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NBC Loses LAS VEGAS!!
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Vanessa Marcil’s comely hinder has ditched the strip.
TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello reports that “Las Vegas” will not be back for a sixth season, and that the episode that aired Friday was the last to be produced for or aired on NBC.
Read all of Ausiello’s exclusive on the matter here.
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On serious note I never watched this show I don't care either way. I didn't even know it was still on.
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never watched it anyway.
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instead of cheeky nudity
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Stupid ass cliffhangers.
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up movie. Actually the Monticeto was in the Knight Rider movie so that was technically the last appearance.
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That's the appropriate headline. How do you "lose" it?
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It was funny and entertaining. Six years is a great run but still. A shame it won't be picked up elsewhere. The Journeyman whiners are just sad.
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The Montecito was on every NBC show dealing with Vegas. Thanks to that show way too many shows that should not be part of the same world are part of the same world. Heroes, Medium, Passions, Knight Rider, The Office and Crossing Jordan all hooked to The Montecito. And extending it to shows those shows connect to you end up adding the worlds of Bewitched and, sad but true, Star Trek. All because of freaking Las Vegas.
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when Nikki Cox left...mmm Nikki Cox...sweet Nikki
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I actually only started watching once Tom Selleck showed up but I agree, it wasn't a bad show. A bit of goofy easily digestable fun for a Friday. Wasn't reinventing TV but then again it wasn't trying to.
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It was like a soap opera that had higher production values I guess and of course there was lots of hot tits and ass. Now I don't care to see it so this is welcome news.
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Please people for the love of God!
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FUCK NBC!!! It's a great mantra
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You'd think they could at least get a chance to wrap everything up. This wasn't a "six shows and out" Bionic Woman-type show - five seasons is a fairly good run. It was fun to watch cause the cast had such great chemistry. Shame, really. NBC keeps takes away a cool show like Vegas and dishes the All You Can Eat shit special Knight Rider "reimagining." Bleh.
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NBC is such a Republican station lately.
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It was like Baywatch. Only in a casino. But better.
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is perfectly respectable. Name 5 non-reality shows on weekdays started in the past five years that can claim the same...
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My wife and I watched the first season on DVD as a mindless getaway. We bought the second season, and three episodes in, we decided we just couldn't take anymore. We tried, but this show is just shit. Fun for a little while, but really just shit. Niki Cox was hot though, before she turned into a plastic surgery monster.
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after giving fans 5 years of a show, and then not even giving the series a wrap up, that's pretty pathetic and says exactly what NBC thinks of its viewers. It's one thing to cancel a show after a few episodes, it's another to go on for years and then totally screw over the fans and leave them hanging. I'm still pissed about the 4400, yea it got a bit weird but damnit what the hell was going on? They could have wrapped most of it up in one episode and at least said thanks to the people who kept watching it. The same with Las Vegas.
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than drag it out forever and let it die a slow death. I really wish more show would take the Babylon 5 approach, plan a series arc and an end date, and stick to it. Granted, it didn't go quite to plan with B5, but it was close. Lost has certainly gotten better since they set an end date and staopped stretching it out.
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All 5 of you who saw that show can either chuckle now or vomit, your choice.
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And NBC wonders why it's in third place.
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In the craptacular hour-long Ford commercials that are the Knight Rider series.
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I was just starting to get into this show because of Magnum. It was never anything too deep, just entertaining fun. Plus I was finally becoming ok with the Timothy Olyphant wannabe. OH well hopefully this means more biggest loser shows, or maybe they are making room for the Knight Rider show. NBC it's not more than you need, just more stuff that you don't want.
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P.I. is making more Jess Stone movies which are a good thing. I wouldn't mind it becoming a weekly event. Never read the books but the movies are probably the best TV movies I've ever seen.
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Do go on about this strange connection that all those shows have to the fictional casino. I'd be curious to see how The Office, Star Trek and Bewitched could ever be linked. Wikipedia has nothing on it. Nothing!
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The first season wasn't nearly as poorly written as it had gotten at the end. Too bad.
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Every episode had some pretty great music.
