Image Credit: Art Streiber/NBC; Robert Voets/CBS; Bob Mahoney/The CWLast week, we wrote an item about Thursday at 8 p.m. being one of the fall’s fiercest timeslots with The Big Bang Theory, Bones, Community, The Vampire Diaries, and 30 Rock — veteran shows with loyal fanbases who’d need at least two DVRs to see them all on the night they air. People who follow exec producers Hart Hanson (Bones), Bill Prady (TBBT), Dan Harmon (Community), and Julie Plec (TVD) on Twitter know it’s a civil war — and that this week, which finds them all facing each other for the first time this season, is going to be highly entertaining. Below, the Twitter exchange that started last Thursday and continues this morning…. Any other showrunners mobilizing and preparing for battle on Twitter? We want to watch…
Hart Hanson: This is the kind of thing that sends chills. RT/ @billprady Hey @wilw — we’re going to try to get #bigbangtheory to trend next week for the premiere.
Hart Hanson: This is the kind of thing that sends chills: RT @EW If you could only watch one show on Thursdays at 8 pm …? http://bit.ly/c2HhCE
Julie Plec: @HartHanson Oh, it’s ON!!!!
Hart Hanson: @julieplec Fists up! Bobbing …. weaving … jab, jab, jab … shuffle/shuffle … and that’s just a sample baby. An amuse-bouche.
Julie Plec: @HartHanson You have “Angel”. You’ve already won. (fan-girl sigh….)
Hart Hanson: @julieplec (He doesn’t like it if you call him that …)
Noah Hawley, creator of new ABC show My Generation, also in this timeslot: We’re gonna need a bigger boat. RT @HartHanson This is the kind of thing that sends chills: http://bit.ly/c2HhCE
Hart Hanson: @noahhawley Honest to God, “We’re gonna need a bigger boat” is my motto this year and still in the dory.
Hart Hanson: Hey, @danharmon — I hear that you and I are “OTP”. Do you know what that means? Is it good? You and your tequila shots…
Dan Harmon: @harthanson I wondered, too. Given our identical reactions, my first guess is “Old Tired People.” Sigh. I’ll look it up.
Dan Harmon: @HartHanson “The One True Pairing (OTP) is the couple that a fan prefers over all other ‘ships.” Well…we did it.
Hart Hanson: @danharmon One True Pairing? Doesn’t that sound sort of epic? Like it would stop the end of the world or stop time? Let’s ask @DamonLindelof
Bill Prady: Hey, what happens this Thursday at 8/7C?
Dan Harmon: Mom “doesn’t know what to do” about Community and Big Bang at 8. Dad suggests shirts might sway them. Sending their address to @billprady
Dan Harmon: Guys, my Mom has a DVR. She’s not choosing which show to watch, she’s choosing which to record while watching Bones (for real).
Hart Hanson: @danharmon I’m totally prepared to send your Mom some swag.
Dan Harmon: @HartHanson I just have to find her address. Man, no wonder she watches your show. She can tell you’re a better son.
This is why I have AT&T cable. I can record FOUR programs at a time. I don’t have to choose! But seriously, Vampire Diaries all the way.
The Harmon/Hanson exchange is the best part. I love that Harmon’s mom wants to watch Bones and DVR her son’s show
Actually, his mom is still “deciding” whether to DVR his son’s show or The Big Bang Theory.
parents watch Bones, I watch Community, and the family as a whole watch Big Bang Theory…our DVR only records 2 shows…but they have to be on 2 different TVs…one of them is the big family TV…what am I supposed to do?
I’ll be watching BBT and Hulu-ing the rest (first thing on Friday morning along with my coffee- Bones). I HEART Booth. sigh.
I took Vampire Diaries off my DVR…
That is the correct choice. You win!
Bones all the way, baby. Even if the Hannah plot makes me want to throw up in my mouth every time I hear/read about it…
my exact reaction! lol
I have two DVRs for this very reason. I will probably watch Bones, but I will be recording and eagerly awaiting Big Bang, Vampire Diaries, & My Generation.
Bones for me and DVR Vampire Diaries.
I don’t understand why when there are so many crappy shows on tv, they put all the good ones up against each other at the same time. Spread out the love.
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Watch Community, DVR The Vampire Diaries, catch Bones on FX. Everything else I’m going to watch during the off-season.
well Community and 30 Rock records on the main TV in the living room while VD and TBBT records on my own TV in my bedroom..
I don’t watch Bones or shows on ABC…
New whole home service from Directv. Two tuners in living room, two in bedroom. Record all 4 shows at once and watch wherever the heck you want.
Maybe I’m just wierd, but I only like 2 of these shows anyway.
Bones and Big Bang Theory for me.
not interested in the others (in fact, I really disliked TVD when I gave it a chance, dont see the what all the fuss is about)
I am very lucky, this year I am down to a handful of shows so no known conflicts as of yet. But I’ll be watching BONES and DVRing 30 Rock. (Don’t watch the others.)
Going to have to watch Bones live on eastern feed while taping Big Bang Theory at same time, then watching Community live on western feed three hours later. I’m going to need to make a flow chart so I don’t mess this up.