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Put an Eye Out (CBS Axes Bunch of Shows)
Entertainment Weekly ^ | 5-19-05

Posted on 05/19/2005 8:21:18 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache

Put an Eye Out CBS cancels ''Joan of Arcadia,'' ''Judging Amy'' -- The low-rated former hits get the ax, as does the Wednesday edition of ''60 Minutes'' by Mickey O'Connor

Oh, God. It's official. At the unveiling of CBS' fall 2005 lineup Wednesday, the network announced that it has axed Joan of Arcadia, the underdog-that-couldn't, despite last year's Emmy nomination for lead Amber Tamblyn and much critical love. A second-season ratings slump made continuing it not feasible, said CBS chairman Les Moonves, calling it one of his biggest disappointments.

In other cancellation news, a desire to attract a younger demographic has spelled the end for two graying CBS shows: The awards magnet Judging Amy has heard its final sentence, and the beleagured Wednesday edition of news warhorse 60 Minutes, which suffered after a story that questioned President Bush's military service proved to be false, will stop production as well.

So what will replace these dearly departed shows? Among the new series that the chatty Moonves held forth on: a comedy about a family of doctors; a drama about FBI profilers; and, er, Jennifer Love Hewitt seeing dead people. ''I think talking to ghosts may skew younger than talking to God,'' Moonves said. From his mouth to... oh, never mind.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; fired; turass; tv
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To: My Favorite Headache
So what will replace these dearly departed shows?

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

61 posted on 05/19/2005 9:11:36 AM PDT by Tall_Texan (If you can think 180-degrees apart from reality, you might be a Democrat.)
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To: TheBigB
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

62 posted on 05/19/2005 9:11:44 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: macamadamia

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


63 posted on 05/19/2005 9:11:58 AM PDT by politicalwit (USA...A Nation of Selective Law Enforcement.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

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


64 posted on 05/19/2005 9:12:34 AM PDT by Sir Gawain (Jeb Pilate and the Republican Congress: Stood by while someone died)
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To: ladtx

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


65 posted on 05/19/2005 9:13:25 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

66 posted on 05/19/2005 9:15:35 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache ( "I think she did too much coke, ahh you think so Doctor?")
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To: My Favorite Headache

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.


67 posted on 05/19/2005 9:16:17 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: My Favorite Headache

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.


68 posted on 05/19/2005 9:16:27 AM PDT by sully777 (If anyone asks, I'm a monger-monger.)
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To: dangus
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.
69 posted on 05/19/2005 9:16:56 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Sir Gawain
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.


70 posted on 05/19/2005 9:17:10 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you only knew the powerrrrr of the Tagline.)
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To: Sir Gawain

71 posted on 05/19/2005 9:17:45 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache ( "I think she did too much coke, ahh you think so Doctor?")
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To: My Favorite Headache
Dude. That's just mean.
Although, Sharon Gless was easy on the eyes.
72 posted on 05/19/2005 9:19:42 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you only knew the powerrrrr of the Tagline.)
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To: macamadamia

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.


73 posted on 05/19/2005 9:19:43 AM PDT by sully777 (If anyone asks, I'm a monger-monger.)
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To: fr_freak

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


74 posted on 05/19/2005 9:20:47 AM PDT by beansox
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To: My Favorite Headache

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


75 posted on 05/19/2005 9:21:44 AM PDT by pgkdan (Joannes Paulus Magnus, ora pro nobis!)
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To: Tanniker Smith
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/

76 posted on 05/19/2005 9:25:17 AM PDT by TheBigB ("You should meet MY boss. He'd turn Buddha into a chain smoker."~the wit and wisdom of Carl Kolchak)
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To: dts32041
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.

77 posted on 05/19/2005 9:26:03 AM PDT by Bernard Marx (Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
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To: ladtx

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


78 posted on 05/19/2005 9:27:43 AM PDT by dc27
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To: sully777

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


79 posted on 05/19/2005 9:36:52 AM PDT by macamadamia
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To: My Favorite Headache

Bring back Mannix!


80 posted on 05/19/2005 9:39:42 AM PDT by 0siris
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