PLEASE! Help Save My Favorite Show---Oops, Too Late.

I’ve always watched a lot of TV, but now that we’ve started the LEOG podcasts I watch A WHOLE HELLUVA LOT of TV.

That’s why it’s been so stressful these last couple weeks as every time I scan my usual websites or pick up Entertainment Weekly I’m hit with an article on how shows like Heroes, Chuck, My Own Worst Enemy, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, etc. are taking a dive in the ratings and just might get the axe. These are the shows that I DVR every week and struggle to watch in my dwindling spare time. The shows that I already have a heavy emotionally investment in
…and from what I’ve learned from past history, at least ONE OF THEM IS ABOUT TO DIE!

Invariably, every fall there’s a new TV show that I fall in love with which gets canceled within half a season. With the comedies I’m not surprised that most Nielsen families don’t share my sense of humor, but when the plug gets pulled on the action/ adventure/ dramas it hurts. Especially in this post-Sopranos era where most are built around continuing storylines. The networks hooks you then leave you hanging with no concern for offering closure.
Anyone else still carrying baggage from the premature cancellation of “Profit” starring Adrian Pasdar from Heroes?

In more recent years it’s been like clockwork:
2004 - 2005:
Chris O’Donnell's big comeback show, “Head Cases”

Despite co-starring two actors that normally annoy me to no end (Adam Goldberg, Richard Kind) I fell in love with show…for all of the TWO episodes that aired before Fox cancelled it! (Damn, that’s even less than that “Cavemen” show)

2005 - 2006:
The Ray Liotta led heist thriller series“Smith”

It was pretty much just a sexier version of the Andre Braugher F/X show, “Thief” and made it five episodes before biting the dust.


2006 - 2007
At first I wasn’t happy about LOST getting a midseason fill-in with “Daybreak”, but it was Taye Diggs stuck in Groundhog’s Day time loop.

You don’t just start a show like that unless you KNOW you’re gonna finish it. Come on!!

2007- 2008 it would’ve been the new “Bionic Woman” but that show was such a sorry waste of potential even I was glad to hear it wasn’t coming back.

As for 2008- 2009 the suspense of “which show will buy the farm first?” was ended last week when it was leaked that NBC has already decided not to renew “My Own Worst Enemy”.

Yeah, I know. When you see an ad for about a show featuring Christian Slater and the words “own worst enemy” you can’t help but think it’s a spinoff of VH-1’s “Celebrity Rehab”, but it is was the coolest spy series I’ve seen since “Alias”

The series follows the life of American secret agent Edward Albright and his cover alias, Henry Spivey who has no knowledge of his double life. Albright, played by Christian Slater, is implanted with a chip that allows his handlers to physically switch Albright's personality to that of his alias. However, in the pilot episode, there is a malfunction which starts Albright's personalities switching at random, revealing his secret life to his alias. It’s something he has to keep secret, lest the agency he works for would have him terminated. Another great angle to this is that “Henry” is a full realized personality and the two identities know of each other and communicate by leaving messages or videos.

I would urge you watch all of the nine episodes produced and try to get a letter campaign going…but I know that’d go nowhere. Besides, most of you are just too hooked on “Dancing With the Stars”
*sigh*

Okay, enough with the lost causes. Did I tell you about this other show I love?

It’s called “Life”