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Arrested Development
amendonz:
love this show, one of the greats.
other top shows..
Curb your enthusiasm
Trailer Park Boys
the office (uk mainly, although i like the US one)
shmokes:
You're all wrong. It was cancelled because Mikezilla didn't see it until now. I'm serious. I also didn't see it (or know of its existence) until after it was cancelled. It was cancelled because Fox didn't believe in it, they didn't promote it. And, of course, it had a bad time slot too, so I guess you're not all entirely wrong. :) But primarily, this show simply wasn't supported at all by fox. People just didn't know about it. Nobody watches the Emmy awards. That's not enough. But for christ's sake, all the Emmy awards should have been enough to wake up the executives at Fox.
By the way, make sure it doesn't happen again. At least three members of Arrested Development's cast are now doing Archer on FX, which, like Arrested Development, is by far the funniest thing on television. I mean nothing else even comes close. Main difference is that it's not cancelled yet. So get watching it and get the word out. It's on Thursdays and we're in the second season now. First season is on Netflix (it disappeared briefly when the DVD was released, but it's back). Speaking of the DVD, if you don't have Netflix I assume you can get the DVDs from Redbox . . . or bit torrent.
Speaking of which, I still haven't watched last Thursday's episode. I need to get on that.
DaveMMR:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 29, 2011, 06:23:30 pm ---By the way, make sure it doesn't happen again. At least three members of Arrested Development's cast are now doing Archer on FX, which, like Arrested Development, is by far the funniest thing on television. I mean nothing else even comes close. Main difference is that it's not cancelled yet. So get watching it and get the word out. It's on Thursdays and we're in the second season now. First season is on Netflix (it disappeared briefly when the DVD was released, but it's back). Speaking of the DVD, if you don't have Netflix I assume you can get the DVDs from Redbox . . . or bit torrent.
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Thanks for the tip - I'll check that out.
And yeah, I used to love and preach the gospel of AD to anyone who'd listen. I taped every week, bought the DVD's as soon as they came out and watched it over and over. Great show - I do miss it but am glad to at least have gotten 53 episodes of classic TV to enjoy.
yotsuya:
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on March 29, 2011, 11:49:34 am --- I just watched it at work this past week
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Tell me you don't work for the TSA or FEMA. ;D
javeryh:
The reason it failed is because it was too smart for the general public to understand. I'm completely amazed that 30 Rock has been on the air as long as it has but NBC tends to let low rated comedies find their footing before giving them the axe (Cheers, Seinfeld, etc.). Fox likes to cancel things immediately or set them up to fail by changing time slots or showing episodes out of order (Firefly anyone???).
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