stupidity comes in all sizes & shapes

[lady_m2835]

• Y'all really do talk a lot! ;) A girl is away for a couple of days and there's pages & pages of stuff to catch up on. I'm really trying to be better, but it's hard!

I'm already beginning to feel the effects/realization of the fact that there's likely going to be nothing new starting next week, I guess. If NBC is pulling FNL and everything else, only thing I really watch on NBC besides FNL is Bionic Woman, which I won't miss. (I kinda hate that Ron Moore really is the evil genius, not David Eick.) I'm going to rewatch some favorite shows, which I didn't do over the summer, Farscape...can't wait!, Wonderfalls, Battlestar Galactica, Arrested Development, Entourage, and who knows what else. Plus, I found s1 of Everwood for like $20 bucks the other day and bought it, so I think I'm finally going to watch all of that. And, I'm going to finally try to find S2 of The X-Files and try to watch the entire series. Or at least all of the Mulder & Scully years, plus, maybe Rome, s1, which I never watched,. There was a preview at the end of last night's Ugly Betty, so I'm wondering if ABC is putting out new episodes till the end of November sweeps. *sigh* I don't know, I already miss my tv.

This is just so stupid. I remember reading about all of this last year when the BSG pre-S3 webisodes were airing @ SciFi.com. How Sci-Fi, which is owned by NBC/Universal, didn't want to pay Ron Moore, David Eick & co., for them, just wanted them to do them as part of their preexisting contract. Which made no sense whatsoever. It's their intellectual property, it was new material, they're dreaming this stuff up so Sci-Fi has interesting original programming to entertain an audience with. If they write it, then Sci-Fi, or whomever, should pay for it. No matter where they end up *airing* it. It does make me curious about the new Farscape webisodes that Sci-Fi has ordered from Henson & Co. I guess since they're new, and this is a new contract with Henson, they're paying for them.

I was saying to jenahville last night, I do wonder what shows like Dancing With the Stars will do, we both watch. Go Jennie, Go Mel!!! No member of SAG that wants to work in the scripted tv medium in the future should appear on DWTS. It's part of the-alterna programing that the networks cooked up during the last writers strike, not the show itself, but reality tv during prime time. Why would an EP hire someone that went against the writer's strike. Writers drive the tv industry, after all. I love scripted tv, I miss tv when it's gone & it's supposed to be there to make me happy.

I am curious about what will happen on Spanish language stations, since Telemundo is also owned by NBC. But I think most of it's scripted programming is in the form of novelas, most of which are produced in Mexico, Brasil, Colombia, etc. Will this effect those too?

Really the stupidity of this is just infinseminal.