{"id":274,"date":"2006-08-29T08:16:18","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T15:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/29\/new-teevee-new-teevee-new-teevee\/"},"modified":"2006-08-29T08:16:18","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T15:16:18","slug":"new-teevee-new-teevee-new-teevee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"New Teevee! New Teevee! New Teevee!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, fall. It brings us so much&#8211;leaf-clogged gutters, hurricanes, some beer and brats and bingo festival at my in-laws&#8217; church that sounds DIVINE, and of course, the new TV season.<\/p>\n<p>Herc&#8217;s got an indispensible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/display.cgi?id=24318\" target=\"_blank\">list<\/a> of all the shows, new and old, and their premiere dates. I&#8217;ve already printed my copy, and I will probably spend tomorrow afternoon hiding from Ernesto, at home from work and huddled far from any glass or windows, praying to Jeebus and programming the Tivo-like device provided by our cable company.<\/p>\n<p>Only thing that&#8217;s struck me in checking out what I&#8217;ll be checking out is that the genre fad seems to have passed VERY quickly. Last fall was all about the hour-long conspiracy-laden sci-fi-esque series. This fall, it&#8217;s more about the heavily-episodic hour-long action-drama with one big fat ass story, a la 24 and Prison Break. Also, some decent comedy, or so I hope&#8211;is it too much to ask that the pairing of John Lithgow and Jeffrey Tambour provide me with weekly brilliance on a scale as yet unimagined?<\/p>\n<p>It probably is. But I&#8217;ll check it out anyway, because it&#8217;s fall 2006, and it&#8217;s NEW TEEVEE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, fall. It brings us so much&#8211;leaf-clogged gutters, hurricanes, some beer and brats and bingo festival at my in-laws&#8217; church that sounds DIVINE, and of course, the new TV season. Herc&#8217;s got an indispensible list of all the shows, new and old, and their premiere dates. I&#8217;ve already printed my copy, and I will probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}