Whats good on the boob tube?

July 14, 2006 9:56 AM

Is there a place to easily discover new tv shows? It would ideally just list (with short descriptions) all the new series, and when they start.

With Lost, My Name is Earl, The Office, and How I Met Your Mother all on hiatus, I am at a lost for shows for my wife and I to watch. Is there a site that makes it easy to discover new shows without tons of digging.
I don't really care for news or rumors or anything else dealing with the shows.. Just a quick listing would be best.

posted by Jonsnews to media & arts (12 answers total)

Something like this: http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,584|||,00.html?

Aaron Barnhart does TV picks, too.

It actually seems to be a fairly large genre.
posted by puckupdate at 10:13 AM on July 14, 2006

TV Guide?
posted by jdroth at 10:29 AM on July 14, 2006

TV Squad is a recent favorite.

Otherwise, go on IMDB and see what the writers of your favorite TV shows from the past are writing.
posted by softlord at 10:58 AM on July 14, 2006

Laurel's TV Picks is on hiatus now, but generally that's a good site to see what interesting things will be on TV tonight.

You can look at her Fall TV grids to get an idea of what upcoming shows you might want to watch.
posted by donajo at 11:33 AM on July 14, 2006

Get Tivo and let the tumbs up pick stuff for you?

I'd rather go back to black and white tv than give up my 2 dual-tuner directv tivo's.
posted by thilmony at 12:10 PM on July 14, 2006

Rent the dvds of Galactica or House? Or even the ones for Lost, if they have commentary?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 12:13 PM on July 14, 2006

In case you're not on The Office fanb0i train: Summer "webisodes" have begun. Granted, they're only about five minutes long each...
posted by gnomeloaf at 1:01 PM on July 14, 2006

I have a DVR, not TIVO though. I don't so much want to have it pick stuff for me, I just want to be aware of all the shows upcoming. Dual tuner on 'er though, so I know what you mean about going back thilmony
Something along the lines of the Movie/Videogame/Music release dates, but with shows.
I guess I just want to see what the shows are, and then pick from there. The Fall TV grid is closest to what I want, it may just do.
Some good sites so far though all around!

Gnomeloaf, I didn't know they had started, but I knew they were coming. Guess that will eat a chunk of my time tonight.
posted by Jonsnews at 1:58 PM on July 14, 2006

I guess the perfect site would be something along the lines of

New shows for July
blah blah - NBC - 7/8/2006
Hoodie Hoo - ABC - 7/10/2006

etc, etc, etc, for lots of channels.
posted by Jonsnews at 2:04 PM on July 14, 2006

http://epguides.com/grid/

Scroll down a bit for upcoming premieres if you don't like the grid.
posted by trevyn at 5:55 PM on July 14, 2006

Metacritic compiles reviews of various television shows and averages any numeric/grade ranking they are given. You can sort by season, too.
posted by CrunchyFrog at 10:09 PM on July 14, 2006

the futon critic is a spectacular resource for this.

Also, currently airing that I enjoy - Psych.
posted by tzikeh at 10:55 AM on July 15, 2006