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The chemistry between the stars was actually a lot of fun. Had to watch the third season on DVD for my job and I actually ended up quite enjoying it. The Selleck episodes weren't as good, but it was still a solid show that wasn't trying to reinvent the wheel. I'd be okay with it being canceled if NBC actually let them wrap things up...but then again, let's not pretend that NBC is the devil. They're canceling Journeyman cause the ratings are shit. CBS would've axed it after three episodes and you know it.
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Are the Jess Stone movies actually good? I always just assumed they were shitty TV movies and didn't bother.
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Feb 21, 2008 11:43:01 PM CST
They could have at least given them a proper send off...
by sledge hammer
Still, such is life.
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what a horrible show. My monkey could have written better scripts.
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...he was jumping from a sinking ship. At least Tom Selleck made a paycheck bailing water for 1 final season.
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still on
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for more sleazality TV.
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Yeah that asshole cut me off over at Pico & Ave of the Stars in his Mazaratti. I cussed him out too and he just looked at me and took off. Fucker.
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As far as I know, only Crossing Jordan characters interact w/the Las Vegas characters. Passions, as a soap, would be non-canonical anyway. I see no connection to the Trek universe. God, what a geek I am.
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How can you treat a show that's been in your lineup for 5 years like that???? Suck my cock NBC....
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Maybe if this was on HBO and she had those giganto-nipples of hers out all the time, I'd actually miss it.
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once they lost Caan and Nikki Cox it was quick slide downhill. Selleck was fine, but that new girl and more screen-time for the nail lady? Pure annoyance times two. The show was always fluffy, but the female trio (plus the dealer who left the show) made for eye candy appeal and the stories were silly enough to enjoy; really liked the Crossing Jordan crossovers, too.
And it was/is all better than Survivor-wherever-the-hell-they-are and numerous plus all the other reality snores. Hell, even the now-gone Bionic Woman was more watchable than all reality shows, which are a great reason to shut the damn TV off and read a book, from a store, the library...be it a novel, bio, other non-fiction or comics/graphic novels. Now, most of the shows I've liked are off for the season or just plain gone: Heroes, Smallville
playful nonsense like Las Vegas, even the Angel-meets-Forever Knight-and Hannibal King out of Tomb of Dracula Moonlight and math-time of Numbers. Leaves me with Torchwood on BBC America and any new eps left of Supernatural. Lost? Feh, hope they all get hit by tsunami to end every flashback. I'm a cheap-ass and don't get HBO/other extras on the cable, so while some programs may well be good, there's no need to pay extra for it in my book, just not worth my time, wallet. Oh yeah, and the CSI/Law and Order Franchises hardly command urgent, gotta watch or record. In fact, never. They're well done, but.... -
Las Vegas had two full on characters-meet-character crossover connections. There were a bunch of Crossing Jordan crossovers obviously. But the Passions connection cannot be easily dismissed because it is the other full on crossover. For two episodes of Passions, characters from that show went to the Montecito and interacted with a number of Las Vegas cast members. For the record, it was crap. The Las Vegas folks would be dragged into a scene to spit out pointless dialogue just so Passions could promote it as a crossover event. Horrible but full fledged connection.
Since I'm on Passions, I'll keep on it. Passions: daytime soap featuring magic and witches. That lead to them having characters from Bewitched put in appearances. I think eventually they got tired of paying royalties so they started having actors from Bewitched show up playing characters similar to their Bewitch ones. But early on, full on crossovers. "Witch doctor" Doctor Bombay for instance.
Back to Las Vegas. The Montecito is a fictional casino. NBC used it as the backdrop for a bunch of Vegas plotted shows. On Heroes it's the casino Hiro and his friend get into trouble in, where the split personality chick seduces Nathan... On Medium there is an episode where the main character has dreams where she sees through the eyes of a killer. One of the things she sees is him playing crap at the Montecito. On The Office, the bosses at Dunder Mifflin attend a convention at the Montecito. In that case I don't even think they even did it to use the sets. I think they just namecheck the casino.
And then Knight Rider went and complicated things the most. That new Knight Rider TV movie has quite a big action sequence set at the Montecito.
