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?)

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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.

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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.

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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?

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added Vanessa Williams to the cast

Vanessa with or without the "L?"

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Reilly clearly has a multiyear overall deal with Satan.

Clearly. Did you watch DOOL? My mother and aunt were here today at lunch time (and we ate late) so I TiVoed it for them. I haven't watched it in ages. Apparently, although I didn't seem him today, Wayne Northrup (original Roman) is back. John Black is still on, and Current Roman (who is played by Josh Taylor who, played DOOL's Chris Kositchek) is still on. Also, Frankie (Billy Warlock) is back.

I was almost all caught up, after years and years away, even though I was cleaning the kitchen and dealing with the kids while my mother and aunt sat down to watch it.

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So did we air in Canada? Just curious.

Nope. We got Fear Factor instead. For some odd reason guess they got the update for Fox but not Global.

For some reason I've never thought of the Big 3 networks in the quasi-personal way I have about Fox, the WB, and UPN.

I've never thought about any of the networks that way myself, only the shows. Just happens that the big 3 never seem to have the shows that I get attached to enough to be angry about their cancellation. Only example I can think of that was on one of the big 3 is Cupid.

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I think you can group FOX in with the the Big 3 at this point. They seem to need Big 3-type ratings numbers much more than UPN or WB does.

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That's a lot of Romans there. Of course my entire retained knowledge of DooL (from way back when -- the exGF watched religiously and we needed two tvs and vcrs so she could tape DooL and I could tape GH.) is the quote from some show runner that if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's a Hope. And it won't go away, someone says the duck thing and my brain helpfully pipes in with "it's a Hope." I can't remember how to make a page number in Quark without checking the help file today but I remember the damn Hope/duck thing.

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Cindy, are there multiRomans now? Or has Josh now gone back to playing Chris?

Because, funny.

ETA: Also I have no love for Billy Warlock ever since the ugly Marcy Walker split.

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