List of top online shows 2009
The biggest shows from last season, the wry high school musical Glee and V, the re-animated alien crime procedural, are both taking extended absences from the air before they return with their anticipated second seasons. (V isn’t relaunching until March 30 and Glee won’t sing again until April 13). Why not air the hottest new shows while the TV’s still hot?
For one, you can blame the Olympics. The Vancouver-hosted event will dominate TV screens from Feb. 12 - 28. But another reason for the long delay has to do with the rise and fall of Heroes, that once-loved, twice-as-quickly forgotten story of supernatural high school students who battle both evil and acne. Initially a ratings juggernaut, Heroes, like Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives, now sputters to find its audience.
Advances in television programming are no doubt indebted to the rise of the cable channels. The recently completed fourth season of Dexter drew the show’s highest-ever audiences and Mad Men has picked up the best drama Emmy two years in a row. In 2010, look for a new HBO series from David Simon, creator of The Wire, called Treme about life in post-Katrina New Orleans, and expect many more TV insiders to launch edgy programs away from the mainstream.
Every new season blog nerds get excited about shows like Caprica, the prequel to Battlestar Galactica, which begins on Jan. 22, while the rest of the world settles in to watch Undercover Boss, a reality series premiering after the Super Bowl on Feb. 7. Boss, in which corporate CEOs infiltrate the dark places of their companies, begins with a waste management executive scrubbing porta-potties. It’s going to be a long cold wait for the return of V and Glee, but there’s hope to get us through the dark spell before the Olympics: The Good Wife resumes tomorrow. Ah, the sweet smell of not-too-much success.
The Big Bang Theory is a comedy series about four brilliant scientists who know all about the world of physics, and one girl, who gives the physics-world a real spin. Leonard Hofstadter is a smart guy who tries his best to complete his research and become famous for his work while also attempting to be the most socially-interacting guy in their friend group. Sheldon Cooper is one of the world’s smartest men with an intellectual capacity through the roof and a language with scientific words normal people only have one comment to (“What?”). Though it’s never been said by himself, all signs throughout the show point to him having the Asperger Syndrome, making him the smartest, but also least social, group member. And now tv show likes
bigbang theory biography Howard Wolowitz is an engineer with his mind partially on science, but mostly on women. He always tries his best to impress a girl and get his share of sexual intercourses, but he always manages to screw up somehow, probably with his bad knowledge of treating women in a bad matter. Rajesh Koothrappali is an Indian scientist performing experiments on black holes, outer space, life on other planets and not to mention string theory. Raj is mostly known for his Selective Mutism, in other words, his fear of speaking to women, making social interaction difficult for him. Finally, there’s Penny. Penny is the gorgeous girl next-door to Leonard and Sheldon’s apartment, and though she does not have any knowledge in physics or science, she makes success by being a funny character frequently having hilarious comments and on- and off-going relationships. All together, this unit of comedians make the show’s half-hour episodes pure enjoyment and whether you like physics, women or neither, this show is surely going to get you laughing!
Smallville revolves around Clark Kent (Tom Welling) and his burgeoning career at the Daily Planet alongside his future love, Lois Lane (Erica Durance). He’s supported by his friends, and watch smallville online
Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) and Oliver Queen (aka Green Arrow) (Justin Hartley) as they deal with Lex Luthor’s replacement, Tess Mercer (Cassidy Freeman), who unleashes a new world of danger in alliance with Major Zod (Callum Blue), a survivor of the doomed planet of Krypton.
The women of Wisteria include Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher), a single mother and divorcee, struggling to raise her teenaged daughter, in tv show Desperate Housewives
Julie (Andrea Bowen), all while going to extreme lengths to find the man of her dreams, who may be her neighbor, Mike Delfino (James Denton). Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman) is a mother four who is dealing with the change of going from a stay-at-home mom to a career woman as she helps her husband Tom (Doug Savant) open their own pizzeria. Bree Van De Kamp (Marcia Cross), the quintessential Martha Stewart-esque housewife, presents a calm and collected exterior, but is dealing with the pain of losing her husband, Rex (Steven Culp), the challenge of raising two rebellious children, Danielle (Joy Lauren) and Andrew (Shawn Pyfrom), and her second marriage to the mysterious Orson Hodge (Kyle MacLachlan). Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria) had it all — a successful modeling career, an equally successful husband, Carlos (Ricardo Antonio Chavira) and a large house — but with the end of her marriage, Gabrielle must learn how to make it on her own. Lastly Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan), the self made successful real estate agent whose love life is at the top of everyone’s gossip list.