Shopping

My credit card companies must love me.

Went and bought new DVDs on my lunch break today. Unfortunately Best Buy wasn't stocking Friday Night Lights (I had a few choice words about that), but a little internet research later and it's looking like I'll be making a trip to Futureshop on the way home to pick up a copy.

What I did buy (yay for debt!)...

Heroes - How could I not? Sure the show has some problems (dreadful payoff on the "Save the cheerleader, save the world" bit), but I'm still planning on speccing it. It's going to be interesting to see how things go with all the spin offs and marketing hype that's swirling around this show. Is it well enough established to support all the crap they're heaping on top of it?

Dexter - I've seen a couple episodes of this, but not being a TMN subscriber missed more than I saw. I liked what I did see though, and I'm definitely going to spec this show as well.

The Shield (Season 1) - This is a show I've always meant to follow, but somehow never did. It was on sale for a little under $25, so figure I might as well pick it up. Should be a handy reference point if I ever decide to develop a cop-type show.

Brotherhood - I've heard good things about this show, though I've yet to see it. It was only 20 bucks though, and it won a peabody award, so hopefully it'll be worth it.

Delinquent

Two weeks since my last post? Somebody smack me.

In my defense I was really sick with this damn flu that's been going around, and we're in the middle of delivery on one of our shows, so things have been hectic. Hectic and miserable.

Haven't been writing as much as I should either, which always makes me grumpy. Been banging my head against this spy show idea I had (yes the one that I didn't outline when I should have). It still has some serious problems, and I'm fresh out of inspirational new ways of tackling them. Going to set it on the back burner, come back to it with fresh eyes.

Which is actually for the best, cause another great idea fell into my lap, and it's going really well. Have a short synopsis and a couple of (very) light character sketches in the bag, planning on breaking the pilot over the next week, then we're off to the races (whee!).

Other cool things...

Kristen Bell (aka Veronica Mars) is going to be on Heroes! Thank God too, I was starting to worry that I wouldn't be able to get my Kristen Bell fix this year (I know she's attached to Gossip Girl, but from all the rumors that show sounds like it's in a spot of trouble).

Kevin Smith is going to direct an episode of BSG. Not really sure how I feel about this one. Big fan of Kevin's, but his strength lies more in the humor and raunch, not so much the space battles and hard Scifi. On the plus side he does have his comics background to draw on, so hopefully things will be alright.

It's the dog days of summer and the new fall TeeVee season's right around the corner (though as others have noted the concept of a "season" doesn't seem to fit that well anymore), and that means all of last years shows are going to be coming out on DVD soon. It's looking like I'm going to be quite a bit poorer after tomorrow.

On the shopping list so far: Heroes, Friday Night Lights, Dexter and BSG. Also going to snag latest season of The Wire when it comes out. Might also pick up FotC and Intelligence, but we'll see how the ole bank account holds up.

Anyone have other suggestions as to worthy purchases?

As to what shows I'm looking forward to this fall, in no particular order:

Reaper - Looks like a comedy version of The Collector. The pilot's been getting good buzz.

Pushing Daisies - Interesting concept and, again, getting good buzz.

Bionic Woman - If only for Starbuck

There are a bunch more I'll probably drop in on (K-Ville, Life, Dirty Sexy Money, the trainwreck known as Cavemen, but I probably won't stick around them too long...unless they're really good of course).

Should be an interesting year...though word is that most of the new shows suck pretty hard...