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How many episodes did that show last? 2? I lost track.

Kyle The Jeff Huson of alt.sports.baseball.chicago-cubs

Kyle wrote:

Entirely too many, whatever the number.

Peace Kevin

Incidentally, what the hell *WAS* the point behind this? It wasn't sophisticated enough for the people who watch Daria (and lament all good canceled MTV programming), and the Tom Green-lovin', TRL-watchin' juveniles weren't sophisticated enough for it.

Ah, the mysteries of..."life".

-nick reffuse

**can you find dilinger at the smithsonian or not?**

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I wonder if MTV would pull another "My So Called Life" out of its hat with "God, the Devil, and Bob". I loved this show, but it only aired about three times, directly opposite "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". Thirteen episodes were made, but never aired. -mike

[email] (nick reffuse) writes:

Some of you guys give these people *way* too much credit. Fanatical Christians have never gotten any show removed except for in a few local areas; in most cases, the publicity they generate *boosts* the ratings of the show in question. Maybe it loses 100 viewers in Podunk, Arkansas, but it picks up 1000 in NY who wouldn't have heard of it otherwise.

Networks cancel shows for two reasons:

1. Low ratings. Without good ratings (preferably in the 14-25 male demo), you can't make money, and that's the name of the game. One exception: if the lead actress comes out of the closet and accuses the network of planning to cancel her show because of her lesbian character, the network will chicken out and let the show hang around for a while longer than it deserves.

2. The execs don't like it. There have been cases where a show with good ratings was cancelled because the execs simply didn't like it, or they couldn't get along with the actor(s), or whatever.

Aaron

Sometimes you don't read the whole post. While my start-off may be a bit muddled, I did say that the Christians seemed to have gotten a few local NBC affiliates to pull the show (understandable in highly conservative areas where such stations might be staffed by some people against such a program). This resulted in some controversy, and along with the low ratings garnered by placing it opposite Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, NBC was able to decide that they were going to cancel the show, as 1) it wasn't getting ratings and thus wouldn't attract advertisers ect. and 2) while publicity is publicity, it can still be negative in the non-wild world of network television.

-nick reffuse

**can you find dilinger at the smithsonian or not?**

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I never saw that. I meant to. My friend said it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen, but when I tried to watch it it wasn't there anymore...

Does anyone remember the Clerks TV show? Lasted 2 episodes. I had to miss the second but the first was hilarious...what is it about animated shows that they get very, very small trial periods? I would love to see more Clerks.

~Aabi Now you too can smell like a B-movie star!

In article , Jon Reiss wrote:

It was canceled before it aired. The creater pissed off someone at the network, so they a) aired it out of order, and b) aired the worse episode first. The second episode had a flashback to an episode that hadn't run yet.