TheBilcourt: September 2007

SNL-UPDATE!!!

Sunday, September 30, 2007

When I found out Lebron James was hosting the season premiere of SNL, I just knew it was going to stink. I thought back to last year when Peyton Manning hosted. It was god awful. BUT, I was surprised that Lebron's episode was really funny.

Here's some stuff that me cracking up...(there's a lot more that I wish was on YouTube from the show)
Lebron's Monologue

High School Musical 3

Iran So Far- SNL Digital Short- This was great once it got going and it's gets better and better.

Here's a clip of a Solid Gold parody- really funny!

Solitary

This has to be the most insane reality tv/game show I have ever seen. I seriously don't think I would make it past the first couple rounds. You can be the most physically and mentally apt person in the world and you would still have trouble in this game.

It's called Solitary and it comes on the Fox Reality Channel on digital cable. There's already been one season(I haven't seen it) and I just finished watching the second season.

Here's the premise... 9 people are put into small rooms individually with no contact to the outside world except for a one last phone call. The rooms have no clocks, windows, or any other way for the contestants to know how long time has passed. These contestants never see each other and they cannot see how the others compete in competitions/tests. The only contact that the contestants have with anyone is through a computer named Val. Once in their rooms, each one of them is stripped of their name and they are given a number. That is what Val will call them and that is how the other contestants will know them. Each show consists of a challenge or test for everyone at the beginning. The winner of the test then does not have to compete in the second challenge also known as "the treatment". The tests and treatments are not easy, but are hard and mentally insane. Even when they are not competing in tests, Val makes their lives difficult. They are not allowed to sleep unless Val permits them to, which is hardly ever. My only issue with the show is that it's so difficult physically and mentally and the grand prize is only a measly $50,000. They should give away a minimum $100,000 to $500,000 for dealing with all this stuff.

If you have digital cable, go to the Fox Reality Channel and watch this show. It's definitely one of those shows that words just can't describe. You need to see it to understand, but leave it to me to help remedy that for you!

Here is the first episode of Solitary 2.0 straight from Google Video. Also below that, I have posted kind of another example video from the first season. The Val voices are different in the different seasons. I'm going to try and find video of some of the other crazy tests from the show and post them.

Season 1 video

Someone pissed off a cloud

Thursday, September 27, 2007

I was driving home from watching "Good Luck Chuck" and I saw this. Does anyone else think that cloud is giving someone the bird???

Some Gizmodo stories that made me say "Wow!"

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Wow! #1- I want to see Zack, the Lego Maniac tackle this bad boy. 5,000 pieces and a FOUR POUND binded manual.

Wow! #2- Are camcorders just getting smaller or are digital cameras just getting better?? The digital age we live in just continues to amaze me.

Wow! #3- How does this work??? These are really cool looking!

Halo 3 Stuff

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

-After the Titans/Saints MNF game(great game! Got Titans!), I decided to head over to Circuit City to pick up Halo 3. I had my mind made up that I didn't want to wait until Tuesday morning to go and get it at Best Buy. Apparently, Circuit City didn't get their own Sunday Fliers this week. The ad clearly said that they would be open at midnight to sell Halo 3, but when I got to Circuit City it was a ghost town. The store was all locked up and no cars in the parking lot. So, I made my way over to Wal-Mart and bought it. This was karma telling me that I should have just waited and not gotten so impatient.

- I got home, played the Halo Campaign for a good 3 hours, and then got my butt kicked in the online multi player from what I presume were some really talented 12 year olds. One feature I really like is the ability to play the campaign online. I need to get some people that have the game to do that with me. I think that would be more fun than just killing each other online.

Check out this live action Halo 3 prequel video that the Discovery Channel made. They made it to advertise one of their shows called "Last One Standing". This live action clip is so freaking awesome and impressive. I can't believe they went through this much work for an internet ad. Of course you can watch the YouTube version here, or go here to see the original, much better quality version.

