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jasonelias
11/02/09

In reply to Southland Will Live: TNT Grabs the Cancelled NBC Police Drama
Great news. Just cause the NBC 10pm weeknight schedule is locked up due to that corny-ass utterly directionless show, other people shouldn't suffer.

In all honesty, Jay Leno's show is probably good once a week--and that's all it should appear. #southland
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Spirit Fingers
11/02/09

In reply to Southland Will Live: TNT Grabs the Cancelled NBC Police Drama
Watched a couple episodes and thought it was decent, but I'm more impressed with TNT for rising up against this NBC Leno thing. Should one station's obsession with that repurposed hack, be everyone's failure? I think not. And obviously TNT agrees. Good on them. #southland
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jasonelias
11/02/09

@Spirit Fingers: Very true. #southland
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naugahydeinplainsight
11/02/09

In reply to Southland Will Live: TNT Grabs the Cancelled NBC Police Drama
Excellent. I hope the show eats Leno's lunch (If Sons of Anarchy can beat him in the key demo [gawker.com] this should, too).
Question: Since TNT and the show's producers, Warner Bros., are Time-Warner corporate siblings, does this increase the chances of there being a second season? What did they used to call that . . . synergy?
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Edited by naugahydeinplainsight at 11/02/09 11:52 AM

secretagentman
11/02/09

@naugahydeinplainsight: Very much so. Also, they don't have to score as many viewers to do well on TNT.
So happy about this, I find the show and characters quite compelling. #southland
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n.c.wilson
11/02/09

In reply to Southland Will Live: TNT Grabs the Cancelled NBC Police Drama
yay!!!!!!
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BettyCrocker
11/02/09

@n.c.wilson: Yay indeed! #southland
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RonMwangaguhunga
11/02/09

In reply to Southland Will Live: TNT Grabs the Cancelled NBC Police Drama
Regina King must be tired, she's been running through my mind ever since the boneheads at NBC cancelled this excellent show. #southland
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Spirit Fingers
06/23/09

In reply to The Summer People Stopped Watching Network TV
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

In reply to The Summer People Stopped Watching Network TV
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

In reply to The Summer People Stopped Watching Network TV
Here's a hint: Less Wipeout, more good television.
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TedSez
06/23/09

In reply to The Summer People Stopped Watching Network TV
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

In reply to The Summer People Stopped Watching Network TV
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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SuperBien
05/21/09

In reply to Put On Your Overalls but Leave One Strap Off, Because It's 1992 Again
Crikey . . . So I guess in 2014 we can expect a Friends reboot, huh? When this comes to pass, I vote casting Jonathon Lipnicki as Chandler, Dakota Fanning as Rachel, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel's mom, and Judah Friedlander as Ugly Naked Guy . . .
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DeltaGuy
05/21/09

@SuperBien: I would actually watch that.
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bangers
05/21/09

@SuperBien: would michael cera be too old to play ross by then?
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Fry_Bread_Power
05/21/09

In reply to Put On Your Overalls but Leave One Strap Off, Because It's 1992 Again
Dr. Doolittle + Hitch = The Zookeeper
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HiredGoons
05/21/09

@Fry_Bread_Power: sounds like a 3rd tier Batman villain.
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Spirit Fingers
05/21/09

In reply to Put On Your Overalls but Leave One Strap Off, Because It's 1992 Again
Also, Richard, I wore that exact outfit throughout much of the 90's, but you forgot the paisley rayon, patent leather shoes, and extra crispy bangs. Didn't leave home without my Stiff Stuff hairspray.
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Spirit Fingers
05/21/09

In reply to Put On Your Overalls but Leave One Strap Off, Because It's 1992 Again
I fully hope this means they can give Kindred: The Embraced a reboot as well, since we're going back into the 90's Aaron Spelling vault of great shows.

Wow. Kindred was pretty great, and so sad about the lead character. Watched a marathon on the damnable "SyFy" channel last week and had a ball, though. Didn't even remember that officer Dokes from Dexter was on the show and the mom from Gossip Girl, the one who the failed 80's crud was supposed to be about. We won't talk about C. Thomas Howell and what the ferg has happened to him over the years. Ah, the 90's, where everyone's true age is revealed.
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City_Dater
05/21/09

In reply to Put On Your Overalls but Leave One Strap Off, Because It's 1992 Again
Finally, a sensible theory about whatever happened to Gabrielle Carteris.
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sassypants
05/21/09

@City_Dater: She became Sarah Palin's stunt double?
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