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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 552865" data-attributes="member: 505">Wow.  I guess I can't say that I never met anyone who was a Neilsen family anymore. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />You can understand why I was so angry at that executive.  I honestly think he really believes that all these people who are trying to support the show weren't watching until now.A few years ago, I worked at a cable tv network, and I heard stories from people who had been there for years about the questionable decisions executives make.For example, one guy who had no tv or writing experience was given a chance to create and write his own show merely because he was friends with an exec.  Fair enough.  But when the show bombed after only a few episodes, he was allowed to do another one.  And another one. And another one.This guy hasn't created a series that made it a complete season, yet he's been given chance after chance after chance.  He still works there, churning out crap that will be cancelled in 6 episodes, and will probably be there as long as his good buddy is at the top.It wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that the guy was an egomaniacal jerk who was under the dillusion that he was a genius.  He would walk around with his nose in the air (literally) and talk down to people, not realizing that everyone considered him to be a joke.My office was right next door to his and I could hear him and the other writers (who were his friends who, not surprisingly, also had no writing experience) hammering out scripts.  God, they were awful.  A high school kid could knock something out better.Excuse the rant. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But, if you don't mind me asking, Whodat, how many people does your vote represent?  Also, do you know how many Neilsen Family there really are?  I wasn't joking when I said I turned up zero information in my online searches.Before you admitted to having a box (Do they use boxes?  Chun-tzu mentioned a diary), I was beginning to believe that the whole Neilsen process was some sort of twisted urban legend, like bigfoot (although more people have probably seen bigfoot).  Just something that networks used to excuse their horrible decisions and conceal their plot to cancel all the quality shows on tv.BTW, BattleBots is cancelled?!  Are you serious?  Nooooo! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Geez. With Nero Wolfe, Firefly, and now BattleBots gone, that leaves my entire tv watching schedule to:Alias (off and on)Crossing Jordan (off and on)Law & OrderLaw & Order: SVUWhose Line Is It, Anyway? (When I can find it.  ABC bounces it around the scheule so much it doesn't seem to air in the same timslot 2 weeks in a row)Buffy reruns on FX (I don't get UPN) DragonballDragonball ZInuyashaYu Yu HakushoHome MoviesUltimate MusclePeople's Court (off and on)MASH reruns on FXAnd what's with shows getting cancelled just as they branch out into merchandising?  Farscape releases its RPG and gets canned.  BattleBots is coming out with a video game, and now it's gone.Yet Anna Nichole, Fear Factor, and Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire's Dog will be airing from the grave.</blockquote>

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