The latest show from Kevin Williamson, creator of Dawson’s Creek and the Scream franchise, focused on a LAPD team that worked stalking cases. Starring Maggie Q and Derbel McDillet, er, Dylan McDermott, the show was eviscerated by critics for its alleged misogyny, the show actually debuted to big numbers, but quickly fell off as viewers realized that it wasn’t a particularly good show. Despite ending on a cliffhanger, it certainly won’t be missed.
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CBS Upfronts
CBS, which fell behind NBC in the battle for 18-49 year olds thanks to the NFL and Olympics, mixed up their schedule for the fall at their upfront presentation this week. After inking a deal to simulcast 8 weeks of Thursday Night Football, The Big Bang Theory will temporarily move back to Mondays, bumping 2 Broke Girls off the schedule until November. Katharine McPhee stars in Scorpion, which will take the 8:00 hour.
Person of Interest stays where it is on Tuesday and Criminal Minds continues on Wednesdays. Kevin Williamson brings a new drama, Stalker, to Wednesday featuring Dylan McDermott and Maggie Q. Once the football commitment ends at the end of October, BBT and Elementary return to Thursdays. The Amazing Race moves to Fridays, where it will be followed by holdovers Hawaii 5-0 and Blue Bloods. The Good Wife continues on Sundays, where it will be joined be OG CSI and Tea Leoni’s new show, Madam Secretary.
The Mentalist will start off on the bench, along with a new version of The Odd Couple, starring Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon. Missing altogether is How I Met Your Dad, the “spinoff” of How I Met Your Mother that seemed like a shoe-in to get picked up.
2013 New Fall Season – Mondays
Day 2 of our look at the new fall television season brings us to Mondays.
7:00
How I Met Your Mother – Entering its 9th and final season, the show finally introduced the titular mother in last spring’s finale. This entire season will take place over the weekend of Barney and Robin’s wedding, but should have some flashbacks and flashforwards involving the mother.
Bones – Also returning for its 9th season, Bones starts the year on Mondays but is scheduled to move to Fridays after the World Series. Replacing it on Mondays will be
Almost Human – Brought to us by some of the good folks responsible for Fringe, I’ll give this a shot, assuming it ever does show up on Mondays.
8:00
2 Broke Girls – Entering its 3rd season, it is time to accept that this show is not going to change. It will continue to feature two talented leads and surround them with base racial stereotypes and humor aimed towards the lowest common denominator. To this point, the charm of the leads has been enough to overcome bad things about the show. At some point, though, that is bound to change.
Sleepy Hollow – The new show takes Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman and brings them from the Revolutionary War to the present day. I was not very impressed with the pilot, but I’ll give it a few weeks to see if it improves.