Get to Trek in a sec. Just wanted to say, to me, I can't just excuse it as reusing sets. I mean, that's likely part of it but I really think NBC also did it to almost subliminaly hype Las Vegas. Again, The Office didn't even use the sets. And if it was just about using the sets, they could have done so while covering up it was the Montecito. Given the stes, they could shoot to avoid the Montecito logos. Instead they go way out of their way to really highlight the log every chance they get. On Knight Rider they had a parking deck with a huge, fancy "Montecito" sign on it. Has Las Vegas EVER used a shot of the parking deck that with that sign? It seemed like something new added just for Knight Rider. Anyway, smae fictional casino on all the shows, same universe. And, by the way, Las Vegas had Jean Claude Van Damme on playing himself and then killed him off. So on all those shows he's dead too.
Here's where it all goes wrong. Knight Rider had a goofy spin off called Team Knight Rider where various vehicles were turned smart and talkative. On one episode the team had to deal with an earthquake machine built by one Jackson Roykirk. Trek fans should know the name. The Enterprise encountered a space probe once called Nomad that was built by a scientist from our era named, yep, Jackson Roykirk. Roykirk popping up on Team Knight Rider was not officially sanctioned by the fine people at Star Trek but I actually had it confirmed for me by the episode's writer that the intent was that it was the same Jackson Roykirk from Trek.
Two things to note about this. 1.) This means that in the Star Trek universe Jean Claude Van Damme is dead (sorry, makes me laugh - in the future every Van Damme will be dead for 15 minutes). More fun is that 2.)Heroes exists in the Trek universe. It's funny because the Heroes folks are Trek fans and I'm betting money THEY don't realize they are connected, albeit in an insane way, to the Trek universe.
The real reason I will miss Las Vegas is I wanted to see how many more shows would link in and get Van Damme killed on another show. It was like a plague that just kept killing this one guy! -
That shoulda been your headline, Herc. heh.
Seriously, though, were people still watching this???
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Way to pull rank and re-establish your geek street cred. Well played, sir.
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I don't know much but I know way too much about crossovers.
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The lead actor was bad and you didn't care about anyone because the timeline wsa constantly changing.
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Turns out Delinda wasn't hemmorhaging, miscarrying or having a premature birth: it turns out it was a false pregnancy, she was just really fat and she was having her first period - heavy flo - in seven months. The ultrasound was just a trick to keep her from going nuts when she found out she wasn't pregnant and had actually put on forty pounds.
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was what the point of doing a Nikki Cox show without Nikki Cox was anyway.
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are people talking about horneyman here in the Las Vegas cancellation talkback? I thought they canceled that piece of crap half a year ago.
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Tim Kring and everyone involved (or who likes) Heroes ought to be sweating a little right now. While it will be back for a 3rd season if it doesn't perform well....
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Nice Advertisement for HD-DVDs, but, well, since it's a dying Format for HD-Videos, it's quite useless.
Luckily, I haven't buyed a HD-Device, so I'm not one of these HD-Player-Buyers, that will be sulking somewhere over their dead supply with Media.
(Sorry Guys for this rather quick lost!)
Well, had someone heard the Duke-Nukem-Audio?
http://www.3drealms.com/
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residuals from Transformers...and uh, his fiancee Fergie of course.
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That's just amazing, Jinxo. I'd like to see a feature article on this in a magazine or something. It's weirder than John Munch showing up all over the place, which is positively boring by comparison.
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In a short span they were involved in canceling Dead Zone, The 4400, Journeyman, Bionic Woman and Las Vegas. NBC keeps using the Montecito set as it is the largest set ever built and they have all those chips that say Montecito so it's not like they'd call it anything else. I also don;t recall LV ever showing the parking garage, so using that sign was odd. I like all the connections to Montecito, stuff like that is fun. There was some website that tracked how different shows were linked to each other, but I don't recall the link. Like how the Drew Carey show was linked to...I don't recall, Green Acres maybe? Good funny stuff to read if you ever come across it.
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Vegas began a slow death once they moved it to Fridays. I used to watch Vegas just like I watched (and liked) Third Watch but once they move them to Fridays watch out. Friday death knell I tell you. Other than really bad TGIF comedies (Sabrina anyone?), the last long term success on Friday I can remember was Friday Night Fights 25 years ago when I was a kid eating crappy Swanson TV dinners.
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Have you SEEN this woman lately??? She'd make Ron Jeremy go limp. She's scary to look at. Scary people don't belong on television. Except maybe reality shows with washed up TV stars. ..
