If it’s on cable, they have much different standards for viewership than prime time network TV. Eventually prime time network TV is going to fall to near-cable levels, but it hasn’t happened yet.
And Pushing Daisies was probably a bit more expensive than the standard reality show, too. Amazing Race might be a bit pricier than some, I guess.
I’m a Celebrity does not appear to be an American show (there was one season, sure, but way back in 2003). It appears to be a British show. Here in America, we consider all things British to be erudite and superior. And yet, we have Pushing Daisies, an pretentious, eclectic reward fantasy built on a ridiculous premise, and you have… well, I’m a Celebrity.
How is this our fault? We’re TRYING to export classy things, but you’re not listening. You’re not watching. Shouldn’t ITV or BBC take over production of Pushing Daisies, and leave the crass stuff to us?
As I noted, I mixed things up. Apparently the incident I read was about the British version. The American version (aired on ABC) does appear to have died after the first season.
I hate reality shows and since that’s the crap that’s been on for years, I really have almost stopped watching television. If something different comes on I don’t know about it until after it’s gone. I don’t even tune in for Ugly Betty anymore, because I don’t think about it when on, or the signal keeps dropping out on the digital receiver.
And MaxTheVool, are you joking? 30Rock is perhaps the only tv show I’ve ever seen in my life that is worse than Pushing Daisies. I’d rather watch back-to-back Becker and American Dad marathons than 5 minutes of either one of those turds.
I just installed our DTV thingy, and now we get like 8 flavors of PBS. The other night I watched three episodes of History Detectives back to back to back. It was freakin’, geekin’ awesome. I love History Detectives. Oh, oh, and I saw a great *Nova *about a discovery of the prehistoric bones of a species of very small hominids in Indonesia. Fascinating stuff.
But, yes, 99% of TV is crap*. COPS is still on the air for fuck sake.
*Of course, 90% of everyting is crap
I’ve never seen 30 Rock, but count me among those who won’t miss Pushing Daisies. If I want sickening sweetness spliced in with scenes of death, I can drink a cup of maple syrup, open CNN.com, and save myself 58 minutes.