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heres the pilot for homeland starring claire danes. only new show ive seen thus far worth watching.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — For tens of millions of sports fans, Sunday afternoons in the fall and winter are all about one thing: watching football. Starting this weekend, Fox is hoping some of those viewers can be lured to watch that other sport known as football, as it pairs soccer matches with its National Football League games.
On Sunday, Fox’s network channel will show the English Premier League’s Chelsea play at Manchester United. Depending on whether the local Fox station shows an early or late NFL game, the soccer will be broadcast at 2 p.m. Eastern or 4:30 p.m.
downton abbey returns for its second season next week in the uk but americans will have to wait (wink) until january for the bastardized version that pbs will likely offer. last year they chopped off at least an hour so they could create 4 11/2hour episodes instead of the 7 hour long episodes shown in the uk. still baffles me as to why. maybe they had to get to the doowop reruns offered during pledge week.
its sort of a hackneyed upstairs/downstairs period drama but its well done if you like that sort of thing.
and season three has already been greenlit so you can set your dvrs ahead of time for january 2013.
giving the bbcamerica show the hour a solid a- after watching the first two episodes. nice to see romola garai released from british period piece purgatory to act in something contemporary as long as your version of contemporary stretches back to the 1950s. for a very unoriginal tagline think madmen meets broadcast news with some thrillerish menace to boot. unfortunately as with all blasted brit shows this one only has a six episode season. what the fuck to do the rest of the year?
every other minute i change my mind about what tv to buy. its maddening.