NOTIFICATION: Finale Day 9

Finale Day 9 will be held on 24/04/2010. The episodes comprising this session will be:

Pushing Daisies: "Kerplunk"
Damages: "The Next One's Gonna Go In Your Throat"
Jericho: "Why We Fight"

The replacement seasons will be:

[PDS] Pushing Daisies -> [BB5] Babylon 5 Season 1 (slot replacement; see earlier post)
[DMG] Damages -> [TWP] Twin Peaks Season 2
[JER] Jericho -> [PRS] The Prisoner

NOTIFICATION: Changes to slot makeup

There will be two changes to the slot makeup.

From Finale Day 9, a second space sci-fi slot will be added to cope with the backlog of sci-fi shows, caused by the delays in watching Futurama and now Enterprise. This slot will be initially just for new programmes and will replace an existing main slot. Despite this, the risk is still mitigated by disallowing different space sci-fi shows on the same or subsequent progressions.

From Finale Day 10, a second "main new" slot will be added to cope with the backlog of new main slot shows, and also to avoid a situation where there are not enough main slot shows to fill the schedule.

This means that after Finale Day 10, the slot makeup will be:

• 4x main slots
• 2x main new slots
• 1x space sci-fi slot
• 1x space sci-fi new slot
• 1x Superman mythos slot
• 1x horror, suspense and psychological thriller slot
  

COMMENTARY: Mad Men Season 2 Pre-Season

I'm going to start Mad Men Season 2 soon, probably today. I wanted to write a quick post about this, which seems to take place about 1 year after last season's finale.

It's been 18 months or so since I watched the season finale, and it wasn't my favourite finale ever. In fact the penultimate episode was leagues better, and should have been the finale in my opinion. "The Wheel" just felt a bit like an epilogue.

But, to recap what happened in it:

• Pete brings in a new account through his father-in-law. This gets him recognition from Bert Cooper. However it also puts him under pressure to have a child with Trudy.
  
• Peggy gets a job as a copywriter. Pete Campbell is not impressed. Hours later, she gives birth to his baby.
• Don finds out Adam is dead. He is overwhelmed by past memories of him and Betty, and collapses in sadness. Betty reveals that she knows about Don's affairs. Carlton/Francine and Harry are also having marriage problems.
  

In the penultimate episode, well that was the one where Duck was hired, we found out the truth about Don's military past, Don and Rachel break up, and Harry cheats on his wife with Hildy. Slightly more eventful I think! Well anyway plenty of steam for season 2, which apparently is set 1 year after these events.

DATA: March 2010

Seasons started in March 2010:

• One Tree Hill Season 4 (watched 5 episodes in March 2010)
• Was on Waiting To Start list since October 2009
• Time since last season: 1 year, 8 months, 25 days.
  

Seasons watched through March 2010:

• 24 Season 8 (watched 4 episodes in March 2010)
  
• Damages Season 3 (watched 4 episodes in March 2010)
• Jericho Season 1 (watched 2 episodes in March 2010)
• Pokémon Season 1 (watched 2 episodes in March 2010)
• Pushing Daisies Season 2 (watched 2 episodes in March 2010)
• Smallville Season 5 (watched 2 episodes in March 2010)
• Dark Angel Season 2 (watched 1 episode in March 2010)
• Lost Season 3 (watched 1 episode in March 2010)
• Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2 (watched 1 episode in March 2010)

Seasons on the "waiting to start" list through March 2010:

• Mad Men Season 3 (on WTS list since October 2009)

Raw Data:

24H 08 10 02/03/2010
DMG 03 06 14/03/2010
DMG 03 07 14/03/2010
24H 08 11 14/03/2010
PKM 01 34 14/03/2010
24H 08 12 16/03/2010
PKM 01 35 17/03/2010
DMG 03 08 18/03/2010
24H 08 13 24/03/2010
SMV 05 05 25/03/2010
ENT 02 06 25/03/2010
PDS 02 09 27/03/2010
DMG 03 09 27/03/2010
LST 03 13 27/03/2010
SMV 05 06 27/03/2010
PDS 02 10 27/03/2010
OTH 04 01 27/03/2010
OTH 04 02 28/03/2010
JER 01 18 28/03/2010
OTH 04 03 28/03/2010
OTH 04 04 28/03/2010
JER 01 19 28/03/2010
OTH 04 05 28/03/2010
DRK 02 10 31/03/2010