Well, Joe Millionaire is back, and so is my tracking chart.

This ahh-shucks wholesome-as-apple-pie cowboy (with the emphasis on boy) and I don't see much eye to eye as far as women or anything else. I don't know. He thinks cursing and being dominant makes a girl "like a guy". To me, the kind of girl who doesn't curse, have a little attitude, and carry on a smart conversation would be the non-starter. Well, he can go for the model-thin shy "tall drinks of water", and I'll be favoring the smart beautiful ones.

Joe Millionaire 2 tracking chart–through the finale

10/21/03 - updated 10/27, 11/2, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17,11/25

By Philip F. Rose
www.experiential.net

Well, Joe Millionaire is back, and so is my tracking chart.

This ahh-shucks wholesome-as-apple-pie cowboy (with the emphasis on boy) and I don't see much eye to eye as far as women or anything else. I don't know. He thinks cursing and being dominant makes a girl "like a guy". To me, the kind of girl who doesn't curse, have a little attitude, and carry on a smart conversation would be the non-starter. Well, he can go for the model-thin shy "tall drinks of water", and I'll be favoring the smart beautiful ones.

Finale: The first half hour was mostly recapping; mixed in were current moments of Cat and Linda talking to each other and each to the camera. Linda told Cat that she deserved to be here at …

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(Orig. September 21, 2003; updated 10/28/03 to reflect Fox schedule changes and add a few notes and changes of opinion) (updated again 11/10 to reflect additional schedule changes and cancellations)

Last year's annual fall TV season preview ran 9,000+ words. It's about two-thirds that this time. (I've also dropped the endnotes. I thought they were fun, but it's hard to do them well on the web so they ended up just being an obstacle.) I'm focusing more on what I like, and not covering what I don't unless its badness is interesting. In fact I'm also going to watch fewer shows this year. There are two reasons for this. For one, I plan to be more selective in what I add and I've dropped quite a few. And for the other, though there are a number of shows that are possibilities this season, their strength is not as certain as last year. I'm not expecting more than a few of my favorites to survive.

(Update 11/11: I felt I needed to update this one last time because of another batch of changes. Once again, the troublemaker is Fox. I can't blame Fox for canceling the fun Skin, since the ratings were bad, but it's still a huge disappointment. I loved the series and wonder why it didn't do better. Perhaps the fact that the good guy was the pornographer who was concerned about the well-being of his actresses and was willing to give money to charity anonymously because it …

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