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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 2001929" data-attributes="member: 8863">Not to mention that <s>some</s> — err make that most — primetime dramas and sitcoms tend to be rather uninspired in the first place.  A lot of them have crappy writing too.  Look how many new fall shows are off the air by January.  Even shows that manage to survive often recycle the same batches of writers and not all of them are good writers in the first place.    And let's face it how many of the shows are really all that differnet?  You might have different locations and different casts and characters but the types of shows are essentially the same, and have been te same since the beginning of television.  With dramas you've got cop shows, hospital shows, lawyer shows, action shows, and family shows.  Westerns used to be a drama staple, but are basically dead these days.  Sitcoms you've got office/workplace sitcoms, the group of friends sitcoms and family sitcoms.  Most the fictional television that's on the networks even today fall into one of these categories.  After 55 or so years of television, really how much is there left to do?  I have no respect for producers.  And I certainly don't think that most of them have any brains.  IMO, the only time a Hollywood exec shows anything even remotely resembling cunning is when he's seducing a naive young woman:Aspiring actress: I don't know, I really don't think I should have sex with you.Exec:  Nonsense, it'll help your career!  You want to be famous don't you?Aspiring actress: Yeah, you're right.  Ok, I'll do it.Well, I don't really know about Farscape and Firefly, but I certainly know what you mean in all the other cases.  Hell, the original Trek series had problems with NBC meddling, and that was one of the reasons Roddenberry turned his back on the networks in the first place.  And i can think of several other examples of promising Sci-Fi shows with good premises that were sunk by networks thinking they knew how to improve ratings.  Anyone remember SeaQuest?</blockquote>

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