Remember when I used to do these?

[cleolinda]

Hey! It's a genuine full-service linkspam!

First, because this is important: ‘Phantom of the Opera’ sequel due in 2009. OH HALE NO.

UNHAPPY NEW YEAR! Time Warner Cable To Yank MTV, Nickelodeon & Comedy Central Off The Air In NY, LA, Everywhere:As a result, we are sorry to say that for Time Warner Cable customers our networks will go dark as of 12

Comments

[crumpeteer]

THE PHANTOM SEQUEL!?

MY GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

[cyranothe2nd]

Word. Seriously...I think there is an evil conspiracy going on to piss on everything I love. Star Wars, Star Trek, Indiana Jones and now POTO??? Where will it end?!?!

[everstar3]

What the frak? How can there possibly be a sequel? What's it going to be, Christine looking stoned and unhappy on Raoul's estate?

[bleakwinters]

I read this on ONTD eons ago. I kid you not, it's in America, the Eric follows Christine's daughter in America, angst.

I

KID

YOU

NOT.

[flamingtoilet]

I remember a couple of years ago the Viacom stations went through this with Time Warner, too. I guess the settlement was just temporary or something.

A local station is now going through the same thing, with the same cutoff date. The cable company will eventually cave in on this.

[mogumogu]

A... Phantom... SEQUEL.

Let's see. The musical that had that fantastic There-are-no-words the-not-quite-end ending that works because of the mystery involved... is getting a sequel.

Okay. I know we love the stuff we loved a decade or two ago, and that it's great to remember and pay homage, but we can't remake/continue everything!

[cyranothe2nd]

Have you *read* the sequel??? It is too horrible to contemplate! Let's just say it involves amusement parks, an precocious boy-child (and I'm not referring to Raoul) and a cameo by Teddy Roosevelt.
...I wish I were kidding.

[cleolinda]

Okay, the Teddy Roosevelt part I hadn't heard about. Good God.

[sabra_n]

...On Coney Island.

SRSLY.

[cupcakery]

OH HALE NO indeed.

Sir Andrew, please, don't. Please. The Phantom of Manhattan was travesty enough, do you need to do us more harm?

[rainbowdarling]

Er. As an employee of the dreaded TWC (yeah, I'm not proud), I'm pretty sure that if it were going off everywhere I'd have been informed by now so that we could be prepared for the onslaught of unhappy that would inevitably pour through the doors... I'm not saying it's not happening it all, but to claim it's happening in all markets seems a bit overreaching.

I dunno. I think people make far too big a deal over television anyway.

(Please don't flame me. I only work there.)

[hippydippymama]

Hey, I canceled my cable two months ago because I'm flat-ass broke, so I don't wanna hear about it either. =P

[rainbowdarling]

I could see there being not much warning, but it being the day after tomorrow, and apparently already hitting other information sources, I'm sure we would've found out today and nothing came through about it. I'm just hesitant to see people flip out over something that could potentially resolve itself or at least be extended tomorrow. We've had a lot of that going on with local news affiliates lately anyway, so I wouldn't have been the least bit surprised to see other channels going the way of the dodo.