News and Notes from around the Boob Tube

FX's Sons of Anarchy

Sons of Anarchy made it's third season debut this past Tuesday. Hope you all watched, because it was a game changer. Apparently 4.1 million viewers tuned in, down slightly from last year's premiere but still the shows third highest viewed episode of Sons of Anarchy. Good news for the boys from Charming.1

Stephen King's Dark Tower novel series has been green lit for both movies and a television series. Ron Howard is signed on to direct both the movie and the first season of the television show, also being scribed by Akiva Goldsman. For one of King's greatest properties to take this long to become either a feature film or ongoing television series stuns me. But the news that it'll receive both treatments should delight fans of the Gunslinger chonology.2

The InBetweeners, E4's series about four youths attending primary school, was rescheduled to air on the September 13th. So tune in to that! And apologizes for the mistake.

TNT also has green lit three pilots, with TBS adding one to it's roster. TNT brings us a remake of the classic show Dallas(It was all a dream~!), Perception where a neuroscientist helps police solve crime(Formula for a show : Random Profession helps solve crime), and an Untitled Alan Loeb project, about a man re-entering the singles world while still receiving letters in the mail from his dead wife.

TBS brings us Brain Trust, about a fallen detective who gets involved with three brainiacs in an attempt to, what else, solve crime.

This just tells me there should be more shows about committing crime(Sopranos, Shield, Sons) than solving it, cause the solvable crime rate in television is skewering my perceptions on reality.