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Summer Viewing | August 04, 2007

I think this is a pretty poor summer for TV viewers, especially considering that previous summers have given us American Idol, Survivor, Project Runway (last season), and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. It's not that I expect big blockbuster shows, but summer, lately, has been where one could find some new treat of a series that would get big later. Not so, this summer. Here's what I'm watching, in order of importance:

So You Think You Can Dance
Entourage
Flight of the Conchords
The Soup
Baldwin Hills
Best Week Ever

I also think I'm going to try to get into Damages. Having Glenn Close is reason enough to give something a shot. I also watched the last episode of Big Love and discovered that I actually enjoyed it. I had thought that Big Love would be too heavy on drama for me to enjoy, but this last episode was pretty funny. So my question to you is... what am I missing?

I did learn recently that The Wire is currently shooting the last two episodes of its next season, which means that I can be hopeful that HBO will schedule it for this year, instead of making everyone wait the usual epoch that we have to endure.

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I was going to write something similar, but lethargy got the best of me (twice.)

If you want a preview of a fall show (or maybe not, given Fox is doing the adapting), BBC America is showing the most recent season of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. And no, I can't get enough of cooking reality shows, with Hell's Kitchen and Top Chef also on my list. And thanks to the Internets, I've caught up on all three seasons of The F Word.

And even thought G4 is buried somewhere in most people's digital cable lineups -- though my provider thinks it's necessary to provide not one, not two, but three slots for it on my lineup -- it's worth searching out the channel for Attack of the Show, which I was introduced to by friends and which Entertainment Weekly recently praised.

Go ahead, embrace your inner geek.

Posted by: Jay | August 5, 2007 08:58 PM

My summer viewing has consisted of catching up with tons of stuff (Supernatural, Smallville, Weeds and Big Love, so far). And I'm watching:

Big Brother
Damages
John From Cincinnati
Saving Grace
The Two Coreys

I also plan to watch Californication, which begins soon. And I've been TiVoing Heartland and Flight of the Conchords, but not watching yet. And lots of other stuff, actually. I always TiVo way more than I'll ever watch.

Posted by: DeAnn | August 5, 2007 10:32 PM

I've been watching Top Chef, and catching Kyle XY when I get a chance.

Posted by: meeta | August 6, 2007 08:26 AM

In addition to Big Brother I'm still catching up on Dexter and Weeds on Showtime On Demand. I'm also enjoying Flight of the Conchords. And of course I love me some Hell's Kitchen.

And I'll admit it... I record Young & The Restless every single day.

Posted by: Carrisa | August 6, 2007 02:20 PM

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