HELP SAVE 'MY OWN WORST ENEMY'

I agree, I love this show. It is on at a horrible time in Canada though. but I tape it every week. and I got to say, the guy that plays Raymond is doing an incredible job. I only knew him as Jimmy from Yes Dear, but he is really shinning in this show!

"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels” J. Calvin

"If that were the case, then Family Guy wouldn't be around now. It got canceled after like 3 seasons, but was brought back by fan demand. The same is true for several shows. If the networks have a reason to second-guess the ratings for a show they canceled, they will bring it back."


The reason Family Guy came back was Cartoon Network picked them up and began re-airing the original episodes. It was only after that coupled with stellar DVD sales that Fox decided to bring back the series to its own network. Works better than a petition. You want to see your show come back? Pray for a DVD release and then buy the snot out of it.

<< Don't you hate when networks decide that something's too complicated for the public to understand? >>

I agree with you, prtfvr. I remember when Numb3rs debuted. Many thought it was doomed to fail because the math concepts in the program are far too advanced for the average American to grasp. What I loved about it was that they refused to 'dumb it down' for the average audience member, and instead forged ahead, hoping to pick up viewers who wanted an intelligent, well-written and acted show that didn't hand you the answers on a silver platter but instead challenged you to think for yourself.

MOWE was that type of show. With it gone now, the dumbing down of American network TV only gets worse. Shame on you, NBC!

{Maybe if they could do some sort of survey before they just axed something}

They have entire office buildings devoted to surveys and focus groups and number crunching nimrods asking people all sorts of things. Much of the time problems result from having TOO MUCH of this information available.

TV is huge money and has a "win now" attitude. Little time for development of a "following". I'm thankful now that there are 8 jillion channels so there can be a few niche series that don't demand least common denominator type attention from the unwashed masses. NBC still looks at itself as a bigshot and is quick to pull the plug if it doesn't get bizarro numbers. But inane stuff like "Deal or No Deal" captures our attention for a half second and it gets years of airtime. It's only interesting at seeing how bad the general public is at the idea of numbers and probability. That whole show is just cretinous Howie Mandell saying "guess what number I'm holding?" yet it is on TV every single day.

I'm just happy I live in an age where I can effectively cut out advertising.

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Jeff Zucker
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Nothing against 24, but it is not superior. And it is definitely not too late....

I wonder if the Trekkies of the 60's would have just given up and done nothing to save Star Trek, if it would have come back after being cancelled to become one of the most successful sci-fi tv shows and movies of all time?

I think not!

The fans wrote in, requested the show come back and based on their huge numbers, the show was brought back. The show went on to air for years and then to the theaters with quite a few films based on the tv show. It then went on to spawn other shows like Generations, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galatica etc...

24 is not superior, it is amusing. It takes years just to show a whole 24 hours in Kiefers life on the show...Wow, now thats progress. At 8:45am, Kiefer picked his nose. At 9:00am, Kiefer took a leak. At 9:30am, Kiefer decided what he was going to wear to work that day. At 9:45am, Kiefer drove to work and killed a bad guy. There, thats one whole season (based on 1 hour in his day).

Sorry, 504Jumper but I disagree with maxtheanonymousmoose's opinion of MOWE which is obvious from his earlier posts. And I NEVER give up on anything until I am absolutely sure there is not an iota of hope. Certainly, not on the advice of an anonymous critic. The world is full of critics and people who would rather not try. Perhaps it is all of those years rooting for the Red Sox that make me tenatious. Why give up, it's not like my life is on hold until i know what happens to MOWE. And it's not like I don't enjoy the pursuit. Anyway, enough about me, how do you like my post?