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The Summer People Stopped Watching Network TV

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Spirit Fingers
06/23/09

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Yah, totally over network TV. It's really just piss-poor. I don't know who greenlights much of the cow pucks that end up on the air, but they really need to fire everyone. It's the same rehashed tripe on every channel. It's all, "I see dead people. I can read your behavior ticks and tell if you're lying/honest/a monkey/have two dimes and three horseshoes in your pocket. We're married and funny! We're divorced but still friends and funny! We're kids and we say cute precocious things! We're a couple named Jim and Pam, Stabler and Benson, David Spade and interchanging people who have been in sitcoms for over a decade. I'm Julia Louis Dreyfus! I'm Christina Applegate! I'm John Stamos! I'm 90210! We're all back!"

Yeah. That about sums it up.

Apparently Alec Baldwin cannot save television alone, so TV execs it's time to reach into that hat and find good shows or at the very least find something useful to do with Nathan Fillion if Joss Whedon refuses to create another Serenity. Castle ain't it. It's really Law & Order: Crime Novel. Tell me it isn't.

That is all.
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kookla
06/23/09

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I can tell you what's wrong with TV: The Mentalist, The Listener, and The Guy Who Can Tell You're Lying. Plus all those people that whisper with dead people.

That's not what I pay cable for.
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downlow
06/24/09

@Spirit Fingers: I totally think you summed it all up! I did, however, enjoy Medium.
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kookla
06/24/09

@downlow: I forgot to add: The Philanthropist.
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DennyCrane
06/23/09

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Here's a hint: Less Wipeout, more good television.
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TedSez
06/23/09

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Not only is there nothing on, but since the rise of DVRs no one needs to watch reruns anymore -- we time-shifted everything the first time around.
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Dickens_Ghost
06/23/09

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I am trying to find a way to say that I haven't watched network TV for anything other than sports in years without sounding like a dick.

I failed. I'm a dick.
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