Why Even Bother Watching New TV Shows?

By on April 26, 2007 in Tech

TV Squad is reporting that Fox has canceled Drive, after a whopping 10 days.  The show didn’t blow me (or apparently many others) away by any means, but it was better than most of the mind numbing, generic sitcoms that seem to fill the airways.  Plus it had Nathan Fillion from another great TV show that got canceled too soon.

It seems like the life expectancy of new TV shows is falling to moth-like levels.  Let’s see: Invasion, Surface, Threshold, Skin, Deadwood, BSG (which, while not canceled yet, is obviously on life support) and now Drive.  And those are just the shows I watched.  No telling how many more five and out shows there have been that I didn’t know about.

At this point, new shows are like new software versions- I’m going to let someone else beta test them.  If they stick, I’ll get the season discs via Netflix.

I no longer trust the networks enough to invest my time in a new show that likely won’t be on next week, or the week after.

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  • http://mike01s.wordpress.com/ MikeS

    I agree. Same thing happened to The Black Donnellys. At least NBC had the decency to post the cancelled episodes on the web. Another advantage of waiting for the disc – you don’t have to deal with the season being split in two,like they did with Heroes.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/16761417348886116363 Mike

    About the only stuff I plan to watch on TV anymore are the Thursday shows. The rest I wait for DVD. I loved being able to go through 4 episodes of Prison Break without commercials in one night. And with any real drama, commercials just destroy the pace and tension anyway.

  • http://getgood.typepad.com/ Susan Getgood

    I mostly scared to watch a new show for fear that I will like it, which will mean, inevitably, that it will be cancelled. And replaced with a reality show. Drive was pretty good — not as good as Firefly or BSG or BtVS or Angel or Farscape. But better than most of the dreck on TV. Me, I’m working my way back through Babylon 5 right now :-)

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/07386028729238418141 TDavid

    Curious parenthetical placement there, Kent. “They don’t blow me” (…) “away”