TV Shows

[MDS]

i get the feeling you people base your opinions of television on what you personally like, not on an extensive categorical knowledge of historical ratings trends, individual shows production budgets, and the quality of each networks pilot season.

nerds.

also original l&o now officially canceled by nbc....doubtful it could live elsewhere but its possible
svu lives on
nbc picks up l&o los angeles instead

there you go, whine about it

[rjs246]

Women care about TV.

[Rome]

There's maybe three shows I watch on the regular and one of those is ending in two weeks.

Any show that comes along that is even remotely different gets cancelled because Americans are, by and large, too stupid to watch anything that isn't completely predictable.

Now, Law & Order is the defintition of predictable but it's only predictable now because it practically set the standard for serialized police dramas 20 years ago.  Without a show like Law & Order there would have been no Wire to succeed it, kids.  Believe that.

[MDS]

law and order was actually originally going to be 2 30 minute shows, one about the cops and one about lawyers, presumably airing on different nights

im not so sure it set the standard for police procedurals, seeing as those things were around before l&o come on and will never cease to air, but it definitely made them more popular and more prevalent on tv. but that was 20 years ago. its beyond time for this thing to end. not sure how you can justify keeping it around at this point.

[rjs246]

Women.

[ice grillin you]

because it practically set the standard for serialized police dramas 20 years ago.  Without a show like Law & Order there would have been no Wire to succeed it, kids. 

HOF misinformed statement

the reason no one watched the wire was because it is the ANTI cop show...in fact it wasnt even about cops

[MDS]

to be fair to rome, he didnt watch and will never watch the wire

its like me talking about hockey

[Rome]

I wasn't in any way comparing the two shows.  I was saying that Law & Order was really the first of the truly dark and uncompromising shows that eventually led to shows like Oz & The Wire.

[MDS]

no the corner and the sopranos were really more of a reason why the wire got made

i like you, though. keep your head up there young blood.

[charlie]

Oh good, lets start 3 more pages of talking about the Wire.

[ice grillin you]

IN

but it does have its own thread....shouldnt ever really be in the tv thread as that is pretty much an insult

No other series in history has attracted such critical praise, not least from the kind of high-minded cultural arbiters who would usually only watch a US crime drama with a peg on their nose. According to these critics, The Wire isn't merely  TV; it merits comparison with the works of Dickens and Dostoevsky. As the entertainment industry magazine Variety observed, "When television history is written, little else will rival The Wire, a series of such ambition that it is, perhaps inevitably, savoured only by the appreciative few."

Talking to Variety, some anonymous Hollywood-based Emmy voters confirm one's worst suspicions about their voting patterns, explaining why they ignored The Wire: They can't relate to its drug-infested Baltimore milieu, they don't see the actors and producers around Los Angeles because they shoot on location in Maryland, and the plots are too hard for them to follow. Guess Wire fans can take consolation in knowing that many couch potatoes offer some of the same excuses for avoiding the show — but then again, you'd think Emmy voters would hold themselves to a higher standard than that.

[MDS]

that second quote is  absolutely perfect

[charlie]

Fascinating

[Rome]

the wire was about scumbag criminals that neither one of you would spend thirty seconds around without pissing your short pants.

[PhillyGirl]

the wire was about scumbag criminals that neither one of you would spend thirty seconds around without pissing your short pants