It’s that time of year again to where TV big wigs decide what to keep and what needs to be sent out to pasture.  I am normally one of the people that is totally against some of the shows being cut because execs have no clue what real good TV is.  I will stand my ground by saying that whoever at Fox kept fucking with Arrested Development when it was on, and then ultimately killed, seriously had the IQ of an 8 year old and probably still wet his bed.  But this year there are some cuts that were a long time in the making.

• Scrubs – I loved this show.  Every character had a special place in your heart and you truly felt connected to them, even Dr. Cox.  And after a heart felt and tear inducing finale last season it felt like it was concluded int he right way.  Oh but no we get another season of Scrubs: Med School with all these new characters that just come off as annoying little rich kids.  I can’t say that I liked a single one of these characters.  Then the main characters that actually came back seemed to struggle trying to put these kids over as the new main cast.  I didn’t work.  Low and behold Scrubs is now gone but not as it should be.  This season should have never happened and I feel it hurt the absolutely brilliant finale from last year and makes it not as special.  Fuck man, Zach should have just said no.
• Heroes – Season 2 of this was cut short by the strike.  Season 3 bored me and after the first 3 episodes of this past season I gave up.  This season just plain old jumped the shark, or maybe flew over the shark.  They kept on adding more characters that really had no connection with the viewers over time.  But the biggest disappointment was the path of Sylar.  At one point he was one of the most demented and intriguing antagonists on TV and just became a shell of himself to which he never truly recovered.  He kept flip flopping between good and evil and it just pissed me off.  He was a evil mofo so he should have been left as such.

But I can’t say that there aren’t a couple shows that were canceled that I did indeed like.  I really enjoyed Better Off Ted but ABC really didn’t give it any push in advertising.  It had it’s hardcore niche viewership and that helped them get renewed for the second season but ratings just weren’t what they wanted so it was cut.  It sucks because it was a funny and witty comedy but again ABC just didn’t seem to care enough to let people know it was on.

Another one left back by ABC is the drama FlashForward.  You could tell from the start that ABC wanted to build this as the new big suspense drama to take the place of Lost, which finishes up this coming Sunday.  The first group of episodes were really good and left you with a number of questions as Lost did along with building each characters’ story.  Then it went on hiatus for a long period of time.  By the time it was brought back people lost interest or probably didn’t even know it was back.  Again ABC didn’t like the ratings so it gets hacked.

And this just brings me back full circle to what I call one of the worst moves in TV history, canceling Arrested Development.  This was one of the best written shows in history.  The actors portrayed their characters so well that I can’t look at any of them without thinking of them as Bluths.

Over it’s three seasons of life on Fox the show’s staff and actors were nominated for a number of awards, many of which it won.  But Fox in all it’s infinite power decided to play the guess which nut shell the ball is under by switching the show to numerous different nights and times.  Thus giving it no chance of establishing an audience that knew when the show was on.  Fox you really blue yourself on that one.

Damn you Fox, now you got me all pissed off.  I started this out kind of light hearted but thinking back to that all over again just grinds my gears (You know that’s another show of yours right?).

And that reminds me.  You fuck with Arrested Development but you continue to keep this American Dad and Cleveland Show garbage on?  Look I know Family Guy is your golden child, even though you screwed them over the same way before, but does Seth McFarlane have that much control over you?  Does he get daily hand jobs from Fox execs too?  You know he probably knows he’s giving you guys crap shows but you owe him so much for being wrong about Family Guy that he knows he can get away with it.

Next up from Seth McFarlane is a show about a turd in a brown bag that makes jokes.  It will be apart of the new Sunday Animation Domination next fall.  Doesn’t that sound awesome?

Look Seth we get it, you can make Fox do whatever you want.  Now just call off your dogs and release your Force Choke you have on Sunday nights.  Will it help if I say please?  I’ll even add pretty please with sugar on top.  You like sugar don’t you Seth?

So yeah, two shows placed to rest that needed to be and then two that probably didn’t need to be.  Then add anger at Fox for Arrested Development still and you have my angry little rant on TV shows entering the final weeks of the spring seasons.