Writer's Strike is over -- what are you going to miss least?
Good morning!
Though it may yet be months before some of our favorite shows are back in working order, the writer's strike is officially over.
Can we stop watching HGTV and Food Network reality shows now? Please?
Filling the air without scripted television hasn't been easy -- and it's been even harder to watch some of the scum that rose to the top without competition from human beings writing television. American Gladiators staged a comeback in the vaccum and VH1 hit a horrid reality TV trifecta with new editions of (sorta) dating shows Rock of Love with Brett Michaels, Flavor of Love with Flava Flav and (ugh) A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila.
In what may be the most apt but still mind-bending television metaphor ever, all of these shows' continued success and renewal depends upon the person searching for love (a washed up rock star, a washed up rapper (sort of) and...Tila Tequila...) never actually finding it. Failure is necessary for success, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
May the professional writers get back to work, down to their fighting weight and wash some of this flotsam from the pop culture landscape.
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I actually hope the "American Gladiators" revival sticks around. As reality shows go, I have more fun watching people get their butts kicked by insanely huge bodybuilders than listening to Simon once again tear into some poor shmuck who was only let through their first American Idol audition so they could be ridiculed for America's entertainment.
Can I just say, though: THANK GOD. It figures that the year in which I start watching the most TV is the year in which the writers go on strike. If they had done this two or three years ago, I wouldn't even have noticed. Now I'm thinking, "YES!! New 'Bones'!!"
Posted on February 14, 2008 12:48 PM
Hell yes new Bones!
Let's get to the bottom o this Widow's Son thing, already!
Posted on February 15, 2008 12:30 AM