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Will Comcast Cable Greenlight New Episodes Of JERICHO??
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From a Monday New York Times story on the DirecTV deal that’s allowing NBC bring back “Friday Night Lights”:
CBS Paramount Network Television has held talks with Comcast, the cable provider, about finding new life for “Jericho,” the low-rated drama canceled by CBS last month, according to two people briefed on the talks who requested anonymity.
The proposed CBS/Comcast deal may follow the model employed by NBC and DirecTV for "Friday Night Lights," which allows DirecTV to satcast new episodes of FNL on its 101 channel beginning in October. NBC then repeats the episodes early next year.
Read all of the Times’ story on the matter here.
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CANCELED FOR REAL!!!
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Although I would have liked to see Obama found to be running the Cheyenne govt., only to see the legit US forces nuke his ass...right as Rev. Wright launches into another "God DAMN America" sermon.
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They'll only be able to afford three actors and a soundstage, and one of the actors will have to play multiple roles, like George Petrie on The Honeymooners.
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Apparently the show was the most watched show online, but because the TV ratings were poor, they assumed no one watched the show.
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...kill this dumb f***in' revamp of The Postman? Garlic, silver, wooden stakes maybe? Just kill it already!
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Nobody wanted to watch season 1. Season 2 got greenlit because the Save campaign created some publicity, but nobody wanted to watch season 2 either.
So why are you wasting your money on this? -
hypothetical dollars than Tay Zonday and laughing baby combined. The Canadians need to find a way to cash in on those dollars.
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Jericho was ok but it doesnt deserve this kind of revival over other better shows such as Journeyman (there others too but Journeyman is my personal favourite).
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Ignore the other posters. They work for the Cheyenne government!
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Jericho doesn't already suck ass now, it will if Comcast has anything to do with. Fucking horrible service. AND of course only cable provider in my area. And I live with a bunch of old people who don't care if fucking Comedy Central spills in to all the other lower cable channels. My favorite part of the riches is listening to Colberts word.
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I love how the argument so many use to say that Jericho shouldn't survive is because there are so many superior shows getting canceled and deserve to be saved instead.
If that's the case, why doesn't anyone (Other than 8 people on this site) give a shit and put forth any effort to save those other shows? Don't hate on Jericho fans cause they actually achieved something with a revival campaign. If those other shows were so absolutely grand, more people would have actually cared enough to save them.
P.S. They did try to bring back Firefly, in that monumental failure of a movie, Serenity. -
Apr 08, 2008 11:22:47 AM CDT
Find it weird that some TBers equate Obama with Cheyenne
by prof. pop-cult
When it is so obvious that the Cheyenne government comprises of super right-wing neocons. The politics in the overall storyline of Jericho, and the politics of the avid fans of this show, has always confounded me. Personally, I think Jericho is more to the left politically than 24.
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SAVE JOURNEYMAN!
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I think a better argument for Jericho staying cancelled is the fact that nobody watched it the first time, nor the second time.
Shows don't get cancelled if they're watched. Everything from Quarterlife to Firefly was cancelled because the ratings were horrid, and any studio that wants to run charity cases will find themselves out of business quickly. Just hope it can live on in direct-to-dvd crap and move on. Comcast isn't going to pick up a show that nobody watched to begin with. -
The black guy in the bottom right corner of that dvd cover looks like he has a huge erection until you look closely... don't ask me why I looked closely.
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Just don't try to get some life on the DTV circuit? It just shows how out for money people are. Knock Firefly all you want, at least Weadon pushed to keep it alive (he just screwed up by spending too much time with advance previews that by the time it came out probably half the people that wanted to see it had already seen it there fore losing that opening weekend number that would've gotten him a sequel). But seriously, why can't creators just make some DTV spinoffs? I mean fucking just cast new people if the old ones don't want to return and fucking get a close to your series. Either way its better then nothing.
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"Shows don't get cancelled if they're watched."
All things being equal, that might be true. However, when studios work very hard to prevent folks from watching, it's a different ball game. My own gut feeling is that often times, when someone high up in the studio doesn't like a particular show, they do all they can to prevent that show from achieving solid ratings by continually pre-empting, moving time slots or air dates, so that no one knows when the show actually airs. Even if the show is solidly written and acted, when people don't know when or where to tune in, they simply find something else to watch. The Network can then claim "no one watches it", and cancel the show. A lot of great shows have been canceled throughout the years under the pretense of "bad ratings", when it was the "mystery time slot" that actually did them in.
