Saving Pelican 895 (HBO) — A documentary about the effort that went into cleaning a brown pelican from the BP oil spill and the attempt to re-introduce it to the wild. Why do I get the feeling this is gonna be super depressing?
Happy Endings (ABC) — Back-to-back episodes play at 10 Eastern. There’s a lot of potential for this show — the cast works well together, and I thoroughly enjoyed the pilot last week. The second episode, however, immediately fell into rote sitcom clichés. I guess I’ll hope for the best.
Ghost Hunters (Syfy) — Season 7 finale. Seven f*cking seasons this has been on the air. ZERO GHOSTS. This is the Matt Millen of reality shows.
American Idol (Fox) — Contestants sing songs from the 21st century. Such difficult constraints. I don’t know how they do it every week.
Justified (FX) — For weeks on end, I repeatedly said that I would eventually not include “Justified” in the listings to mix things up. And so I finally did it last week, and people predictably freaked out. Listen, people. I’m just trying to get through my workday here. There’s no science to this. And most importantly, the exclusion of a show from “What’s on Tonight” does NOT have the power to preclude a show from airing. Otherwise I’d never mention “American Idol.”
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But this week you did mention ‘Justified’ so we win.
I would be 1000x more likely to watch “Saving Pelican 895″ if it was about John Travolta stealing a bird and Denzel Washington talking him down.
But what about the late night shows, Matt? What’s a repeat? DERP!!!
/sorry
Just give the people what they want, Matt. It’s a simple formula: Some Brie, some Corgis, and a weekly mention of justified. Don’t rock the boat. Stay the course. A thousand points of light. Four more years! Four more years!
Saving Pelican 57: Always Bet On Black.
(Oh, and yeh, count me in for the “Taking of Pelican 123″ as well! It’s now on my wish list, but well below Pulp Fiction acted out by house pets.)
Matt – I’ve seen eight episodes of Happy Endings. Episode 2 should have never aired but I think it was crucial to the story line. It gets back to being good with episode 3 and beyond.
Justified sucks! And so do corgis! And Alison Bree is a talentless hack!
That Pelican is freaking me out. How long have those birds been on earth? Gotta be billions of years.
I wonder if they used chocolate microscopes to conduct any of the lab work on Pelican 895.
Damn you, Holt. I came in here to bitch about the late night shows!
Sorry, 0tarin, but I am the king of nothing to do!
/laughs devilishly, takes off on moped, gets clotheslined by low branch
I can’t recall if this particular corgi has been posted before, but I trust no one will complain if I post him again…
I know it wasn’t mentioned in the previews above, but I hate the fact that I am somewhat amused by this “Happy Endings” show. And Elisha Cuthbert is hot. And the brown haired chick has big boobs. Simple enough.
I don’t see why you wouldn’t wanna give a show you support like “justified” more coverage than “american idol”.
stop complaining about your job asshole.
Forget Team Ava and Team Wynona….I was Team Helen. What the hell?
Aaaaand now I’m sad I checked this post one more time before viewing Justified. I hate you East coasters!
Justified has the sharpest “quality of show” vs “quality of theme music” divide in all of television.
you forgot justified
Personally I’m waiting for “Assault on Pelican 895″ with Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne.
Ha ha…”work” day.
Find me Marks address.