texdent: Should I be worried that Once Upon a Time isn't on there?

It was supposedly going to get renewed a month ago. I don't know why EW didn't mention that.

rcf1105: And one of the best shows on (Canadian) television got cancelled this year as well:

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But Lost Girl got renewed again, so YAY CANADA!

Shame about Breaking In. Always thought it had potential, just could never find it. Leverage and Community fill that void easily though

I'm going to miss Cougar Town.

rcf1105: And one of the best shows on (Canadian) television got cancelled this year as well:

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Damn. I was just getting ready to catch up on this season....

Handsome B. Wonderful: I'm going to miss Cougar Town.

COME ON.

ABC needs to put it with the Middle, Modern Family, and Happy Endings and let it ride.

They better not cancel Alcatraz.

FeedTheCollapse: this will turn into a hybrid Community/Fringe thread, won't it?

That would be a lot of timelines.

Once Upon A Time has filled the void the wife and I had for watching LOST.
Best show on right now.
And as long as I see Bob's Burgers is already back, I'm fine, but...

Doggonit! I like Christian Slater. Wish he'd find a good show to be on.

Glad Raising Hope got renewed. As it reminds me of my family, only less dysfunctional. Methinks that Bijou Phillips' character isn't "all dead". They can keep making her comebacks even sillier than the last just like Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons.

Two Broke Girls - love the show, if only to see Kat Dennings every week.

Big Bang Theory - they have about 2 maybe 3 seasons tops. With Bernadette and Howard getting married this season and him going off to the Space Station, next season will most likely revolve around Sheldon and Amy and Penny and Leonard finishing out their story arcs. And Raj will come out of the closet next season.

Allen Gregory was so horrible.

I like Napoleon Dynomite

indarwinsshadow: In the meantime the rest of the world watches The Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad, Mythbusters, The Walking Dead...and so forth. I f*cking hate most shows on "regular" television. They're derivative and hemmed in by cookie cutter plots and dialog.

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Still amazed by the seasons ending of Breaking Bad.

True, and I would add Justified to that list of cable shows. The one network show I will reliably watch is Big Bang Theory, but it seems to have lost its way this year. Seems like they are trying to morph it into a poor man's Friends

Leonard = Ross
Penny = Rachel
Howard = Chandler
Bernadette=Monica
Sheldon = the anti-Joey

KellyLockhart: dugitman: I read a kooky forum rumor they filmed 2 final scenes dependant on renewal.

"Though producers were optimistic about a pickup, they reportedly shot two endings of the upcoming fourth season finale just in case a deal didn't come through."

Source: http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/04/26/fringe-final-season

Aw crap! We *are* getting Telegoths.

/but we gain Lyta sex and leggy dead ground-pounders quoting Emily Dickerson
//"Whitney" will get a second season

odinsposse: FeedTheCollapse: this will turn into a hybrid Community/Fringe thread, won't it?

That would be a lot of timelines.

It writes itself, down to the Dean as an Observer.

[checks CBS listing] Fine, The Big Bang Theory, Person of Interest and The Amazing Race are back, that's my network TV shows sorted out.

My thoughts are, The Office is done, end it and move on. A spin off with Dwight would be good.

Fox doesn't surprise me by possibly killing Napoleon Dynamite, but keeping The Cleveland Show and Family Guy. Two shows that need to go, especially since the show's creator has said that he wants to end it.

And, as for Two and a Half Men, really, this past season has been painful to watch. Jake is nw an adult, so it is really three men and at this point either kick Alan and Jake off the show or get rid of Waldon. This thing of Alan mooching off a billionaire has really ruined Alan's character. He owns a farming chiropractic business, how the hell can he not afford his own place??? Honestly, this show ran it's course years ago.

OtherLittleGuy: odinsposse: FeedTheCollapse: this will turn into a hybrid Community/Fringe thread, won't it?

That would be a lot of timelines.

It writes itself, down to the Dean as an Observer.

and Olivia getting a wash-away blue streak in her hair.

Apos: IMDWalrus:But Lost Girl got renewed again, so YAY CANADA!


It's cheesier than Velveeta-which is part of its charm,I suppose.

It is, but they know it is and they embrace it. The show isn't high art, but I've been watching it on Sci-Fi and I've really enjoyed it.

Zombie DJ: Once Upon A Time has filled the void the wife and I had for watching LOST.
Best show on right now.

