Post by filmnoir5 on Jun 6, 2006 23:43:22 GMT -5
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‘Law’ repeats don’t have much order
Monday, June 05, 2006
MOLLY WILLOW
Summer: repeat city.
Because not even I managed to watch everything last season, I’m looking forward to second chances. (NBC should run repeats of The Office every night. Just a suggestion.)
The biggest adjustment for me will involve not watching recycled stories but missing my favorites of the retreads.
I want to live in a world where Law & Order repeats are on whenever I want. Thanks to TNT and USA, I pretty much do.
But TNT is messing with my perfect, Jack McCoy-ruled universe by bumping the 7 p.m. weekday repeats of Law & Order for repeats of Without a Trace beginning today.
I like Anthony LaPaglia, the star of the missing-person show. I’ve liked him since he played a hapless cop in So I Married an Ax Murderer, but Anthony LaPaglia is no Sam Waterston.
While the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders will still be on the variable TNT schedule, it’s not the same as knowing there’s always something comforting on at 7 p.m.
• The Law & Order world has taken other hits lately. After the failed 9 p.m. Wednesday experiment to make room for the short-lived Heist, the mother ship is getting bumped again.
The 2006-07 NBC schedule puts the original series on Friday nights, not exactly a place of distinction.
NBC can’t afford to kill the golden goose, and Fridays should maim it only slightly, but it still seems a risk. The move speaks not only to NBC’s desperate need to get out of the ratings cellar but also to its confidence in the fall series. We’ll see.
• In sad news for Law & Order fans — sadder even than the shockingly brutal death of Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Borgia (Annie Parisse) in the finale — Dennis Farina announced last week that he, too, is leaving.
Although it took me awhile to adapt to a Lennie-less world, Farina as detective Joe Fontana was the perfect tough guy to fill the softy’s shoes.
Rumor has it that Milena Govich, from the failed Law & Order-brand show Conviction, will step in as the series’ first female detective. I wish that someone less cute and more coplike had been chosen.
And if the new Friday version stinks, I’ll really need my repeats. Assuming I can find them.
Molly Willow writes about television for The Dispatch.
‘Law’ repeats don’t have much order
Monday, June 05, 2006
MOLLY WILLOW
Summer: repeat city.
Because not even I managed to watch everything last season, I’m looking forward to second chances. (NBC should run repeats of The Office every night. Just a suggestion.)
The biggest adjustment for me will involve not watching recycled stories but missing my favorites of the retreads.
I want to live in a world where Law & Order repeats are on whenever I want. Thanks to TNT and USA, I pretty much do.
But TNT is messing with my perfect, Jack McCoy-ruled universe by bumping the 7 p.m. weekday repeats of Law & Order for repeats of Without a Trace beginning today.
I like Anthony LaPaglia, the star of the missing-person show. I’ve liked him since he played a hapless cop in So I Married an Ax Murderer, but Anthony LaPaglia is no Sam Waterston.
While the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders will still be on the variable TNT schedule, it’s not the same as knowing there’s always something comforting on at 7 p.m.
• The Law & Order world has taken other hits lately. After the failed 9 p.m. Wednesday experiment to make room for the short-lived Heist, the mother ship is getting bumped again.
The 2006-07 NBC schedule puts the original series on Friday nights, not exactly a place of distinction.
NBC can’t afford to kill the golden goose, and Fridays should maim it only slightly, but it still seems a risk. The move speaks not only to NBC’s desperate need to get out of the ratings cellar but also to its confidence in the fall series. We’ll see.
• In sad news for Law & Order fans — sadder even than the shockingly brutal death of Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Borgia (Annie Parisse) in the finale — Dennis Farina announced last week that he, too, is leaving.
Although it took me awhile to adapt to a Lennie-less world, Farina as detective Joe Fontana was the perfect tough guy to fill the softy’s shoes.
Rumor has it that Milena Govich, from the failed Law & Order-brand show Conviction, will step in as the series’ first female detective. I wish that someone less cute and more coplike had been chosen.
And if the new Friday version stinks, I’ll really need my repeats. Assuming I can find them.
Molly Willow writes about television for The Dispatch.