It’s Network Upfronts for Fall TV 2011 – FOX
May 17, 2011Woo Hoo!!!! I LOVE upfront weeks. It seems like everybody has decided to come out of the gate swinging this year. NBC is being particularly aggressive and, dare I say, creative with their Fall lineup. ABC is bugging me a little with their plans since “CougarTown” is NOT in the Fall lineup. We’re saddled with the barely funny and ‘too cool for school’ wanna be comedy “Happy Endings”. Let’s get started.
FOX Fall (see the trailers here: Fox Fall )
Highlights:
The New Girl – I enjoy Zooey Deschanel so this was a plus for the show already. But then I found the 4-minute trailer entertaining and promising. Basically Zooey is freshly dumped and moves in with three guys. I particularly enjoy Damon Wayans Jr. (unfortunately he’s stuck in the ABC comedy Happy Endings so I’m guessing he’ll be recast here). He is shaping up to be a very funny actor. Anyway as you can imagine, hijinks ensue in this comedy. I feel like it’s got sort of a Three’s Company vibe to it even though very loosely connected.
Alcatraz – I did not expect to enjoy this trailer but I was intrigued. Basically, a cop is brought in to investigate a former Alcatraz prisoner supposedly dead long ago. Apparently 300 some odd prisoners were supposed to be transferred to other prisons when Alcatraz shut down, but in reality they all disappeared for 30 years or so. I just hope it doesn’t suffer the same fate of other serials like “Flash Forward”, “The Event” etc, that lose momentum during hiatus periods.
The Rest:
I’ll only mention “I Hate My Teenage Daughter” her. I wanted to love this trailer. I really like Jaime Pressly so I still may give it a try but it just seems stupid. The premise made sense – two former nerds abused by popular girls in high school now have teenaged daughters of their own that appear to be turning into the very mean girls that tormented their mothers back in the day. The execution seems lacking. Lots of “slapstick” stuff that I didn’t enjoy. I will say that I love that one of the moms is married outside of her race and have a biracial child. I love to see diversity on tv so they get a plus for that.
