Put an Eye Out (CBS Axes Bunch of Shows)

Entertainment Weekly ^ | 5-19-05

[Tall_Texan]

So what will replace these dearly departed shows?

Lemme guess:
"CSI: Champagne-Urbana"
"Survivor: Sri Lanka" and
"JAG: Iraq"?

[Tanniker Smith]

The only new show I'm both anticipating and dreading is ABC's remake of KOLCHAK:THE NIGHT STALKER on Thursday nights. Stuart Townsend plays Kolchak.

If that gets the Sci-Fi channel to show the originals more often, then I'm all for it.

TS

[politicalwit]

Read a little about Peoria....high crime, resting and planning place for radicals and Al Queda.

[Sir Gawain]

The article mentions Jennifer Love Hewitt and yet there are no pics...

[SoCal Pubbie]

My wife will be upset when she finds out! She watched both Amy & Arcadia.

[My Favorite Headache]

[The Great RJ]

Network TV shows in general suck big time. From the inspid sitcoms to the mind numbing stupidity of the reality shows there hasn't been anything to seriously watch in years.

[sully777]

Looks like Lifetime, WE, and Oh! have a few more shows to add to the one zillionth airing of the Golden Mares and The Franny.

[fr_freak]

You're nuts. Joan of Arcadia was quality. And unlike "Touched by an Angel," it wasn't simply syruppy pseudo-religious pabulum, but contained tough, spiritual lessons.

I have to disagree with you here. I tried watching that show a couple of times and it was just too tainted by Hollywood. Primarily, I could not stand the way they had the bratty Joan always sass-talking to God. In the real world, if any of us found ourselves in the presence of God, we would be in awe, even if we had previously been nonbelievers. In the alternate universe where Hollywood resides, however, teenage girls talk to God as if He is an annoying distraction from their real purpose of shopping and makeup.

Also, Touched by an Angel made more sense in that angels were the ones guiding the minutiae of people's lives, rather than having God, Himself, intervening because Joan's brother has a case of the blues.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The article mentions Jennifer Love Hewitt and yet there are no pics...

Allow me...

Jennifer Love Hewitt seeing dead people. ''I think talking to ghosts may skew younger than talking to God,'' Moonves said.

[My Favorite Headache]

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Dude. That's just mean.
Although, Sharon Gless was easy on the eyes.

[sully777]

You know its getting out of hand when they start "CSI-Peoria"

The movie Fargo was darkly funny. Can you imagine CSI-Fargo, yeah yeah fer sure.

[beansox]

Who cares if it was quality or not. A hand full of LIBERALS who campainged against Bush are out work! Its a good thing! :)

[pgkdan]

I'm gl;ad to see Dan Rather's 60 Minutes II hit the fan...it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

[TheBigB]

If this report from TVShowsOnDVD.com is accurate, we may not have to wait for reruns...

The folks at The Sci Fi Channel run a great website. Not only does it cover and promote shows and events tied to the cable network, but it truly reaches out to science fiction fans with genre-related info that may not be directly related to their broadcasts. One of the cool things at their site along those lines is the Events Calendar. It lists dates for SciFi channel events like premieres of special shows and so forth, but also lists film openings, convention dates, book releases...and now DVD release dates as well, it seems.

Many of the DVD's you'll find on their master list are for releases we've already talked about, including the dates of all four seasons of Enterprise. The big surprise, though, are some end-of-the-year release dates for 5 highly anticipated sets from Univesal Studios Home Video!

Kolchak, The Night Stalker is one of those titles, and the SciFi.com events calendar is reporting a 10/04/2005 release date for it!

We tried to get Universal to comment on this, but they would neither confirm nor deny that schedule. What came up is that, if this DID represent the current plans for that set's release, we have to realize that plans can always change. Nothing that far off is set in stone, and we think our readers here at TVShowsOnDVD are among the best on the 'Net at realizing that. Still, it's good to know that it's that much on the radar, and even if that doesn't turn out to be the exact date, it seems to be coming!

This timing makes sense, if they want to tie the DVD set into the launch of the new show.

Here's some more info about the new one: http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-33125/

[Bernard Marx]

BTW three cities I will never visit again Miami, Las Vegas and New York, to many dead bodies.

Don't forget Cabot Cove, Maine. On a per capita basis that little village had the country's worst murder count.

[dc27]

My life loves Judging Amy too. I have to leave the room when it comes on. I can't stand that show.

[macamadamia]

LOL. Yeah Fargo was definitely dark and funny. But I got chills just seeing all that snow....and I'm used to snow.

[0siris]

Bring back Mannix!