New TV Season

We tend to keep the TV on during the evening, even if we're reading or doing something for our jobs.  We also tend to have the same old shows on, all the time.  When the fall TV season rolls around, and familiar shows move to unfamiliar spots, we find ourselves catching bits of brand new shows.  After all, that's exactly why the networks move things around.  So, there we were, eating dinner and talking when CBS's new vampire-based show, Moonlight, came on.  We tried to watch it. We really did. I'm not a TV critic, but I'd have to agree with some of the professionals below - it seems laboriously slow. And some of the acting is right out about the level of a high school play.  No, let me take that back. I've seen high school actors who do a better job than some of the folks on Moonlight.  Maybe it's just the thought of a guy who has to shoot up with blood for breakfast every morning that turned me off in the first five minute...maybe..

Critics Line Coffin for CBS’s Vampire

Premiere week comes to an anticlimactic close tonight with the 9 p.m. debut of the vampire detective drama “Moonlight” on CBS. The show has had a rocky start. “The pilot underwent extensive rewriting and most of the original cast was given the boot,” the San Jose Mercury News notes. And the reviews have not been kind. The [...]

What I HAVE discovered is that there is a wealth of interesting stuff out there on the smaller cable nets and on the premium cable channels (HBO, Showtime, etc).  Once the kids left home, we dropped the expensive channels after finding we just weren't watching them that much.  There's an interesting new program you can download  - see the little logo linked at the top of the right-hand column on this page. You can use it free for a limited amount of downloads per month, and seems to offer a lot of those "alternative" shows. I've discovered some that might make me buy back into the premium channels.   It seems to be some variation on the popular p2p networks, but works a lot faster and seems to producer better quality files.  Legal? They say, "yes".  You decide.

Tags: CBS, Moonlight, Vampire, New TV Season, Graboid