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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon: [QB] Ok, so there is Doctor Who, Torchwood is returning with something tasty looking, CBS Action has TOS re-reuns and I'm hoping that the indifferent noises I'm hearing about Futurama are not a reflection on the show. Even non scifi is struggling, weighed down by the solid mass of The Apprentice, X-Factor, Britain hasn't really got any tallant but Simon Cowel has a premium rate phone number, Eastenders, The Chelsea FLower Show, Midsumer Murders - there is nothing on TV! This week I want to watch (and this is looking at this weeks TV listings across all the channels on Sky TV, so the domestic channels, movies, doccumentaries etc, who whole kaboodle), I want to actually sit down and go out of my way to watch, three shows: Dr Who; Inside the Human Body (4/4 parrt documentary); something about Lionel Logues grandson. I might watch Have I Got News For You (news based satire) but that's getting stale after 20 odd years. I'm struggling here. You want to know what my scifi fix was this week? I watched TOS (The Deadly Years) on Monday and Hot Tub Time Machine. Josh Whedon wrote something very recently about too many shows being cancelled too early. Caprica? SGU? V? FlashForward? We can all see why each of these was axed. The first two had potential but didin't get there fast enough. Do you honestly think that today Twin Peaks would get half a chance, cos I don't. So you make a show that's only half as good and three times as drawn out, you are going to struggle. Then, The Event (dull), Heroes (needed the Old Yeller treatment and got it), The 4400 (that was just silly), Lost (which I got bored with in the middle); all gone. Enterprise is long gone, and despite a few good moments I really couldn't hack that post 9/11 season 2&3, sorry. Mars, I'm not sure it's just that we've now got the tech we dreamed about in the 80's. I suspect it's far deeper than that. It's like CGI I think. For the same reason that there are a load of old cartoons being made with CGI there are alot of new cut'n'paste shows on TV. It's easier, cheaper and quicker with a better return to make mediocre popularist pap for a primetime, and the execs who run TV land are inerested first and foremost in money, not value or audience satisfaction or imagination. Anything else will struggle, and the bosses are simply not as patient as they used to be. It's just realy sad. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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