Great news for fans of Scrubs and Shifting Gears. ABC picked up both sitcoms for next season, taking Scrubs to Season 11, and Shifting Gears to Season 3.RJ Decker is now the only remaining ABC scripted show on the bubble. TV Shows Watched: The Boys: S5E5 (Amazon) with audio description, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory: S4E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Gold Land: S1E1 (Hulu) with audio description, American Classic: S1E3 (MGM Plus) with audio description, Witch Hat Atelier: S1E1 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, and The Last Thing He Told Me: S2E6 (Apple) with audio description The Boys- The episode focused on … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/30/26

TV Shows Watched: Daredevil: Born Again: S2E7 (Disney Plus) with audio description, the Testaments: S1E6 (Disney plus) with audio description, Tomb Raider: S2E? (Netflix) with audio description, Bait: s1E2 (Amazon) with audio description, DTF: St Louis: S1E6 (HBO MAX) with audio description, and virgin River: S7e2 (Netflix) with audio description Daredevil: Born Again- The audio description here is still solid as Matt works to try and find a way to free Karen, realizing Kingpin is forcing another vigilante trial. He’ll have to use another particular set of skills. Jessica Jones resurfaces because Disney paid her, and they might need her … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/29/26

TV Shows Watched: American Idol: S24E14 (Disney Plus) no audio description, Beef: S2E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Imperfect Women: S1E4 (Apple) with audio description, Invincible: S4E2 (Amazon) with audio description, The Daily show: Monday (Paramount) no audio description American Idol- The Top 7 sang two songs. One from Taylor Swift’s catalog, and another from artists from California, as part of their partnership with Visit California. Nicki Glazer joined the judges panel because she has a comedy special to promote. Going into this episode, I thought maybe Braden and Chris, at least one, would bite the dust. I’ve been worried about … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/28/26

TV Shows Watched: Star Wars: Maul: Shadow Lord: S1E7 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Big Mistakes: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, The Count Of Monte Cristo: S1E6 (PBS) with audio description, American Gladiators: S1E1 (Amazon) with audio description,Monarch: S2E6 (Apple) with audio description, and LAst Week Tonight: Most Recent (HBO MAX) no audio description yet Maul: Shadow Lord- Yes, virginia, this is human narrated.I clocked that this was human narrated a while ago, yet I got wind of a complaint that this was AI. No. It’s Dave Wallace. You think Disney started to dive into TTS audio description, and they … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/27/26

TV Shows Watched: From: S4E2 (MGM Plus) with audio description, One Piece: S2E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Million Dollar Secret: S2E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Paradise: S2E4 (Disney plus) with audio description, and BatFam: S1E6 (Amazon) with audio description From- love the show, but what they try to pull off here in terms of misdirection would work better after the fact if Tabitha hadn’t specifically suggested that location. I just noticed the new AD team here has managed to do the Apple-impossible and describe both visuals in the opening credits sequence AND give us the credits. If you showed this … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/26/26

Coming up this week, is honestly not a lot. Netflix has a new Animated film on Friday, Swapped, which has Michael B Jordan and Juno Temple as the voice leads, and Netflix will also drop their series adaptation of Man On Fire, now starring Yaya Abdul Mateen II on Thursday. Aside from those drops, it is a pretty bleak landscape this week. TV Shows Watched: Beef: S2E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Shrinking: S3E9 (Apple) with audio description, Unchosen: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Ted: S2E2 (Peacock) with audio description, and Sheriff Country: S1E11 (Paramount Plus) with audio description Beef- This … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/25/26

Amazon shocked me yesterday by axing Gen V, the Boys spinoff, which I had apparently allowed myself to be Mandela effected into believing had already been renewed. The weird thing is I didn’t actually think it was in danger. With the Boys wrapping in May, that leaves the future of the franchise in the hands of VOT Rising, the Jensen Ackles led prequel, set to debut in 2027. TV Shows Watched: Star Wars: Maul: Shadow Lord: S1E6 (Disney plus) with audio description, Wondla: S3E6 (Apple) with audio description, Free Bert: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, The Fall And Rise Of … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/24/26

TV Shows Watched: The Boys: S5E4 (Amazon) with audio description, Detective Hole: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description,Will Trent: S4E8 (Disney Plus) with audio description, DTF: St Louis: S1E5 (HBO MAX) with audio description,Scrubs: S10 E3 (Disney Plus) with audio description The Boys- Relatively contained, in that half the cast is looking for V1, and ends up at the same facility at the same time, leaving only a few others outside doing other things. Notably, Starlight visits her estranged father, and Firecracker has the task of selling Homelander as The Messiah.The Boys, Soldier Boy, and Homelander all go after V1 in … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/23/26

TV Shows Watched:The Testaments: S1E5 (Disney Plus) with audio description, the Night Agent: S3E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Talamaska: The Secret Order: S1E5 (AMC Plus) WITH audio description, Twisted Yoga: S1E3 (Apple) with audio description, and Dreaming Whilst Black: S2E4 (Paramount Plus) with audio description The Testaments- I knew I wasn’t missing much by skipping prom when I was in High School. Sadly, Agnes, Daisy, Becca, and the others aren’t given the option to opt out, and have to be presented to the Commanders. Each girl is hoping to be married into a nice Commander, and also a high ranking … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/22/26

ABC did recently renew most of their shows for a second season. Grey’s Anatomy will return for its 23rd season, 911 will return for its 10th season, The Rookie will return for its 9th season, Abbott Elementary will return for its 6th season, Will Trent will return for its 5th season, High Potential will return for its 3rd season, and 911 Nashville will return for its 2nd season. They have also ordered a few new shows to series, including The Rookie: North, the second spinoff which will follow a rookie (Jay Ellis) in the Pacific Northwest area. TV Shows Watched: … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/21/26

TV Shows Watched: Star Wars: Maul: Shadow Lord: S1E5 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The Count Of Monte Cristo: S1E5 (PBS) with audio description, Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen: S1E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Tracker: S3E11 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, and XO Kitty: S3E1 (Netflix) with audio description Maul: Shadow Lord- The first episode that would cause any decline in my grade. The show has had a bit of an Andor vibe up until this point, and the title is Inquisition, yet the two interrogation sequences happen off screen. It would have been far more interesting to … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/20/26

TV Shows Watched: Beef: S2E2 (Netflix) with audio description, For All Mankind: S5E2 (Apple) with audio description, From: S4E1 (MGM Plus) with audio description, The Beauty: S1E6 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Top Chef: S23E4 (Peacock) with audio description, and Celebrity Jeopardy: S3E5 (Disney Plus) with audio description Beef- It is clear that the Beef is between the two couples, but also within the two couples, as we already saw Josh and Lindsay fight in episode one, and clearly Austin is unhappy with his lot in life for most of this episode, while Ashley gets a small bump up in … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/219/26