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Inception The TV Series Starring Dane Cook and Jennifer Aniston (Graphic by Photoshop)<\/p><\/div>\n

How does one explain the current state of programming among the television networks? Is it an issue with current quality of programming? Yes. Is it an issue with pandering to a sub-genre they know little about? Yes. Is it money hunger and pandering to the lowest common denominator? Of course, but I am coming to the conclusion that there is more to this ill conceived plan than meets the eye.<\/p>\n

EXAMPLE 1 – THE WALKING DEAD<\/a>. AMC takes it\u2019s one of its highest rated shows, The Walking Dead, showcases it at ComiCon, Parades the cast and show-runner from panel to panel for the three day\u00a0event, then summarily fires the show-runner and slashed the budget in half. Frank Darabont\u00a0was truly a dead man walking and never knew it. Cast and crew were stunned\u00a0and were given the cryptic explanation \u201cThis isn\u2019t working\u201d. Seems to me it was working just fine, great show, interesting cast, explosive concept, and deviously crafted. Yeah, it wasn\u2019t working, was it?<\/p>\n

EXAMPLE 2 \u2013 EUREKA<\/a>. SyFy\u00a0Network, perhaps most noted for a few great series and a plethora of horrible made for TV movies, takes one of its highest rated shows and shortly after announcing that it is extended for another season, abruptly cancels it, not allowing the writers to bring it to a conclusion. In an interesting corollary, their propaganda magazine, appropriately named SyFy<\/em>, has a feature article in this months issue about how wonderfully the now terminal show is doing. The explanation given was, it was too expensive. \u201cWe just couldn\u2019t make the numbers work\u201d. To be nice, SyFy\u00a0has ordered one last episode to be shot beyond the current contract to allow for some closure.<\/p>\n

EXAMPLE 3 – WONDER WOMAN<\/a>. This was a mess from the very inception\u00a0(hey wait\u2026INCEPTION the television series, you dream and you get to\u2026oh never mind). So here is what we get; Wonder Woman in spandex tights, Adrianne Palicki\u00a0pouting, no hint of where she comes from or why is she here and who the hell knows what to do with a female Super Hero anyway? (\u2026.um\u2026Marvel) Its premiere\u00a0at ComiCon\u00a0led to it\u2019s demise , although the network quashed it after seeing the final cut and rightfully so. The question is why was it made so poorly, what were they thinking?<\/p>\n

“What the hell were they thinking?” is a question worth asking as we grind inexorably toward the new season of strained lamb baby food \/television. Well, if we are to believe LiveScience.com, Addiction is now defined as a Brain Disorder, not a Behavior Problem<\/a>. Network programmers are addicted to ratings. These ratings are elusive and hard to command and when they don\u2019t get them programmers act as any addict would:\u00a0 destroying both good and bad to get their fix. How could we possibly expect them to behave rationally, or for that matter make intelligent decisions?<\/p>\n

This is Dome, sayin\u2019: I am pitching Inception the TV Series, starring Dane Cook and Jennifer Aniston. Any takers?<\/p>\n

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