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2008 TV Cancellations
November 10th, 2008
Just a little follow up on the fall t.v. previews that I did.
As I thought, Do Not Disturb, staring Niecy Nash and Jerry O’Connell, got the boot.
The only thing surprising about it’s cancellation is that it ever started airing in the first place. I never so much as saw a comercial advertisment for it - not that I’m sorry I didn’t.
Here’s what I wrote about the impending show back in August:
There are two new shows[on Fox]. Fringe, a sci-fi detective drama which seems to fall in the X-files vein, seems promising; the other, Do Not Disturb, does not. Who’s ideal was it to bring back “Just Shot Me/News Radio” (cause you know those two programs were basically the same show; just with one set at a magazine publishing office and the other set at a radio station)? Taking that format and reviving it in a hotel setting is lame; plus this show doesn’t have David Spade or Andy Dick to provide us with banal, dorky white guy humor. Not that I’m suggesting that anybody give Andy Dick a job, I’m strongly against that. Not to mention Jamie Foxx and Whoopi Goldberg already covered the hotel sit-com setting.
The good news is a Niecy Nash in this show will be one of the few Black people on Fox this fall, as she will join 3 brothers on the network to be the one Black regular character on their respective shows. The bad news is her characters description: “RHONDA (Niecy Nash, “Reno 911!”) is the head of Human Resources who also keeps Neal’s demands in check. She’s brash, fabulous and brutally honest and runs the HR department from her bullpen downstairs with a set of rules that are all her own.”.
So in other words she’s going to play the lip smacking, sassy Black Chick, the same role she played on Reno 911; and practically the only role Black women can get on television outside of ER and Ugly Betty.
Apparently people didn’t agree with me on The Mentalist as CBS is claiming it’s the number 1 rated new show, and has rolled out a new advertising push for it.
Also, apparently I was wrong about Private Practice being cancelled mid-season, though I’m not giving up on that thing not making next years schedule -canned, rehashed programming must go down. Though, as noted at TV Squad, networks are giving shows longer chances, and are not keeping as many new programs waiting in the wings. So some of these shows can thank there lucky stars we’re in a new climate, or they’d be out of here.
TV Squad Allice Waldman seems to do a good job of keeping up with t.v. cancellations.
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Fringe: Like it to a degree. Dawson Creek dude is ripe for A MAD magazine beatdown. Anna is Scully. The Doc is played well - crazy genius. X-Files, we’ll wait their ability to cross over to that hallowed TV ground.
Crusoe: Too slow developing. Has too many flashbacks to characters you are never invested in.
Heroes: Dragging. Has the cast - needs better writing to move the story. Christ, didn’t they figure this shit out on their hiatus?
My Own Worst Enemy: Christian Slater should have be offed by now - the show is supposed to be about these high-end CIA ops. and yet they would let one f-up agent destroy all that. Really have to suspend all logic so far. Good cast with bad writing…Moving too fast on revealing Edward’s problem.
I haven’t watched any of the programs you named.
The fact that Christian Slater was in My Own Worst Enemy was the only reason I ever had any interest in it; but when I read what it was about, I lost all interest.
I was just surprised Slater was still alive, as he hasn’t done anything in about a decade.
TV: I really wish I hadn’t invested the hours in watching some of the shows I have. But, that’s what you do when no one wants you to be involved in something important or necessary. (Though I have offered my time.)
Jason, I watch
too muchplenty of t.v.; just not a lot of scripted shows. I don’t find many of them worthy. If I do watch scripted shows it’s mostly 70s and 80s re-runs on T.V. Land; especially when it comes to sit-com.As far as dramas it’s mostly Law and Order SVU, The Sapano’s (came on board that show real late, but catch it on TNT now), and a couple of programs from the 90s.
I mostly watch news, sports, reality tv, and documentary shows like Front Line, Forensic Files, and Intervention.
Half the time I’m watching t.v. I’m doing other things like writing, or research on the net, so I don’t really have the inclination to get all involved in storylines that I have to keep up with like I used to. I can watch Forensic Files and pay attention to the episode that’s on or not, and still know what’s going on in the next episode cause they’re all independent of each other.
On the other note about being involved in something important; are you still going to join the military?