Television is starting to trickle back from this long hiatus around Christmas. I thought it might be helpful to start trying to keep track of when we can expect new episodes of important shows:
Sunday, January 14: 24. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Kiefer's beard looks suitably grody. (Remember, we've got two whole hours on Sunday and then two more on Monday.) Spoiler Alert: This season's day begins at 6:00 AM, possibly Eastern Time and Chloe might have a new hairstyle. That's all we know. Also tonight: Brothers & Sisters, for what it's worth. Tonight's episode begins Jason Lewis's arc as a closeted soap star/love interest for Kevin.
Monday, January 15: More 24. Also, the Golden Globes, which -- huh. I had no idea they were already here. Another spoiler: because they are on NBC, no one will watch them.
Thursday, January 18: The Office, My Name Is Earl, Scrubs, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty and The O.C. are all new.
Sunday, January 21: Battlestar Galactica returns! The new episode is entitled "Rapture," which is scary, because remember, when last we left off, Adama was going to nuke the crap out of everything in order to keep the Cylons away from that McGuffin that has something to do with everyone finding their way to Earth. Meanwhile, on Brothers & Sisters, Marion Ross does what she does best -- stink up the joint as a difficult matriarch.
Monday, January 22: Prison Break returns and so does Heroes. Prison Break will be picking up the whole lame conspiracy/Terrence Steadman non-murder non-mystery. Christopher Eccleston joins Heroes.
Tuesday, January 23: Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars are both back. Gilmore Girls is a Christmas episode, apparently. The Hell? I guess we're skipping over Rory's Christmas in London with Logan, despite all the anvils being dropped this spring about the Orbit girl. Veronica Mars is a Mac episode (yay!) as well as -- duh -- the beginning of the Ed Begley, Jr. murder mystery. -- Peter
Maybe you missed it, but My Name is Earl, The Office, Scrubs, and 30 Rock were all new last week. I only saw the Office, and it was fairly funny in its standard way.
Whatever happened to that musical episode of Scrubs? I kinda wanted to see that...
Posted by: Mike | January 12, 2007 at 07:59 PM
I'm pretty sure the musical episode is this week's, ie 1/18/2007. I've also read the best songs are the ones already up on YouTube -- "Guy Love" and I think the other one's just called "Poop."
Posted by: Peter | January 16, 2007 at 09:45 AM