The television discussion thread

[Robstar]

I really think one show that could have benefited from an end date was My Name Is Earl. But maybe they just didn't get time to get to that

[Iron Ape]

Earl was a big hit when it first came- NBC would kill to have a comedy pulling in 10 million viewers these days- but it had bled almost half of its audience by the time the 4th season had rolled around. It didn't help much that the show had gotten creatively stagnant by then, either.

On the upside, creator Greg Garcia and Jason Lee have both expressed an interest in making some kind of tv movie or whatever to finish Earl's list up. And considering what kinds of projects Lee, Suplee, and Pressly have been involved in since the show went away, I'm sure they'd all be eager to return to Camden.

[Robstar]

I could totally go for that, The show definitely lost it's way, perhaps due to the usual network pressures? Still, isn't pulling in six and a half million viewers a respectable number? What's enough to warrant keeping a show on the air? I can never work out the viewer/rating ratio!

[Kashdinero]

Andrea is officially the new Lori. I want to brutally hatefuck my television every time she appears on my screen.

When she jumped off of the wall and stabbed that walker in the head, I can't tell you how much I was wishing for a herd to casually mosey on by.

[Iron Ape]

I could totally go for that, The show definitely lost it's way, perhaps due to the usual network pressures? Still, isn't pulling in six and a half million viewers a respectable number? What's enough to warrant keeping a show on the air? I can never work out the viewer/rating ratio!

6.5 million would be probably a fine number for NBC now, but they weren't quite in dire straits back in then. Shows also become more expensive to make as they go, so there probably just came a point where it no longer made any more financial sense to keep writing big checks to the people no longer delivering the big numbers.

[Iron Ape]

When she jumped off of the wall and stabbed that walker in the head, I can't tell you how much I was wishing for a herd to casually mosey on by.

Haha. Yeah, that would have been swell.

[Robstar]

6.5 million would be probably a fine number for NBC now, but they weren't quite in dire straits back in then. Shows also become more expensive to make as they go, so there probably just came a point where it no longer made any more financial sense to keep writing big checks to the people no longer delivering the big numbers.

And you have those actors that want to get paid what they perceive they're worth, which if your show is successful mean more, more, more. It's sad that it's like that but hey, what are ya gonna do?

[akbar]

Jax has gone full Heisenberg.

[Steve Austin]

Finally caught up on Dexter, TWD and HIMYM.

Was cool seeing old faces in Dexter, ending off TWD makes me wanna see more now! Rest of the episode was alright, Merle finding Glenn was cool. The recent HIMYM was my favourite for a while, the stamp tramp stuff was funny.

[Iron Ape]

Cody & Astor are the worst. Writing them out of the picture is one of the few intelligent moves that the Dexter team have made over the last 2 or 3 seasons...but they couldn't even keep from fucking that up. Seriously, the show has to have one of the most incompetent writing staffs on all of television.

With that said, the scene between Michael C. Hall and Ray Stevenson in the gay club was really, really good stuff. Stevenson is adding some real gravitas to an otherwise disposable villain and it's going a long way towards helping to make him one of the show's more compelling big bads.