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May 15, 2008 11:26

Fox's Fanboy Heaven: New Abrams, Whedon

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Fox just released its 2008-09 schedule, which has relatively few new shows (two for the fall, a few more in the winter/spring) but includes sci-fi-ish offerings from two producers with a couple of TV's most feverish fanbases: J. J. Abrams' Fringe (for fall) and Joss Whedon's Dollhouse (for midseason). All that, and a Mitch Hurwitz animated comedy for the spring. (Also one from Seth MacFarlane, but whaddyagonnado.) I'm crossing fingers and toes alike for further info/clips at this afternoon's final upfront. In the meantime, the schedule, and excerpts from the release, after the jump:

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May 15, 2008 11:01

O Viewer, Where Art Thou?; or, How Much Time Art Thou Shifting?

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Here's a little work-alternative for you this morning. As we've seen this week, two big themes of the upfronts have been (1) primetime network viewers are disappearing and (2) many of them are watching shows recorded on DVRs or online, often skipping ads in the process.

So I thought we'd do a little volunteer market-research exercise. How, and how late, do you watch the shows that you watch? Here's my list (partial, not complete), for illustration:

Watch live: Um, almost nothing. Some sports (and I hardly watch sports), maybe the American Idol finale.

Watch the same night, but delayed enough to skip the ads: Lost, The Office, 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother

Watch within a night or two: Survivor, Battlestar Galactica, Top Chef, The Colbert Report

Pile up on my TiVo and watch eventually: South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Reaper, Gossip Girl, The Simpsons

Download and watch on the subway: The Hills, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, miscellaneous others

TiNo (Tim Goodman's coinage for recording but pretty much never watching): Grey's Anatomy, House, Hell's Kitchen, Desperate Housewives, sundry other shows whose season passes I've forgotten to cancel

Your turn.

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May 15, 2008 10:07

CBS's Trailers: Back to Basics

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Rufus Sewell blinds bad guys with science in Eleventh Hour. / Monty Brinton/CBS

At Carnegie Hall yesterday, CBS screened trailers from five new fall shows and one midseason pickup. After a brief period of experimentation (Jericho, Viva Laughlin), the network went back to its tradition of crime procedurals and domestic sitcoms. And I went back to my tradition of not being particularly excited to see any of CBS' new shows. My brief impressions after the jump:

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May 15, 2008 7:19

The Morning After: We've Got a Final!

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Spoilers for American Idol coming up... after the break!

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About Tuned In

James Poniewozik writes TIME magazine's Tuned In column, about pop culture and society. Tuned In, the blog version, is about the stuff we used to call "TV," whether it's in your living room, on your computer or--once the networks figure out the technology and line up the advertisers--in your dreams themselves.