Post by ML Fan on Apr 23, 2008 13:14:04 GMT -5
Roush on NCIS
Question: I have read your column for the last couple of years, and I rarely see any comments about NCIS. Do you not like the show? I love it, and I am very happy to see its return rank No. 3 in viewers for Tuesday. I recently read that a cast member is leaving the show. The only person I would be happy to see go is Lauren Holly. I don't think she is a bad actress, but she does not seem to have any chemistry with Mark Harmon, and their characters were supposed to have had an affair. The Shepard character has always been missing something for me, but what I am not sure. It will be great to see a new character on the show, someone who will shake things up a bit. I was not sure how I would like the show after Kate got killed, but that storyline and shake-up worked great, so hopefully the next one will fare just as well. What is your take on the show this season. That is, if you are watching it? — Susan
Matt Roush: I have no problem with NCIS, and TV Guide in general follows it pretty regularly. The show is on our cover again in the issue that hits stands this week, and look it up on the TVGuide.com search field and you'll see how often we're covering this or that angle in interviews and teasers. But for the first half of the season, if I'm being asked to choose between this and Fox's Bones on Tuesdays, I go with Bones, although the ratings are much higher for NCIS (which is why we pay so much attention to it)/ I like the fact that both shows are solid escapist entertainment, have appealing ensembles and generally don't take themselves too seriously. But I'm more drawn to the mysteries, characters and writing on Bones. And in the winter months, once American Idol kicks in, there goes Tuesdays. NCIS is the sort of mainstream winner that tends to fly under the critical radar, which isn't so much a reflection on the show or on critics as it is an acknowledgement that there are a lot of procedural crime dramas on TV and very few fascinate or move me enough to weigh in on them regularly. For what it's worth, being tipped off that a major character is about to leave gives me incentive to check in again, as I was plenty intrigued by the violent way Kate was taken out and the way the team evolved afterward.
Here's the link, www.tvguide.com/ask-matt/ncis/080421-04
Question: I have read your column for the last couple of years, and I rarely see any comments about NCIS. Do you not like the show? I love it, and I am very happy to see its return rank No. 3 in viewers for Tuesday. I recently read that a cast member is leaving the show. The only person I would be happy to see go is Lauren Holly. I don't think she is a bad actress, but she does not seem to have any chemistry with Mark Harmon, and their characters were supposed to have had an affair. The Shepard character has always been missing something for me, but what I am not sure. It will be great to see a new character on the show, someone who will shake things up a bit. I was not sure how I would like the show after Kate got killed, but that storyline and shake-up worked great, so hopefully the next one will fare just as well. What is your take on the show this season. That is, if you are watching it? — Susan
Matt Roush: I have no problem with NCIS, and TV Guide in general follows it pretty regularly. The show is on our cover again in the issue that hits stands this week, and look it up on the TVGuide.com search field and you'll see how often we're covering this or that angle in interviews and teasers. But for the first half of the season, if I'm being asked to choose between this and Fox's Bones on Tuesdays, I go with Bones, although the ratings are much higher for NCIS (which is why we pay so much attention to it)/ I like the fact that both shows are solid escapist entertainment, have appealing ensembles and generally don't take themselves too seriously. But I'm more drawn to the mysteries, characters and writing on Bones. And in the winter months, once American Idol kicks in, there goes Tuesdays. NCIS is the sort of mainstream winner that tends to fly under the critical radar, which isn't so much a reflection on the show or on critics as it is an acknowledgement that there are a lot of procedural crime dramas on TV and very few fascinate or move me enough to weigh in on them regularly. For what it's worth, being tipped off that a major character is about to leave gives me incentive to check in again, as I was plenty intrigued by the violent way Kate was taken out and the way the team evolved afterward.
Here's the link, www.tvguide.com/ask-matt/ncis/080421-04