Who ended up on the crap CSI-lite Medical Investigations.

Also cancelled.

It's possible I'm operating on nostalgia for the Ally Walker days, but I did really like that show.

I really liked it too. But, at some point, I really stopped liking it a lot. I haven't watched it in forever but I think it was probably related to an overuse of Jack. Jack was a lot like Spike, for me. I was interested for a while but then there was too much and I was suddenly screaming, omigodyou'resoannoyingwhywon'tyoujustDIEalready, at my tv screen.

They canceled Another World and put James Reilly's foolish Passions on the air.

I can't entirely fault them for that. Reilly clearly has a multiyear overall deal with Satan.

Frankie and Cass are *so* close the mambo horizontalia, and Josie has just learnt that Russ is her father.

Good times, good times. I don't have cable so no soap net for me.

True, but it was on a Friday night. Nothing good gets the ratings it should on a Friday night.

X-Files did. It didn't even get good Friday night ratings, and when they replaced it with that sappy drama that I never watched with that doctor (memfault) it got better ratings. I'm not going to be an NBC apologist; I mean Fear Factor is everything I hate about reality, not to mention The Apprentice(s), and that the humorless cameowhore Will & Grace still airs (and wins Emmys) sticks in my craw, but I'd rather a network aired all crap and kept my good show on the air like WB and especially UPN.

And I put 90% of the blame on FOX for reality television. But I hate FOX for cancelling all the most amazing shows. Do I even need to make a list?

X-Files did.

And then they moved it to Sunday.

Well Friday night is the death slot. Had H:LOTS proven it's worth they'd have moved it too. And they did try boosting the ratings with at least one Sunday viewing stunt-cast (Robin Williams) and several L&O crossovers.

Well, Medical Investigation deserved to be cancelled -- Boomtown did not.

Boomtown also didn't deserve to be screwed around with the way it was.

I'm also bitter about Boomtown. (Can you tell?)

I never watched Boomtown, but from what I've heard it was really good, and I'm completely mystified as to why they cancelled it. Or why they renewed it just to cancel it. Like with Tru Calling.

I suppose, if I'm looking for a reason to hate NBC, I could just go with the fact that they facilitated Dick Wolf's Ascension.

Though they're smarting pretty fierce from the snake bite so I won't kick 'em while they're down. Probably.

Or why they renewed it just to cancel it.

That's the real question. I mean, they moved it to Fridays, asked the producers to dumb down the storylines, and added Vanessa Williams to the cast. Did anyone think it had a chance?