State of the Upcoming Television Season
Posted by BRADY in America's Next Top Model, Friday Night Lights, GleeMay 13th, 2010, 02:22 PM
The LA Times is a boon to all of us television watchers: they are tracking series renewals! I am so far very excited to see Friday Night Lights (one of the most underrated shows on television, in my opinion) has been, against all odds, renewed! FNL has the most honest and real depictions of relationships between people—actual people—on screen. The mother/daughter dynamic between characters played by the indomitable Connie Britton and Aimee Teegarden can hit particularly close to home for anyone who’s been on either end of or witnessed a spat between mother and daughter. Tune in to NBC for Season Four awesomeness, Friday nights at 8pm.
Glee has also been renewed for a second season, although after Tuesday’s lackluster episode, I’m not as excited as I once may have been. Seriously, Rachel Berry, if you have tonsillitis, stay home from school! Way to possibly infect everyone else! It was exciting, though, to finally see a bit more of Santana Lopez and even hear her sing the awesome Monica/Brandy duet “The Boy is Mine” with Mercedes Jones.
America’s Next Top Model has been renewed as well—look for a white girl (or Asian, which has not yet happened, or Latina, which has happened only twice, if you consider Yoanna House to be Latina) to win next season after Krista White took home the Cycle Fourteen (!) title last night. I can’t be the only person in the world to notice the winner is never the same race two seasons (or cycles, whatever, Tyra!) in a row. You could argue that Whitney Thompson and McKey Sullivan are both white, but Whitney was also plus size (the only plus size winner so far, which is not particularly surprising). Perhaps Tyra will go with some other gimmick next season—she’s done the season of shorties (er, petites), she’s had a fat girl win, what could be next? An amputee? A girl with a lazy eye? A transgender woman? An author who can ghost write her new fantasy series? Just kill the series already, CW. None of the winners become top models. Or even successful models.
Check out the link (posted here and above) for the full, constantly updated list of what you can expect to see—and miss—on the major television networks next season.
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