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I was extraing. They wanted a janitor. I show up and there are 20 guys dressed up like janitors. They tell us that, the footage we are in may or may not be used, but what they really need us for is to move all the slot machines off the set to an outside trailer because they are deconstructing the entire casino set(I guess at the end of season 3 they blow up the casinO). So, they were asking non-union workers to do union manual labor...I was having none of it, so I call Central Casting and they tell me I don't have to perform manual labor and that what the producers of LAS VEGAS are asking of us is illegal. Of course, I combat the PA with this tidbit of info and his shrivel-dicked response, "You wanna talk to me about legalities?? Get the fuck off the set!" They called for a privete van to take me back to my own car. Mind you, this is the first time I try to extra ever. To hell with VEGAS-I am ecstatic it tanked. Never watched it cuz it had second rate actors. I'll give Caan Bottle Rocket and Elf, but in all honesty, I was more excited to see the hot chick extras than Caan. Anyway, I never got paid, I got kicked off the set and have an awesome story for Conan when I sell my screenplay and make it ginormous.
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episode this season. It had gotten to be way too ridiculous over the past couple of seasons and I had had enough. Someone above mentioned the nail lady and to me that character was a perfect example of the level the show had sunk to. Even I was offended by that character, and that's no easy task. But it is too bad, for those who stuck with the show, that NBC won't give them a series finale.Jinxo, you get the TBer of the Week Award. It is invisible, but it comes with a year's supply of Nothing.
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AS good as Selleck is, Caan had better rapport with the other actors. Plus is shady mob/CIA background was more believable than the Montana billionaire route. You have to admit they do know how to hang out a cliffhanger. The final episode left us with: what happened to Delinda's baby, who was on the plane to NY, where did Cooper disappear to, etc, etc. Via con dios Vegas!
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GOTTA EAT!!!!!
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after only one season, That's was Vegas from street level, with the lowlifes and the hustlers.
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Feb 22, 2008 11:49:15 AM CST
The best thing about Vegas, was that it united the NBC-Verse
by cletus van damme
...or "Peacock-verse" (which sounds dirty. Some scenes from Heroes took place in the Montecito as did part of last Sunday's Knight Rider, thus sort of trying them all to the same "reality." I thought it was a cool concept, but then again, I'm a guy that damned near pissed his pants when Magnum showed up on Simon & Simon.
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Feb 22, 2008 11:52:50 AM CST
...and I just noticed Jinxo's far more eloquent contribution...
by cletus van damme
...and I bow to you, sir!
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...when they killed of that anorexic chick by having get get blown off the top of the casino and we watched her fly through the air like Mary Poppins.
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Too bad it stops. It had to end sooner or later. For all the people who were offended by the Asian chick stop whining. Sam going to a shrink was ridiculous, Delinda's constant whining during the first half of this season was annoying as hell and the Dawson's Creek bullshit between Delinda and Danny made me want to kill someone. Tom Selleck brought something totally new to Las Vegas and was a welcome addition.
And if you don't think Las Vegas was cool, name any show that had 2 guest appearances by Stallone, 1 by Van Damme and 1 by the Invisible Man. I dare you.
I had a blast with Las Vegas since the beginning, except for the first half of this season, but they recovered in the second half. The humor was always top notch and there are too many funny scenes to mention. I will sure miss its special brand of humor.
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stays in Culver City.
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Journeyman was cancelled. Las Vegas was good in Season One.
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of tje railing and fell to her death.
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They thru in loys of good stuff. James Caan was always fun. Jon Lovitz was hilarious in a couple episodes. Hot babes every ep. Lara Flynn getting blown off the casino roof was fantastic. remember the guy who was dying of cancer and used it to sleep with hot women. After Marcil slept with him on top of a mountain she stood up, grabbed her crotch and I think burped. Or maybe just took a slug of water. That was hot. Yeah , it wasn't ground breaking "Twin Peaks" TV but there was always something good in every ep. I agree the creator should take this to cable.
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Yeah, the web site tracking that the show connections? That would be mine: Poobala.com. That's why I know way too much about such silliness. I'm kinda required to now. I was all happy because I thought I could ignore the Knight Rider movie unless it became a full on series. Then they went and dragged the Montecito into things and just screwed me. DAH!
