In case you forgot that football is huge, the NFC title game was there to remind you. The other big news on the networks was the sneak preview of ‘Touch’, and another win for ‘Big Bang Theory’ over ‘Idol’. On cable, ‘Pawn Stars’ continues to roll.
This week you’ll find ‘Poirot’, ‘Star Trek: TNG’, ‘Stephen Hawking’, ‘De Gaulle & Churchill’, ‘Underground Railroad’, ‘Comic Strip’, ‘B Gata H Kei’, ‘Beaver’, ‘Forza Del Destino’, ‘Hey Dude’, and ‘Columbus’ on the shelves.
A big week of premieres was headlined by the return of ‘American Idol’, but the ratings king is not quite the juggernaut it used to be. ‘Big Bang Theory’ managed to top the singing kids in the demo.
This week you can look for releases from ‘Nip/Tuck’, ‘Buck Rogers’, ‘Anthony Bourdain’, ‘Maria Wern’, ‘Brunetti Mysteries’, ‘Meet The Browns’, ‘Mannix’, ‘Scooby Doo’, ‘Kojak’, ‘Vixens of Virtue’, ‘Ancient Aliens’, and ‘American Experience’.
The flood of premieres for the new year continues with ‘The Firm,’ ‘Are You There Chelsea,’ ‘The Finder,’ ’30 Rock,’ ‘Rob,’ and ‘The Game.’ That’s both good and bad, as the numbers run the gamut from ‘sure to be canceled’ to ‘solid hit’.
Tuesday’s releases include ‘Merlin’, ‘Waking The Dead’, ‘Delocated’, ‘Teresa’, ‘George Gently’, ‘Storm Chasers’, ‘Chipmunks’, ‘Adam 12′, ‘Sliders’, ‘Mad’, ‘Hetalia’, ‘Nabari No Ou’, and ‘Kaze No Stigma’.
The new calendar year is upon us, and the mid-season premieres are already starting. ABC kicked off ‘The Bachelor’, ‘Wife Swap’, and ‘Work It’, while NBC had a brand new season of ‘Biggest Loser’. Over on cable, have the judge/host shenanigans ruined ‘Project Runway’?