Also, check out this commercial for Halo 3. This was made using this GIGANTIC Diorama set. I don't remember the specs on it, but its impressive to the point where it's touring museums. Go to the official diorama site and take an interactive look through it. It's an amazing site!

Here's a 'making of' the diorama video. The 'making of' part is real, but it's made to look like it's not. Just watch and you'll understand what I mean.

Guys, only one of you will represent Toys R' Us! Fight!

Monday, September 24, 2007

I said if I had more random thoughts I would blog them....

I just saw this. Have you ever seen two giraffes fight? I mean, I guess it's what I expected would happen, but I've just never seen it to confirm it or anything.

It sounds like two tree trunks hitting each other.

Some Random thoughts...

I like the banners setup I have(keep reloading for new pictures). It took me a little while, but I got it done. I guess I will try and change out the images every so often. Anyways, I always appreciate feedback and helpful hints if anyone has them.

In other news, Night before last, I got impatient and pre-ordered Halo 3 from BestBuy.com. That means I have to wait until Tuesday morning to go pick it up. In retrospect, I kind of wish I had not preordered it. I think I would have rather either gone to Wal-Mart or Circuit City at midnight to pick up a copy. That way, I have more time to play. I'm such a night owl that I would enjoy playing it through the night while I'm awake than during the day before work while I'm possibly tired. I wish I knew Best Buy's online return policy. Eh well, no big deal really. It's just a video game....that's gonna be freakin awesome especially on a 12 foot projector screen in HD with 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound!!!

Also in other news, Sunday night was officially the beginning of the Fall TV season for me. I got home from work and watched the season premiere of Family Guy. It was an hour long parody of Star Wars: A New Hope and was funny, but not really Family Guy funny. They didn't try to push the envelope or anything like Family Guy has been known to do and it was really tame. I personally think it was because of Lucasfilm. The show seemed to have Lucasfilm's fingerprints all over it. It's kind of hard to explain, but as a Star Wars fan for many years, you notice these things. The Bottom Line: It was ok and I was ready to delete it when I was done. Not worth a repeat for me.

I've watched a little bit of Prison Break here and there over the last two seasons. I've watched and read about just enough to keep up with the overall story. It's not something I really have ever made an attempt to keep up with. The iTunes Music Store has the season premiere for free download(p.s. they have other shows for free download too!). So, I downloaded the premiere and watched while I was waiting to go home from work. It was really good! I added it to my dvr series recordings when I got home. I'll be interested to see if I keep up with it or if I just let it kind of go away like the last two years.

The pilot for Pushing Daisies is online. I didn't really know a whole lot about it, but the guys over at The Totally Rad Show dug it, so I gave it shot. I LOVED IT! The Totally Rad guys described it best. Visually, its like Amelie and Big Fish. It's the story of Ned, a pie maker who can bring people back from the dead. BUT, there are rules to bringing back the dead. He can bring someone back to life if he touches them. Once their alive, he has one minute to touch them again to make them dead again. If he doesn't touch them before a minute is up, then the dead person stays alive and someone in close proximity to the area of the dead person dies. Also, if he chooses to keep a dead person alive, then he can never touch that person again. If he does, they die. All sorts of scenarios play out in the pilot dealing with the rules. I'm not going to spoil any of the story for you. I'll let you watch it to see what all happens. It's from Barry Sonnefeld(Men In Black,Addams Family, Get Shorty). If you have access to a Bit Torrent downloader, then head over to Mininova or BTJunkie and download it.

p.s. It's narrated by Jim Dale who narrated the Harry Potter audio books. He has such a great narrator's voice. I think his narration is one of the key items that makes the show so good.

Nothing much else to report. If I think of something else, I'll blog it.

I'm making some changes

Sunday, September 23, 2007

I'm gradually making some changes to the old blog here. I figured out how to have some banners of rotating images, which is something I've wanted to have here on the blog for a while. That way every time you visit (all 2 people probably), you get a new image! You can just reload the page a bunch of times. The only thing I can't seem to figure out is how to set to show the banners in order instead of randomly. The page likes to load certain images more times than others. Oh well, I'll figure it out at some point. I'm working on the banners. I'm having to re-edit some of them due to the title of the blog. The blue space on the left of the banners was the area where the title of the blog used to be. I took that text off and now I'm just going to have the rotating banners. I'm tired of the "10 Biscuits!" title. It was never really something I came up with. I just took the phrase from some friends at work. I think I'm going to give my blog the new title of "The Billcourt".

