Worst of the year

Ooh! I get to trash stuff arbitrarily in this blog. I'm excited! Pardon my lateness with this post, it's a long weekend. This one will be short as compared to tomorrow's best-of post.

Let's start with -- Show that's been around too long: I hate to say it, but to me there's no way that ER is still a viable television show. IT was so amazingly huge when it first started and had a classic lineup that's now all but gone since Carter left last year. It wasn't entertaining 5 or 6 or 10 years ago when I stopped watching it, so that it's around 13 years later is a testament to NBC's commitment to it (while dumping at least two new shows that were 5 times the show ER is.

Worst comedy: In Case of Emergency wins this one, but I'd like to offer to you as the unofficial co-winners George Lopez and According to Jim. ABC really did little for the world of comedy TV this year (though the addition of Notes from the Underbelly offered a glimmer of hope). They won't have much this coming year either. As for I.C.E., it was incoherent and pretty unfunny overall. Its buddies were archetypal sitcoms that just encouraged other shows to be the same with their success.

Worst character/worst show: A double winner!!! Yes, it's my TV nemesis, Shark. The despise I hold for this show is unending. James Woods, I like you. I always have. But this is the lamest most useless show on television. First, you steal the House gimmick about the crotchety expert bucking the system to prove he's right (and you cloud it with the fact that he may believe in what he's doing). Then they make him this big investigator. He's a prosecutor and it's a courtroom drama. Leave it there. The hawkish personality doesn't make him any more endearing to viewers. Then there's the fact that, at its core, it's just another procedural show. Which is just useless in the grand scheme of things.

That's it for now. Comments, criticisms and other shows for consideration are encouraged. Best of will be posted some time tomorrow (Tuesday).