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I was a big fan of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and the Doll House both Axed...Seems that well writen show are like the T-Rex and the Dodo Bird, yes there was such a thing...No Wonder people are turning to the net for entertainment..REMEMBER Angel? To Rub salt in the ABC wants to resurect King of the Hill  *brat1083 choke back barf*...Oh Joy I smell another horrorid braindead reality show 2gah 3gah 2gah 1censor 2mad 2gah   

I hear your pain, Brat. It's why I stopped watching TV years ago. Reality shows make me want to beat someone over the head with something heavy. Especially American Idol.  :mad:

All reality shows and useless comedies get season after season, way past the point where they could ever be good or slightly original, and all of my favourite shows got the boot. It's not fair and TV can ... well, I won't say.  :p

Speaking of "American 'Midol'" (or at least what I call it - Simon, so I hear, needs some) is really a pain in the arse. It keeps interfering with my trying to tape "The Fringe". Why does it keep spilling over? Do we really want to hear an ego crushing, self-esteem smashing show? Not really!

And as far as the Connor Chronicles go, Naria, I actually am a huge fan, too. Yes, it's continuation was threatened and it was rumoured around that they were going to stop airing it. But, they also seemed to have saved themselves. As far as I know, or at least the last time I checked, they are planning on continuing with a third season. I heard they had already signed the contract for it.

But heck yeah, I completely agree with you. We are losing some great shows to more crap. I do know that some shows, such as Prison Break didn't have the intention to go past 5 seasons. But as for the majority, it looks like shallowness has really kinda taken over the airwaves.

It just amazes me how shows such as Desperate Housewives (adultery doesn't seem that important) and Plain Sight (great concept but not great writing), seem to be more popular than well-written shows with a little more depth. It almost amazes me that the same audience as those shows are the same audience that kept great shows like "Law & Order", "CSI" and "ER" going for years.

I, too, hear your pain.

At least from what I read "The Fringe" and Heros will be back. But they keep moving "The Fringe" on the schedule to make room for some DA show like "Disco dancing with the 80's one Hit Wonders", wait I better shut up before I give them an idea...

That was Brat.  ;) The only shows I watch nowadays are the Star Wars Clone Wars show on Cartoon Network and Supernatural.

I hate watching shows because I know they'll just get canceled. No thanks, I still miss all the ones they canceled on me years ago.

Lol, nice. And that's good news about "Heroes". Love that show. Good news, too, on "The Fringe". I heard that was being canceled as well.

And Naria - sorry about that. I hear you on "Supernatural". I think I'm pretty safe with being addicted to that and "Smallville". They've both been running for awhile and I love the writing in both. While younger audiences may be drawn to the show, I still believe "Supernatural" truly was written for the 80's kids. Too many songs and references, lol.

kinnika check this out.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/01/fox-orders-more-fringe/5517

Awesome, brat. Thanks.

I'm going to be watching what happens with Dollhouse.  It's not unprecedented for a show to live through a cancellation.  I think they gave it the worst slot for the type of show it is that they could possibly give and I'd be shocked if they didn't anticipate this.  Never mind.  I'm never shocked by stupidity on the part of marketing execs.  Why can't they retroactively cancel Knight Rider and give Dollhouse that slot.  Oh, and if your looking for another good show, I really like Bones...  Love the comedy thrown in to the mix with blood, guts and gore in a crime drama type show.

I watch bones from time to time..Blood and gut.. not my cup of tea..but it not INSULT TO YOUR INTELLECT most show assume your brain dead. I getting so I don't watch TV anymore. Example BSG end Jerrico cancelled, and Chuck is on the edge. I need to see about Repear. I got were I watch old movie like original Ocean 11 and other classics. Because they don't assume that I am brain dead.

I agree about canceling Knight Rider. They turned that show into a shallow soft porn. WTH? Think they totally blew that remake.

And while I really like Joss Whedon and especially what he did with "Firefly", I thought "Dollhouse" was too much like a re-hash of "My Own Worst Enemy".

Speaking of "Firefly", I am surprised at myself for actually watching "Castle". I was kinda rooting for Malcolm Reynolds since most of his previous shows have been canceled. As cheesy as it is, it's almost worth it to me to catch little Captain Reynolds' moments in the show. I catch little River moments in "Sarah Connor Chronicles".

Man, I miss "Firefly". Maybe I should just start a fan post, lol.

I miss Fire Fly Too, I use to be a big Star Gate SG1 fan but it get old. I watcherd coupling on BBC America Cut well writen. The American version ran what 4 episodes?

Lord I can't survive without Bones!  I am soo not into blood and gore but I can't tear myself away from that one.  Just no snacking while viewing, 1tehe.  Angel (who cares if it's canceled I still gotta have it).   Without a trace, Cold Case files, Monk, Psych, occasionally The Closer.

