V cancelled

Once Upon a Time is the next Lost :)

Yeah, the ABC STUDIOS suits had to decide between FF or V ... and ended up cancelling V at the end of a 2nd season with an even WORSE cliff-hanger situation unresolved. Gee, thanks, bean counters!


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Chipping away at a mountain of pop culture trivia,
Darren Dirt.

I only saw a few episodes of V which looked good but i heardvit got messy.

I will paste what I wrote and IMO are our TV issues ATM

One I missed out is youtube


I have not seen this yet but the problems we have these days are due to

1.The internet, people have the freedom to watch what they want when they want. So instead of stations having the true ratings they only get the small amount that are actually watching it on TV or their catch up website (I believe that only 2 days count on catch up towards ratings) at the time it actually matters

2. Is the biggest issue! There are so many TV shows and only so many people ( many don't watch TV at these days due to the propaganda filled in it except the sheeple. Many people are waking up)
So if the show does not get the millions and millions in the first year they axe it instead of realising
That it can sometimes take time for a good thing to be built up, instead they expect instant hits. They need to learn to allow things to grow, too high expectations basically!

I am guilty of No.1, I *beep* hate adverts and 3. Which I will add here, we are as impatient as the TV stations are wanting instant ratings, while we are as impatient as wanting to see the next show so this ties in with No.1, we can watch an entire series on the net again screwing with the ratings.

4.America and the UK should find a way that the ratings from each country benefit each other. The problem here is advertising is their major income and why ratings count. During popular shows like breaking bad for example TV stations would have been paid through the roof for an advertising slot because they know they are getting their products shown to the most people during those slots, but why would an American or British advert benefit in other countries? They don't and its a damn good shame because sometimes there are shows here in the UK that have great ratings, I believe The Sarah Connor Chronicles is an example where I heard that it had poor ratings in the USA while here in the UK it was loved with good viewing numbers and that was on sky (our main sat TV system) so it would probably done even better if it was shown on terrestrial tv .

5. Far too many TV stations!!!! Here analogue is dead and we now only have digital terrestrial TV which alone has probably about 100 channels, then there is sky which I mentioned earlier and TiVo from virgin and more which has hundred's upon hundreds of channels, mostly full of repeats mind you but of good shows so people stick to the channels they know not giving the numerous (in most cases not needed) new channels a chance because they are using the same damn repeats but there are the few that actually have something new and could be good but is lost in the list of those numerous channels we skip by every day.

6. Some do get noticed with good marketing, they look great they get the chance to grow but sometimes they genuinely just are rubbish and they are canned.

7. The one that really fuxing annoys me and is another reason I use the net to watch only what I want...... REALITY fecking TV !!!!!! I'm sick of hearing about talentless morons filling our TV slots.
People go out and work hard and train to act while we get a bunch of god damn muppets that our moron filled nations are attracted to flies like $hite. Enough of this cheap crap, gone are the days of talent like John Cleese with Fawlty towers (American? Never seen this? Go now and I mean now and you will laugh so much you will fall off your seat)

8. Originality (Dead)