from defamer.com:
Fox may not be killing Arrested Development, but it’s stabbing it in the gut, rolling it out of the passenger side door, and leaving it for dead by the side of the road. Variety reports that Fox is pulling the show from the schedule during sweeps (along with Kitchen Confidential, but we doubt its fans will be sending any foam Hail Marys to save it), and has reduced its order from 22 to 13 episodes.
i mean, why not? getting it off the air makes perfect sense. the show has only won a trainload of emmys.
well, if it's gotta be, it's gotta be. for some odd reason, people aren't watching it enough to warrant its space on the network and the high advertising rates. but it's only to be replaced by some slop that wouldn't bring in any more than what AD carries. i can't believe there isn't a space in fox's lineup where the show's built-in audience would topple whatever's playing there at the time. i mean, this is the network of "stacked".
call me a fan, sure, and maybe i'm deluding myself that part of what is entertainment is putting shows on the air that, well, entertain. but that's a delusion; movie companies and television networks care more about advertising rates than artistic integrity. so this is just one small man looking for a reason to keep its brilliance on the air. it's so difficult to have genius writing, directing and acting at the same time, week after week. there's so few of them that earn my attention.
but then again, i'm just hoping HBO or showtime realizes how retarted fox is and picks up the show. and make fox look retarted. did i just say that it would make fox look retarted? i should, because it would.
you know, make fox look retarted.
again.
2 comments:
you know what, steve-oh, the american public are not as smart and whitty and you, me and the people that read this blog (sans groban fans). it's the same thinking that drove "my so-called life", one of the greatest shows on television, off the air after one season. it put real adolescent situations in your face at 8p.m. once a week. AD pretty much puts every sort-of politically incorrrect, ratial, its-on-your-mind-and-out-of-your-mouth in one second, commentary on tv as well. granted MSCL didn't win emmy's obviously proving that it was quality television, but we have to assume the monkeys pushing the button at Fox aren't as dumb as they seem. shall we start a letter writing campaign? you kow i'm on board.
You know I'm on Board for the campaign. It's so weird, the greatest shows ever, Cheers and Seinfeld being two great examples, didn't hit their stride till around the the season AD is in now. And then they became the cultural icons watched by everyone we all remember. The difference being, NBC back them believed in them and though they almost pulled Cheers once, they stuck behind it, gave it it's fair shake and didn't put it through cancellation rumors twice a season. Apparently TV executives are part of the ADD MTV generation now too.
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