Winkler and great actress Marcia Gay Hayden join the Royal Pains cast. It's an entertaining show, especially when watched as part of a block of other good shows on the network. In odd ways, some cable stations like USA and TNT have almost returned to the old school days when you could count on at least a three-hour block of good TV programming on a given night. Used to be you could watch TV from 8 - 11 EST on most nights, and get a variety of good drama and comedy, no reruns. Reality TV was music/comedy variety shows. Now, even the major networks are lousy with crappy reality shows, reruns abound, still too many CSI/Law and Order clones.
But check the cable lineups. USA: The Closer, Dark Blue, Hawthorne, Leverage, Memphis Beat (new series with Jason Lee), Men of a Certain Age, Rizzoli & Isles (new series with Sasha Alexander from "NCIS") TNT: Burn Notice, White Collar, Psych, Covert Affairs (new series), Royal Pains, The Closer, Code Blue, In Plain Sight Franklin & Bash Through in series like "Justified" and "Damages" on FX, and you have a lot of shows on cable that cover drama, humour, action, and shows that are combinations of all of the above. I enjoy the drama of In Plain Sight, and the stars' ascerbic personality, the crazy quirkiness of "Justified", the light action of Leverage and Burn Notice, the humor and sometimes uncomfortably close bite of "Men of a Certain Age".Even their reruns (Charmed, Supernatural, NCIS, ) are more entertaining than a lot of network fare. Many nights I find myself sitting down and watching blocks of shows on the cable channels and enjoying myself way more than I do on the major networks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Augustus Augustus" <jazzynupe_...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 3, 2010 12:04:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "Burn Notice" Marathon on USA Now - side note just finished listening to 790thezone (that's the local sports talk station here in The ATL) and Henry Winkler (the Fonz) was on and he mentioned that he has a role in Royal Pains tonight......so I think I am going 2 DVR that one too (never watch it, but i grew up on Arthur Fonzirelli) so I will watch it - after the basketball game of course. Fate. --- On Thu, 6/3/10, Kelwyn <ravena...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Kelwyn <ravena...@yahoo.com> Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: "Burn Notice" Marathon on USA Now To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 10:54 AM My DVR is prepped and ready for the season premiere! ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> wrote: > > USA is running an all day "Burn Notice" marathon, leading up to the new > season premiere at 9 pm EST. I believe that's followed by the season premiere > of another good show, "Royal Pains". > I didn't know "Burn Notice" was the most watched cable show, but that's what > USA claims. I'm looking forward to seeing the gang again. > But one question: what's up with all the yogurt? > > ************************************** > > http://www.usanetwork.com/schedules/sched.php > > http://www.usanetwork.com/series/burnnotice/index.html BURN NOTICE SEASON > PREMIERE TONIGHT AT 9/8C! > > Michael helps Fiona and Sam protect a lawyer against the city's most > dangerous biker gang. Meanwhile, he must team up with an unlikely ally to > stop a looming terrorist threat... but quickly finds that no mission is > without its price. >