Quick story for any random person finding the site-
I love movies. My name is William/Bill/Billy. There's an old theatre here in Nashville called The Belcourt. I have a big projector movie screen in my apartment. Mix Billy and The Belcourt and you get The Billcourt.

I don't think I'm going to change the blogger address for my blog just yet, besides, I tell people to go to BillyHammock.com anyways. It forwards you here to the blog.

Gotta run!

p.s. Anyone excited about possibly coming over to play Halo 3 on my big screen????? It's going to be AWESOME!

This is why you keep a gun in your house

Here's the trailer for The Strangers. I saw this at work the other day never having heard about it before. The voice at the door and the creepy masks at the end freaked. me. out! Well, the whole thing freaked me out....

Just in case anyone needed clarification on the rules....

Thursday, September 20, 2007

The Official what beats what of Rock,Paper,Scissors

Kid Nation

So....Jody and I just got done watching the premiere episode of Kid Nation. What did I think about it.......? Well, first and foremost, I'm not a huge reality show fan. I did just finish watching Big Brother 8, but hey, there's not a lot on during the summertime. I saw the first episode and kept on watching all summer...religiously. Anyways, I watched the first two seasons of Survivor, Big Brother, and The Apprentice. Usually after two seasons, reality shows just become dull and stale to me. You can always add twists and other surprises, but a lot of these shows just make me lose interest. Kid Nation could easily do that too in the future.

Kid Nation was a welcome surprise. There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the show and I do like intriguing controversy! I decided to watch it mainly so that I could keep up with the buzz that is(and will be) surrounding it. I didn't expect much from it to be honest, but like I said, it was a welcome surprise. Is it the best thing I've seen in a while? No. Is it the greatest reality show I've ever seen? No. It is though a nice clean show that primetime tv hasn't seen the likes of in years.

As you grow up, there's always a longing to want to be older. As you get older, there's always a longing to be younger. We all wish we could go back in time to when things were simpler and a lot more fun. I think that's part of Kid Nation's appeal. You watch these 40 kids on their own just wanting and trying hard to feel older and make people recognize them. It really does take you back to when you we're a kid. Watching it made me remember all of the pre-teen and youth trips I used to take at church. It also made me remember what it was like to hang out with my friends when I was in elementary school. It just made me remember simpler times. It does have more appeal than that though. Some of the kids and scenes are just downright funny.(see YouTube clip below). There's this real weasely looking kid that cracks me up everytime he talks. He's like Paul from the Wonder Years. Then there was a scene in which these 3 boys decided they were going to catch a Jackrabbit. They took these big sticks and ran around just trying to catch this rabbit. After a while, they gave up and they started to have a "heart to heart" talk. They all missed home and didn't know if they could make the town run like it should. They were encouraging each other like best friends do. All of sudden, one of the boys spotted some girls coming their way and the boys just started yelling "This is man country!!" It was downright funny and it made me remember all the times I had at my best friends house next door growing up.

To give you a basic overview of the show, it's like this. There's 40 kids divided into 4 groups living in a ghost town. There is one kid from each group that forms a town council and each kid is in charge of their group. The groups participate in a competition each week to decide what kind of class member they will be. There are the high class, the Merchants, the cooks, and the laborers. Each class earns a specific amount of money and is responsible for those tasks. At the end of each week, the entire group of kids convenes in a town hall led by the show's host and the town council to talk about the week's events. During each meeting, the host will ask the kids if anyone wants to go home. Tonight there was one 8 year old kid named Jimmy that wanted to go home because he was homesick. It was kind of cool that after Jimmy raised his hand to go home, all 40 kids started trying to cheer him on to stay. He decided not to stay, but it was still cool to remember the way that kids don't hate each other like adults do. There is no way that if these were 40 adults, that they would try and support each other like that. Anyways, each town hall concludes with one kid being presented with a real gold star by the town council. Each star is worth $20,000 dollars and will be put towards the kid's future. It was funny watching the older kids slack around and the younger kids working hard to prove themselves until the star was given out at the end. Now that the kids know about the value of the stars, they're all going to start busting tail to try and earn one.

