My Own Worst Enemy was beyond stupid. I gave it 2 episodes. Did they ever explain WHY they gave him split personalities? Or why they let him keeping working once he started malfunctioning? Or why they even let him out in open society once he started malfunctioning?
Never saw Lipstick Jungle, so nothing to miss.
As far as I’m concerned, Prison Break ended 50 minutes into the season 2 finale. They all lived happily ever after. That’s where the show was supposed to end anyway, and then someone got greedy and decided to run the show into the ground, and I wanted no part.
Pushing Daisies is an awesome show, but it seems like its NEVER on…how do they expect ratings when there’s nothing to see?
Really? I’d think that a show whose PREVIEWS make me want to hurl would do better. I thought the American Public LIKED programs that showed things like vermin in restaurants, cooked chicken breasts in the same drawer as uncooked ones, and what Gordon Ramsey found in the grease trap.
I used to think he was excessively mean. Now I think he has saintly patience.
Man… I really really like Chuck. It’s really hit it’s stride this season. I’m consistently entertained. I’m also a big fan of Numb3rs.
(And… OK… I’ll admit it- I may be the only one but I’m watching Knight Rider… It’s not the greatest show in the world and yet I keep coming back. I’ve certainly seen worse.)
Well yes the American audience has become that dumb, but I am not sure that “Pushing Daisies” would have ever done well. I love the show, but I also face the harsh reality that we are too small of a minority. I’m still amazed to this day that “Northern Exposure” found an audience.
It will at least be on next Wednesday. I think the strike really killed the little bit of momentum that **Daisies **had.
**Elenfair **, on “Chuck”, is that strickly conjecture based on ratings or do you have any inside info? I really thought that show was lowbrow enough to be safe. Damn!
L&O has always faced the threat of cancellation, but it seems to survive every time. Personally, I think it will be just fine. I have faith in Rene and Dick just won’t let the Mothership die. Hell, he sacrificed CI for it and tossed it to Cable in order to save it a few years ago. SVU, however, is not facing any risk of cancellation. Sex sells, my lambs, sex sells… And Hargitay making faces at the camera also sells. What can I say.
Numb3rs regularly wins its slot. It’s been on the bubble before, but its numbers are still facing eminent death – especially now that it’s about to face off with Dollhouse and TSCC. We’ll have to wait and see. It has also had some stale-story issues this year making some execs twitchy.
jsgoddess – there’s still lots on the list that’s juuuuust fine, for scripted drama, and lots of new shows getting their start. It’s been a really odd year, to be honest. Everyone has felt it, let me tell ya…
I’m just glad Dexter and Entourage aren’t on Elenfair’s list.
As for everything else, just accept that mainstream network TV executives HATE any show requiring an audience to show up every week to understand what’s going on, and you’ll understand the state of american television.
Daisies hit 13 eps and there is no plan to order more right now, no decision has been made.
Regarding Chuck: right now, as far as I know, they’re safe til May, when things will be re-evaluated. It’s partially a ratings and demos issue. They’re sitting on the bubble, as it were, and will have to prove their value through sweeps.
Numb3rs is on at 10 on CBS. Fox programming ends at 10. I’m confused as to how Fox’s 8 and 9 o’clock offerings affects CBS’s 10 o’clock offering. (I don’t claim it doesn’t or can’t. I’m just trying to understand the mechanism.)
Elenfair’s list is interesting to me. I looked at it and saw nothing that I watch (except for the odd episode of Kitchen Nightmares). It used to be that every list like that would include about half of my favourite shows. Then I realized that it’s almost entirely scripted shows, and that the only scripted shows I watch anymore are Supernatural and True Blood (and Big Love when it finally comes back). (I was watching Saving Grace, but the suckiness of the writing finally overwhelmed how much I liked the Earl character and Holly Hunter’s ass.)
People like me must be nightmare for people like Elenfair
Yeah, because no one watches Lost or 24 or Heroes or American Idol or Survivor or any other show that requires knowledge of the ongoing story. :rolleyes:
But still, your list basically cancels everything currently on the air except for a small handful of shows. They can’t all be on the bubble.
I didn’t say I grew tired of it, I just said it didn’t make up for the stupid stories.
Although I will say, although my wife and I did not disapprove of how often Hunter’s character walked around wearing little or nothing, we did often comment on how there was no way that the character, whose main form of exercise seemed to be lifting glasses of Jack Daniels, could have a body like that.
Well, I have never seen an episode of Survivor or *American Idol *(although I did watch an episode of American Inventor) or Bachelor or *Extreme Makeovers *or whatever other reality dreck is on TV.
It’s very sad when a delightful, charming show like *Pushing Daisies *can’t make it.
I wonder how many “classic” shows would make it today? Quantum Leap? Little House on the Prairie? Bonanza? Green Acres?
