This October, TV revives CSI and Chucky, makes the Muppets spooky, and pits Sam Neill against an Invasion
TV's cauldron bubbles over this October with Ghosts, Dopesick, and Star Trek: Prodigy
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The countdown to Halloween has begun, and TV is getting into the spirit of things with murderous dolls, aliens, and not-so-scary apparitions. This October will see the return of CSI, Chucky, and I Know What You Did Last Summer, which means blood spatter galore. We’ll witness an Invasion when Apple TV+ launches a new sci-fi drama led by Sam Neill. Ghosts come to CBS, as the Muppets star in their first Halloween special, Muppets Haunted Mansion. But because reality is often scarier than fiction, this month’s premieres also include a searing look at the opioid crisis and a new examination of the debate over recovered memories. For those who aren’t so keen on observing All Hallow’s Eve, there’s a new Star Trek show, a Legends Of The Hidden Temple reboot, Shion Takeuchi’s new animated series, and a promising YA thriller.
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Good grief the networks really are out of ideas. CBS did 700+ episodes of various CSI series and they think there’s a demand for more?
I’d surely watch. CSI was great, specifically the original in Vegas.
Those 330 original episodes weren’t enough?
I don’t know what that means. If a show is good, I want more of it. Here, it laid off for years and seems like a good villain will make for a good comeback.
I don’t hear this for Star Trek and it has had like 6 live action spin offs and almost 15 movies.
CSI’s last season still brought in over 11M viewers.
Lastly, people always say the networks are out of ideas but isn’t because of bringing back long cancelled shows. It’s the laziness and ease of reality TV.
Show reboots are actually rare and besides reality TV, new shows come around all the time.
One thing people say about every new Star Trek series is that it’s different than what came before. You don’t hear that about CSI.
Well Star Trek is sci-fi so therefore has more wiggle room due to not being as grounded in reality. CSI is formulaic by nature but a different formula than regular cop shows. They are all mysteries.
But still….
Star Trek has it’s similar stories even with the changed backdrops. DS9 was the most different although it was a rip of the superior B5 (which is being rebooted).
Other cop shows aren’t mysteries? Law and Order immediately comes to mind, but there are literally hundreds of other cop shows that are also mysteries.I know it’s been said a lot, but a space station setting and serialization hardly make DS9 a ripoff of B5.I think the reason people are asking why we need another CSI is because it’s so formulaic. Not just each iteration of the show, but as a cop show it does very little differently than every other cop show. The differences are largely cosmetic.Star Trek is maybe the most original franchise in TV history. The number of things it pioneered over its 50 years is staggering. It basically created modern fandom, cancellation letter-writing campaigns, first-run syndication, and its utopian premise has never been successfully duplicated.
I think the reason people are asking why we need another CSI is because it’s so formulaic. Not just each iteration of the show, but as a cop show it does very little differently than every other cop show. The differences are largely cosmetic.I think that’s part of the appeal, though.It reminds me, in a way about people bitching in the comments on the article about the new Taco Bell chicken taco/sandwich that anyone who goes there rather than seeking out real Mexican food is some sort of irredeemable philistine because the latter is objectively so much better and more authentic.The thing is, though, that’s not really the point. Sometimes (the global) you want comfort food. You know what you’re going to get, you’re not going to get any pleasant surprises, but you’re not going to get any unpleasant ones either. That’s comforting.I watch and enjoy plenty of formulaic “old man” shows. I have no illusions about what they are, and I certainly enjoy more interesting and/or exciting shows and movies as well.
No, cop shows are ALL mysteries. Law & Order has lasted forever doing the same thing. It just has different stories.
CSI does exactly it’s namesake differently than other cop shows which makes it different. It focuses on the forensics. Other cop shows have forensics but don’t focus on it. Your assessment goes against the very thing different about….C…S…I.
You brought up L&O and that show has been the same forever with spinoffs, some successful and some failures.
The fact is, if a show does what it does well, who cares?
DS9 isn’t just a space station show like B5. It’s a space station show with a wormhole just outside of it and B5 script was pitched and known to Paramount DS9 came out, to start.
I personally thought B5 was some weird type of metoo copying of DS9 with weird looking aliens and ignored it initially. Years later I watch it and all the movies straight through and realized how superior it was. It’s written like it was planned from start to finish even though behind the scenes, it had hiccups.
I guess I care because I’m a hater.
I mean, you may just not like CSI like that. It’s all good.
The notion though that they’ve run out of ideas by bringing back a show that last aired 6 years ago is kind of stretching it.
