Daybreak Cancelled
I had mostly forgiven them for the early cancellation of Cupid, and for recent quick cancels like Eyes... but they've now killed two of their serialized dramas for the season without giving the viewers a satisfactory ending. I'm not completely sad to see The Nine go, as it was a lot of talented actors and writers on a concept that only kept my attention about 50% of the time (but it was still better than most of what's *left* on the network), but Daybreak... damn, man, I was into that show. And worse, it was only 13 episodes and then out. It seemed like a perfect thing. I would get all the answers, and if it didn't fly, then ABC could stop pouring money into it. But they couldn't even bear to suck it up for 6 more episodes and air the finale for the many viewers who had gotten caught up.
Long-term, that kind of thing is going to bite them in the ass. I know that with the death of Kidnapped, The Nine, Daybreak and Smith, I'm a hell of a lot less likely to invest in shows with serial plotlines in the future. And since I *like* those kinds of shows better than the episodic one-offs like Law & Order, that means I'm less likely to watch new shows on the networks. I'll do like my friend Dave and start waiting until they hit DVD, so I can be assured that I won't get caught up in stories with no endings.
But really, two lines from the Variety article say it all about the state of american television:
"ABC has decided to yank the Wednesday drama from its sked, effective immediately. It'll be replaced by repeats of unspecified comedies."
and, in reference to yanking Shatner's new quiz show:
"It'll be replaced by "America's Funniest Home Videos."
While that's probably a lateral move in terms of intelligence and quality, can't you just see the day when that sentence becomes a euphemism for cancellation? Seriously, how better to show the depths of lowest common denominator programming than saying that *anything* will be replaced by "America's Funniest Home Videos." Maybe Mike Judge was right in Idiocracy, maybe "Ow! My Balls!" will indeed be the top rated show sooner than we all think.
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Dude, you saw IDIOCRACY?! Details!
Yeah, it had a short, short release here in Austin, and a buddy and I went and caught it opening night as a result.
Sadly, the details are "not as good as I'd hope." It's got some funny moments, but the whole thing rambles a bit, and I was kinda hoping that Judge's movie about idiocy was going to be, well, smarter. Instead, it's a smarter-than-average Will Ferrell/Vince Vaughn type movie without a Ferrell or Vaughn to carry it.
I'll still feel like it was a mistake for 20th century to shitcan it the way they did, but I can't say for sure they would have made their money on it, so maybe not.
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