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You are a demigod! I am SOOOO at that website now.
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Go here:
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If your still reading this. If you like Magnum, Jess Stone is pretty good. Small town cop drama. Catch the new one when it comes on. Its good to see a cop show not all about CSI science.
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So I stopped half-way thru the third season, you know, when it turned all "Baywatch in Vegas" like... I mean Casino Security team being able to crack military security; Chasing people down the streets as if they were Rambo; Crack investigators taking hints from the Casino Dudes; and the ridiculous cleavage... ok... that was the only good part... Cleavage... grrrrr....Anyway I think that they went way too much out of the casino and started being too involved in police cases, I mean, when will you actually see a Navy Seal going into a casino to ask help because he saw a bomb, then the Casino Security jumps into action and saves the day!?.. WTF!!!Baywatch on the strip.... wait Baywatch .. Strip... Cleavage... hummmmmmmmmmm... What was the whole purpose for this blog again!?!?!
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Weak.
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Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK is the matter with these programming people or shit for brains Hollywood suits? I swear to high Heaven, NONE of these assholes have ANY sense for the medium anymore or ANY sense of "who" their audiences are...worst of all, these total fucktards at NBC are walking around actually wondering WHY their ratings are such shit. As if THEY didn't play a major role in why people get pissed off at a network or why people are -- more and more -- not getting interested in network TV and instead just downloading things or spending time on the Net OR just waiting for boxed DVD sets to rent, when they can treat things more casually.Here's what I want to say: FUCK YOU, NBC. Fuck you up your fucking ass for cancelling a show in the middle of a cliffhanger. You SERIOUSLY can't tell me that LAS VEGAS was losing you THAT much money that you couldn't do AT LEAST a 2 hour wrap up film for all the fans who backed the show over the years.This is exactly why networks are losing viewers in droves. The networks over the last several years have actually CONDITIONED people to not give a shit anymore because clearly the they don't give a shit. I realize the writers strike threw alot of things up in the air, but again you can't tell me that even BEFORE it hit that NBC couldn't have turned to the VEGAS production team and said this time only plan for half a season or whatever. So that you wouldn't end the show on such a ridiculous cliffhanging story note.Fuck you, NBC -- you leave your fans high and dry, but instead you'll put on more game show or reality bullshit or shit remakes like BIONIC WOMAN or KNIGHT RIDER and then you'll have the audacity to whine like little bitches over why your ratings are down and why people hate your network. Well, I'll tell you why assholes -- it's for doing things like THIS.
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Like they tried to make Las Vegas an "issues" show.
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I don't think they tried to make it an "issues" show - they never portrayed Danny's service in a leftist anti-Iraq war way. He served, folks were proud of him, he came back, folks were proud of him - never once was there an inane "Bush lied--!" or "War for Oil--!" or anything else uttered, and for it to be an "issues" show I think you'd have to have some kind of lefty anti-Iraq or anti-Bush screed.Same goes for when Danny's cop friend, Ruiz, died while serving - again, no insane lefty rhetoric there, so no "issues."
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I couldnt watch it this season the shows were so crappy, not to say all the other seasons are good, they arnt but I could watch them as mindless entertainment. it wasnt even good at being merely ok this season. cancel it. shouldve never canceld black donnoleys or lucky for that matter
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Nothing like watching a 70 year old James Caan beat the hell out of some punk to the tunes of Duran Duran. Not to mention all the boobage. The series would work better with nudity..make it a little grittier, sensationalize it, cut it down to 13 episodes, and then move it to cable. Have it be shared...like have it uncut on HBO (or Showtime), and then repeat it cut on FX.
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To me it was the first crack in the show. In the season opener he comes home after only 3 or 4 months suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder so bad that near the end of the episode he has a gun to his head. But James Caan talks to him and Danny falls asleep and the episode ends. Next episode he's fine like nothing happened. Apparently all one needs to cure posttraumatic stress disorder is a good night's sleep.
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Feb 23, 2008 3:23:35 PM CST
Can they at least finish up this year now that the strike's over
by mrmysteryguest
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Elvis man.
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may the farce be with you. http://www.savejourneyman.net
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...Baywatch. Brainless entertainment.
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Save a show no one watched!
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