I think after watching it, I think the controversy is so far unwarranted. I'm sure there we're incidents to make people kind of worry, but they're kids and things happen. I didn't see any kids being treated like Hong Kong factory workers or anything like that that has made the child labor people go all crazy. I did see a lot of kids trying hard to make things better for themselves. I think some of those kids worked harder than most teenagers work at their jobs. In closing, I think everyone should give Kid Nation a chance. It's not the next Lost or 24, but it is entertaining. It gives the "reality show" genre something to be proud of. Something that hasn't been done in a really long time.

This is an unaired scene. While, yes it is funny seeing these kids act like their drinking, it is a bit disturbing that these kids know how to act like their drinking. Who taught them about dropping the shot glasses in mugs?

More Dr. Spaceman

Thursday, September 13, 2007

In a follow up to my 30 Rock post below, I made this. It's my two favorite Dr. Spaceman clips....

30 Rock

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

I think I have another Arrested Development on my hands. I never saw any of the first season of that show and boy do I regret it. To this day, it has to be one of my favorite comedy TV series ever (thank you Josh for introducing it to me!). Well, last year that series ended and the only other comedy that has been able to keep up to my sense of humor has been The Office. Reno 911! and Family Guy are different so I'm not including them, but those are brilliant shows too. Anyways for me, The Office has been that one comedy that I had to see every week. Until now... I saw the series premiere and a couple of episodes here and there for 30 Rock. I thought it was funny, but I guess with everything else I was trying to watch, 30 Rock just got lost in the shuffle. It was never intentional or anything, but already favorite shows mostly take a precedence over new shows.

This past week, I went to Best Buy to pick up The Office season 3 and there was 30 Rock season 1 sitting right beside it. Something told me that I needed to get 30 Rock and watch it. I don't get that feeling a lot and I don't like making "blind buy" purchases (purchasing a movie/show that you've never seen). But something in my mind said, "You like Tina Fey! She's a brilliant comedy writer!" Which is true. I do think Tina Fey is great. I also like Alec Baldwin when he's been on SNL. I like Tracy Morgan and I knew Will Arnett and some other SNL alum guest starred from seeing promos on NBC. So I bought the season 1 set. I just completed watching the 1st season and man, it is funny! It gets better and better as it goes along(thats what she said). I guess it was just bad luck that the pilot and the two episodes I saw last season just didn't impress me.

Let me now, offer some clips as to why I now love this show. It's definitely in a good 3rd place behind The Office and Arrested Development in my book.

There's one episode where Tracy Morgan's character finds out that he's a descendant of Thomas Jefferson.

After learning about it, he has dream about finding out the truth....

After having the dream, he realizes that he wants to make a movie about the life of Jefferson where he plays all the roles. He decides to use things at the show to make a concept trailer to show the head of the network. This is the trailer....

In another episode, Paul Reubens(Pee-Wee Herman) guest starred as Prince Gerhardt of Austria. Tina, Alec, and Jane Krakowski's characters went to a birthday party for the prince. Needless to say, there was something special about the prince...

The final clip is another compilation of probably my favorite recurring character played by Chris Parnell. This is not all of his parts. My favorite bits that he's in are not in this clip, but they're still funny.

To end things, if you haven't watched 30 Rock, watch it when it premieres it's 2nd season on October 4. This is one of those shows that I think will get better and better as time goes on.

This is a GREAT prank!