Too many new shows fail due to no one watching them. Believe me, I’ve been through too many great shows that lasted a whole one season and it pisses me off. The networks are trying. People just don’t bite.
Firefly
John Doe
Earth 2
Space, Above and Beyond
Invasion
Chicago Code
Flash Forward
….I could go on….
Not all are mysteries per se. Such shows will often show you the perpetrator and the only “mystery” is how will the detective/cop(s) catch them. Monk often did this.
No, it’s just lazy as fuck.But, this is what network TV has devolved into. Mostly reality TV and procedural after procedural. They can’t begin to keep up with the streaming content and the freedom they have. So, they are just targeting older people and those who are constantly complaining about their being too much to watch and follow. They will just keep watching the same old same old. After This is US, I will sadly have nothing left in terms of network primetime scripted programming.
The various Stars Trek and Crime Scenes Investigated have about the same number of TV shows and I most assuredly asked, “Isn’t there already enough of that?” prior to Enterprise, Discovery, Picard, and the Abrams movies. Good ideas within a given fictional universe (especially one as formulaic as CSI) are not a limitless commodity.
I’m probably wrong and enough people really are thirsting for more Gil Grissom to make this a successful endeavor.
Yes, you are wrong. Like I said, CSI still had 11M viewers it’s last season.
Overall, the characters make a show and that’s why a show like CSI Cyber largely sucked. It’s not just about the characters too but the writing.
CSI had some very good writing especially there was a recurring villain.
I haven’t read or even heard of book before but I’m going to guess the twist is that they’re all lying and they killed their classmate together.
I hope they up their writing game to compete with subscription fare, but it will probably be targeted at my 78 year-old mother’s expectations like all other CBS, NBC dramas. (I don’t even know what’s on ABC anymore….) There simply isn’t enough genuine writing talent to go around to feed the need for so much content. Even the star-vehicle productions (Nicole Kidman, etc…) are terrible examples of writing and story development anymore.
The UK version of Ghosts is great. Not the best thing you’ll ever see, but reliably funny. US version? I’d give it a 10% chance of being any good.
I was excited about the concept until I watched the trailer a week or so ago. Looks pretty sophomoric and not in a good way.
To be honest, the trailers for the UK version didn’t fill me with great excitement – but the show was a pleasant surprise.
Aquaman: King of Atlantis looks like the stupidest thing ever, and I’m here for it. I mostly love these goofy versions.
I love Rose McIver (even though izombie did not sustain the high quality of its start through to the end), but U.S. Ghosts looks really terrible. However, for anyone with HBOMax, I do strongly recommend the original which is available there. It’s run 3 seasons, but they’re the sort British style (6-7 eps per “series”), so there’s not six dozen episodes to get through. Lolly Adefope is one of the stars, so that alone should sell it to you. Worth checking out!
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Seriously, the media needs to get off the dumb Keapernick horse. There are 10 african american QB’s, the most ever, including the best one in the NFL.. The idea that no one is hiring him for any reason other than he sucks and is (and was) just not that go0d, is 0%.
With many things, Kaep’s situation is a mix.
Kaep was better than many of the people hired during that time frame. However, people forget that if you considered the proverbial “distraction” you need to be elite.
Michael Vick was the most hated player in the league but because he was elite, he was able to come back and his play with the Eagles further made his dog troubles less at the forefront of people’s memory. He did everything prior to reinstatement to repent. All of this and Vick committed actual CRIMES.
Kaep’s main goal wasn’t to really play but to protest at his place of employment. He wasn’t elite so it was easy for individual teams to not REHIRE him.
Trust, have you seen the number of business now saying Black Lives Matter now? The political winds shifted. I say this because if Kaep was an elite player, his kneeling would have mattered less because his play would have overshadowed it. His play would have been the “political wind”.
Winning solves a ton.
Wait, isn’t the actual Tonight Show already the Kids Tonight Show?
If you told me Michael Keaton and Kaitlyn Dever were in a show together, I would say there isn’t anything in the world that would stop me from watching it. “It’s a docudrama about opioid addiction,” did though.
Are we still pretending that Kaepernick is some kind of hero and not a privileged kid who tried to salvage his failing career by hitching his wagon to a national tragedy? I figured he had gone the way of the disgraced Shaun King.
Don’t tell me the 4400 who return are all Americans…
The trailer for it looks HORRRRIBLE.
I intend to give ghosts a try. Attractive cast, giving it their all.
I don’t care what you pit Sam Neill against; I’m probably gonna watch it.
Who is “highly anticipating” the Colin Kaepernick show? Really?
No mention of Nancy Drew returning tonight?