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Which pretty much means they’re doomed, I reckon. Both shows have been performing abysmally.
(That’ll teach them to cut Pep Streebeck and Cheetah out of the mix. Arrogant bastards.)
In other TV news, UPN’s “Jake 2.0” and the WB's "One Tree Hill" each got full-season pickups. And “Tracy Morgan” joins the NBC schedule in about a month, filling the Tuesday vacuum left by “Good Morning Miami,” which fills the Thursday vacuum left by “Coupling,” which is very very cancelled.
In other TV news, UPN’s “Jake 2.0” and the WB's "One Tree Hill" each got full-season pickups. And “Tracy Morgan” joins the NBC schedule in about a month, filling the Tuesday vacuum left by “Good Morning Miami,” which fills the Thursday vacuum left by “Coupling,” which is very very cancelled.
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Hey Herc,
Thanks for the cancellation info. This was AICN-Coax needs regularly during the TV season. Give us a list of all shows that are cancelled. Or at least a place to find a list.
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More remakes bite the dust...
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this series really stinks! The casting of the two main characters, Tarzan and Jane, were just horrible! Casting went for looks over talent and substance. Did you really buy that Jane is a cop? I couldn't make myself believe it. Smallville lucked out that Tom Welling, a former model like Fimmel, actually turned out to really 'fit' the park of Clark Kent and he has some acting talent. But Travis Femmel doesn't have the charisma or the talent to pull off the role. It takes more than muscles and a chisled face. Fimmel would get that constipated look on his face which meant... something. I don't now. It's really too bad this show failed. With different casting it might have done okay even with the existing teleplays, which weren't that bad, just the casting. YUCK!
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ALRIGHT!!!! HOT DAMN!!! THIS LEAVES ROOM FOR MORE REALITY SHOWS AND MORE LAW AND ORDER SPINOFFS!!!!! WOOOO!!!!! GOD DAMN!!!! I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL I GET TO SEE 16 MEN AND WOMEN GET TRAPPED IN A CAVE AND SLEEP WITH EACH OTHER UNTIL THEY STARVE AND HAVE TO EAT A DISGUSTING SHEEP HEAD TO GET THE CHANCE TO WALK A HIGH PLANK IN THE AIR AND FALL OFF WITH A BUNGEE CORD INTO A PIT OF HONEY COATED TEN DOLLAR BILLS!!!! YYYEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAA!!!! MAN O MAN O MAN O MAN O MAN!!!!! AND NOW WE GET TO SEE LAW AND ORDER: FELONIUS ATTEMPTS CITATIONS DIVISION STARRING DAVID BRENNER AND TONE-LOC!!!!! OH JESUS!!! AS SOON AS I WIPE THE POO FROM MY PANTS I GOTTA GET A COPY OF THE TV GUIDE SO I KNOW HOW TO PROGRAM MY VCR!!!! I THINK I GOTTA GET TIVO FOR THIS....MY LIFE HAS MEANING NOW...THIS IS WHY I WAS BORN!!!!....And thus, I need tapes! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!
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If I see another reality show or another Law and Order I'm gonna mail a bag of shit to the NBC offices. Speaking of reality shows-anyone notice those morons eat cowbrains and sheep brains on a regular basis? Doesn't anyone on them shows know that that's how the cows got Mad Cow disease-by eating other cow brains, and that's how people in England were getting it-ground beef contaminated with cow brains? I smell civil suits coming down the line.
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I enjoyed Dragnet.
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Oh, wait, nevermind. *Checks release date for Firefly box set*
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I was bummed to see the cock-suckers add the "LA" prefix to the Dragnet this season. To me it was a sign that the show was doomed. I have always loved Ed Oneill and was really hoping that he would have another hit show on the air. The interaction between Friday and Streebeck was awesome. I saw the new characters as too fucking stereotypical for my liking. The black "solider of god", the angry white hunk, and the fuckable chicana. the worst part was kicking Friday "upstairs" making him the old war-horse leader was too much like putting him out to pasture. At least I still have the memories of those ten or so shows of first season to remember.
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Nov 07, 2003 5:10:10 AM CST
wait - Dragnet had a fuckable Latina and I missed this????
by trader groucho
Drat! Can't say I'm surprised about Tarzan though. Or that Jake 2.0 got picked up for the season. Jake's not a truly great show, but it doesn't stink, either. It's kinda Alias with a Borgified slacker geek. But a guy instead of a chick. Oh, and no annoying plot about some DaVinci-esque genius. What's next, we learn aliens gave the Italian Renaissance guy Rimbaldi (which name actually sounds like the punchline of a bad dirty joke) all his coolest stuff? Lyon's Den may get a second chance, but I expect it to go the way of Boomtown. But eh, it's another teevee season. Aside from HBO and the occasional show like Karen Cisco, the coolest stuff seems to be coming from FX (Nip/Tuck, The Shield).
