Thursday, January 8, 2009

Happy Effin' New Year from Your Pals at ABC

So, apparently, ABC won't be airing the remaining episodes of Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money. You have GOT to be kidding me! As I've said, there is nothing else on this network. From a programming standpoint, this is an absolutely moronic decision.

From a fan's viewpoint, this is a major "screw you" to these shows' audiences.

I swear, despite my intense love of television and having survived many an excellent show's cancellation, I have never reacted this way over a show's being axed. But it's the combination of the loss and the network's utter cluelessness that has sent me over the edge.

I still have four ABC shows that I watch (All My Children, Scrubs, Desperate Housewives, and Brothers & Sisters), so I can't officially cut ties with ABC. (Not that, you know, they'd even care. But it's the principle of the thing.) But I can sit here and seethe. Which is, of course, imminently healthy and productive.

1 comment:

joy said...

I broke up with PD last year, and when they made the DSM announcement, I quickly cut the cord, fearing that this is what they'd do.

It's not like ABC has a brimming schedule of truly exciting content. They could have burned it off, easily. That's ridiculous.

I'm telling you, if this were a soap opera, all the network heads are off having secret meetings in parks with fake statues, because they're harboring the secret that their respective networks are dying and can't find the words to tell us.