Re: SG-1. My recollection is that the plan had been for SG-1 and Atlantis to run for one year together and then for the original to ride off into the sunset. But (again, IIRC) the premiere of Atlantis revivied interest in the original series too, so they kept it on and now that it’s lured all the Farscape fans in with the cast additions, it’s ratings are better than they had been in past years, so it’s not on the block any time soon.
–Cliffy
No way SG-1’s been on for 10 years. No freaking way. Yikes, I’m old.
Saw a blurb in the newspaper last week that in an interview on the Golden Globes red carpet Zach Braff said that ABC was interested in picking up Scrubs if NBC didn’t pick it up. Here’s hoping for a happier times on new networks for both Scrubs & Arrested Development!
It is a pretty lame show, but it is doing pretty similar ratings as Joey at a lower cost to the network.
I love the West Wing, but yes, it is time for this show to end.
It’s true that many shows are ending, but one is coming back from the grave – NBC just announced that they’re doing four new one-hour Friends specials next year.
–Cliffy
Quick! Somebody call Jack Bauer!
So does that mean that Monica and Chandler are getting a divorce? Or perhaps they will be playing three completely different characters
So many shows past their expiration date.
Not a big Friends fan and I caught the first few eps of Joey, thinking, how bad could it be? Pretty bad, but then I just caught the last two episodes and they were great! Really funny and at the same time really good at building up the characters. Also, realizing the limited humor in the main character they actually bothered to develop a funny and interesting ensemble cast. I think along with Office, Earl, and Scrubs, it would be part of a killer Thursday.
BTW: W&G and 70’s, talk about mercy killings.
Sure, but it’s new, so it’d have a little survivablity just due to the novelty factor. Soon enough people will discover that, even though it has Seth Green, it’s actually a very very crappy show.
It’s pretty typical Thursday crap-sandwich filler. Except that Will & Grace isn’t half what it used to be, and there’s no Friends to hold it up…
-Joe
A lot of sources say that is hooey.
er needs to go. When they start replaying old plot lines that no longer shock (Kirsten Dunst’s battered street kid + battered woman they sneak out as if she’s dead = current battered teen they help out of town in a cab, surprise pregnancies, …) it’s time.
Followed your link, and just to the left of the article was a section labeled “MORE NEWS” with this…
Link
** No Reunion for ‘Friends’**
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
–Cliffy
As always, it’s hard to argue about taste, but tv - like books, movies, music, art, theatre - has always been 90% crap.
I still watch and enjoy, every week:
Battlestar Galactica
Invasion
Veronica Mars
Lost
NCIS
Boston Legal
and will follow Sopranos, The 4400 when they come back on.
That’s about at least six hours of good, and sometimes excellent, entertainment every week. All in all, with local programming and the odd documentary, news ASF, I get 1,5 hours of good tv on average every day. That’s not bad. That’s very good.
I agree with the mercy killings of the shark jumpers though. Hopefully that’ll make room for more scripted shows, seeing as the last two seasons biggests hits have been scripted, maybe the tv execs will consider having actual writers to trot out actual fiction.
We could totally watch TV together, except I have no idea what Veronica Mars is. I’d even mostly shut up except during the commercials.
You bring the beer, I’ll pop the corn.
Seriously, it might be a little rough to get into VM now, because the plot threads are really twisted and entwined, but if you have a chance to check out out from the beginning, do so. American Film Institute just gave it an award. It’s wonderful tv, which you’ll be able to see when the first new episode this year airs next week. The length of the thread the next day here at the Dope is A good meassure of how good the show is. Considering the abysmal ratings (it’s opposite Lost on UPN), it gets a lot of buzz. Joss Wheadon did a walk on, as I believe Kevin Smith did.
Sure, these are good shows. I was trying to say that original entertainment was getting better after a rut of reality tv and procedural cop shows.
While 90% of television has always been crap, over the past few years it was closer to 97%! 