What Are You Watching?

With the best part of 3 months until the new season of Game of Thrones, 2 months until the return of The Walking Dead and only 3 Episodes of Fringe left until it ends for good, TV is starting to look somewhat grim for the next few months.

 I’ve Still got a little of a back log, a few episodes of Season 7 of Dexter, some Spartacus and Arrow, and have also been introduced to Revenge by Wife’s parents, which we have thoroughly enjoyed, but with such a long time until the traditional glut of new shows that come along in the autum I thought I’d take a look at what’s new for the mid season.

I would do some kind of write up about each one but frankly if you watch the trailer you have seen as much as I have, and secondly whilst I was looking for trailers and information on what was up and coming I stumbled across this site which does a much better job than I could.

So head over and check out what you might want to watch this spring.

What’s New on TV? Your Guide to The Following, Cult, The Americans and 15 Other Shows

For me it has to be Cult, the Following, Deception and perhaps How to Live with Your Parents (for the rest of your life).

My Programs and Us programs

As I have mentioned previously this month I am somewhat of a telly addict, in the last month as well as my usual weekly programs I have steamrolled my way through 5 entire seasons of Chuck, watching the last episode yesterday.

It’s an awesome program, if you haven’t already then check it out.

However its end has somewhat left me with a conundrum. Despite her love of the soaps Wife generally has a very similar taste in TV to me, but every now and again I find something that she isn’t really into and it gives me something to watch at the times that she is busy watching her soaps, doing her marking or performing in a murder mystery event.

Sadly for me a lot of the time what starts as one of “My programs” that I can happily watch at whatever time I see fit gets converted to an “Us” program that requires careful planning and specified timeslots as to when I am able to see them. Eureka started off this way, but due its change in status I am yet to watch the final season.

Due to some lax work on my part in obtaining recent episodes of “Us” shows Chuck has now fallen into the category but luckily my head start meant I was able to watch the final few episodes without affecting our “Us” viewing.

As it stands I have two “My Programs” left, Sons of Anarchy and Fringe, I am however up to date on both of these, and the most recent addition to my collection “Revolution” has already been categorised as an “Us” program meaning I must wait to follow up on episodes one’s cliff-hanger ending.

If anyone has any suggestions for something that I can keep firmly in the “My” category and preferably has a good number of seasons to keep me occupied then please let me know.

In JJ we trust.

Alcatraz may have been cancelled, Lost and Alias are long gone and Fringe has only one more season to run.

 

But……

 

 

Something new and equal awesome looking is on the way.

Saturday Night TV

 

My front room has been turned into a classroom this evening.

My wife and her boss are marking and standardising their GCSE coursework, this means I have been exiled to the computer room.

This is no bad thing normally, as it means I get the chance to catch up on my gaming, unfortunately as it stands I am on 10 game losing streak on League of legends which is dampening my will to play.

On the upside it has meant I have had the opportunity to watch the 2 part season finale to Fringe, and that’s 2 hours of my life well spent!

In the last 3 episodes we have had 2 Losties show up which has been awesome, as well as some pretty outstandingly mind blowing story arcs.

Fringe is the closest thing to a modern day X-files, a show that I was equally addicted to, there is less Aliens and more Science but the overall feel is very much the same. It has the same overarching mythology interspersed with the Monster of the Week format that the X-files did so well.

If you haven’t watched it yet I strongly recommend that you do.

Fringe thankfully has managed to secure another series, although I believe it is set to be the last. Sadly JJ’s other recent project Alcatraz failed to make the grade and has been cancelled.  Once again Fox (yeah we still haven’t forgiven you for Firefly) shuts down another show with real potential.

With Lost and 24 very much dead and buried and House set to follow them this year, I’m starting to run out of shows that I want to watch. There are still some things I am genuinely excited about such as Game of Thrones, Touch, Justified and Sons of Anarchy but the networks seem to relying more and more on tripe like BGT, X-Factor, The Voice and Dancing on Ice to fill their schedules.

Is this really all the viewing public want? Glorified Freak Shows where we can watch “performing” dogs?

Personally I want a little more from my TV.

So very tired

For some reason, despite it only being 10 o‘clock I’m wrecked. I am literally falling asleep at my keyboard.

With this in mind I am struggling to find anything to say this evening. However at the end of March I did commit to making May the month I joined the post a day club and whilst I have tried this a number of times so far this year I figured bailing on day 2 really would be a low point.

I’ve had a pretty relaxed day; I caught up on Fringe, House and Justified and managed to put another 500 words down on SFU.

Perhaps it was this lack of physical exertion that has left me feeling this way, or perhaps my frequent tendency to not go to bed until gone 1am is finally catching up with me.

Either way I think I should try and grab an early night tonight. That’s not to say I defiantly will, upon returning from work most evenings I tell myself that I really need a good rest and yet I frequently find myself still playing League of Legends at 12am.