TV Tuesday: NBC is the only network I'm currently speaking to
Readers, gonna be totally honest with you, I was pouting last week. CT gave me a gentle "Are you gonna write your post?" on Tuesday and I may have flung myself dramatically on he couch and claimed that "There was nothing worth watching anymore!" and "Everything I used to love has been ripped away from me!"
Turns out the combination of the Great TV Culling of 2018 and a few characters I love dying in shows that didn't get cancelled was just enough to send me on a one way trip to a serious temper tantrum... But don't be alarmed, I do this every year. Ask the people I work with. They have some stories.
Anyhoo... Today I wanted to talk about a show that managed something extremely rare that's not being talked about much. Last Summer I let myself gets sucked into the pulpy supernatural drama Midnight Texas on NBC. It had all the markings of a traditional summer show with a short shelf life. It was a genre show with no major stars attached and NBC announced the pilot and then shuffled it to air almost a year later. But I watched it anyway. I let myself get pulled into a town filled with vampires and angels and psychics because I love those things and they had Francois Arnaud exorcising demons!
Season 1 ended with some resolution but left a few things unanswered in case they got picked up. And then six months passed while I silently decided that I would never get any more of the show. NBC didn't announce a season 2 of the show until February of this year. Then they changed the showrunners to Nicole Snyder and Eric Charmelo but they didn't announce a premier date and for the next two months, so I silently decided they weren't serious and I would just never get any more episodes. Then last week at upfronts, NBC announced that they were moving Midnight Texas to a regular run show. It will air next fall as part of the Friday night drama block. It's not completely unprecedented for a show to move from summer to regular run but this is the only time in the last decade that a scifi fantasy show has done it. Not only has NBC given us back our greatest hope (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) but they have shown faith in my summer underdog show! Someone start writing the sonnet in their honor, cuz the one I started stalled out at "Shall I compare thee to Fox? Thou art much less of a rat-bastard!" and I was told that I was being petty.
Listen, this time of year is always tough for TV fans. Everyone loses a show that they love, or a character that they've grown close to. So take the time to celebrate the things you love about your shows that stuck around and the character's that will beam back into your living room next fall. They will see you in September for the season premieres.
Turns out the combination of the Great TV Culling of 2018 and a few characters I love dying in shows that didn't get cancelled was just enough to send me on a one way trip to a serious temper tantrum... But don't be alarmed, I do this every year. Ask the people I work with. They have some stories.
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Anyhoo... Today I wanted to talk about a show that managed something extremely rare that's not being talked about much. Last Summer I let myself gets sucked into the pulpy supernatural drama Midnight Texas on NBC. It had all the markings of a traditional summer show with a short shelf life. It was a genre show with no major stars attached and NBC announced the pilot and then shuffled it to air almost a year later. But I watched it anyway. I let myself get pulled into a town filled with vampires and angels and psychics because I love those things and they had Francois Arnaud exorcising demons!
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Season 1 ended with some resolution but left a few things unanswered in case they got picked up. And then six months passed while I silently decided that I would never get any more of the show. NBC didn't announce a season 2 of the show until February of this year. Then they changed the showrunners to Nicole Snyder and Eric Charmelo but they didn't announce a premier date and for the next two months, so I silently decided they weren't serious and I would just never get any more episodes. Then last week at upfronts, NBC announced that they were moving Midnight Texas to a regular run show. It will air next fall as part of the Friday night drama block. It's not completely unprecedented for a show to move from summer to regular run but this is the only time in the last decade that a scifi fantasy show has done it. Not only has NBC given us back our greatest hope (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) but they have shown faith in my summer underdog show! Someone start writing the sonnet in their honor, cuz the one I started stalled out at "Shall I compare thee to Fox? Thou art much less of a rat-bastard!" and I was told that I was being petty.
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Happy Watching
Little C
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