Fair warning to all my friends and co-workers:

[lagilman]

Fair warning to all my friends and co-workers: I will be useless Tuesday nights/Wednesday mornings next fall...

(8pm: S.H.I.E.L.D.  9pm: Supernatural. 10pm: Person of Interest.  11pm: weeping and drinking and interneting.)



I haven't been this traumatized by a weeknight lineup since the late 1970's.

Comments

[gonzai55.livejournal.com]

Look on the bright side - you don't watch NCIS. My poor DVR.

[lagilman]

Given the choice between the Silver Fox (US edition) and Coulson....

Nope, sorry, Son of Coul wins. At least for the first handful of episodes, for a fair trial.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Coulson, hands down!

*Squeesplode*

[cate-morgan.livejournal.com]

And don't forget John Rhys Meyers and his crazy-mesmerizing stalker eyes in Dracula. (Seriously, those eyes need their own credit, like Brooke Shields' eyebrows..)

It's enough to make a girl *squeesplode* all over the place, innit?

[jslinder.livejournal.com]

Crap. I need an extra Tivo for 8 PM now. Only have 2 tuners on the current one.

[cepetit.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

... and you can't even begin catching up 'til midnight most weeks, with Stewart at 11 and Colbert at 11:30...

[lagilman]

Since I don't have cable, Stewart/Colbert aren't an issue. :-(

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

which is why we have DVRs and more than one cablebox.. and tv.. and On Demand

[lagilman]

Alas, I don't watch enough tv as a rule to have all that. Hell, I don't even have cable...

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

thats why you have friends who will record stuff for you and bring it by.

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

Makes me wonder what ABC was thinking having SHIELD go up against NCIS. NCIS is the Dallas of 2013.

[lagilman]

Technically, Dallas is the Dallas of 2013....

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

Well, true, but in terms of being a ratings juggernaut, NCIS is the big dog on CBS' lineup.

[lagilman]

The aging big dog - so putting their hotly-anticipating new series up against it in the hopes of winning that time slot makes good (tv exec) sense...

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

That was the same thinking that put Sledge Hammer and Miami Vice up against Dallas way back when. But then again, tv execs operate under a different set of rules.

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

They put it up against NCIS? Crows... I'm going to have to DL AoS to watch it. =grumbles= POI & SPN are already on the DL list until I catch up... =sighs=

[lagilman]

From a programming POV it's just common sense - put your hotly-anticipated new series against the aging dominant series and hope to win the time period.

For fans of both, yeah, it's heartburn.