Geekscape TV: A Cheat Sheet For The Fall 2013 TV Season
It’s that time of year again, geeks, and we’re here to answer the burning questions held in the hearts of each of the fandoms: what network is airing what? When? Is it worth it? Will it break our collective hearts or spin us into new, ecstatic heights? Will it be everything promised in the previews? Will it be another Firefly, cancelled too soon, or a Fringe or a Chuck, waiting to be saved season after season? Or maybe it’ll be a Revolution, which somehow got renewed despite being an insult to all post-apocalyptic speculative fiction everywhere, or a Once Upon A Time, which we just keep hoping will somehow become the show it could have been.
Well, we’ve got the answers to some of those questions (pilots haven’t been viewed, however) and our best guesses on some of the others.
We’ve written up the definitive guide (coming up in the next few days) and broke out the most exciting, geektastic shows coming up in the 2013-2014 season and put together a cheat sheet just for you.
Want more information? Check out our in-depth posts on each channels’ upcoming shows. We recommend starting with ABC (because it starts with an A). It has nothing to do with the small, little known show it’s premiering. You may have heard about it? It’s by this guy, Joss Whedon?
Anyway, here’s our must-see/must-DVR/DVR if you have time and no other show conflicts rundown; check out our by-channel breakdowns for more information.
Must See:
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D
ABC, Tues, 8 to 9 p.m. Air Date: 9/24
Clark Gregg reprises his role as Phil Coulson (you could hear the screams of joy as far as Montana when he was revealed as being alive at the 2013 South by Southwest Festival this year). He is joined by Ming-Na Wen (Mulan, Stargate Universe, Eureka), fan favorite J. August Richards (Angel), Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother, Avengers), and Ron Glass (Firefly, Serenity) along with a host of new, interesting characters that round out the team of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Fox, Monday, 9 to 10 p.m., 9/16
Sleepy Hollow follows Ichabod Crane, mysteriously transported to modern day Sleepy Hollow, as he attempts to hunt down and stop the Headless Horseman.
Created by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Fringe, Transformers, Star Trek)
Fox, Mon, 8 to 9 p.m., 11/4
JJ Abrams—who doesn’t seem to be content unless he has four or five projects going—is producing this sci-fi procedural starring Karl Urban (Star Trek, RED, Chronicles of Riddick, Riddick, Doom) and Michael Ealy (Sleeper Cell, Flash Forward, Underworld: Awakening) as unwilling partners in the LAPD thirty-five years in the future.
Record on the DVR:
NBC, Friday, 10 to 11 p.m., 10/25
Jonathon Rhys Meyers (The Tudors, Mission Impossible III) as Dracula, who returns to Victorian London to seek revenge for a betrayal decades before.
BBC America, Saturday, 11/23, Time TBA
Atlantis looks to be very much in the BBC Sword-and-Sandals adventure genre, and we can safely expect well written, well-acted episodes with the occasional extremely cheesy special effect. created and written by Howard Overman (Misfits and Vexed) and Johnny Capps (Merlin).
Once Upon A Time in Wonderland
ABC, Thurs, 8 to 9 p.m., 10/10
A spin-off of ABC’s hit Once Upon a Time, now in its third season, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland follows a now grown-up Alice, almost convinced her adventures were the ravings of an insane mind, escapes from a Victorian London insane asylum and goes back down the rabbit hole.
CW., Weds, 9 to 10 p.m., 10/9
A remake of the popular 1970’s BBC show of the same name, The Tomorrow People follows a group of young, pretty people who are the next stage in human evolution. The Tomorrow People was created by Phil Klemmer (Chuck, Veronica Mars).
Record on the DVR, but only if it doesn’t conflict with any other two shows you want to watch
CW, Thursdays, 9 to 10 p.m., 10/17
CW’s attempt at The Tudors; Reign follows the young Mary, Queen of Scots, as she is courted by rival courts: the French (Catholic) and English (not-so-Catholic).
CW, Sneak Peek: Thurs, 9 to 10 p.m., 10/3; Regular Timeslot: Tues, 8 to 9 p.m., 10/8
A spin off of the popular Vampire Diaries, The Originals follows the lives of various supernatural characters (vampires, witches, werewolves, half vamp/half wolves…) in hot, steamy New Orleans. For some reason that sounds really familiar…but we just can’t place where we’ve seen something like that before.
That’s it, folks! Be sure to let us know what you’ll be watching this September!
