Shows that need to stop beating the old horse and put her out to pasture

Same here. Anything remotely sympathetic about her ended when she left prison and got back into selling and dragging her kids into it again. It’s also not “sympathy dies” in the Breaking Bad way where the character’s descent into evil is a main feature of the show but more in a “lazy writers who don’t know what to do with her” sort of way. (Though I did not like last season.)

Doctor Who has been going since 1963. They are on the eleventh person to play The Doctor. What happen din 2005 was not a reboot, it was a relaunch. It continued with the, err, continuity.

Yeah. 30 Rock holds a place in my heart - there are two or three episodes from the first few seasons that may be among my favourite TV episodes ever - but it’s just going in circles now. I’m annoyed by both the things that do change - Jack settles down, gets married, baby, blah blah blah - and the things that down - oh that wacky Liz Lemon, can’t keep a man! The endless parade of guest stars is annoying as well in that there’s no point in caring about them too much, since obviously Matt Damon et. al. are only going to be in a few episodes. Not that I’m expecting, you know, huge amounts of suspense in my 30 Rock watching, but a new man showing up to be a love interest for Liz just means watching him seem nice, then wacky, then disturbingly creepy, then be gone. I am, however, in love with Jenna’s Jenna Maroney impersonating boyfriend. And I’m taking the fact they chose not to use Jane Krakowski’s or Tina Fey’s real pregnancies to shoe horn in pregnancy plots for their characters (other than Jenna’s hysterical pregnancy from this season) as a good sign.

Still, I just think the show has run its course. The next season will be Baldwin’s last. Hopefully NBC doesn’t turn this into an Office type thing.

Yes. Adding a seventh (or whatever) series finale is unlikely to make the situation better.

I’ll see your Simpsons and raise you a South Park.

The Office: Jim plays a prank on Dwight, Stanley does a crossword, Angela’s a bitch. Yawn.

They ran out of myths quite some time ago. The last couple of years they’ve become the “YouTube-Busters.”

Desperate Housewives should have been shot to death around year 3. Absolutely horrible.

2.5 Men. They had a perfect excuse to just end it and instead they’re carrying on with Kutcher. I don’t see how it could possibly be interesting to watch once his newness wears off.
Or hell, maybe that happening SAVED it, who knows.
Either way, it’s a zombie.

Meet that mother already, sheesh.

Are you kidding? Watching Kutcher lay waste to that show will be must-see TV for me.

Dirty Jobs, for sure. Rowe ends every show now literally begging the audience for new material.

Probably Bizarre Foods as well.
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Lol, yeah, it can’t really get much worse.

For some reason, these shows never know when to quit. American shows really could take a lesson from the British way of doing things, quitting before they jump the shark rather than jumping the shark and then adding five more seasons.

In some cases jumping the shark and adding five more episodes.

They have the magic 100 for syndication. The rest is gravy. Or padding. Which is what gravy is when I make it.

When did Firefly jump the shark, and how can a show that lasted barely a season have even developed enough to jump the shark? :confused: :confused:

Unless this is a whoosh.

And Ariel is the pinnacle, of all episodes? Really? The only episode after it that is possibly weaker is Heart of Gold.

Every other episode after it blows it out of the water.

Firefly jumped immediately. Check the ratings.

I don’t think “Jumping the Shark” means what you think it means.

Jumpiong the shark is about quality, not ratings.

**Survivor ** is way past its sell-by date.