Fox says, "Let's go crazy"
Here's a sampling of what Rupert Murdoch and company have in store for next season:
- The Gate: Inside the "deviant crime unit" of the San Francisco Police Department. There's a punch line just waiting to happen "isn't 'deviant crime in San Francisco' redundant? but as a longtime Bay Area resident who loves me some Babylon by the Bay, you won't hear it from me.
- Bones: Forensic anthropologists solve crimes by studying skeletons. Anyone here remember Gideon Oliver?
- Prison Break: The life and times of a Death Row inmate. Now that sounds fun and exciting. Kind of like Charles in Charge, only the "Charles" isn't Scott Baio it's Charles Manson.
- Reunion: This has the potential to be a novel concept each episode will check in on the lives of six high school friends in a different year of their adult lives. But what do they do if the series gets renewed for another season? Seems as though this would be a difficult premise to sustain for very long. But I said that about 24 too.
- Head Cases: Chris O'Donnell stars as an attorney with mental health issues. Maybe that's why he signed that contract for Batman and Robin.
- The War at Home: A kids-against-parents generation-gap sitcom of the kind that's been done to death in a thousand variations (Family Ties, Boy Meets World, Malcolm in the Middle, et al.).
- Kitchen Confidential: Another sitcom, this one about a former superstar chef reduced to hurling hash in a franchise restaurant because he's a self-destructive alcoholic. (Obviously, someone didn't learn a lesson from Emeril Lagasse's ghastly sitcom of a few seasons back.)
Oh, I forgot...Rupert Murdoch. Never mind.
(This article is cross-posted to my film/television blog at DVD Verdict.)
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