Comings and Goings and Goings and Comings, Part I: In with the new....

This year's start of summer also brings endings- of three current series I/we have come to follow regularly. Already, the finales of Fargo and Orphan Black have passed, both with great intensity, and while Nurse Jackie's official finale isn't for another week, we will likely snag it on-demand by tomorrow.

Each of these will get a review here once suitable spoilery time has passed, but the bigger question for today is, where to go from here? That's close to three hours a week of prime viewing time. None of the other shows being heavily promoted during these runs on FX, BBCA or Showtime really appeal, except the vague Doctor-returns promos on Auntie; and I don't see myself getting into Game of Thrones or Orange....

(I will return to The Newsroom, but that doesn't restart until fall.)

What, then? I just learned that PBS offers some interesting choices.... sort of.

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Somehow, just as I missed for years that they'd made an Inspector Morse sequel with Kevin Whately reprising his Lewis role, I also missed that PBS has now begun showing a second series of a PREQUEL to it, titled Endeavour after the future CI's finally-revealed real first name.  I totally missed that there had been a first series of it, although the two-DVD set, including the pilot, is now in the house to catch up with.

It looks well done, and I'll watch at least a few to be sure it captures the right tone and time-similitude for 1965. Lewis  never really clicked with me; Robbie had aged too much and been put through too much pain, but maybe a flashback with different actors (including John Thaw's daughter) will not have those problems.

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I learned of Endeavour because our PBS affiliate has once again decided to delay another national premiere to appease its early-to-bed elderly Canadian viewers: David Tennant playing a lawyer in The Escape Artist debuted in most of the civilised public television world last week and finishes tonight. But not here:

...the second week of the local PBS station's fund drive has delayed the WNED airing of the first part of "Escape" until July 27. The second and final part of the three-hour series airs a week later on Aug.3.

Why such a lengthy delay?

That's so WNED can carry the second season of the  "Endeavour" at the same time as PBS stations across the country. Shaun Evans stars as Rookie Detective Endeavour Morse in the series.

WNED plans to repeat the finale of season one of "Endeavour" this Sunday and then run all the episodes of the second season starting June 29 and running through July 20.

After "The Escape Artist" ends on Aug. 3, WNED plans to carry Season 12 episodes of "Hercule Poirot" on Aug. 10 and 17. It airs on PBS when WNED is carrying "The Escape Artist."

Making things worse this time? Unlike when they did this with Sherlock in January, Ten cannot be streamed on pbs.org, due to "rights issues."  So they're essentially encouraging piracy, to the detriment of both the network's brand and the station's.

It's all a bunch of wibbly-wobbly argy-bargy to me:P

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Each of these is a short run anyway, though, so I'm open to thoughts on where else to go. Here are some starters:

* Elementary series 2. I've resumed watching the tail end of the first year's shows, and have the current one queued for when it releases in late August.

*Episodes. I tried this when it first aired on SHO, and liked the basic premise, although I found it a little too LeBlanc-y for my liking. If they focus more on the Brits, I think I'd like it more. I recorded most of the first year, have all of Series 3 still accessible on-demand, and I imagine it'll be easy to track down 2.

* Homeland. This was one of the few shows heavily promoted during something else that I thought I might actually like, but I never gave it a chance. Maybe something manageable enough to marathon?

And with that? I'll open it to recommendations. Any of these have you really turned on or off, or is there something out of left field (pitch?) you'd steer me to instead?

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Any others? Comment:)