<marcus60s@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> schreef in bericht
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>I just found out that my favorite new show of the past few years, "Joan
> Of Arcadia", has been cancelled. I am shocked. It was only a few
> months back that my local newspaper weekly TV listing magazine had a
> cover story about how successful and innovative the show was. There
> was no indication that ratings were bad.
>
> CBS's rationale is that the average age of the viewer was 58 or so.
> And they want to attract young viewers. It's hard for me to believe
> that a show written about and for young people didn't have young
> viewers.
>
> I have a suspicion that what we are witnessing is behind the scenes
> pressure from the Evangelical Right because Joan Of Arcadia made people
> think about God and their lives, and did not interpret the Bible
> literally.
>
> What a shame. I urge everyone to flood CBS with letters of protests.
Lately that happens to a lot of shows I liked.
I liked Joan, but didn`t care much about the God character in it,
but it wasn`t annoying either, and the acting was great so I liked
to watch it anyway.
Now we get a show where they talk to the dead, wait, didn`t I see a
show where a band had an amulet which made it possibel for them
to talk to the <shrug> dead? And before Joan wasn`t there a show
where a girl got messages from inanimate objects telling her what to do
to help the others, just like Joan got from God?
I mean, aren`t there more original writers in TV anymore?
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