Fall TV Trends

So I've searched the almighty web to come up with what's worth watching this Fall, oddly enough we noticed some trends that surfaced in our searches here it is broken down for you. We also included a collection of the faces you'll love looking at this fall.

 Guy TV:
There are plenty of chick dramas out there were girls just blab and blab and obsess about their stuff (case in point Gilmore Girls). It seems like guys have very little akin, they are left to sports, crime dramas and late night programming. Well, this fall the fellows may get some relief

 Big Shots (ABC)

This show may as well be called “Desperate Business Men”,  it’s even from the same network that brought you Desperate House Wife. These four dysfunctional CEO will do anything to keep on top. They meet at the Country Club and talk like- GUYS, boardroom and bedroom.

 CarPoolers (ABC)

This show also featured four men uniting together and supporting each other. However, this time around its comedy were the four men have nothing to do but talk and joke around during their daily commute to work. It has the maturity of a work centered comedy (think The Office) with the immaturity and pettiness of 4 guys trapped together in a moving vehicle.

The New Sex:
Just because Sex and the City ended doesn’t mean it has stopped empowering women – and television executives to find something to capitalize on it’s successful combination. Four strong, confident, sexy and cosmopolitan women who help each other through thick in thin, bad relationships, wacky dates, job stress and fashion decisions. In addition, each show features a strong female lead.  

 Lipstick Jungle (NBC)

This one gets points for being based off the book by the same title by Candace Bushnell (the same author that wrote Sex and the City). If that’s not enough for you they hired her as an executive producer to ensure success. These women are all high powered Miss Bigs, plus it has Brooke Shields.

 Cashmere Mafia (ABC)

This show also spins the classic formula in high powered, successful woman direction. The network even has the audacity to dub it “the thinking woman’s Sex and the City”. Well, we’ll be the judge of that. It gets points for hiring Sex in the City producer Darren Star, plus it has Lucy Liu.

Women’s Murder Club (ABC)

This one seems to have a little more originality but still work/success spin. It’s like Law and Order meets Sex and the City- set in San Francisco. The women disillusioned with inefficiencies in the system come together to form team. Journalist, detective, Assistant District Attorney and Medical Examiner join forces and become friends solving crime and life problems. Could be cheesy if not for hiring Emmy winner Director/Producer Scott Winant and basing the show off a best selling thriller novel by James Patterson. Did we mention it has Angie Harmon?

 Remakes and Spin-offs:
When television creators and producers run out of ideas, it's okay. They just look to what's already good and change it slightly. Whether it's taking a character or sub plot, just make a new show out of a succesful show or movie. Easy peasy! 

The Sarah Conner Chronicles (FOX)

I guess we just didn’t get enough of 3 Terminator movies, the spin off show is set between the second and third movies. Sarah Connor fights to keep her son safe from the impending rise of robots. Kinda iffy we know.

 Bionic Woman (NBC)

This show is a remake of the 70’s movie. A hard-working women suffers a near fatal accident and is given bionic powers to save her life and as an experiment in technology. The show’s definite strong point is smoldering British actress Michelle Ryan. Bonus points for the fact that Sarah Corvus shows up as a previous (more screwed up) Bionic Women so we can have hot bionic superhuman catfights!

 Private Practice (ABC)

Grey’s Anatomy is successful, therefore there should be a spin off. With all the drama Addison created she must finds no choice but to leave it all behind for Los Angeles. It has the same creator and two executive producers as Grey’s. The only problem? With Taye Diggs and Tim Daly what’s left to call them, Mc. Hotty Mc. Saucy. Before long they’re just going to sound like Hamburgers.

Supernatural Death-ish Powers:
Everyone loves superpowers as Heroes and Smallville showed us. This new wave of shows features plenty of powers related to death in various ways.

New Amsterdam (FOX)

The superpower here is immortality or anti-death powers. Amsterdam is cursed(?) to live forever, only void if he finds the perfect woman. He bids his time solving crime and not dying while searching for the one. Talk about a serious man killer.

Moonlight (CBS)

This show almost got put into the remake category because it’s almost an exact copy of Angel. But it falls just short, and vampires seemed more appropriate here. He is a forlorn good vampire who hunts fellow demons, has things for mortal girls, and has to avoid his fatally seductive ex-girlfriend who sired him just before the alter.

Pushing Daisies (ABC)

This show features a sweet stylized modern fairytale theme with an edgy side. Ned has the power of touching people and bringing them back to life, with a second touch they go back to the grave. He uses this power to ask the victims themselves who the killer is and then collects the rewards. His life gets more complicated when compulsively he brings and old sweetheart back to life and then must never touch her again, so don’t expect any steamy kisses. Other than that the show seems quite unique.

 Underdogs:
We all love underdogs, because we all feel like underdogs. If we already feel like the character than it makes it that much easier to live vicariously through them. Soon we think we can be government spies, have hot partners, save the world at least make it through the day. 

Chuck (NBC)

Average, every day nerd Chuck is awkward around girls and has a job with a band of friends at an office/computer store. His life is dull until he accidentally comes across a government file that downloads an entire database of secrets into his head (subliminally of course). Now he’s wanted by the CIA, NSA and terrorists for his knowledge and is poised to become a very unlikely secret agent man who has a smokin’ partner (Yvonne Strzechowski). Nerd as an underdog secret agent, cool.

Reaper (CW)

Sam’s parents have given up on him, no really, the even sold his sole to the devil. Now that he’s reached 21 he now has to work for the devil. His job? Returning demons to hell, acting as a netherworld bounty hunter. The promos remind us of ghost busters.

 Life (NBC)

Ouch, Billy got put in jail for a crime he didn’t commit. You’d think police officials would get the benefit of the doubt in these cases. Nine years later after getting out he rejoins the force as a detective and has unconventional techniques and a partner fresh from rehab. We’ll love it if he’s anything like the Detective from Boondock Saints, after a prison stint that’s a realistic expectation.

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