New TV shows for the summer will not leave you bored
Posted by The Skyliner on April 15th, 2009Tommy Lee
Staff Writer
Summer has always meant one thing when it comes to television: dreaded reruns.
Granted, this was at one point useful because it gave some of us a chance to catch up on episodes we may have missed. Many television shows now post aired episodes on the internet to be watched anywhere and anytime.
Recently though, new television shows have aired during the summer. This can be attributed to many causes, but the biggest one is last year’s Writers Guild of America strike, which pushed a lot of shows behind schedule. Here is a look at some of the promising summer shows.
The Unusuals
This new “cop” show comes with a crazy plot and a good mix of comedy. The Unusuals is about the supposed weird homicide cases that go down in New York City’s second precinct.
The show revolves around Detective Casey Shraegar, who is promoted from vice to homicide and into the abnormal cases of second precinct. Amongst the strange cases the second precinct has to investigate, the police in the precinct have some oddities about themselves. Detective Eric Delahoy tries to get himself killed in the line of duty and is quite unsuccessful at it. Delahoy’s partner, Leo Banks, is alert in every way, even sleeping in his bulletproof vest.
The show stars Amber Tamblyn as Casey Shraeger, Jeremy Renner as Jason Walsh, Adam Goldberg as Eric Delahoy and Lost’s Harold Perrineau as Leo Banks. The Unusuals debuted with its pilot episode on ABC last week and airs on Wednesday nights at 10 p.m.
Monk
Probably USA’s biggest and most popular show, Monk returns for its eighth and final season.
Monk has been America’s favorite obsessive-compulsive since 2002, and this last season is no different. Adrian Monk will be fighting crime as a police consultant and fighting his fear of, well, everything as usual. Helping Monk are his two assistants Natalie Teeger (Traylor Howard) and Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram). Monk’s character has always been the underdog, but he rises above it to become the hero.
Monk stars Tony Shalhoub. USA will end the series after this summer’s sixteen episodes.
Wipeout
The show in which contestants compete in an insane obstacle course, Wipeout, returns to ABC for its second season.
Each week, $50,000 is up for grabs among 24 contestants. The same obstacle course as last year, “The Qualifier,” remains, but there are a few new additions.
Wipeout is going to be an all-out fun show to watch. Last year, Wipeout was rated the number one series among all the networks. Wipeout premieres, May 27 at 8 p.m.