To Watch or Not To Watch
This is part three of three in our review of prime time television for the new 2008 viewing season. We've discussed NBC and CBS, today is ABC's turn on the chopping block.
ABC – American Broadcasting Company
ABC’s prime time claim to fame is Lost, a show about plain crash survivors on an island full of secrets and dangers. ABC also has its fare share of reality TV but none as moving as Extreme Makeover: Home Addition. Extreme Makeover, now in it’s fifth season take a run-down house, a deserving family, several opinionated designers, and in seven days produce a miracle. Sounds a bit like creation.
As far as I’m concerned, ABC has some of the most “what not to watch” shows on television. Here is my opinionated list: Desperate House Wives, Boston Legal, Dirty Sexy Money, Men in Trees and Wife Swap.
The Good, the Bad & the Interesting
GOOD – Just For Laughs
This show is similar to the old show Candid Camera that I watched as a teen with my folks. Hidden camera, practical jokes, unsuspecting victims in public being humiliated…what’s not to like?
Get set to laugh out loud as unsuspecting "victims" fall prey to hilarious hidden-camera tricks and practical jokes on ABC's hidden-camera comedy series, Just for Laughs, which returns TUESDAY, JANUARY 1 (8:30-9:00 p.m., ET). The program's regular time period will be Tuesdays from 8:30-9:00 p.m., ET. Hosted by Rick Miller, Just for Laughs is based on the Canadian series Just for Laughs Gags.
BAD: Miss Guided
You can run and you can hide but you can never escape… who you were in high school. Becky Freeley thought she had left her teenage self behind when she returned to her old school to work as the guidance counselor. But when her gorgeous former nemesis joins the faculty, Becky's cover is blown.
Again ABC takes a great idea, a guidance counselor helping students with the vast problems of adolescence, and makes it sexual in nature. The title here is appropriate, “Miss Guided”. Produced by Austin Kutcher and filled with sexual references, I would caution parents with this one. This show is planned to air mid-season.
INTERESTING: Eli Stone
ABC’s prime time claim to fame is Lost, a show about plain crash survivors on an island full of secrets and dangers. ABC also has its fare share of reality TV but none as moving as Extreme Makeover: Home Addition. Extreme Makeover, now in it’s fifth season take a run-down house, a deserving family, several opinionated designers, and in seven days produce a miracle. Sounds a bit like creation.
As far as I’m concerned, ABC has some of the most “what not to watch” shows on television. Here is my opinionated list: Desperate House Wives, Boston Legal, Dirty Sexy Money, Men in Trees and Wife Swap.
The Good, the Bad & the InterestingGOOD – Just For Laughs
This show is similar to the old show Candid Camera that I watched as a teen with my folks. Hidden camera, practical jokes, unsuspecting victims in public being humiliated…what’s not to like?
Get set to laugh out loud as unsuspecting "victims" fall prey to hilarious hidden-camera tricks and practical jokes on ABC's hidden-camera comedy series, Just for Laughs, which returns TUESDAY, JANUARY 1 (8:30-9:00 p.m., ET). The program's regular time period will be Tuesdays from 8:30-9:00 p.m., ET. Hosted by Rick Miller, Just for Laughs is based on the Canadian series Just for Laughs Gags.
BAD: Miss Guided
You can run and you can hide but you can never escape… who you were in high school. Becky Freeley thought she had left her teenage self behind when she returned to her old school to work as the guidance counselor. But when her gorgeous former nemesis joins the faculty, Becky's cover is blown.
Again ABC takes a great idea, a guidance counselor helping students with the vast problems of adolescence, and makes it sexual in nature. The title here is appropriate, “Miss Guided”. Produced by Austin Kutcher and filled with sexual references, I would caution parents with this one. This show is planned to air mid-season.
INTERESTING: Eli Stone
A story about a lawyer who finds himself at a crossroads between the man he has become and the man he wants to be... even if that means being a prophet. The pilot aired last night, Thursday @ 10pm. It’s a nice attempt by ABC to create a pseudo-morally good show but falls a bit short with, yet again, sex. I’m not sure how much of a role sex will play in the show, but it’s hard to say a show has a “moral compass” when there is a pre-marital bedroom scene before the first commercial. All in all, it was still entertaining and decent in content.
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