Monday, September 10, 2007

The Belcourt is doing another film series

The Belcourt is doing another film series that I really want to go to. I am an avid film lover as anyone that knows me knows. Would you believe that I have only seen 1 and a half of all of the movies below?! These are all going to be 35 mm prints. I think this is a perfect opportunity for me to enjoy these classics as they we're intended for the first time. If anyone wants to go with me, please let me know. This is like the Friday night movies if they went right. At least these movies won't have a bunch of people talking all the way through. At least I hope not.

I will let everyone speculate on which 1 and half movies I have seen...

from the belcourt's website-

THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD – Oct 6-7 Ages 4 and up. The first film of the series is a fun-filled, fast-paced technicolor treat is cited as a great place to start. Directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) with Errol Flynn as the charismatic Robin Hood, this 1938 technicolor treat lives up to it's original tagline: "Only the rainbow can duplicate its brilliance!"

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD – Oct 13-14 Ages 9 and up - Warning: serious "tear-jerker" The story of lawyer Atticus Finch's (Gregory Peck) defense of a black man on trial for rape is certain to evoke important (if not delayed) conversations with regards to such realities as death, crime and injustice, if not at least a few tears. Parents with a weak tolerance for frankness should especially take caution.

THE LADY EVE – Oct 20-21 Ages 8 and up - It's high-seas screwball comedy when a clueless heir (Henry Fonda) falls prey...twice...to a couple of gambling con-artists posing as a father and beautiful daughter. But will she fall prey to him? This should play especially well to girls, particularly the ones with a little sass.

MONKEY BUSINESS – Nov 3-4 Ages 5 and up - Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe, this side-splitting comedy is about two scientists, a youth potion, and the madness that ensure.

METROPOLIS – Nov 17-18 Ages 8 & up, but with a tolerance for suspense and a bit of creepiness. - A silent film from Fritz Lang? And a 2 hour one at that? Well, yes. This tale of class struggle set amidst a towering city where workers toil beneath the earth while the establishment bathes in the sunlight is as sure to draw awe from the set design as it is to make one aware of the possibilities of the silent genre. Parents, be prepared to read aloud the intertitles and do a bit of explaining. This version of METROPOLIS is recently restored and includes its original score.

WEST SIDE STORY – Nov 24-25 Ages 7 and up, but with a tolerance for knife fights! - Yes, the themes (and some of the lyrics) in here are indeed quite grown-up and, true to form, everyone winds up dead, but kids might know the star-crossed lovers from Romeo and Juliet, adapted to two gangs in control of a New York neighborhood. At any rate, the widescreen photography almost leaps off the screen as do the musical numbers and the age-old theme of young love in peril. For the adventurous...

DUCK SOUP – Dec 1-2 Ages 5 and up - It'll be hard to resist those crazy Marx Brothers, especially the buffoonish Harpo. In this one, the Groucho character is elected president and it's downhill from there. If they like this one, try Night at the Opera.

MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS – Dec 8-9 Ages 3 and up - Starring Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien, Meet Me, about a turn-of-the-century family deeply rooted in turn-of-the-century St. Louis faced with a possible move to New York. Quite simple in plot and execution, the film is one of the most delightful and endearing musicals ever made.

THE RED BALLOON and WHITE MANE Fri - Thur, Dec. 14-20 New 35mm print! All ages. Two wordless short films at about 35 minutes each from French director Albert Lamorisse. The Red Balloon is an allegory on the power of love and friendship told through a boy and the red balloon that follows him around Paris. White Mane, equally beloved by children in France but seeing it's US release here for the first time ever, is about a boy and an escaped wild horse in the marsh region of Camargue on the French Mediterranean.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE – Fri-Tue, Dec. 21-25 6 and up - This Christmas tale of town banker George Bailey and the angel who shows him what life would be without him is a yearly tradition at the Belcourt and serves as a proper closing film for the series. Hot Dog!

The VMA's we're really bad...

