Some good with the bad
It's nice to see:
That NBC is airing Scrubs during a sweeps month for a change, and at 9:00 to boot. Tonight's episode even featured a full act that was a parody four-camera sit-com act. Why exactly this would want me to stick around and watch the four-camera show Committed that follows it, I don't know.
It's not nice to see:
That the FOX brain trust shortened the season of Arrested Development from 22 to 18 episodes, forcing it to end before the May sweeps (as well as making it go on hiatus for the remainder of the February sweeps period). They are doing this so that they can throw their full backing to the May 1 premiere of American Dad, which drew 15 million viewers after the Super Bowl, myself included, which means I was witness to the horror that was this show. Maybe with three months to retool it. Flush of the German scientist in the body of a goldfish down the toilet. It seems to me that they just decided to throw as many jokes as possible into the show counting on the few that were good to make people ignore the inordinate number of misfiring ones. I have similar problems with Seth MacFarlane's other show Family Guy, and since it seems like a cheap rip-off of this show, it's no wonder that I didn't like it. Take a show like Arrested Development with great characters and replace it with one with terrible characters for sweeps. Thanks again FOX.
That NBC is airing Scrubs during a sweeps month for a change, and at 9:00 to boot. Tonight's episode even featured a full act that was a parody four-camera sit-com act. Why exactly this would want me to stick around and watch the four-camera show Committed that follows it, I don't know.
It's not nice to see:
That the FOX brain trust shortened the season of Arrested Development from 22 to 18 episodes, forcing it to end before the May sweeps (as well as making it go on hiatus for the remainder of the February sweeps period). They are doing this so that they can throw their full backing to the May 1 premiere of American Dad, which drew 15 million viewers after the Super Bowl, myself included, which means I was witness to the horror that was this show. Maybe with three months to retool it. Flush of the German scientist in the body of a goldfish down the toilet. It seems to me that they just decided to throw as many jokes as possible into the show counting on the few that were good to make people ignore the inordinate number of misfiring ones. I have similar problems with Seth MacFarlane's other show Family Guy, and since it seems like a cheap rip-off of this show, it's no wonder that I didn't like it. Take a show like Arrested Development with great characters and replace it with one with terrible characters for sweeps. Thanks again FOX.
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