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But then they panicked and changed the format. Which is pretty damn ironic when you consider that the old format was the original Jack Webb "Dragnet" format...which just so happens to be the template for every cop show on TV since 1950, including "Law and Order." In other words, the idiots gave us New Coke.
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You mean.... Tarzan is getting cancelled? OH NO!! I wont have that around to not watch any more... woe is me [sob]. I think the big problem is these fucking chimps wearing the suits at Corporate are sitting in the board room throwing their shit at the walls and anything that sticks, they make into a show.
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Great stories. Good writing. Nice premise. Now if they would only do as good a job on its lead in, you know, whats it called? ENTERTHEFUZZ?
Something like that. The crappy theme music causes severe mental disfunction.
To give credit where it's due, last weeks STE wasn't all that bad. It was worth it to see Earth blown to smitereens.
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I just wish all these early exits would open up a new spot for Jake 2.0, my Wednesday nights have too much TV, so I've had to let Jake fall by the wayside. Well, I guess every WB failure is a good sign for the continued life of Angel. Too bad Tarzan was just so bad, though. And Groucho is right, FX's Nip/Tuck was one of the best new series this year, and I can't wait for season 3 of The Shield. Showtime's Dead Like Me was great as well.
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This isn't the first time a promising Dick Wolf show got the axe for changing its format. New York Undercover suffered the same fate. I enjoyed the interactions between Malik Yoba and Michael Dilorenzo, although Dilorenzo was apparently getting too cocky and the show let him go. The show suffered when they tried to turn it into this 'top secret undercover cop superteam' show. A lot of the drama was sacrificed, and the new characters added nothing to the show. This is essentially what had happened with Dragnet. In addtion to the idiocy of renaming the show "LA" Dragnet(perhaps to emulate NYPD BLUE?), we've got three new dectectives who are just too cool for school, and like the new characters on New York Undercover, they offer nothing new to the show.
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At first glance it looks so much like the Sentinel or the Invisible Man (unlikely hero gets powers and becomes a secret agent), but then I saw the Bai Ling episode and liked it. Is it usually pretty good? And which would you trade it for, Angel or West Wing (I can only tape one show at a time)? __________________ Sorry to hear about Dragnet. With the new cast it was just too generic and didn't belong after the Wonderful World of Disney. ABC should have left it where it was. As for Tarzan, I thought for sure horny women and gay men would keep that show alive longer than this. I guess it should have been syndicated like Beastmaster and Hercules.
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I hate when two reasonable TV shows are on at the same time -- time shifting one of 'em is a minor bother. If they'd just leave ALL the crappy shows on, I'd never be torn between watching the two good shows that they invariably put on opposite each other. There must be some advertiser out there looking for the five people who watched Tarzan.
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Roselyn Sanchez from Rush Hour 2 was in the show for a while in addition to Eva Longoria. The Asian lawyer was pretty hot, too. But the babes aside, Dragnet's another show that was killed by its retooling--to think, last season I was torn between watching this and Boomtown; now they're both dead thanks to geniuses out to fix something that wasn't broken. Jake 2.0 is decent stuff--no worse than the most successful UPN Trek slotmate, "7 Days."
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Anyone know? It's doing okay in a lousy time slot...
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I really wanted that show to be a success. Tarzan looked pretty lame to me so I never bothered, still kind of suprised that it didn't make a full season. Oh well, life goes on...
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Nov 07, 2003 7:45:12 PM CST
Dragnet wasn't bad.....any news on "10-8"? picked up or killed?
by hanfiredfirst
BTW, WTF was the deal with changing Dragnet to "Dragnet L.A.?" (as if it wasn't in L.A. all along! I mean, if they changed it to "Dragnet Miami" or "Dragnet Insurance Fraud Unit" that would have made sense.) Shades of the old series, when they changed the final season's title to "Dragnet 1968" and basically killed it (in addition to making it permanently dated... a la "Galactica 1980.").....since I have no cable (shudder!) all I ever watch these days are "The Simpsons," "Alias," and DVD rentals of Sopranos and Six Feet Under. (Hate having to wait a year for the 3rd season and for Carnivale. Sigh.) I had hopes for "Joan of Arcadia" but it's a deluge of sentimental tripe.