I'm five or six episodes back (the last one I watched was the one with Grumpy and Whiskey), but it isn't anywhere near Lost in terms of quality. It has gotten better since it started, but there's a lot of wasted potential, too. Once Upon a Time could actually learn from Lost Girl - OUAT takes itself too seriously most of the time. You've got freaking fairy tale characters and magic - the writers could be having a lot more fun than they have so far.

texdent: Should I be worried that Once Upon a Time isn't on there?

You should be worried that as a grown man, you like a tv show about Disney fairytale princesses

parkerlewis: What about Expedition Impossible? I don't usually watch Amazing Race/Survivor type shows, but I got into that one

I loved that show! I hope they do another season.

Great Janitor: My thoughts are, The Office is done, end it and move on. A spin off with Dwight would be good.

I suspect that a show centered around him will be... what's the word?... bad. I think the character is too quirky to set a show around.

I hope Napoleon makes the cut. I actually liked it. It was, dare I say it, better than the movie.

Great Janitor: He owns a farming chiropractic business, how the hell can he not afford his own place???

You've clearly never been divorced (twice. And needing to pay alimony to both).

Great Janitor: My thoughts are, The Office is done, end it and move on. A spin off with Dwight would be good.

Dwight is getting a spin-off and Rainn is apparently leaving after this season (as is Mindy Kaling)

Fox doesn't surprise me by possibly killing Napoleon Dynamite, but keeping The Cleveland Show and Family Guy. Two shows that need to go, especially since the show's creator has said that he wants to end it.



as bad as the Napoleon Dynamite cartoon was, i was pretty sure it did pretty well in the ratings. It'll probably come back.

texdent: Should I be worried that Once Upon a Time isn't on there?

Except that it is.

Once Upon a Time: Since its the highest-rated new drama of the season, we expect ABC to say yes to more fantasy.

American Dad: RENEWED.

I can do without this show. It was suppose to be a replacement to Family Guy that was unnecessary after FG came back.



Protip: Don't GIS for New girl with safesearch set to moderate. Just made that mistake.

Every show my SO likes to torture me with has been definitely renewed. This sucks

I'm glad things look promising for Suburgatory. A first rate cast that show has. I like the half-hour format. I miss Better Off ted.

Guidette Frankentits: I can do without this show. It was suppose to be a replacement to Family Guy that was unnecessary after FG came back.

I disagree. It seemed unnecessary at first, but then they tweaked the formula so it wasn't always Look At The Retardican Pretend His Ideology Works and became what Family Guy right before it was cancelled for the second time: a really masterful and off the wall little comedy that deserves a lot more attention than it got. If anything, Family Guy should wrap it up and American Dad should take its place.

Cleveland Show, on the other hand, seems to be Fox's version of Wings: there only because of placement, and not because it really deserves the attention.

Guidette Frankentits: American Dad: RENEWED.

I can do without this show. It was suppose to be a replacement to Family Guy that was unnecessary after FG came back.

Shut the hell up. AD is awesome. Rapture's Delight is some of the best TV ever made in the universe. And Patrick Stewart as Bullock is hilarious.

Guidette Frankentits: American Dad: RENEWED.

I can do without this show. It was suppose to be a replacement to Family Guy that was unnecessary after FG came back.

I often find American Dad far more amusing than Family Guy.

Apos: OUAT: Family-oriented,primetime network series

LG: Adult-oriented cable series

Guess which one has to be more wary of pissing off the FCC?

That's not my problem with the show. It's that OUAT is bland most of the time, with occasional swings into good or outright horrible. I mean, you give the writers a character like the Genie, and an absolutely amazing actor (Giancarlo Esposito) to play him...and the best you can think of to do is shove him into a corny love triangle with the Wicked Witch? What about the Hansel and Gretel episode? That one just retold the fairy tale almost verbatim, did nothing to move the season plot forward, and wasted Emma Caulfield as a witch who had about two minutes of screentime before she was killed.

Once Upon a Time could be so much more creative with its plots and its takes on fairy tales. The show is boring more often than not, and Shrek, Into the Woods, Fables, and (arguably) Grimm have shown that there's so much more they could be doing with these characters.

Apos: Current favorites:

NBC: Awake,Parks & Recreation,Community and Grimm

FOX: Fringe and Touch

ABC: Once Upon A Time

I can't say that I'll miss "Touch" terribly,but I'd definitely like to see "Awake" back for another season. Pretty good series.