"Leverage" is good at times too, though I think they need to move their offices to wall street and provide some leverage with the econothieves. BBC.

I really like Monk, too - and Without a Trace. Jack Malone cracks me up, sometimes.

Mrs brat Still won't watch the WB after what THEY did to Angel

I thought Angel ended pretty well, if cut short.  I've probably re-watched the entire Buffy-Angel series(es) about 4 times, and think that everything turned out just fine.  Hell, even the story arcs that seemed like a waste when you're sitting through them for a whole season don't seem so bad when you only have to sit through them for a week or so...  I'm definitely going to find out where I can bitch about Dollhouse being cancelled and sign up for a couple of petitions.  Maybe another network will pick it up...?

LOL, I still won't watch ABC after they cancelled Night Stalker in the middle of a two part episode, and then showed a movie about Jesus instead of the second part of the episode. I hate ABC something fierce for that.

We watch very little TV.  We wait for the shows we really like, for instance, NCIS and Monk, to come out on DVD and order them from Netflicks.  We are very impatiently patient.  Hate commercials would rather wait for tried and true favorites to be released.  We also get many of the old British and Scottish TV shows from Netflicks.  Sometimes with the Scottish shows we really need subtitles.
But....
we are kerazy gamers also.
And then...
there are the forums.

Nonni, I usually wait for TV shows I like to come on DVD as well. It's so much easier to just watch them all at once than to wait week after week and bother with commercials. So what I see it a year later.

And I laughed about you needing subtitles for Scottish shows. Everytime I watch something that's from the UK with people I know, they have to ask me to translate. That's what I get for knowing Scottish people, I get to be the translator for all things British.  ;)

[Dollhouse]  So, there's this...  http://tinyurl.com/d7vzrp (http://tinyurl.com/d7vzrp) and then there's this...  http://tinyurl.com/d6lu6d (http://tinyurl.com/d6lu6d)
Hmmm...  Well, there's still work to do.  But evidently it's on the block, not chopped yet.

I'm the same way with shows I'm addicted to. I rent the seasons for Lost, Smallville, and Supernatural because I am impatient about waiting for the season opener. I like watching finale's and openers back to back. And with those two shows, you'd die if you didn't, one would think. Especially Lost & Smallville. Those are killer finale's. So I always stay at least a half season behind. With other shows like Prison Break and Connor Chronicles I just let pile up on the DVR and watch however many whenever. You'd think DVR's are great for parents.

I think Heroes is the only one I really watch on regular T.V. every week. Wow, that's going to suck when they air the finale...

I'm a big-time gamer, too. I'm such a geek. And like you said... then there are forums.

Fringe is pretty good it like X-files on steriod with a little speed thrown in...

Reality shows are just rife here in the UK, they keep insisting every bloody year to do yet another Big Brother (I've never watched any of them but when they're on they're on every bloody channel you can think of, then there's the I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here) The Apprentice, then they had one trying to make ladies out of some yobby girls, Bad Lads Army where they stick 'bad lads' in boot camp as it was in the 50s and 60s, Hell's Kitchen, Dance Academy, Strictly Come Dancing and the list goes on and on and on ... a bit like the damn energizer bunny

I haven't heard of Fringe or Dollhouse, maybe they haven't made it here yet. Sarah Connor Chronicles hasn't made it onto terrestrial TV yet here but I want it to - my brother has cable so he gets the channels that it airs on and he's been raving about it.


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I know what you mean there, especially on shows like Taggart where you've got full-blown Glaswegian going hammer and tongs!!

We have to wait so long for the latest series of things like CSI, NCIS etc to get here it really annoys me so we tend to go down the route of buying it - we have a multi-region DVD player so we'll occassionally pay extra to get the latest season of something straight from the US so we don't have to wait!

Reality shows are cheap to produce, there hyped and make money off the voting....Well writen story
only make money off of ads...there not cheap to produce...There is amovie call Idiocracy it suppost to be a comedy, maybe it vision off the future of TV....

I don't really watch much tv, when I do I watch Smallville, Supernatural and CSI NY.  So basically only tv on Wends - Thurs and the rest of the time I'm either playing sims or watching the same movies over and over lol

I almost got my Grandparent's '67 Impala...but my dad finally had it hauled off a couple of years ago. :'(
It was a 2-door with the 327 Turbo-Fire 275 HP engine and TH400 transmission.  It also had AC.  I never had any money to get it running again, though.  Well, I did once, but I bought my '74 Trans Am, instead...

My brother traded dads 74 Baracuda THAT DAD GAVE HIME FREE AND CLEAR in for a POS Used Cavan, he got 2500 for it on rust spot on the trunck lid other never been in an acident. I was working alot of overtime at  time and would have double that....

Back to tv anyone catch Prime Evil on Sci Fi it seems like it may be worth a try?