Arrested Development Cancelled???

I am devastated!!!

Fox in all its brilliance has taken the best comedy program on televsion and put it on the shelf until at least December. It is a travesty that an Emmy award wining show is cancelled in spite of being well written, and the absolutely funniest thing around. Arrested Development has been moved around this year, making it difficult to find (thankfully I have a DVR) and then was interrupted for a month while Fox broadcast the World Series. It is the type of show that builds momentum as the season progresses; they plant innuendo and bury plot hints in the early episodes, then reference them later on in the series making all of the dialogue relevant. Too many shows on TV use simple formulistic situation’s that are tired and old, but the networks keep renewing them year after year. Whenever a show is truly revolutionary it is often easily discarded rather than given the opportunity to grow an audience.

I was watching the double episode a few weeks ago and it was brilliant. How many shows have the premise of a real estate company building properties for Saddam Hussein in Iraq and mock Japanese Godzilla type movies? The Bluth family is about as dysfunctional as any ever portrayed on TV. In these two episodes, they carry on with at least three seemingly unrelated stories, when all of sudden they come crashing together in the end in a perfect way, that I never saw coming. It was so funny, I actually found myself laughing out loud. It will be truly missed once it is officially cancelled. Please take the time to watch it when it returns on December 5. Maybe some Nielson families will catch it and it will get its death sentence pardoned, but I am not holding my breath.

Does anyone actually know anyone who is a Nielson family? I have not ever known anyone that has admitted to being one, and it just begs the question if this archaic rating system is still valid. I suspect in a few years, TiVo or some other DVR type solution will replace the Nielson as the official arbiter of television ratings. If you think about, they are already collecting aggregated data on what individuals are really watching. It will only be a matter of time until the cable companies or the phone company or the satellite providers or someone else actually reports this information on an individual level and is able to serve up 100% personalized content, which is kind of cool and kind of scary. I am sure it is already being tracked individually, they are just figuring how to sell it appropriately without everyone claiming invasion of privacy. Time will tell.

Is anyone surprised that these kids from Pennsylvania who killed the girls parents and drove to Indiana, are home schooled?