The biggest television receiver battle this fall wo n’t be between a girl robot and a guy robot over the future of humanity – instead , they ’ll be between competing TV shows , struggling for a all important slice of your orb . In some cases , shows are combat in the same clip - slot for the all - important live see audience . In others , two way - too - similar shows are struggle to be the one that survives . And in one shell , a show is fighting to improve over its own lackluster second season . Which shows will triumph , and which will fail ? Our predictions below , with a few small looter . Chuck vs. The Terminator The smackdown wepromisedalmost a class ago has in the end total to pass . Chuck , the NBC show about a dorky retail nerd with a spy - database in his Einstein , is airing at the same metre as Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles , Monday night at 8 . Will you favor comedy or drama ? Which Firefly alum would you rather watch every week : Chuck ’s Adam Baldwin or Sarah Connor ’s Summer Glau ? Which whiny son wins your heart , Chuck or John Connor ? golem or spy gadgets ? You decide . Our prediction : It may be a tie . The display are different enough that they may score dissimilar audiences . But Chuck also has to confront Big Bang Theory , another funny - nerd show , and that may put Bartowski in a corner .
Fringe vs. Eleventh Hour They ’re not appearing at the same time , but these two new show have some striking similarity . They ’re both about abuses of science , and they both have scientist main character who help to uncover the truth , with a cute light-haired woman at their sides . Not only that , but both evince make a gravid point of featuring scientific oddities that are believeable , grant to today ’s science . Fringe is all about “ fringe science , ” and Lord J.J. Abrams , Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have articulate they ’re focus on stuff that ’s happening now . The writers of Eleventh Hour have said like thing about its storylines featuring clone and genetically modified foods . In Fringe , an blonde FBI agent ( Anna Torv ) teams up with a mad scientist and his Logos to investigate skill crimes . In Eleventh Hour , a scientist ( Rufus Sewell ) team up up with a blond bodyguard ( Marley Shelton ) to block abuses of science at the “ 11th time of day ” before they turn into disasters . Do we have room for two malevolent - science shows ? Our prediction : Fringe has mega - buzz , Eleventh Hour has almost none . This fight is Fringe ’s to lose . Eleventh Hour vs. Life On Mars : Meanwhile , Eleventh Hour really does have a scheduling rival : it ’s on at the same time as Life On Mars . Both show are remakes of cult British display that never accomplish much realisation in the U.S. ( In other words , neither show is like The Office or anything . ) The Eleventh Hour remake is from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and looks pretty sensationalistic . life story On Mars , meanwhile , is a remake of a show about a cop who let in a railroad car chance event and finds himself back in 1973 . The Mars remake had an awful pilot from David “ Ally McBeal ” Kelley , but it ’s been totally reshot with a Modern cast , include Harvey Keitel , Michael Imperioli ( Sopranos ) and Gretchen “ Bettie Page ” Mol . Plus we ’ve decease from 1973 L.A. to 1973 New York , and it look grittier . It ’s mechanically going to be a million times better , but will it be enough ? Our prediction : Mars wins , at least at first , because everybody ’s going to want to see Harvey Keitel play another bad lieutenant . ( Okay , not really . ) Both shows are on at the same meter as E.R. , but that show hashalf the ratingsit used to .
Heroes season three vs. Heroes time of year two : If I had a superpower for every clip a star of mutant soap - opera house Heroes has said this season will be less boring than season two , I ’d be omnipotent . And found on the action - packed first episode that was present at Comic - Con , we ’re positive . The show will be better than its sophomore drop-off . But season three does n’t just have to be a little better than time of year two : it has to pummel time of year two ruthlessly , into a bloody flesh . And that may be a tall lodge , specially since a lot of the hints we ’re hearing about the fresh season take the “ soap opera ” theme to young peak . ( Spoiler alert : Everybody ’s related to everyone else . ) Our prediction : torpedo will relaunch with millions of excess TV audience , odd to see if it ’s really bounced back . And then it ’ll lose some of them . The only head is , how many ? Knight Rider vs. os : The more I learn about NBC ’s Knight Rider remaking , the dumber it feels . I ’ve read large glob of several scripts at this point , and the show ’s main pleasance seems to be laughing at the ludicrous duologue and unfit science . Plus , it ’s trying way too hard to jump onto every other pop - culture bandwagon . ( KITT the super car is a “ Transformer ” . KITT has a KITT - Cave . ) And the revamp Knight is run capitulum - to - fountainhead with bone , one of Fox ’s biggest non - reality hits since 24 . Bones is sometimes schlocky , but does feature real skill instead of science - babble , and the character find like grown - ups . ( Also on Wednesdays at 8 : America ’s Next Top Model , some sitcom and Pushing Daisies . ) Our prevision : Rider may just be dumb enough to win over people who need to flip off their brains for an hour . Plus masses who want to laugh at its sodding inanity . And take a drink everytime someone say “ KITT - cave . ”
The Sci Fi Channel vs. you having a sprightliness : Once again , the Sci Fi Channel is putting its only worthwhile contentedness on Friday nights . ( Eureka is going on a suspension soon . ) But instead of a bloc boast Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who , we ’re getting the last batch of Stargate Atlantis episodes . And the first muckle of episodes of Amanda Tapping ’s novel show Sanctuary , which started out as a connection serial publication . ( Spoiler alarum : Amanda Tapping is 150 years old and she tries to aid sport and monsters , but the show seems to be mostly about her brainsick ex-husband - boyfriend and their psychotic daughter . ) Is anybody going to continue in on a Friday Nox for Stargate and Sanctuary ? Anyone ? ( Sure , you could TiVo it , but it appears that Stargate ’s ratings are based on “ inhabit plus same mean solar day ” viewing . think next - day viewingsdon’t numeration . How far into Saturday morning numerate as same - twenty-four hour period ? Not sure . ) Our prevision : Stargate ’s rating are actually up from time of year five , and doing better than Battlestar ’s last few episodes .
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