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The trouble with writing a book about TV is that it starts to become slightly more out of date by the time the next season begins. I became aware of this phenomenon during the writing process, when I began writing during the 2006-2007 season, finishing the first draft during the 2007 summer hiatus, and doing revisions and proofing during the 2007-2008 season for a book that we would be publishing and marketing in summer of 2008. And I can only blame myself for forgetting to ask the networks for screener DVDs of its pilots for the next few years.
Fortunately, after watching a few of this year's new shows (okay, lots of commercials for new shows) and scanning the Entertainment Weekly fall TV preview issue, I think I can glean a few lessons. Feel free to print this out and tape it into your copy of A TV Guide to Life. If you do not yet own a copy of A TV Guide to Life, please shut your computer off and go get one now to avoid a blue screen of death.
From the new Christian Slater series, My Own Worst Enemy, along with last season's Chuck, we can learn that it's possible to partition a human brain like a computer hard drive. And the results will be equally glitchy. For guys, it means allowing a seeming everyman to move in rarefied spy circles. For women, it just means a more complicated relationship with their past, a la Samantha Who? and this season's The Ex-List.
Michael Dowd
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