The news now is that ABC is putting Ugly Betty on hiatus until JUNE to highlight a “comedy block” on Thursday nights.
ABC, you now have ONE SHOW that I watch. Period. Admittedly, Betty Season 3 is no Betty Season 1, but it’s loads better than the disastrous Betty Season 2. You’ve cancelled the only other scripted show I give any time to, Pushing Daisies. Now you’re basically kicking Ugly Betty to live in the doghouse until summer when NOBODY WATCHES TV!
Are you deliberately killing the shows I love? Is it something personal? Are you just complete idiots who wouldn’t know a good show with good writing and engaging characters if it fell on you?
I do, actually. I was indifferent to them until they started airing Ugly Betty. Then I liked them. Then they aired Pushing Daisies and I was willing to bear their children. Then they cancelled Pushing Daisies and I really wasn’t happy with them. Then they did this almost guaranteed method of killing Ugly Betty and now I hate them. After Ugly Betty tanks due to the long hiatus and lack of promotion, I can leave ABC’s dessicated corpse behind and turn my full attention to CBS, the only freaking network that has any shows I watch now.
I feel your pain, sorta. I don’t watch Pushing up Daisies or Ugly Better, but I was terrified that they were trying to kill Life on Mars when they put it on a ten week hiatus and stopped advertising it during that time. It seemed like a good way to kill any momentum or audience it might have been building. But it’s back this week and I see they’re pairing it with Lost, so…I’m slightly hopeful that the only scripted show I watch will at least make it through the first season (after losing so many shows on FOX, making it through the first season is all I want).
I can’t get their episode player to work so I can catch up on Grey’s Anatomy. I had to bump Grey’s for Bones when Fox moved Bones to Thursdays. Stoopid American Idol. Harumph.
Anybody else having touble with the episode player?
At least they have an episode player unlike SOME NETWORKS. (yes, CBS, I’m looking at you.)
Last week’s Ugly Betty was not good. So I’m ok with taking some time away from it. Maybe they can fix some issues. And learn that it isn’t that far physically between Manhattan and Queens.
Like I said, Season3 is no Season1, but it’s light-years better than the hideous Season2 was. Frankly, if UB had died in mid-Season2, I’d not have even really cried. It was terrible last year. But it’s picked up a LOT and things have been generally better this season, so I’m going to be disappointed if it dies due to neglect.
Wasn’t dreck like Three’s Company and the Love Boat on ABC originally?
Back when CART still existed, it was shown on ABC in the early 00’s, and races would routinely get bumped to show Aunt Martha’s Full Contact Crocheting or some crap.
I wrote many nasty letters to ABC telling them I watched their network as little as possible, something I still adhere to.
Cancelling *Sports Night *and now *Pushing Daises *has convinced me ABC is a bunch of rat bastards who wouldn’t know a quirky well-written show if it bit them on the butt.
That said, CBS has somewhat returned to my good graces with Big Bang Theory, but I still harbor some resentment over Joan of Arcadia.
I really don’t see benching it till summer as its death knell.
I read somewhere (near the end of or shortly after the writers’ strike) that the days of the September-through-May (and summer being nothing but reruns) TV season is a thing of the past. Seasons will begin and end at weird intervals (Lost, Survivor), will be shorter, will have long gaps between episodes, and may or may not have new episodes in the summer.
UB gets good ratings, but not great ratings, so ABC moves it to summer when ratings matter less and it can try out new shows that might do better.