Compounding this is the Network's antiquated ratings system that does not take into account Tivo and DVR users, on-line viewers or DVD sales. The fact that Jericho has such a large and active fan base aught to tell you that yes, people did want to watch this show, despite what you or the Networks claim.
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He has said so in the past. As for re-casting - hearsay! Especially now we have semi-closure anyway what with Serenity and the comics.
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BTW, why doesn't AICN join us in the 21st century and design their talkback forum to have edit features, recognize line-breaks, and all the stuff that even a simple blog page can handle?
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Once it's canceled by Comcast, look for BRAND! NEW! episodes of Jericho, premiering on the side of your local Metro bus.
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Correct. There will be budget cuts.
...and... how many cast members do they think will just be waiting around to see if this gets picked up? Granted, it's not exactly an A-list group; but someone on there could end up with something else. -
but I agree that if any show deserves to be brought back, why not V Mars, Journeyman, Firefly, Boomtown, Freaks and Geeks, AD, Wonderfalls... the list could go on and on. the worst part about shows getting resurrected is that the idiots who watch them think that every show could be brought back and you hear shit like "the network is so stupid!" or "the network didn't even give it a chance!" or "why don't they make the show on another network?". i really can't wrap my head around all the "fan campaigns" to keep shows alive. for every single show that gets canned. i love tv, i watch every new pilot, network and cable, but i've come to accept that shows, even ones i enjoy, get cancelled. this whole Jericho revival was kinda exciting at first, but now i really don't get why they're trying again. it makes no sense. NONE. i could list a few dozen shows, including ones i've already listed, that deserve to live before Jericho would even cross my mind.
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The whole point of a network partnering with another network is to cover the costs of the show.
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Call us idiots if you like, cunt, but at least I wasn't fucking stupid enough to come into a forum and venerate Veronica Mars. Dumbass.
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Apr 08, 2008 12:29:00 PM CDT
i'm not saying networks should pick up those other shows
by charlie murphy
just that i would rather see new episodes of them than Jericho... but hey, if comcast or any other network wants to spend money to make new episodes of Jericho, i'd fucking watch them.
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It's not taking anymore posts. Yet it hasn't hit 10,000 posts like Lost did. What gives?
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i didn't mean people who watch Jericho are idiots, but actually that there are campaigns for every show that gets cancelled nowadays, which is kind of idiotic, as the tv business does not work based on fan campaigns. and after re-reading my initial post, i think my phrasing is good, so pretty much you called me a cunt and a dumbass because you mis-read a sentence and don't like veronica mars. nice.
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This is not a knock on the show as I actually did watch it (while apparently a bunch of you bastards who petitioned for its return didn't) but does an episode of Jericho really cost that much?
I watch the show because I find it's cheap production values and pulp-like story charming. I can't see where the money's going because, really, the show looks like ass aside from one or two moments (jet fight at end of season 2).
So explain to me, how can this show be considered a big production when it's so cheap looking? -
Apr 08, 2008 12:44:11 PM CDT
They should remake Space 1999 and call it Space 1999
by stereotypical evil archer
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Apr 08, 2008 12:47:35 PM CDT
They should 'Trek' Remaster Bucks Rodgers...Disco Pants!
by stereotypical evil archer
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So, the series ended on an up note.
Now leave it alone.
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I liked Eyes too. i wish ABC would release the dvd already, or at least give John McNamara a new show... i read his FOX pilot for last year was excellent. I also really enjoyed Tim Daly in Eyes... too bad the Nine and/or Private Practice is such a waste of his talent.
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if GOOD shows cant get renewed, stuff like this that had more chances than it deserved already sure dont merit another one. DIE JERICHO!
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In this day and age with the technology available to us, the networks should realize the neilson ratings system just doesn't work anymore. They are right further up in saying Jericho was one of the most watched shows when online views and dvr are taken into account. the ratings system does not count these things there for it looks like no one is watching whne in fact many are watching. Tv is being revolutionised by the way we can view it, the ratings system needs to follow suit. Sending nuts was not the only way Jericho was originally renewed, they also took a look at those other numbers when making their decision. Why they did not do this for season two, I don't know. But people did watch. maybe not on the day it aired or on cbs but they did watch. Online hits to steams of ep's and dvr totals prove that. I say bring it back any way you can, and to the ratings people. Get with the program, it's 2008 for pete's sake!
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Another show killed before it's time. WTF, kill this other show already
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Jay Mohr was awesome.
