Which Primetime Show Should I Choose To Watch On TV?

 

While helping my uncle at his company last night, I read online that Hawaii Five-0, Grimm, and Nikita are ALL competing against each other, now. This sucks ass! I don't watch nearly the amount of TV I used to watch, when I was a teenager during the 1990's. 

Local networks, during the '90s weren't so fast to cancel a show, if it was slowly generating an audience. Over this last decade, Primetime shows have been canceled at the drop of hats.

After graduating from college 7 years ago, all my favorite Primetime shows such as Eve, Half & Half, All of Us, and The George Lopez Show were canceled. I watched the preceding shows consistently for years, when I was in college. 

Before graduating, 3 of them were canceled. It really aggravated me when Eve, Half & Half, and All of Us were all UPN sitcoms, that ended with cliffhangers. Viewers like myself never had chances to learn if important couples either stayed together, or separated, or reunited. 

Meanwhile, George Lopez's sitcom on ABC only lasted for at least 2 more years after I graduated from college. 

Throughout 2007-2010, more of my Primetime shows were canceled on ALMOST every local network. It was to the extent, that I quit investing in most of Primetime because I was tired of investing in potentially good shows being canceled.

Then, Hawaii Five-0, The Secret Circle, Nikita, Ringer, and Grimm either returned to TV, or premiered in 2010. Suddenly, I began watching local Primetime again.

Between that 3-year period, I stopped watching most Primetime. As a replacement, I became more interested in watching Japanese Animation or Anime on cable and streaming it online.

In fact, I am willing to say I have watched a few hundred Anime. I binge watched TONS of them. I used to stream some Anime before going to work in the morning. I know, I'm a bit of a nerd in that aspect but oh well.

I am really far behind on streaming more recent Anime from both this year and last year. Lately, I have been more focused on job hunting, working, blogging, chatting with people on stalkbook, blogging and social networking sites, etc.

Anyway, Hawaii Five-0 should return to its Monday night time slot. That way, I can watch it right after Sleepy Hollow and Nikita should return to its 7pm time slot on Fridays. Then, I can watch Grimm afterward. 

It really sucks when all my shows, that I regularly watch, are now competing against each other. Before anybody asks, no I don't have DVR or Tivo. Hell, I haven't even used my VCR in years. 

This means I will have to stream 2 of these shows online. So, I have decided to watch Grimm on Friday nights at 8pm, since that was its original time slot. Nikita really should return to 7pm because those were my 2 Friday night shows. 

Luckily, Nikita only has 6 more episodes as its FINAL season. I really hate choosing among 3 of my shows but that's the way it has to be, now that CBS and The CW decided to mess up my personal TV schedule. 

This is normally what my Primetime TV schedule would look like throughout the week, including Sleepy Hollow more recently:

Monday:

8pm Sleepy Hollow

9pm Hawaii Five-0

Tuesday:

7pm The Bad Girls Club

8pm Find Me My Man

9pm MTV2's Guy Code------- Depending on the season

9pm MTV's Girl Code----------Depending on the season

Wednesday:

9pm The Real World-------Depending on the season

9pm The Challenge--------Depending on the season

Friday:

7pm Nikita

8pm Grimm

9pm AXS TV MMA Fights

So, what are your thoughts? Do you have your own personal TV schedule? Let me know what you think!

What's That? Grimm's Final Season Premieres, Next Year!

How's it going lurkers? Thank Grimm it's Friday! 

Normally, NBC's Grimm premieres new seasons every October and the premieres are usually close to Halloween. However, this won't be the case for this October.

While I was on Google Plus in late August (August 29, 2016 to be more precise), the news broke out, that Grimm will not be premiering its FINAL SEASON until January 6, 2017. 

Next year, the show's final season will have ONLY  13 episodes. If you are a fan, who has been consistently watching Grimm for these last 5 years like me, this is very disappointing.

Action, Thriller, Police Procedural, Supernatural, and Occult genre shows such as Hawaii Five-0, Nikita, The Secret Circle, and Sleepy Hollow have all (at some time) competed against Grimm at least once, over these last 5 years. 

The preceding 4 primetime shows were (and some still are) shows I normally watch, throughout the year. Usually, I had to choose which shows I would watch on TV and which I would stream online. 

When all those shows ran against Grimm, I made Grimm top priority to watch each time. 

This especially applied to those times, when Grimm was bounced to Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. This has almost always been a Friday night show on NBC.

That's why NBC always says, "Thank Grimm it's Friday!"

I can't believe that Grimm has actually lasted for more than 1 year. Some of the primetime shows I already mentioned have come and gone. 

About 10 years ago, I noticed that most primetime shows, which contained ANY Occult or Supernatural themes were automatically canceled.

Primetime shows such as Eastwick and The Secret Circle, for 2 examples were usually primetime shows with witches in them.

Maybe I am only 1 viewer, who feels this way, but I suspect a conspiracy or at least a so-called "War On Witches," regarding witches having TV airtime. 

Surprisingly, Grimm has NOT  been canceled for having witches and warlocks as characters.

They are referred to as "Hexenbiests" and "Zauberbiests" on the show.

Some online critics love to nitpick and psychoanalyze Grimm to death because of the comical names and Germanic, if not scientific terms that each creature was given. 

As comical as they are, I really appreciate the fact that the writers for Grimm base each episode on German and international folklores, mythological creatures, and Grimm's Fairy Tales.

At the beginning of each episode, there is a quote from a fairy tale or folklore, which has significance to that specific episode. 

Whenever I see those quotes, I try guessing which folklore or fairy tale will be the subject for that episode of Grimm.

Most of the creatures or "Wesen" have Germanic names.

Germanic Names & Terms Commonly Used On Grimm:

Wesen- Germanic term, which is used to describe creatures that are visible to Grimms.

Grimm- Someone, who possesses special abilities to see Wesen (or creatures) in their true forms. They are also viewed as being grim reapers. 

Protagonist, Nick Burkhardt and Theresa Rubel (a.k.a. "Trubel") are both Grimms.

Woge- The act of changing from human to creature form done by impulse. Normally, Wesen woge whenever they feel threatened by something or someone.

Blutbad- A werewolf-like Wesen. The term Blutbad literally means "blood bath."

Hexenbiest- A witch-like Wesen. Hexenbiest literally translates to "witch beast"

Zauberbiest- A warlock-like Wesen similar to the Hexenbiest. Zauberbiest translates to "warlock" or "wizard beast."

Fuchsbau- A fox-like Wesen. Fuchsbau can mean "fox hole" or "burrow."

I could be here explaining forever about these different Germanic terms for Wesen. Those are only naming a few. If you want to learn more about the different types of Wesen, you should go here.

I am still reeling over the fact, that Grimm is ending literally next year. Hopefully, the show will have LESS or no political propaganda like Season 5. 

The writers were really exploiting this 2016 election to their advantage, which I found repulsive.

Grimm was NOT an extremely political show. Focusing on police and the different races (which are actually the Wesen) is political enough. I want to see this final season return to focusing more on the horror, folklores, and fairy tales.

More than anything, I hope that Adalind and Juliette/"Eve" (Hexenbiests) would just die and that Nick and Trubel (Grimms) become a couple. 

Watching Nick with Adalind and Juliette always got on my nerves. Those 2 Hexenbiests are sickening characters, that should've been killed seasons ago. Some of us can dream, can't we?

With that being said, let's cross our fingers and hope that the series finale of Grimm doesn't end horribly.