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The time has finally come, maybe. This is possibly the last night to watch any new episodes of the highly enjoyable TV show Arrested Development. Fox has pulled a Family Guy on this fantastic show and I’m sad to see it go.

Hopefully the rumors of ABC or Showtime picking up the series are true. If that’s the case I will make a video of myself dancing a jig and consider posting it here for all to enjoy—well, enjoy would be one way to put it, laugh would probably be better.

So, tell all your family and friends to turn on their TVs and catch the [final] 2 hours of Arrested Development tonight.

[Also posted on TUG.n]

After reading about Dave’s, Jen’s, and Scott’s fav TV shows I thought I would join in the fun. Below is a list of my top 10 TV shows.

• CSI – the original
• Law and Order – any will do
• 24 – even though I only watch it on DVD and I’m always a season behind
• Arrested Development – as long as it’s on the air and on DVD
• Scrubs
• LOST
• The OC
• Avatar: The Last Airbender – my fav cartoon on Saturday mornings
• My Name is Earl – I am definitely not happy now that the moved it to the same time as CSI (good thing I have a couple east coast channels)
• Magnum PI

I’m going to modify the list a little bit and throw in a couple shows that I’m interested in watching/buying/picking up

• The Shield
• Three’s Company – I used to watch this and I’m in the process of buying it on DVD
• Seinfeld – loved it when it was on TV and have the first three seasons on DVD, it just didn’t make my list
• Dead Like Me
• Deadwood – probably interests me the most but I couldn’t justify paying $90 for season one on boxing day

Well, what do you like to watch? What would you only buy on DVD?

It’s Wednesday night and it’s 9:58pm, almost time for LOST. I don’t really know what it is — maybe the hype, maybe the story, maybe the fact that Colin keeps talking about it all the time and totally psyching me up for it — but I’m totally into this show right now.

Uh oh, guess I’m taking too long writing this because that cutie Michelle Rodriguez is gracing my screen, giving me the first glances into the life of the ones from the tail section.

Also posted on TheÜberGeeks.net, sorry for the cross post but I’m really passionate about this one.

I really wish FOX would pull it’s head out of it’s ass, seriously. Whoop-ty shit, so what if the reality shows are still doing well. Gee, I wonder why that is? I suppose it might have something to do with the fact that the marketing budget for those stupid reality shows is somewhere around the billion dollar mark and the budget for Arrested Development is less than I make a year — and believe me that figure is not very high.

It’s mind boggling how a show that wins award after award after award gets cancelled when a show like Stacked is kept on the air (correct me if I’m wrong but I haven’t heard of this show being cancelled yet). I guess it’s just the power of the chest that keeps that show afloat. Damn Pamela Anderson and her fake body parts!

Of course we are talking about the same network that cancelled Family Guy twice before they realized it had an audience. On the positive side, from everything I’ve read it seems that AD fans are a passionate bunch of people — I know I am. The show has been brought back from the brink before so maybe this is a sign, then again maybe not.

You know what else might help? If FOX would quit pre-empting AD for no real reason. First, it’s pushed back because of baseball. Fine, a lot of people watch baseball, especially during the playoffs. But the first day that Arrested Development is back on the air we are told that it will be off the air until after sweeps and the next episode will be on December 5th. Are you kidding me? Talk about stacking the deck against the show.

There are some good places to find information on how you can do your part to keep AD on the air. One suggestion was to ask all Nielson households you know to watch the show on December 5th. I’ll be doing my part there since I’m a Nielson household. What will you be doing to keep this fantastic show on the air? Why not buy season one or season two on DVD? That would show them.