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both shows were as exciting as televised golf.
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FOX only gave Skin 3 eps, and Tru's ratings are just as bad. I actually kinda like One Tree Hill and Joan Of Arcadia. Sure both are sappy at times, but I kinda like that compared to the 500 criminal investigation shows out there. And for whoever asked, 10-8 did get picked up for the whole year.
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Damn, I really liked Dragnet, especially the first season. This season went downhill when they retooled it and gave Ed less to do. It started reminding me of a bad ripoff of 21 Jump street.
Ed's last show, Big Apple was even better. He is an excellent actor, whether it be drama or comedy.
One idea I've had for him is an updated version of the Night Stalker. He seems to be the only one I can think of that could pick up where Darren McGavin left off. And let's face it, X-Files was inspired by Night Stalker and it didn't do too badly.
And I found an old movie with Ed called Braker, where he played an evil pimp and was the best thing in it.
Of course, what ABC is probably planning for him is to move him to 8 Simple Rules....I see it now.....Katey Sagal's charcter, once over the passing of her husband, starts seeing a luckless shoe salesman named Al......... -
Part of the problem with these shows is that they took past shows that were successful and came up with versions that were too far from the originals. Admittedly, they can't do an exact duplicate of the original (think of the Psycho movie virtual shot for shot remake). But, these shows have so little to do with the originals they've lost the magic of the originals and replaced it with nothing worthwhile. An uneducated Tarzan living in the city? That is the opposite of a an educated man living in the jungle. This last Joe Friday was likeable. Too likeable. Any serious Dragnet should be direct, blunt, forceable and realistic. Too many "re-imaginings" are just limp projects pieced together by bureaucrats trying to suck on the fame of past winners.
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When Tarzan put on clothes, the viewers tuned out. That was the only reason to watch this show, so far. Fimmel was hired for one reason -and it wasn't his acting. He can take all the acting classes he wants, and emote and look like every word that is about to come out of his mouth is brilliant, but truth be told, the WB hired him because he won the genetic lottery. They hired him because they saw all those Calvin Klein ads with him in his undies and rather large bulge. He was hired because he had a great looking chest, with six pack abs. He was hired because of the perfect cheekbones. And he was hired so many women and us gay men would watch the show, no matter how stupid the plot. Just show Travis nearly naked, and your bound to have a hit. Jeebus, that was the theory behind Baywatch, VIP and 200 other shows that sexualized women. The thing is, women are smart, and many gay men are shallow, but they to know when we're handed a Christmas turkey in October. VIP was stupid, but it had a whole cadre of chicks walking around in bathing suits. It worked, for a while anyways. As soon as Travis put on pants and a shirt, well what was left to watch? The cop portion of the show was handled like $2 whore. It tried to be both a cop show and a superhero show, but failed on both counts. If you're going to do Tarzan, do it like you should. Tarzan needs to be half naked to make the silly premise work -note, VIP again. The actor who plays Tarzan should be abel to string a sentence together, but as much as Fimmel hopes to be a great actor, well I hear the direct to video craptacular films of Andrew Stevens calling. He's old now. Travis will fit in fine there. But wait, at least Stevens had some acting ability. Anyhoo, the point is, Travis wanted to known as a serious actor, and not some pretty boy who strips down every week. Well fine, then do Law and Order. You're doing Tarzan. Now strip down to your loin cloth and show this queen what I like.
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I'm so pissed that they cancelled Tarzan. Not only was Travis Fimmel smoking hot, the show was actually pretty good and getting better. Anyways, it was a better show than a lot of WB crap that gets renewed year after year. Mere Smith, who used to write for Angel, co-wrote tonight's Tarzan episode, if any Angel fans want to check it out.
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sign the petition to save one of the best shows of the season...
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... When do we get the pleasure of hearing that Enterprise has been cancelled???
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The first season of Dragnet was really enjoyable. The writing was pretty good, the acting was above average, and the dynamic between Joe and his partner moved things along well. Plus, they didn't overdo the generation gap or kill us with massive amounts of personal information about the main characters in every episode. In short, it was good with the prospect of becoming great.
Instead of giving it time to develop, they killed it. (No need to go into detail how, it's already been explained.) They really screwed the pooch. They had a wonderful opportunity to use Ed O'Neil, one of the best noir-esque cop actors in the business and they blew it.
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