And keep in mind that we're just dealing with the networks here. Adding in the cable shows would make this a convoluted process, but we will get to those shows as well.
Sunday is a fun day because we get four whole hours of primetime and not just three. You would think that would provide the networks with the opportunity to give us quality programming. Yeah, sadly it doesn't quite work that way. Football is a big reason for this.
NBC has their Sunday Night football package. This regularly wins the Sunday Night ratings battle and more importantly suctions huge amounts of men away from the other channels. As a result, the offerings are weaker than they might be (why throw a lamb up against football) and leaning more towards female viewers.
For my money there are two and a half shows worth your money on Sundays. Yes, 60 Minutes is still a quality newsmagazine, but I just don'e want to give it the time. America's Funniest Home Videos continues with the exact same format it began with more than 20 years ago (ball--groin--repeat), but it's really only good if there's just nothing else to be found. Desperate Housewives? Oy. If they were headed any faster down the slope there would be an avalanche warning. Chris, you might say, what about The Good Wife? Yes, it's well acted and written, but it just doesn't grab me for some reason. I have tried and tried, but I feel like I'd rather just watch a show about Alan Cumming's character and instead I get too much of everyone else. CSI: Miami..... hahahahahahahahahaha ha. Heh. No.
For my money, I'm still loving The Amazing Race. Yes, it's formulaic, but it's fun and they go places I'd like to go and more importantly, I look at the show and convince myself that I could totally do better than the teams on the show. It's like when I can answer the questions on Jeopardy and I start to believe that I'd really not crumble under the pressure and instead that I'd ring in first and answer each question correctly. I'm taking you down Alex! So, ummm, yeah. Sorry about that. I like Amazing Race. I always find a team or two to root for and it keeps me hanging on through entirety of the season.
The other show...sadly not Pan Am. I think it's also better than many critics have given it credit for, but watching how they take care of the passengers on the plane and feed them hot food and don't keep asking for extra money just makes me too sad to watch. It hurts. So that leaves a show that hasn't yet premiered, but it's coming this Sunday. Once Upon A Time is one of two fairy tale themed shows coming soon (Grimm being the other on NBC). Once, on ABC, gives us your typical fairy tale story with good guys and an evil witch, but in this story the witch wins. She sets a spell that throws all the characters into our world with seemingly no recollection of their previous lives and it's going to be up to a young boy and his mother (played by House's Jennifer Morrison) to figure out what's going on and how to get everyone back to where they belong. Morrison's private eye is skeptical of the whole affair and really wants nothing to do with the boy who she had given up for adoption at his birth, but if she doesn't stick around and solve the curse, all will be lost. The tone is very similar to Twin Peaks (although, at least we know why these folks are messed up). If the pilot is any indication, you should definitely make the time.
The half-- I'm throwing it over to Fox's Simpsons and Family Guy. They're no longer at the peak of their powers, but they're still better than any of the new sitcoms CBS was throwing at us this year and while I find The Simpsons more consistent than Family Guy, you'll get at least one laugh out of each when you take the time to watch. Now that I think about it, you could also say that about watching David Caruso on CSI.... hmmm... I might have to rethink this whole standard.
Alright, a little convoluted, but the answers are all there, watch Amazing Race, DVR Once Upon A Time and the Simpsons and you'll be good.
Up next (here's a shocker): Monday! And we'll do Monday on Thursday. Ok? Confused? Such is life. Suck it up.
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