entertainment

This week, there were a handful of new shows that popped into the line-up.

The only ones that really had me interested were on at 10 p.m. on Thursday. That one of the few blank spots that’s been on my schedule. I’ve been turning the TV off after Grey’s Anatomy for a while. Men in Trees just wasn’t doing it for me at all.

But this week there were two new shows that at least made me think, “Hey, I could enjoy that.”

Saw 300 tonight in a totally packed theater, sitting a little too close to the screen.

Two word review: Totally. Amazing.

Since Fox started its season early, the fist shake up of the season for them is right on schedule. Everyone else should be hitting this point in about a month.

Fox Shuffles New Season Shows

Tweaking the fall lineup as baseball playoffs take control of the network’s air, Fox is shuffling the schedules of freshman shows Happy Hour and Justice, while two others, Til Death and Standoff, are taking a week-long break from production.

Happy Hour is being preempted this Thursday by a repeat episode of it's lead-in, ‘Til Death. A repeat of ‘Til Death will also bump a planned repeat of Happy Hour’s pilot this Sunday.

In an attempt to get Justice out of the way of the third-season premiere of ABC’s Lost, will not air next week, the new courtroom drama will be replaced replaced by a repeat episode of House.

I'm actually surprised that it's 'Til Death that's being bumped. I was half expecting Happy Hour to go away and never come back, as it has yet to actually find it's stride. (Of course, it also seems that they're showing their episodes out of order--either that or the writers have no concept of character and continuity at all.) Maybe they're just going to end up burning off what they've got of it while they stockpile 'Til Death content.