 Daniel Pollera, Summer Place |
Of late, what with the blog and all, VanRamblings’ regular television-watching has tended to fall by the wayside. Not everyone, though, sits around in their underwear surfing the Net, hour after hour, in search of stories to post, or reflecting on issues of the day about which to blog. And, thank God for that, eh?
So, maybe, as was written mid-week last week, Fox’s proposed programming schedule isn’t all that confusing after all. As Alex Strachan wrote in the Vancouver Sun yesterday (and damn CanWest for not making The Sun available online to non-subscribers), “Summer used to be a time of reruns and low viewership, but the TV model has changed in recent months to a year-round schedule.”
How so? Well, take The Jury, for example. A new drama from Oz and Homicide: Life on the Street-producers Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson and Peabody Award-winning writer James Yoshimura, which was originally set to air in the fall. Instead, it will d�but next Monday, June 7th, on Global (in Canada) and Fox (in the U.S.).
Other new series include:
- North Shore, a Fox soap set in a Hawaiian resort, featuring Brooke Burns and James Remar. It débuts Friday, June 18th.
- Good Girls Don’t, a comedy from the creator on That 70s Show, about five 20-somethings who will go to any lengths to find love and affection. Due in Canada on June 24th.
- Touching Evil, the made-in-Vancouver USA Network series, which Gillian Flynn in Entertainment Weekly recently called “brilliant.” Set to premiere on Global, June 27th.
- The L-Word, an ensemble drama about the lives and loves of a group of lesbian friends living in Los Angeles, featuring Jennifer Beals, Toronto-born Mia Kershner, Karina Lombard and Vancouver’s Robyn Ross and Lauren Lee Smith. The L-Word will arrive on Global sometime in August.
Other summer programming includes a new airing of the Emmy Award-winning miniseries Band of Brothers, which will air on CBC beginning on June 22nd.
