Top Ten New Shows: #6 - "Sons of Anarchy"

Bryan Christian — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:49:00 GMT

The new fall season is almost here. Starting next week, the cable and broadcast networks will begin rolling out their new shows to see if they take off like castaways on an island or singing casino managers. Here, then, are the top ten new shows we're most looking forward to seeing.

We think it says something about how starved we are for a particular kind of show that we're excited to see Sons of Anarchy. Best case scenario: FX's new biker drama, which comes to us from a writer from The Shield, turns out to be a sort of Deadwood on wheels, with Ron Perlman -- an actor long deserving a juicy role of the non-latex-and-prosthetics variety -- as its scary, unpredictable, black heart.

Worst case, the show winds up more like that another David Milch/HBO production, John From Cincinnati: an aimless, gratuitous, sundrenched mess more in love with its own eccentricities than anything else. Or, it could surpises

Sons of Anarchy (Wednesdays at 10PM EST) premieres Wednesday, September 3 at 10PM EST on FX

TOP TEN NEW SHOWS 2008

#1. "Fringe"
#2. "True Blood"
#3. "90210"
#4. "Life On Mars"
#5. "The Mentalist"
#6. "Sons of Anarchy"
#7. "Do Not Disturb"
#8. "Eleventh Hour"
#9. "Kath & Kim"
#10. "Knight Rider"

TV Guide Sez No "Deadwood" Movie; We Heard Otherwise

Bryan Christian — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:32:00 GMT

So, the venerable Matt Roush at the venerable TV Guide reported last week that amid all the news of HBO doing those shows about Washingtonian bloggers, post-Katrina musicians, and a jazz-era Atlantic City serial, there was one sad bit of news.

With David Milch now off working on his pilot about New York police in the 1970s, “I think it’s safe to report to you that the likelihood of the Deadwood movie happening is slim to none,” said HBO co-president Richard Plepler.

Ah, that's too bad. Except... we heard totally different this weekend.

It's just a rumor, but we heard from, you know, a friend of a friend who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night, that they just lined up contracts for all the major players -- McShane, Olyphant, Parker, and, for the sake of iambic pentameter, we're hoping Sanderson -- to return and, if not finish, at least extend the story of the South Dakotan settlement. Of course, if true, HBO would need to rebuild the sets, as according to Al Swearingen himself, the entire town -- yeah, that slowly expanding town actually kind of existed -- was demolished last year. And of course, there's also the possiblity that our source was drunker than we thought and was feeding us total lies.

But if it's true, remember: you heard it here first!

The Remote Island : David Milch

Top Ten New Shows: #6 - "Sons of Anarchy"

TV Guide Sez No "Deadwood" Movie; We Heard Otherwise