smallville is boring and terribly cliched. i used to download the epsiodes and keep them. then i downaload and watched an deleted. then i started just watching streams of it. now i fast forward all the lana/ lex bits and all obvious rubbish, allowing me to watch a 5-10 minute episode

y'know why smalville doesnt deserve a talkback? cause its rubbish, just like the network its on

Farewell Veronica, like space above and bwyond, kitchen confidential, wonderfalls, firefly and angel, gone before your time

What's this Brimstone thing, anywho? If Fox cancelled it, it must be good. =D

Not that I cared too much about Veronica Mars, but I'm really don't think that filling up your entire schedule with nearly as much REALITY SHIT as you do actual programing. The WB and now the CW has made one misstep after another ever since it started. Sure, it was a new network and it gave us shows like Buffy, Angel, ect... but they seem to let them go in favor of more shows they will just let die a few seasons in.

I wish that networks, or netlets in this case, would realize that if they are going to stick us with shit reality shows then they should start to run a three hour primetime like the big networks. Maybe then they could keep shows like Veronica Mars for more than one or two seasons.

Better yet, the netlets in my area run the news at 10pm, so why not run their primetime an hour earlier and start at 7pm. It might take a while to catch on but once it does it means netlets would have an extra hour of real programing instead of reruns that advertisers might actually want to jump on.

Seriously, What the fuck is this shit?!

If that doesn't tell you how committed to quality TV the CW is, then maybe the Pussycat Sluts opening the upfront presentation this morning by singing 'Dont'cha Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me' raises the red flag instead.

Also, I'm in the UK so I'd like to know - has Hidden Palms started yet?

The CW became dead to me at the moment I read that comment. Gilmore, like 'em or not on here, was a bedrock for the WB and CW. It was good most of the time. In season 5, it was epic, thanks to Lauren Graham putting on an acting clinic every fracking week back then. Hey Dawn, how's that decision to swap Everwood for 7th Heaven looking now??

But, despite this, I have read that some shows do worse now than they did on the pre-merger UPN. Despite the CW having a larger potential audience than UPN did (I'm thinking specifically of Everybody Hates Chris, but not just that show).

Am I wrong or misinformed about any of this? If not, why do fewer people now watch the same show despite more people being able to tune in? Is The CW really that bad?

Now if you REALLY want to change this, cancel your cable and push for and support the direct to consumer projects like DVD and digital downloads (Amazon, iTunes, etc) It will be a while before this will be mainstream, but it IS coming. Besides re-packaged TV content, there is new Babylon 5 direct-to-DVD series coming, and there is talk of a Dead Like Me direct-to-dvd movie. Direct-to-consumer products are the only way to ensure that good shows keep being made and not constantly under threat of being canceled after 2 episodes or being tinkered with by the TV studios.

Even though I'm in my early 40's, television has survived pretty much everything thrown at it. It will survive the Bachelor: Green Acres tripe. TV is immovable, and that's not an endorsement of it, especially after the events of this week, where a lot of shows that I enjoyed took the proverbial bullet. It just is. Nothing will replace it, nothing short of a digital Cultural Revolution, mebbe.

Hence, the second cycle next year.

The "cliffhanger" introduction of Bizarro?

Not just the way they did it, okay the way they did it was just odd. Of course you know that everything will be back to normal next season as the series draws to a close but come on. Bizarro?

Fits here as well as anywhere else.

The Martian Manhunter was wasted and I couldn't help but wonder why he didn't at least try to retrieve his insides. No guts, I guess...HAH. And yes, the Bizarro makeup (or was it CGI?) was bad, but at least we finally got some semblance of Bizarro. With all the Kryptonite around, you'd think we'd see Metallo...