Network Geniuses

[dampha]

So, I have just gotten the one-week-old news that Joan of Arcadia is being canceled, and that it is being replaced by a show in which Jennifer Love Hewitt talks to dead people. Les Moonves commented that "talking to ghosts may skew younger than talking to God."

Look, Les, if young people won't watch Eliza Dushku talking to dead people, what makes

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[elephantgiraffe]

There has been little worth watching since, actually, Ernie Kovacs

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[elephantgiraffe]

They don't cancel books when you're in the middle of them

(which is actually slightly unfortunate as I lurch my way through The Fountainhead)

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[dampha]

I do not apologize for my love of mainstream TV, which at its best has done a far better job in storytelling and character development over the past 20 years than have mainstream movies. Yes, at least 75% of network programming amounts to piles of steaming crap. But in the cases where it's done right, there's something that a Twin Peaks or an Arrested Development can pull off through performances and visual elements that a book cannot.

Not that I'm knocking books, mind you. In fact, I wish people would stop adapting the ones I love into their stupid little Cliff's Notes movies.

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[mikhfarah]

You should just start watching HBO and Showtime series...they at least will give you one season of suckyness as a prelude to a very quiet cancellation; a cancellation that you wont know anything about, untill you notice that your show is just not playing anymore at its regular schedule...ah I miss you "Dead Like Me"!!!

Also, even though they series dont last more than a few years...you do get the swearing and boobage...BOOOOOBAGE....

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[dampha]

Well, I made a vow several years ago never to subscribe to cable, a vow that has been easier to keep once it turned out that I can get anything worth watching sooner or later on DVD.

And I do find that swearing and boobage are two things that are more fun in real life than on TV.

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[bellanotsoblu]

er... no comment. ;) hee hee