CBS, meet Medium – Daily Rerun Roundup
Folks, I know you’re starting to feel the Rerun Rundowns as July comes to an end, but I want you to hold on. Soon enough the summer will be over and Jay Leno will premiere with his live 10:00 pm show.
- An interesting night for CBS. Not because of this week’s repeat of NCIS (8:00 PM), It’s because tonight is the premiere of Medium (10:00 PM), which came over from NBC for two utility players and a draft pick to me named later. To introduce Medium, CBS is staring with the season 5 premiere.
- NBC starts its night with a repeat of last Wednesday’s America’s Got Talent, followed by Tuesday’s new episode of America’s Got Talent, which shouldn’t be confused with Wednesday night’s repeat of Tuesday night’s America’s Got Talent. At 10:00 PM the network rebroadcasts the 10th season premiere of Law & Order: SVU.
- At 9:30 PM, ABC reruns the first part of the Scrubs’ episode “My Soul on Fire.” You know, the one where Krista Miller and Sarah Chalke walk around in bikinis? So, it’s all good.
- The CW shows the “very special rerun” of 90210 (8:00 PM) where Adrianna owns up to her drug addiction. Meanwhile, Blossom contemplates changing her hat style.
- Finally, while not a repeat, ABC Family premieres Ruby & the Rockits, which stars former teen heartthrob David Cassidy. Let middle-age swooning commence.
Big Brother, All-Star superstars replace repeats — Daily Rerun Roundup
The good news: a number of original series populate the schedule, providing a smaller amount of reruns. The bad news: Legally Blonde 3: Blonde Justice will not be shown due to the annual MLB All-Star Game. I know, you can’t stop crying.
- God bless CBS for keeping some scheduling normalcy with their weekly 8 pm repeat of NCIS. In this episode the team investigates a … wait for it … murder. This is not followed by The Mentalist at 9 pm. Instead, that slot is being taken by Big Brother.
- NBC (sixth place out of five networks) begins its schedule with a repeat of last Wednesday’s America’s Got Talent, followed by a new craptastic edition of the variety show. At 10 pm the network repeats the Law & Order: SVU episode guest-starring Carol Burnett. I could swear that I wrote about this repeat a few weeks ago.
- Only one rerun on ABC this week — the 9:30 broadcast of Scrubs. This episode (”My Full Moon”) featured only two of the original cast: Sarah Chalke and Donald Faison. And, according to Jason’s review, was somber, but good. I agree with Jason.
- Over at the CW (which, I believe, they are still considering a network) 90210 continues its repeat run. This week you have your typical ‘fake baby care for class assignment’ plot, your typical ‘friend makes bad choice about other friend’s out-of-control drug use’ plot, and your typical ‘high school collapses down Hellmouth’ plot. Oh, wait, that was from a different (and far more entertaining) show.
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Ted Mosby: teacher, goat wrestler and risk taker
Did you all enjoy the finale tonight? Really? Me too. I desperately missed quotable moments, Barneyisms and the Bays and Thomas clever timeline thingy that they do, but I liked the episode even without all of those elements. I’m excited about the prospects for next season and happy that we may finally be seeing a Ted that will embrace life.
The title of How I Met Your Mother’s season four finale is very apropos: “The Leap.” Think beyond Marshall and the gang finally jumping to the rooftop paradise next door, although that was a fun and celebratory event, a sort of culminating activity for the growth all of the characters had this season.
Scrubs – An ensemble of two?
What a strange episode of Scrubs we got this week. More than any of the other ones, this felt like one of this in-series setups for a spin-off, kind of like Private Practice did to spin out of Grey’s Anatomy. Or to kick it old school, how Empty Nest was set up in The Golden Girls before spinning out. It’s been done a million times, you get the point.
Usually what happens is the episode focuses almost entirely on the cast of the spin-off show, offering token appearances by a few members of the show you’re actually meaning to watch. And that’s what Scrubs did this week. No point in listing the missing cast members. Only Sarah Chalke and Donald Faison were there. Now, out of respect for the writers, they handled this very well by having the two working an overnight shift together with the new interns. And it was a good, if a bit somber, episode.
Scrubs – On all things hands and love
Just one episode of Scrubs this week, and it feels right. The writers do such a good job of wrapping up their plotlines along a similar theme or common element, that it’s almost too much that we were getting those back-to-back installments. That and it was rushing us headlong to an early end for the show. And just when it’s really holding that great groove it’s found this season …
No sign of the interns this time, but who cares? Now that we’re pretty sure this is the swan song for the series, I’d rather be spending what little time we have left with the regulars rather than getting to know new people we won’t be getting to know by this time next year. And this was couples week.
Scrubs – What’s love got to do with it?
ABC is definitely keeping the costs down. Last week, Turk was nowhere to be found in either episode, and this week the first episode went down with no janitor and J.D. only heard over a cell phone. But Percival Ulysses was in da house!
I liked the idea of Dr. Grumpy aka Denise hooking up with Dr. Giddy AKA Sunny. It’s a good dynamic. We’re finding out that Denise works as a character on this show; it’s too bad that it’s too late. I guess we could always root for a spin-off with the new interns and some of the principal cast members. Call it Sacred Heart and everything can essentially be the same. Or better yet, have Elliott get her own building and call it Private Practice. Then there’s a good reason to take that other Private Practice off the air!
Scrubs – Being the new Chief of Medicine sucks
Tonight’s twofer thematically fit together, with both episodes focusing primarily on Dr. Perry Cox’s adjustment to being the new Chief of Medicine. It turns out it’s a helluva lot of work and it’s almost guaranteed to make you unpopular, as his new friend Dr. Kelso tells him.
See, Dr. Kelso wasn’t so bad. He just had a tough job, and someone has to make those decisions that piss everyone off. And now that person is Dr. Cox. Unfortunately, Dr. Cox doesn’t like to admit he can’t do anything, so he’ll just take on these tasks on top of everything he did before. What could possible go wrong? Ask his son Jack.
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