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They were just about to start the second civil war/ American Revolution. It could have potentially been a very good story line. Not to mention I live in San Antonio where the end of the series took place. It would be cool to have people filming here.
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Enough said.
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...so if this third season gets under way, there's 0% chance they'd film San Antonio in the real city.
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aka "Zombie Jericho"
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aka "Zombie Jericho"
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sorry
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even if they build sets for san antonio, they might have the alamo, and what not...... it's symbolic, let me dream.
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Jericho isn't even a real place.
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What is it about the show that makes you feel it is a peice of garbage. A serious question, I am just curious how peoples opinions can differ so greatly about this. Some love it some hate it. Why do you hate it?
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seriously
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Only HE can save this show.
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and bring back Firefly.
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i'm glad,i like the show..and there are so many channels,so much room out there
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Why don't you just say bring back everything and save some space on the page....
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How bad will it be now? Just Jake and Hawkins in a room, discussing everything?
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I completely respect your view on it, there are many shows out there I can not stand that other people love for some reason. So thanks for your explanation. I appreciate getting a real response on here though I still want the show back.
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"They are right further up in saying Jericho was one of the most watched shows when online views and dvr are taken into account. the ratings system does not count these things there for it looks like no one is watching whne in fact many are watching."
A case could be made why those "don't count" because it doesn't actually matter how many people are watching THE SHOW. What matters is how many people are watching THE COMMERCIALS. Because the webcasting forces users to watch commercials those numbers should carry some force. DVR users are forwarding past the commercials so they're 'worthless' in terms of calculating value to advertisers. -
Enough is enough.Please.Pretty please
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Online streams and downloads wouldn't make a difference.
The majority of streams and downloads come from fans who tape the episode and remove the commercials....advertising is how the stations make their money and torrents remove those advers, so there is little money to be made.
Now of CBS made Jericho available for free, online with a 20sec advert at the beginning, and no more after that, it's a compromise people could live with, but of course they won't do that. You'd either have to pay to watch the show or it would be full of commercials. So people go to torrents instead.
The fact is, the only shows that get high ratings anymore are the "AAA" shows like Lost and reality shows. Lost gets high ratings because people can't wait to find out what happens, and reality shows get high ratings because of the "live" factor when it comes to voting etc.
Interestingly though, Battlestar Galactica is a "AAA" show that doesn't get high ratings though that tends to be down to Sci-Fi's airdate policy.
Which brings up a related point...in an age of the internet and video games, coupled with long work hours and family life, people jut don't have the time to sit down and watch every show on TV.
I also think that people are getting sick of the US commercial system, where you have an ad break every 9 minutes or so. When you write a tv show for US television, you're working towards ad breaks, making it harder to tell interesting stories when you have to break every few minutes.
Doctor Who is cut by Sci-Fi because it doesn't fit into the advert structure. TV in the US isn't shows with commercials in between, it's commercials with shows in between.
It's a busy world, and people don't what to watch 20 minutes worth of commercials in every hour...so they watch the show when they can, downloaded from torrents, with ad breaks cut out, in which case the studios don't make any money from torrents and even if it's popular on a torrent, if it's not making them any money, they cancel it.
Jericho may be huge on torrents, but it doesn't matter because the studio won't benefit from advertising, and if the tv ratings are low enough, the show gets cancelled. -
Note to haters: suck it.
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that now two things could be said to survive a nuclear war ... cockroaches, the steaming pile of crap that is Jericho, and now, possibly a third, because it seems like Mcpoops just keeps coming back over and over and over again ... I have seen the future, friends, and it is not pretty.
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I'll take some more Jericho, thank you.
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All suck my balls..the show is obviously making someone some money..aka the advertisers because no way a show comes back a 3rd time without someone getting paid well..the show is pretty damn good so here's hoping it comes back...of course I would love some Veronica Mars and Journeyman as well but that just aint happening.
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Discuss
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I'd like to see more Jericho, but I'd much rather see more Journeyman. That show rocked! Why isn't Sci-Fi or Comcast or somebody looking at picking up Journeyman!?!
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Guardian news article says Uwe Boll promises to stop making movies if 1 million sign petition!
http://tinyurl.com/4xmu8x
Here's the Petition (116,000 signatures last I looked):
http://tinyurl.com/6pgoj6
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It was the best new show this season by a mile. But while they are at it, bring back Threshold, Surface, Profit, The Flash, Brisco County Junior, Earth 2 and Firefly!