The VMA's are to the point that they just need to stop doing them. They are soo bad these days. Well, MTV is just plain awful these days. For a while, I could watch it. But now, it's all scripted "reality" shows, The Real World which features nothing but young people getting wasted, arguing, and making out with people, and shows which features portions of music videos(TRL). They don't play full videos at all anymore. At least they used to play SOME videos. I know that what I'm saying is pretty much common knowledge, but it still sucks. At least you used to be able to at least watch the VMA's and Movie Awards(sarah silverman was funny) and be entertained, but I guess not anymore.

Poor Britney Spears....She gets worse and worse everytime shes out in public. Her performance was soo bad. The look on 50 Cent's face at about 2:38 into the video is almost priceless. You can tell he's dumbfounded by how to react to her performance. I use the term performance lightly. I think it would have been a great performance if at the beginning, she game out of a trailer on cinder blocks. Then we would have bought the trailer trash stripper act she was going for.

mk...I will make TWO exceptions to all of this....

This was entertaining-

As was this, but mainly the Timberland part. I liked the music playing and the set during his part in the middle-

I think Steve got my letter....

Thursday, September 06, 2007

I think Steve got my letter. No, I didn't send it to him personally. I just know he reads my blog everyday in his office up in Appletown USA. He and I are back to being best friends.

Steve's response....

I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.

First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to lower the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399, and that now is the right time to do it. iPhone is a breakthrough product, and we have the chance to 'go for it' this holiday season. iPhone is so far ahead of the competition, and now it will be affordable by even more customers. It benefits both Apple and every iPhone user to get as many new customers as possible in the iPhone 'tent'. We strongly believe the $399 price will help us do just that this holiday season.

Second, being in technology for 30+ years I can attest to the fact that the technology road is bumpy. There is always change and improvement, and there is always someone who bought a product before a particular cutoff date and misses the new price or the new operating system or the new whatever. This is life in the technology lane. If you always wait for the next price cut or to buy the new improved model, you'll never buy any technology product because there is always something better and less expensive on the horizon. The good news is that if you buy products from companies that support them well, like Apple tries to do, you will receive years of useful and satisfying service from them even as newer models are introduced.

Third, even though we are making the right decision to lower the price of iPhone, and even though the technology road is bumpy, we need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers as we aggressively go after new ones with a lower price. Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these.

Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple's website next week. Stay tuned.

We want to do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers. We apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of Apple.

Steve Jobs
Apple CEO

A letter to Steve Jobs

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Steve,

you and I need to talk, BIG TIME! Do you remember about TWO MONTHS ago when you're iPhone went on sale? You remember all the people that waited in line for it for HOURS AND HOURS? I, myself, went along with the hype and waited for 6-8 hours for you're phone. Why? Because I have fallen in love with Apple products and until today I have always had faith that Steve Jobs knew how to treat customers. Well Steve, today you proved me wrong. By lowering the price of the iPhone to $399 for the 8gb model, you sent a big FU to all of your loyal customers. Now I understand that at some point the price was going to be lowered. Thats not my main issue. My main issue is that you did it after only TWO FRICKEN MONTHS!!!!! Steve, I paid you an extra $200 bucks for what??? The honor of getting to have the iPhone two months before anyone else? Do you realize that you have just made all of us that waited outside and stood up to all of our friends and families for spending $600 on a phone, LOOK LIKE COMPLETE IDIOTS! Thanks Steve. I really appreciate it. Now all of your loyal fanbase that got an iPhone, will get to be teased and ridiculed by everyone. Steve, you and I have always seen eye to eye on everything since I became an Apple fan, but this dude is LOW. If you want to save face with any of us, you need to pony up and either pull a Microsoft(refund the difference cause you know you screwed up) or give $200 worth of goodies of something to those people who bought iPhones. Steve, I just don't know if I'm going to be able to trust you again. This is like one of those episode of Full House where DJ sneaked out of the house and the got caught by Danny, Joey, and Uncle Jesse. They'll still love her, but they won't be able to trust her until she proves herself to them. That's where we're at Steve. That's where we're at.

Fall TV Premiere Dates and Info!! Who's Excited?!?!

