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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1466065" data-attributes="member: 158">There's the thing; it's also why I watch maybe 5 hours of TV a week, and 2 of those hours are documentaries on Discovery or History Channel. Hours of countless reruns may be cheap programming, but I find myself amazed that it could be actually nabbing viewers.I recently picked up Tru Calling out of desperation; given that even adding Jason Priestly has not made it entertaining to me, I'm likely to drop it if this Thursday is just as repetitive and stale. About the most interesting thing in the whole of last ep of Tru Calling was Davis admitting he had some serious feelings for Tru, and that isn't exactly whopping character development. <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=":)" />The happiest I am is about the USA show Monk; it's a great show, the entire CAST has great chemistry together, and they've solved their problem of possible cancellation by having shorter, low-cost seasons and spacing them out. I'm ticked when I don't get a new episode about once a quarter, but I'm still getting them, and that's the best part. Well, Tony Shaloub winning an Emmy didn't hurt the staying power, either. <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=":)" /> Who's going to cancel an Emmy-winning show?But I've also got to hand USA credit for sticking with Monk - heck, before "Peacemakers" was cancelled, they stuck with it for at least a dozen or more episodes before calling it quits. That was a fun little show, and I'm sorry to see it go, but good Lord at least they aired the damned thing! (EDIT - turns out just 9 episodes. Oh well, at least it ran that long...)Wonderfalls' cancellation is one more example of trigger-happiness, and not understanding the dynamics of good dramas. Star Trek was almost cancelled after two seasons, before becoming a world-wide sensation purely by word-of-mouth. It has the potential to catch on, but switching it from the frying-pan to the fire only ensured that ratings would drop further.</blockquote>

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