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Honestly, I wish Sports Night, Miracles, Firefly, Stella, Carnivale, Twin Peaks, and even stuff as recent as Veronica Mars or Studio 60 were premiering on TV now.
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If Journeyman was such a great show, we would be seeing a huge campaign for it. There are what, 10 people putting there money into it? Jericho may not be the best show ever, but it does have a following. Maybe not a huge one, but its fans are passionate about the show.
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...rather see ANY of those shows than this train wreck renewed again. Put a bullet in her.
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Journeyman SUCKED...mix one part Quantum Leap and one part Time Traveler's Wife. If I was that limiting in my creativity, maybe I'd actually get something on television. FOR SHAME!!!!!
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"Yeah.""Yeah. At least one quarter."Little piece of cheese from South Park. That's why there's hubabaloo for shows like this. People in this country don't like to think while watching TV. Just let the music stings tell you when to react.
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NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Bring back Firefly.
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CBS the old fogie network that no one watches. What will they replace jericho with another CSI. This show had a following and is better that half the shows on this stupid network. Outside of NFL and NCAA basketball, and maybe 60 minutes the rest of CBS programming is crap. Not to say that the other networks are any better. All the good shows are on showtime, hbo, scifi and other non-network channels.
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...and the only reason Chelsea Handler's still on the air is because she's f***ing the CEO of Comcast...
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Its called Eli stone now...
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I wish there was a company back in 1989/1990 that would have ponied up the bucks to give David Lynch the money to produce a season three for Twin Peaks...
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I have been waiting for Misfits of Science to come back!
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sorry to say it, but the show wasn't that good. I watched a few episodes on Hulu.com, it is legal, and I don't get the hype. We have an incest angle going on, which is a big turnoff right there. It isn't that funny. But every show does have a following, no matter how big or small. Jericho fans like the show, oh well. Who cares? Does it affect you? No because there are many other shows out there you could watch. Also, those shows that you like are all on different networks. This was on CBS.
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So I, for one, can let it go. But I can see why Comcast wants it, as I'm sure it was very popular OnDemand...
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Why not? It was better then Jericho...
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He announced if the following online petition reached one million signatures he'd stop making movies!!! Lets kick his ass!!!
Petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/ RRH53888/petition.html
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for the love of god bring this show back.
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You know... The show you unceremoniously canned in 1985 without a proper ending to the Banner/McGee story, only to have it return six years later in a batch of very lame NBC reunion movies that never did it justice?
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And everybody at AICN scratches their heads in confusion...
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but they should bring back journeyman.
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Yea, once we can download any tv show in 20 seconds there will be no way for the nets to make money off of advertising. The internet service providers will end up having to pay the nets for content for their customers to download.
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"Riverview Towers" revolves around a family that moves into an apartment building with paranormal activity...way to stay up on everything herc...this is big news, could be the next twin peaks...so fuck jericho, that piece of shite
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Do it.
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I remember the Simon and Simon crossover episode. Good times.
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It's time we got to see what an all-out nuclear exchange would really be like with a decadent HBO budget. I want to see retarded children and nations reverting to the middle ages! More skin sloughing off bones and total civil collapse please. People need to realise just how fucked they'd be.
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Hell yeah!
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Yes, white trash at its finest. And you don't see why the show couldn't keep people watching. The viewers dropped each year. We got the show, we just didn't like it.
I didn't watch Journeyman, well I watched an episode, but I thought it was dull. But hey, we all like different things. Too bad they all get cancelled one day. -
Comcast should bring the Mighty Boosh instead.
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Shows that I don't feel like I've seen a million times before as soon as I tune in. Maybe something with good actors, and good writers.
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I know the future of online advertising, and we will see it soon in our downloaded tv shows... soon those annoying little messages you see at the bottom of the tv screen during your favorite show will advertise MORE then the next big network TV show... soon that little on-screen tag will flash corporate product logo's... Just wait and see if I'm not right!
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I can feel it and I'm glad.
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at Carla Gugino's tits some more.
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Little bit of vinegar and water in your veins?
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but how many were there really? A few thousand? It seems like a lot when you are getting packages of nuts, but ratingswise a few thousand people is peanuts.I like how the series ended. They did a decent job with the limited time they had to wrap up the series. I wonder what was the cliffhanger alternate ending? Would it have ended with Jake on the plane about to be shot down? Guess I'll have to check out the DVD to find out.
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No, really, bring it back, you mother-fucking, cocksuckers!
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SUCK A MEATY COCK YOU RACIST BASTARD
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