Ponder This – Issue 3.0

Another One Bites The Dust:  How can every show that I am a fan of be cancelled?  I swear, if you are trying to start a successful show in Hollywood, don’t let me know about it, because if I start to watch it and enjoy it, it will essentially be automatically cancelled.  When it comes to shows and their success, I am like a black cat walking over a broken mirror on Halloween.  I am the worst luck for good shows, and I usually seal their fate as a short-lived show.

I’m only complaining about this because on Friday I became aware that one of the only shows I watch, Dirty Sexy Money, is getting booted by ABC.  The ratings are low for the show, which is about a lawyer and the dysfunctional family that he works for, who happen to be the richest family in New York City.  It is not the coolest show I’ve ever watched (that distinction belongs to LOST,) but it was enjoyable, the characters were outrageous and entertaining, and that’s why I watch television, to be entertained.  

This is only the latest addition to the long list of shows that have been cancelled that I have been a fan of.  In 2004, Life As We Know It, a show about high schoolers becoming adults and dealing with the issues that go along with that, was cancelled after 13 episodes.  In 2005, Commander In Chief, a show about the first female President, was cancelled after 19 episodes.  In 2007, The Black Donnellys, a show about black Irish brothers living in New York City was cancelled after 14 episodes.  Also in 2007, and this one really hurts, was Journeyman, a show about a man who randomly traveled through time.  Each episode he would either go back in time or forward and solve a problem that fate entrusted to him.  And now, Dirty Sexy Money will be on that list in the coming weeks.

This may look like I watch a lot of shows, but when they continually get cancelled, I have to trudge along and test out new ones that possibly will replace the fallen show.  I think I’ll just become a poet, or a farmer, and get the hell away from television.  However, that day won’t come until LOST (the only bright spot in my dark history of television fandom,) stops showing up on my screen.