So here's the thing about Touch. I don't get it. I want to like it but every single episode seems like a bunch of overly-contrived coincidences designed to make you feel things. But I simply cannot get it out of my head that there's a room full of writers sitting in a room somewhere trying way too hard to tie 20 random stories together in a neat package. Normally I don't have a problem suspending disbelief for any show... but this one I just can't. I dunno.

/Maybe "Signs" pre-ruined this for me with it's ridiculous plot holes and terrible ending.

meyerkev: Great Janitor: He owns a farming chiropractic business, how the hell can he not afford his own place???

You've clearly never been divorced (twice. And needing to pay alimony to both).

Yeah, I've never been divorced, but, Judith has been married to Herb for several years now, so he's no longer paying her Alimony and Candy got a part on what we can assume is a successful television show, so it's possible he's not paying her alimony. Even as terrible as his divorce lawyer is, any qualified divorce lawyer can go before a judge and say that since the ex-wife is now a highly paid actress on a weekly television series, the alimony payments from him to her should stop, and any judge with any form of common sense would agree. Since Alan has not mentioned paying any form of alimony, we can assume her getting that role on the television series did free him of the alimony.

Eirik: Great Janitor: My thoughts are, The Office is done, end it and move on. A spin off with Dwight would be good.

I suspect that a show centered around him will be... what's the word?... bad. I think the character is too quirky to set a show around.

I agree, but him playing next to a Jim type character would work. And when it comes to the characters on that show, he's really the only decent one. Kelly, Phyills, Stanley and Daryl aren't interesting enough. Same goes with Andy and Erin. Jim and Pam aren't interesting enough on their own. Creed, what we get from him is just enough. Plus, the episode of him as manager is proof that he is great as a background character. So, that leaves us with Ryan, Angela, Oscar, Meridith and Dwight. Well, Ryan hasn't been an interesting character since he was fired and arrested. Actually, he's in need of a fist to the face. Angela couldn't carry a show by herself, and her with Dwight has the same problems as a Jim and Pam only show. Oscar may be the dullest character on the show and Meridith, no one wants to see a show about an ass ugly alcoholic skank.

IMDWalrus: Apos: OUAT: Family-oriented,primetime network series

LG: Adult-oriented cable series

Guess which one has to be more wary of pissing off the FCC?

That's not my problem with the show. It's that OUAT is bland most of the time, with occasional swings into good or outright horrible. I mean, you give the writers a character like the Genie, and an absolutely amazing actor (Giancarlo Esposito) to play him...and the best you can think of to do is shove him into a corny love triangle with the Wicked Witch? What about the Hansel and Gretel episode? That one just retold the fairy tale almost verbatim, did nothing to move the season plot forward, and wasted Emma Caulfield as a witch who had about two minutes of screentime before she was killed.

Once Upon a Time could be so much more creative with its plots and its takes on fairy tales. The show is boring more often than not, and Shrek, Into the Woods, Fables, and (arguably) Grimm have shown that there's so much more they could be doing with these characters.

Shows can always be something different. I think they're pretty well spot on with Once Upon A Time's tone and treatment of the fables. It's actually a pretty dark show. About the only thing that sometimes bugs me is the presence of the book. It's just too powerful an item to exist within the story, but, at the same time, it's almost completely overlooked.

skinink: For the love of Heaven cancel the Office already. That fictional documentary should have been made years ago. The Office became bad when !)Ryan was bought back to work in the office even though he had been publicly arrested in the Dunder office for screwing with the company, 2) Dwight bought the building the office was in yet was allowed to keep his position in the company (no conflict of interest there) and 3) that silly setup of a kid's daycare Dwight had made in some utility room.
It's not that the cast is weak, but the writing is. I don't even think the marriage of Pam and Jim was necessarily bad for the show but they didn't know how to make it work. Although one thing I think is interesting is the rumor that someone at NBC wanted to reboot the show with a whole new cast and different office . Or is that Parks and Recreation?

I don't think the writing is necessarily weak, I think it's that after 8 years they just have no more plot lines that are original. They've done everything already and are picking from the bottom of the barrel. It's time to end it before it gets too embarrassing... ie two years ago. Sigh.

Eirik: Great Janitor: My thoughts are, The Office is done, end it and move on. A spin off with Dwight would be good.

I suspect that a show centered around him will be... what's the word?... bad. I think the character is too quirky to set a show around.


"unmitigated disaster" is more how I predict it will go.

If it makes it past a pilot, it'll last 3 episodes, max.