma/great grandma and appears to be senile. Looks great! Give it a shot.
Rumning Wilde (Tuesday at 8:30)—FOX’s website won’t play this video. Bad move, FOX! Your failure just created an automatic NO!
The Good Guys (Friday at 8)—This show started airing this summer, but FOX is trying to pawn it off as a new show. Nice try. I’m not adding it.
So that’s it. Fox has some other shows listed on its website that will start in January: Bob’s Burgers, Masterchef, Mixed Signals, Ride-Along, and Terra Nova. They’re available to preview, but I’m not a huge FOX fan, and really don’t care. I’ll get around to it in January.
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