It looks like the Writers' Strike is still taking a toll on the world of television.

A bunch of the Sophomores (that are actually still Freshmen) shows are struggling and now have been officially canceled. Each of which, the ones on ABC at least, were part of my viewing pleasure last year.

Pushing Daisies:
The WORST part of this show being cut is that its another blow to crazy imaginative and different shows finding a home on network TV. It would be great if Pushing Daisies could be picked up by AMC or some other basic cable network, but I think it's too expensive. Not sure though. They're predominately filmed in a studio so that should cut down costs. Maybe their cast is too expensive? I'll miss Chuck and the Piemaker - but honestly, I had to choose against Pushing Daisies this season since it was competing against Bones.

Dirty Sexy Money:
I tried this one out last year mostly to follow Samaire Armstrong. Then she had to leave due to personal issues. Then the writers struck. I thought the show was fun through it's first go last year. When it came back after the strike, I wasn't all the interested anymore. I think they had quirk and some level of interesting satire at the beginning, but eventually it became just another high-life nighttime soap. Unfortunate since it's always fun to see New York in HD. I'm not all that sad to see this one go. The cast was fun, though. I hope most of them find good landing pads in other ongoings.

Eli Stone:
This one will hurt the most - but not really. Eli Stone's in the "Cool Crowd". I intend to watch it every week. I like the cast for the most part. I liked the lightness of it, the hippie-ness of it, and that it was in San Francisco (although filmed OBVIOUSLY and IRRITATINGLY in la. How the hell do you film a "san francisco" baseball game in obviously chavez ravine????) It's always good to see Victor Garber in a role that he can play various tones. I also loved their shoutout to Credit Dauphine/Alias earlier in the season.

Why it won't hurt is that with the new storylines - post-Eli's surgery arcs - is that it too has turned into the run-of-the-mill legal dramedy a la The Practice. Maybe it always was, but I was blinded by the quirk and the gimmick, but it was definitely fun. Now, I'm not so confident they would've ran in the direction I would've followed.

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January, though, may be my favorite month ever...

BSG returns.
LOST returns (I think).
Flight of the Conchords returns.
Scrubs returns!!

AHhhhh.

posted by breakfast boy@ 11:58 AM