Watching Sitcoms

Now that the absolute end of the strike is in sight (yay!!!), here’s some news about when shows are gonna be back on the air. I love Michael Ausiello, don’t you? He always has all the answers.

So I checked out his list for all the shows I’m watching, and I was interested to see that some shows still have pre-strike episodes that haven’t aired yet. Somehow, I thought everything that was out there had already aired, with the exception of those few shows that are presently airing new eps, like Lost, Smallville, Supernatural and whatever else there is . . . they know who they are. For instance, I didn’t realize that there are still eps of Back To You and Bones that haven’t aired. So that’s fun. Hopefully, those will air before Spring.

It was sad to see that both Chuck and Moonlight are not going to be back until Fall. I love those shows. Along with Big Bang Theory, they were my favorite new shows of the past season. At least Big Bang will be back by April or May. I guess it gives me something I can look forward to. I have some questions about those shows, though. When will the first season DVDs come out? And when they do, will it be just these few episodes? I mean, they won’t hold off on putting out the DVDs until after new episodes air next Fall, will they?

Well, the exciting news is some of the shows we’ve come to know and love will be back soon. And right now I’m busy pretty much every night of the week watching American Idol anyway.

Woo and hoo!! New episodes are back. At least for a couple of weeks. And you can color me happy. Not that I’m not enjoying all the stuff I’ve been watching on DVD, but I’d just like to see something filmed after 1989. Its been so long for some shows, I’m not even sure I can remember everything I watched before. Which is a bad sign, cause it obviously means I don’t need to watch anything I don’t remember. And there’s also the fact that even when I remember which shows I was watching, I’m pretty sure I don’t remember what was happening when I saw them last.

I already mentioned Chuck, which will air the last two taped episodes tonight on NBC at 8 pm and 10 pm (this is lovely, cause I really, really miss Chuck) and Torchwood’s new season, which starts on BBC America on Saturday, January 26 at 9 pm. My watchingcw blog also discusses the new eps of Smallville and Supernatural, which start airing on Thursday, January 31 at 8 pm and 9 pm, respectively, on the CW.

And in other very exciting news, also coming back with new eps is (yay!!) House, three weeks in a row, starting Tuesday, January 29 at 9 pm, following American Idol. It will be so much fun to finally see how the new team works out, since we just got them picked when the last ep aired.

Finally, season four of Lost is starting on Thursday, January 31 at 9 pm on ABC, preceded by a recap episode entitled Lost: Past, Present & Future, at 8 pm. I’m really looking forward to Lost, but I’m not exactly positive why. I guess I just keep thinking that some day I’ll understand it and then it would have all been worthwhile. If you haven’t checked them out yet, you should go watch the “Missing Pieces.” They are a little confusing as they’re in no apparent order and they deal with stuff that happened over the past three years, but they are still fun. It only takes about 20 minutes to watch all of them that are up at the ABC site, so you should go see them before the season starts.

Chuck, Torchwood, Smallville, Supernatural, House, American Idol, Lost

Well, kiddies, I have some exciting news. The final two new eps of Chuck will be airing on Thursday, January 24 on NBC, one episode at 8 pm and the other at 10 pm. (It bookends an episode of Celebrity Apprentice.) I’m not sure I understand the theory behind doing that, but I’ll be happy to watch them anyway (not Celebrity Apprentice, you understand, cause yuck!). Chuck had just been getting better and better every week before it went on hiatus. I constantly found myself thinking about the show and wondering what would happen next. I was sad to see it go, and I kinda wish they had spread these two episodes out over two weeks instead of showing both eps in one night.

I was just thinking the other day about the ep where Casey, when he saw that Bryce was still alive, said something like, “Didn’t I kill you?” It was so awesome and very Jayne Cobb-like. Since I first fell in love with Adam Baldwin when he played the character of Jayne on Firefly, it made me so very happy to see that side of Casey. If you haven’t seen Firefly (and I can’t imagine that, since I mention it about once a week, it seems), you really, really should get the DVDs. There are only 15 eps, but each and every one is really good.

Back to Chuck. Don’t forget to catch it Thursday. I know I won’t. And what’s even more fun, I’ll be able to see it in HD.

Chuck, Zachary Levi, Adam Baldwin, Firefly