To Watch or Not to Watch

With this fall coming up, I’m gonna try to watch a few new shows, like ones that are actually being made, and not being screwed by ABCFamily or Nick@Nite. But I don’t exactly know what to watch. Any recommendations? I love watching Friends, The Nanny, Boy Meets World, and George Lopez and Family Matters are okay too. And as for kids shows, anything that isn’t Victorious or JONAS L.A. is okay for me. So, here are some stuff that look appealing to me this season.

• Melissa and Joey: Well, not because I want to watch it, but I know ABCFamily is going to be showing advertisements for it everywhere, so I might as well see what the fuss is about. And I read a post from Melissa Joan Hart’s blog saying that she doesn’t care if the critics like it, but if the fans like it, and all the hard work, dedication, and love they put into it. So, I might as well try supporting her. I mean, those Sabrina syndication rights aren’t gonna last forever, and she has a family to support. Granted, she’s probably doing well off and is nowhere near financial trouble, but still. Besides, it can’t be that bad, right? She compared it to ‘Two and a Half Men’ and that’s been on for like, 8 years now? Maybe it’ll be good.
• Cougar Town: AKA the Courtney Cox show about her being 40. I heard they changed the show so it’s not just her dating people who can be her kids, and it’s good. The problem is… I didn’t watch last season so I don’t know if I’m missing out on anything. Not to mention, it has 1/6th of Friends, so that’s a good sign. :D
• Mr.Sunshine: A show about Matthew Perry going through a midlife crisis. It has 1/6th of Friends, and Wikipedia says it’s a mid-season replacement…. so :|
• 30 Rock: Tina Fey makes me laugh on SNL and when I read about the show, it sounds funny. The only problem? I think I’m too late into the series. :( Eh, whatever.
• Modern Family sounds good, but it looks like there’s too much characters for me to get into, especially if I’m going to be, oh, I don’t know, in school.
• Glee: I watched the Lady GaGa episode and the funk one, and… this one is worse with the characters and the trivia tidbits and all of their names sound similar, to me(Quinn/Finn, for example.). So, this one, probably no.

What are your favorite shows to watch? What do you recommend?

Nick @ Nite: Good Bye

Eh, I know I’ve already posted this topic somewhere on the Internet, or something. Or maybe SS said it. But… Nick @ Nite is really getting worse. Seriously.

First, they have the same shows, only with different ethnic backgrounds or cultures. I’m not racist, and I don’t intend to offend anyone, but all the shows that have been on lately have a father that’s clumsy and lazy, the mother that’s attractive but nags a lot, the son who dislikes school and gets away with everything, and the daughter that always is in trouble for no reason and isn’t given teenage privileges, but with a variety of races and backgrounds.

Malcolm in the Middle has a Caucasian family with basically all but the fourth stereotype, Family Matters, Everybody Hates Chris, and The Cosby Show have most of these roles given to characters at one point or another in African American families, George Lopez has a Hispanic family with all of these roles, and the only shows that subvert these are The Nanny(Okay, so it has half of them, but considering, Fran is only related to them at the end of the series, I don’t think you can call The Nanny’s cast the ‘Sheffield/Fine/Babcock/Whatever Niles’ Last Name was clan’. Not to mention, the show is getting moved off Nick @ Nite by the end of this month)  and Glenn Martin DDS, but most people just try blocking that show out of their lives. And judging from the promos for My Wife and Kids… it’s so far, George Lopez with another family. I don’t mean to hate it without watching it(I stayed away from George Lopez because a [Now Ex-] friend told me it was stupid. Yes, that says more about me than where I was going with this, but I was 13 and naive! I did stupid stuff back then.), but really? ‘Sexy Casual’? ‘Slutty Formal’? I can already tell I’d only watch the show because I feel bad for that daughter.

The whole programming is just for guys, or at least, guy leads. Yeah, sure, Family Matters was made for Harriet, AKA Jo Marie Payton, but it turned into the Urkel Show. My Wife and Kids… well, I don’t know, and frankly I don’t plan on finding out. And Fran moved to TV Land, with Roseanne, so, basically, guy programming with commercials for mothers, branded off as ‘Family’. I think it’s trying to be like ABC Family or something. I mean, My Wife and Kids and Family Matters were on ABC Family at some point, and George Lopez was on ABC, like the ‘main’ channel.

But Friends is going on next year, which is good, right? And there’s been an endless amount of rumors for Boy Meets World going on it too, so I guess there’s that to look forward to?

Besides, I realized that my house does recieve TVLand, so I can watch The Nanny on there. All my other sitcom needs are either from other channels(Golden Girls :X), the Internet(Friends), or I’ve already had enough of the show(George Lopez, Family Matters, George Lopez, and did I already mention George Lopez?).

And I finished three parts of my summer reading! Now I only have one book left! :D Or I can pick if I should stay in AP History.  And I think I’m getting my schedule sometime this week, so I’m kind of nervous for that, with the AP History problem.

Coming up to this blog… My own Nick @ Nite wish list? Maybe an ABCFamily rant, too?