Honestly, in television news? I read that Ray Romano has wholeheartedly declined to ever bring back Everybody Loves Raymond. In a world where they keep doing this, most of the time it doesn’t work out. Sure, The Connors is a lone exception, but even that doesn’t have the ratings of the original show, and will fall short of Roseanne’s original run. It’s highly unlikely Paramount Plus is keeping the new Frasier revival around for 11 years. Although, some shows and characters I wouldn’t mind seeing again. Something like Law and Order: Organized Crime allowed for Chris Meloni to return, without rebooting anything. Are there shows like that where we can have our Nostalgia and the show doesn’t flop?

Full disclosure: I’ve enjoyed several reboots, including The Connors, Saved By The Bell, Bel Air, and the newer Ducktales. Even some that have been pitched sounded interesting, and just haven’t happened. I know Tim Allen is mulling a Home Improvement reboot, but Patricia Richardson needs to say Yes as well.

1) The Buccaneers (Apple Plus)

English Audio Description?: Yes

Status: Not Yet Renewed

This show isn’t doing anything for me three episodes in. Yes, the audio description is solid, but this feels like more of the Summer I Turned Pretty and Virgin River style of show, two shows I ironically still watch even though I threaten to quit all the time. I guess Apple needed something like that. I may or may not stop this at some point. The big difference, is I seem to know no one who watches this, whereas lots of people watch those other shows.

Episode Grade: C+

2) Neon (Netflix)

English Audio Description?: Yes

Status: Not Yet Renewed The exploits of Santi and his friends would be nice to see continue. Right now, we’re in this weird place where Nessa is weirdly attracted to her drug kingpin boss. And, Mia stuck her neck out a little too far, now will the gang fight for her?

Episode Grade: B+

3) Solar Opposites (Hulu)

English Audio Descritpion?: Yes

Status: Unknown

This episode featured a storyline for both the main group, and also those inside the wall. I’m going to side step the humor of the former of the two, which I’ll say was very “Magoo” and as a blind critic, it’s hard to see one of my favorite shows use blindness as the running and predominant joke for the episode. The other half, with the people in the wall, is always getting more and more epic, and oddly has something to say about religion. So, there’s that. But that reference to Floam and Gak, was one of the reasons I love this show… normally.

Episode Grade: C (I can take a joke, but the majority of this grade has to do with the other half of this episode. I think this is the lowest grade I’ve ever given this show)

4) Tiny Toons Looniversity (MAX)

English Audio Description?: Yes

Status: Unknown

Babs has a desire to direct, so she launches a staged production of Rabbit Season, which she chooses to cast against type (non-traditional casting), meaning that all the obvious character replacements aren’t in the roles you’d expect. This causes strife amongst the talent, but in a fun way of course. Side note: while I don’t know where some of these Tiny Toons came from, I’m noticing that because Montana Max isn’t around full time, he’s not an available counter part. Also, because Pepe has been cancelled, it makes Fifi so odd. She’s still here, but Pepe is not. And wasn’t there a Tiny Toons version of Speedy Gonzalez? Did we cancel him too? I didn’t start asking myself these questions until I realized that we have a lot of obvious matchups, like Tweety/Sweety, Lola/Babs, Bugs/ Buster, Taz/Dizzy, Roadrunner/Beeper, Daffy/Plucky, and some others… but then some new characters I’m sure weren’t in the original, and I have no idea who they line up with, and I think some are missing. It could be the audio description. I’ve put too much thought into this.

Final Grade: B+

5) Digman (Paramount Plus)

English audio Description?: No

Status: Unknown

Andy Samberg does his best Nicolas Cage impersonation as Digman is trying to get onto the top 10 rankings of whatever he does. And also pay the bills.

Episode Grade: B-

6) Heroes (Peacock)

English Audio Description?: No

Status: Ended

Still no audio description, and this show is a bitch to follow. Like, between this and Alias, two shows I loved and watched the first time through, I think I’m losing my mind. There’s such a huge cast here, jumping around, and Sylar is starting to killl people off. After seeing the Netflix list of shows, I saw several catalog titles in their top 250. Some of those shows, like Gilmore Girls, The 100, and Jane The Virgin didn’t have audio description. Streamers need to put audio description on more content, and if the demand is obviously there, why wouldn’t you do it? I’d be curious to know if anyone else is watching Heroes.

Episode Grade: Unwatchable

7) Virgin River (Netflix)

English Audio Description?: Yes

Status: Renewed

Oh thank God Charmaine had her baby. She got pregnant in Season 1. That means *everything* that has happened in the first couple of seasons of Virgin River happened in 9 months time. Hope’s accident, recovery time, and becoming Mayor again. That one kid meeting Lizzie, lizzie’s friend coming to visit, then that kid joined the military, then Lizzie met her new boyfriend and is now pregnant, and Mel got pregnant and lost it, there was a fire, Brady’s entire plot line where he was even in jail for a while, EVERYTHING happened in nine months. NINE. MONTHS.

Episode Grade: C+

8) All In The Family (FreeVee)

English Audio Description?: No

Status: Ended

Bill Maher says Archie Bunker would never be allowed on TV today. I disagree. He would look totally different, and would have a family that was exhausted by him blaming everything on the gays and wokeness, but Archie could exist. It’s just that the Archie Bunker’s of today are grumpy about different things. Some of the same things, but a lot of new things. Still, watching Archie worry about having food poisoning was a fun thirty minutes. Classic sitcoms deserve audio description.

Episode Grade: A-