I Quit Watching Broadcast TV Over This Shows Cancellation...
I've have had it with all my favorite shows being cancelled after one season, or two seasons if lucky.
Jericho, Stargate Universe, Terra Nova... Just to name a few!
The cancellation of Terra Nova was the last straw for me.
So why should watch anything on TV anymore, when the networks don't care about me as a loyal viewer? What is the point of spending week after week, watching a show to have it get cancelled, just as it starts to "Find It's Footing", and really get interesting?
Where is the reward, in the constant canceling of shows, for being a weekly viewer?
When there is a show I am interested in seeing, I'll just wait and pick it up on DVD, and watch that. At least I know by the time the DVD is released, if it is the "complete" series, I'll know not to get so attached to watching it, and wonder when the next season will air, and what it will bring...only to be let down at the end, knowing there is no more. Besides with DVDs there are no commercials, you don't have to remember what happened "Last Week", You can see several episodes in one evening, and you don't have to worry about missing an episode due to unforeseen circumstances, like: Bad Weather & National Disasters as well as other personal events taking place at the same time. You just hit "Pause" and return to where you left off...
I really don't care about broadcast TV anymore , If I miss the latest "So Called" hit show that everyone is talking about (Which usually is really junk anyway)... So what? I just don't care to deal with all the hassle of seeing what only ends up being a handful of episodes that seems like an "Extended Pilot"...
If this is going to be the trend of the future, I believe instead of TV shows, they should do Mini-Series... (A limited number of episodes to try it out) End it with the possibility of doing more, but at least a good portion of it can be resolved... Then at least those of us that are loyal viewers won't get ripped off from huge "Cliffhanger" season endings making us want more...
Imagine if Star Trek: TNG had been canceled at the end of season Three when Captain Picard was assimilated by the Borg and we were all left hanging there, wondering what happened when Commander Riker fired on his former Captain?...And we were then told...SORRY, there will be no more, and you will never know what happened!
If and when the networks start the trend of doing mini-series like events, that will be the only think that brings me back to broadcast TV! But I doubt that will ever happen...sadly!
When I do watch TV, it is usually a special... or an educational show of some kind where each episode is about one topic and completely self contained, and if you miss all the others, it's no big deal, because there are not connected to eather other in anyway, except by the title and the style of the program. Like Unsolved Mysteries, or Mayday! & Seconds From Disaster...