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SFist Watches: TV This Week, While Wishing We Could Watch Ourselves
Let us begin this week by making a heartfelt plea to the TV Powers-That-Be: Film more shows in San Francisco!
We can't really explain why we get such a thrill out of seeing our beautiful town show up on prime time television, but we do. Maybe we're hoping to see someone we know wandering around in the background. Maybe we're just hoping to see ourselves wandering around in the background. Or maybe we just like to make fun of how TV chooses to depict San Francisco. Whatever the case may be, we can certainly admit to missing those "Nash Bridges" days, when parking on our block would be unavailable for eight hours a day just so that yellow 'Cuda could screech down the hill. Sure, "Charmed" and "Monk" are set in the City, but aside for some token establishing shots here and there, we all know Canada and Los Angeles don't look like SF!
But in all honesty, we'd even take that if it meant more storylines centered in the City. We know the majority of all the "CSIs" are shot in Los Angeles, no matter how many helicopter shots of their respective cities they show us to try and convince us otherwise. So give us our own "CSI!" Hell, we've even got the perfect chili-ng story for the pilot episode! Shoot us some relief from "Streets of San Francisco" re-runs (no matter how cool it is to see those 70s San Francisco streets) and launch another "Party of Five." Or how about the millennium's answer to "Too Close for Comfort," in which Monroe doesn't even pretend to be straight? Here's another idea: move one of those "Law & Order" spin-offs out of New York! Must we remind you of the awesome animal cops that patrol our fair City? That's an "L&O" spin-off if ever we heard one. And if Seattle can get its own Medical Drama, we just know San Francisco could too. (Anyone who's ever endured a trip to a San Francisco emergency room knows that there's no end to the drama offered there!)
OK..with that out of the way, locusts and mantises (manti?) after the jump!
Image of the Ramones at San Francisco's Reckless Records from Ian Harper's Rockometer site.
We doubt that anything can top the recent made-for-TV movie Mansquito for sheer ridiculousness, but we have a feeling CBS's Locusts will try. And if it's anything like the hilarious disaster epic 10.5, we're sure to be entertained. Lucy "Xena" Lawless stars as an insect expert working for the USDA. She's investigating the emergence of some bioengineered super locusts that can travel 300 miles in a single day, and devour entire continents in a single minute! Or something. Whatever it is, it can't be good. Plus, locusts are super-icky looking! Will Xena save the world. WILL SHE? Tune in Sunday at 9 p.m. to find out.
Some might compare the legendary Joey Ramone's looks to that of another creepy insect, but he'll always be weirdly dreamy to us. We still haven't gotten over his death completely. Nor over the deaths of Johnny and Dee Dee. No more Ramones concerts? No more Ramones albums? Can that really be true? We'll sooth our saddened souls by watching PBS's presentation of the Ramones documentary End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones this Sunday at 11 p.m.
We just hope there's some local concert footage in there...