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What’s Rob watching these days?

// September 25th, 2007 // Personal

A good question even if I do ask it myself.

As I seem to be importing most of my TV from the states at the moment I am very much beholden to the whims of the US schedulers. People who, for no good reason that I can see, decide not to put anything good on over the summer but use that space to try out new shows that invariably get canned after four episodes. The autumn season sees the return of the big hitters:

• Heroes … Mwahahahahaha. Still the baby of the bunch it remains to be seen if this season is going to have everything that made the first series awesome.
• Prison Break (Season 3) … actually, I’m not watching this yet as I’m still working my way through season 2. That said, 3 does look like being fricking brilliant in comparison to a rather lack lustre second series.
• Battlestar Galactica (Season 4) … Razor? Miniseries? Odd scheduling? I don’t care! All I need to know is what the hell happened at the end of season 3? I mean come on, as cliff hangers go that was pretty damn huge.
• Criminal Minds (season 2 or 3 I can’t remember) … Not really one to buy into the whole clone ‘em air ‘em genre dominated by CSI-Whatever Criminal Minds has stood out as a shining beacon of good telly. Flawed characters, some truly evil villains and some fantastic acting make this a must see. Grab season one and see what I mean.

We also have a couple of new arrivals that I’ll be keeping an eye on:

• Journeyman … looks like it could be interesting in a Quantum Leap meets Life on Mars kind of fashion. I just hope they give it some headroom rather than canning it after getting me neatly engrossed.
• Chuck … since Ronnie Mars has gone the way of the Dodo (and Ms. Bell has joined the ever growing cast of Heroes) I need easy viewing nerd telly. Looks like this will fit the bill nicely

So that’s me catered for in the TV department. How about you lot? What will be filling your screens over the next 6 months?