[Quiet Man Cometh]

Originally Posted by Ducky

i hate seeing all the good shows being lost in a sea of reality crap ): isn't the whole point of TV to take us places we can't go in the real world? to see amazing and interesting things? Not watch other regular people who think they're somehow special..

TY is a medium, I wouldn't say it has any special purpose besides showing things. It's the same for books.

On the show thing, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of it is money. Contemporary shows are getting more and more costly to make with the special effects and fancy cinematography and such. Reality shows on the other hand, dirt cheap, or cheaper. I remember it coming up a couple years ago that so many new and good shows were being dropped because the studios couldn't afford to make them anymore.

We're headed into summer anyway, and rerun time so now is when shows will be dropped and new contracts picked up for the new season in the fall, if I have my timing right.

Popularity wise, it wouldn't surprise me if some shows want to go out on a high note, rather than drag on to an unsatisfactory finale, of when people don't care to bother with it (and potential DVD sales) anymore.

I hardly notice the missing new stuff because 90% of what I watch is either repeat BBC or nature shows, and those are springing out of the woodwork lately. I think we can blame "Planet Earth" for that. They probably sold off their extra footage to Disney and such for Earth and Life, etc.

[katyasha]

There were some really good shows and for some reason they think the rating were not up so they had to cancel it. Take for example Family Guy they were on one season and then moved to CN it got so popular people wanted more and bang they did and look at them now still on the air and more popular then ever.