A nice enhancement to the procedural. I like it better when you don’t realize until their 2nd or 3rd scene that a character is just a hallucination. It isn’t as much fun when they are obviously in his head. And I’m sure there are young and beautiful FBI agents out there somewhere. J. Edgar has been dead for a long time. Still, she has been pretty cookie cutter to this type of show so far and they need to shake that up some to avoid becoming too similar to Robin Tunney’s character in The Mentalist. Also it’s nice to see LeVar Burton get some work again and hopefully they will enhance his character and work him in some more.

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Good choice. But Leverage has lost some steam.

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Glad to hear it It’s a decent show. Summer TV has been terrible!

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I like Perception and am glad it’s being renewed, but Franklin & Bash is a great show and MUST be renewed. I look forward to that night of TV every week. I loved Leverage at first but I agree with “The Real Fan” that it has lost some of it’s steam.
I am a BIG fan of Falling Skies and am thrilled that it has been renewed. Finally a well done Sci-Fi Drama. Noah Wyle does a great job in what ever role he plays. Great casting.

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Someone needs to put Franklin & Bash to bed! The show sucks

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I enjoy Perception. I also enjoy Franklin and Bash and Leverage tremendously. I watch Rizzoli and Isles, but it underwhelms me. I just like the fact the TNT has a nice line-up–I’ve mostly given up on network television, though I still watch a few CBS shows. TV is always going to be a very personal experience, but we have to resist bringing a show down to the lowest common denominator–we’ve seen what kind of crap gets created by that process. Reality shows that are “popular” but aren’t of any real value flood the airwaves, and I think more networks like TNT should address their shows to see if they offer a thinking component to their shows.

If a TV show offers a viewer a chance to think, it’s a winner! I’m not talking about science shows or such: shows like CSI have helped young people get into forensic science, good mysteries in general offer puzzles to solve (while bad ones following formula don’t), and shows that have unexpected surprises help to make minds adaptable.

It’s difficult to predict what shows are going to be popular in the end, but it shouldn’t matter in many cases. Some shows are going to be popular because they provide the same kind of experience as going to a zoo: a gawker’s paradise of misfits, oddities, and people wrapped in cultural backwaters. But the rampant imitation of shows makes a TV schedule filled with a lot of detritus, with little decent TV shows. Let’s face it: even the most tired scripted show is better than quite a few of the reality shows out there, but for networks eager for cheap entertainment, a scripted show, costing at least $500,000 per episode, is still more expensive than a reality show costing $100,000. Most people forget that TV is still a business first, entertainment second.

I’m hoping that more of the networks start to create their own shows, so that there is a coordinated effort to improve the quality of TV comedy and drama, and improved reality shows, if that is their choice. Anything is better than watching sometime appealing only to the lowest common denomiinators that live in the country. While people want to be entertained, a silent goal is to enable some skills in thinking and elevate people to a higher standard of entertainment and learning.

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