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Hey all, it's that time of the year again! We are just a mere 3 weeks away from the beginning of my favorite time of the year, the new fall tv season. Here is a list of premiere dates for a lot of shows. Some of these are new shows that I think look really good and some are shows that I don't watch or even care for. I know that everyone has different tastes and not everyone is going to like what I like. From what I have seen so far, NBC has made the best impression on me with their new shows. Chuck, Journeyman, and The Bionic Woman all look really good. I've seen the pilots for The Bionic Woman and Chuck and they are both extremely entertaining. I am very anxious to see where the producers take both of these.

Here's a little summary of new shows...

-ABC has Pushing Daisies(looks really creative), Cavemen(I like the Geico commercials), and Private Practice(I like Grey's Anatomy and this is its spinoff).

-CBS has Kid Nation(I'm a sucker for hype), The Big Bang Theory(This fall, nerds are a trend and nerds are funny), Moonlight(vampire detectives make for cool shows, see Angel), and Viva Laughlin(Hugh Jackman produced show touted as part drama, part thriller, part musical?)

-NBC has Chuck(once again,I've seen it. It's hilarious and cool. Also deals with nerds), Journeyman(guy travels through time to help people), and The Bionic Woman(again, I've seen it too. Cool premise and great future episode outlook.). They also have The IT Crowd coming midseason which is another show about nerds starring Joel McHale(he's hilarious on The Soup). It's also another british crossover ala The Office.

Here's the list for everyone!

Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO) Sept. 9
Prison Break (Fox) Sept. 17
Beauty and the Geek (CW) Sept. 18
America’s Next Top Model (CW) Sept. 19
Kid Nation (CBS) Sept. 19
Survivor (CBS) Sept. 20
Family Guy (Fox) Sept. 23----->Billy Favorite
King of the Hill (Fox) Sept. 23
Shark (CBS) Sept. 23
Simpsons (Fox) Sept. 23
Big Bang Theory (CBS) Sept. 24
Chuck (NBC) Sept. 24----->will be a Billy Favorite
CSI Miami (CBS) Sept. 24
Dancing With The Stars (ABC) Sept. 24
Heroes (NBC) Sept. 24----->Billy Favorite
How I Met Your Mother (CBS) Sept. 24
Journeyman (NBC) Sept. 24-----> could be a Billy Favorite
Bones (Fox) Sept. 25
Boston Legal (ABC) Sept. 25
House (Fox) Sept. 25
Law & Order: SVU (NBC) Sept. 25----->Billy Favorite
Bionic Woman (NBC) Sept. 26----->will be a Billy Favorite
CSI: New York (CBS) Sept. 26
Private Practice (ABC) Sept. 26
CSI (CBS) Sept. 27
ER (NBC) Sept. 27
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) Sept. 27----->Billy Favorite
My Name Is Earl (NBC) Sept. 27
The Office (NBC) Sept. 27----->Billy Favorite
Smallville (CW) Sept. 27----->Billy Favorite
Ugly Betty (ABC) Sept. 2
Ghost Whisperer (CBS) Sept. 28
Las Vegas (NBC) Sept. 28----->Billy Favorite
Moonlight (CBS) Sept. 28
American Dad (Fox) Sept. 30
Brothers & Sisters (ABC) Sept. 30
Desperate Housewives (ABC) Sept. 30
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC) Sept. 30
Everybody Hates Chris (CW) Oct. 1
Cavemen (ABC) Oct. 2
Pushing Daisies (ABC) Oct. 3
Sarah Silverman Program (CC) Oct. 3
South Park (CC) Oct. 3
Drawn Together (CC) Oct. 4
Supernatural (CW) Oct. 4
30 Rock (NBC) Oct. 4----->Billy Favorite
Friday Night Lights (NBC) Oct. 5
Men in Trees (ABC) Oct. 12
Viva Laughlin (CBS) Oct. 18
American Band (Fox) Oct. 19
Scrubs (NBC) Oct. 25----->Billy Favorite

I think these shows can hold me off until January when Lost, 24, and Battlestar Galactica come back!

p.s. I already miss Veronica Mars. It was such a great show! Stupid CW for canceling it!