Century City Canceled!

[Altalazar]

Band of Brothers = BORING, only 1 good episode out of how many? Hardly any action. Too many characters I can't tell apart because of helmets.
Sopranos = Mostly great; most season openers are boring, though (not this one).
Six Feet Under = Eh. Has its moments. Take it or leave it. Mostly leave it, though the funeral home premise is interesting.
Sex in the city = Mostly great.
Carnivale = BORING.
Deadwood = BORING.
The Wire = BORING.
DEF Comedy/Poetry = Ugh! Change the channel quick!
Real Sex = Sometimes fun, but not consistently "gripping," hehe!
G-String Divas = Please! If I was interested in what these dumb strippers had to say, I'd buy them a drink.
Taxicab Confessions = Jerry Springer in Las Vegas. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes BORING. It was a novelty when it first came out, but not now. Getting old fast. 15 minutes are up... Tick, tick, tick...
Autopsy = BORING. It's like Unsolved Mysteries except not as interesting because it's always about murders. No variety. Interesting when it first came out, but no longer.
Real Time = Politically Incorrect with 4 letter words. Loved the original, love the new version even more. Tough Crowd with Collin Quinn should move to HBO. So should the MacLaughlin Group; that would be fun to see with potty mouths!
Curb Your Enthusiasm, now that's a freakin' hilarious show.
OZ = I liked that show, except it got a little weird toward the end...

Most of the HBO shows are really boring to me, including their original movies. They make up for it by putting out some really great stuff every now and again, but rarely do it consistently. I'm considering canceling my subscription I'm so unimpressed with their service vs. STARZ/ENCORE. The movies they buy and put on usually aren't ones I care to watch. Those are on STARZ, and HBO doesn't produce enough original programming to make me think $15 a month is worth it.

True, the HBO shows are not for those with short attention spans who want to flip the remote to a new channel every 30 seconds if there isn't something on screen immediately catching his or her eye. But then that is what I like about it. The Wire - was so complicated with so many characters that you really had to watch every episode and pay real attention - and it was at the pace of a REAL investigation - none of these fake, tidy, one hour resolutions where they are drinking coffee at the end, musing about it. Hell, two seasons and there are STILL certian threads going. I love it.

And thanks for reminding me about some of those others - Taxicab confessions - that is also a fun one. As is Real Time. I didn't think about that one either. Never watched OZ.

Curb your enthusiasm - I've tried to watch it, but have mostly found it annoying - and I'd probably only watch it to see the main guy get tortured to death, or something equally amusing, because with his personality, it seems like the merciful thing to do.

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

Me too. I hate, hate , HATE "reality" tv. I have only watched one episode of one of those ridiculous dating shows once, and that was only because I was at my moms house and she had it on.

Great. So another good show gets the axe. Who watches this reality crap anyway??? Maybe I hang around with a higher caliber of people, but no one in my age group (late 20's/early 30's) watches this stuff that I know. Well, I guess there are a few ditzy women at my job who do. And my good friend, I'm ashamed for her to say she watches American Idol (which is more of a variety show than a reality show) . But I'm talking about all these stupid "who's going to marry my gay (or maybe he's straight?) midget half brother for million dollars?" shows.

Why are the canceling REAL tv for this crap? Why!?!?!?

 

[Heretic Apostate]

How long did it take for ST:TNG to gell? It's painful to watch the early episodes (and some of the late, late episodes...). If it had been on Fox, and not UPN, it wouldn't have survived more than a half-dozen episodes...

 

[LrdApoc]

Actually, ST:TNG was syndicated.. not network and UPN did not exist. Syndication used to be a lot bigger for genre shows because they were not controlled by network programmers and usually not expected to have any real market share.

Even the best seasons of ST:TNG or STS9 would have gotten them canceled on major networks because of low ratings.

 

[Iron_Chef]

True, the HBO shows are not for those with short attention spans who want to flip the remote to a new channel every 30 seconds if there isn't something on screen immediately catching his or her eye. But then that is what I like about it. The Wire - was so complicated with so many characters that you really had to watch every episode and pay real attention - and it was at the pace of a REAL investigation - none of these fake, tidy, one hour resolutions where they are drinking coffee at the end, musing about it. Hell, two seasons and there are STILL certian threads going. I love it.

And thanks for reminding me about some of those others - Taxicab confessions - that is also a fun one. As is Real Time. I didn't think about that one either. Never watched OZ.

Curb your enthusiasm - I've tried to watch it, but have mostly found it annoying - and I'd probably only watch it to see the main guy get tortured to death, or something equally amusing, because with his personality, it seems like the merciful thing to do.

I have a perfectly reasonable attention span. I just did not care for the poor pacing and uninteresting storylines of the shows I mentioned as being "boring". I watched the first couple episodes of THE WIRE and it just did not "grab" me. As to a show proceeding at a liesurely pace (taking an entire season to complete an investigation), I was a huge fan of WISE GUY with Ken Wahl, which did just that, but never suffered from having too many characters with nothing of any import happening each episode.

"Curb Your Enthusiasm" is painful to watch, but that's the sheer, perverse pleasure of it, at least for me. I watch it and scream (often covering my eyes in horror), "What are you doing, Larry? Stop it! Don't do that---Oh, no! You did it, you crazy bastard! You're insane! Oh, no! You're gonna do something else to piss somebody off---No, Larry, no!!!"