What’s Buzzing on TV?
1. “Reaper:” CW, Tuesdays at 9p.m. Hard (maybe almost impossible) to believe, but CW had the show that shook the dust out of everyone here. Funny, sharp, and raucous, “Reaper” - with Bret Harrison (”Grounded for Life”) and Ray Wise (just about any movie or TV show you can think of) quite literally put its best foot forward. The pilot - about a kid whose parents sold his soul to the devil (Wise) before he was born - was directed by big screen indie production star Kevin Smith. Asked if Smith was committed to direct more, “Reaper” producer Mark Gordon, demurred: “He’s going to be pretty busy doing his own thing … but he’ll be cheering us on.” Not necessarily good news for this CW newbie.
http://www.cwtv.com/thecw/reaper
2. “Chuck,” NBC, Mondays at 8p.m. A little bit of “Alias,” a little bit of “Clerks,” “Chuck” just got a new time slot as a lead-in to “Heroes,” and suddenly everyone’s comparing the two shows. There’s a big nerd component here, too - TV critics, sharing some of the same DNA, are usually attracted to that - and plenty of action/mythology/back story/fantasy/comedy. It’s about a computer geek, Chuck (Zachary Levi of “Less than Perfect”), who becomes a secret agent. Star producers Josh Schwartz and McG are behind this, lending more cache.
http://www.nbc.com/Chuck/
3. “Cavemen,” ABC, Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Of course, this GEICO-commercial-inspired series got plenty of attention pre-press-tour, which was amped up when the network decided to re-cast parts of the show and to air the original pilot later in the season. (Signs of concern on ABC’s part?) The pilot, in fact, is pretty lame - social satire far wide of its mark - featuring three latter-day “Cro-Maggers” just trying to fit into Atlanta society.
http://abc.go.com/fallpreview/cavemen/index?u=0
4. “Kid Nation,” CBS, Wednesdays at 8 p.m. This is the kind of buzz you probably don’t want: ill-disguised critical scorn even before the show gets on the air. Credit that to the format (no pilot for preview) featuring 40 children living in an abandoned New Mexico ghost town for 40 days. All sorts of questions were asked about child labor laws, and whether the town was really a “ghost.”
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/kid_nation/
5. “Pushing Daisies,” ABC, Wednesdays at 8 p.m. One of the great over-the-top pilots of the new season, “Daisies” is so visually distinct, so curiously bizarre, so intermittently morbid that this could be the most talked-about show of the new season. Ned (Lee Pace) touches dead things and brings them back to life, and - one can imagine - the practical applications for this talent are enormous. Big stars also abound (Chi McBride, Swoosie Kurtz, Anna Friel).
http://abc.go.com/fallpreview/pushingdaisies/
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