A terrific new live action series by Paul Dini called “Tower Prep” will be debuting this Tuesday on Cartoon Network. To give it the ten word pitch, it’s like “The Prisoner” but in high school. In the interests of full disclosure, Paul’s a friend and he showed me the pilot months ago; that doesn’t detract from my belief that it’s a high quality family program that deserves a wide audience.
However that’s going to be a chore. It has quite possibly THE worst time slot they could have given it: 8 PM EST. For viewers interested in high school dramas, that puts it against “Glee.” For audiences who want a show featuring people with unusual abilities and an enigmatic back story, there’s “No Ordinary Family.” Between that and the minimal-to-nonexistent push the series has been getting ( there was virtually no “Tower Prep” presence at San Diego and zero at New York, even though the show was debuting the following week) getting viewers is going to be a tough slog.
But if you want to take a shot at sampling it before it gets exiled to its formidable time slot, it’s airing tonight, Saturday, at 9 PM EST. So give it a watch…while you can.
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