Should I Even Bother Watching Any of These New Winter TV Shows?
10 network and cable TV shows premiere this January. Are any of them worth your time?
The biggest network TV shows used to premiere in the fall. Now they hold them for March and we get this awkward little eight weeks of winter TV. It’s a strange little mini-season and a chance for networks to use the relative down time to suck an available audience into a new show they’re launching. Welcome to January in Peak TV.
There’s a new reality competition show on every major network, cookie cutter sitcoms, FOX’s “next big hit” sci-fi thriller, a cable prestige drama, and more. But is any of it worth your time?
I took a look at ten new network and cable TV shows below and whether any of them are even worth watching…
The Passage
Mondays 9–10pm FOX
Based on the eponymous best-selling trilogy, The Passage tells of a dangerous virus that could potentially lead to the cure for all diseases… or wipe out the entire human race by turning them into vampires. Potato, po-tah-to, am I right? Old man Zack Morris (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) gets put in charge of a young…
