Filed in the category of "Dearly Departed Television Shows ...Attempting to Rise from the Ashes", two former evening dramas were mentioned as possibly coming back. What the hec
k, if you were in puberty during the first run of "90210"m now your kids are able to go through all the same drama thanks to the new version on The CW. I guess people somewhere find revisiting the past a pleasure which is why, thanks to good ratings, it's only fitting that "Melrose Place" comes back too. Don't worry kids, it's a done deal and casting begins soon. At this rate, by the end of next year all of Aaron Spellings "90210" spin-offs including "The Heights" and "Models, Inc" will be back too! Why? Beacause they were so darn good the first time around! But seriously, they were so memorable I had to find the names of the last two shows I mention here on Google. Here's another one that was pretty good at the time before scheduling and contract problems got in the way. "The West Wing" was a staple on Thursday nights for a few years and would have made it longer if not for the ten storylines happening at once. As this show did it's fictional take on events and people in the White House, it was realized that Martin Sheen's role as President would eventually run out of time. Before the show slipped into oblivion, two new candidates were sparring for top spot to replace Sheen. They were Alan "I'm as boring as hell" Alda, and Jimmy "I need the work" Smits. This week it was reported that the Smit's character was the creation of a writer on the show who has now come clean to say the storyline involving Smits was created after observing Borack Obama's rise in politics. Is this a good thing to admit to the world now? True, Smits' character went on to be the first minority President however, after only several episodes with Smits in the Oval Office, the show was gone due to lack of interest. Now, some cable network is attempting to bring this back to television... who knows? All I can say is that for Obama's sake, let's hope he isn't booted out of office in a month like Smits was!
- "Hank Hill and the gang are losing their homes" It seems Fox never learned their l
esson with what they did twice to "Family Guy". Twice given the boot and given a third chance to bounce back to be one of the most successful Fox shows ever, the shoe is on the other foot now with word that "King of the Hill" is being dropped. Never mind that Hank Hill lived a life nearly fifteen years long. Mike Judge is the man who put an abrupt end to the popular MTV cartoon, "Beavis and Butthead" to put 100% effort into what turned out to be a cult hit. The truth is, I don't think we've seen the last of Hank. He will probably turn up on Cartoon Network to regenerate the buzz and who knows, by then maybe Fox will realize that they ought to keep things like this around. With the exception of a few shows that can ve counted on one hand, what has Fox done for anyone lately? - "Atomically Correct" is a new label for something we do twice a year, just like my sex life.
Wait! Not a good analogy! Actually, the dumb ritual of turning the clocks back an hour happens again before you hit the sheets for the night. Because the world is ssynchronized to the infamous "Atomic Clock" that needs to be calibrated by a millisecond once every 50 years, it's important that you turn back the clocks exactly one hour and .8832345 seconds. If not done exactly this way, you will be twisting the time/space continuum and may alter past events in time to repeat themselves over and over in and endless loop for eternity. Take this task serious and oh yeah, throw a new Duracell into the smoke alarm.
k, if you were in puberty during the first run of "90210"m now your kids are able to go through all the same drama thanks to the new version on The CW. I guess people somewhere find revisiting the past a pleasure which is why, thanks to good ratings, it's only fitting that "Melrose Place" comes back too. Don't worry kids, it's a done deal and casting begins soon. At this rate, by the end of next year all of Aaron Spellings "90210" spin-offs including "The Heights" and "Models, Inc" will be back too! Why? Beacause they were so darn good the first time around! But seriously, they were so memorable I had to find the names of the last two shows I mention here on Google. Here's another one that was pretty good at the time before scheduling and contract problems got in the way. "The West Wing" was a staple on Thursday nights for a few years and would have made it longer if not for the ten storylines happening at once. As this show did it's fictional take on events and people in the White House, it was realized that Martin Sheen's role as President would eventually run out of time. Before the show slipped into oblivion, two new candidates were sparring for top spot to replace Sheen. They were Alan "I'm as boring as hell" Alda, and Jimmy "I need the work" Smits. This week it was reported that the Smit's character was the creation of a writer on the show who has now come clean to say the storyline involving Smits was created after observing Borack Obama's rise in politics. Is this a good thing to admit to the world now? True, Smits' character went on to be the first minority President however, after only several episodes with Smits in the Oval Office, the show was gone due to lack of interest. Now, some cable network is attempting to bring this back to television... who knows? All I can say is that for Obama's sake, let's hope he isn't booted out of office in a month like Smits was!
