What sort of shows are you talking about when you talk about Cable "dramedy", SA?
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DebetEsse - Jun 17, 2007 2:10:54 pm PDT #6821 of 10289
Woe to the fucking wicked.
esse - Jun 17, 2007 2:18:08 pm PDT #6822 of 10289
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Psych and Monk, primarily.
DebetEsse - Jun 17, 2007 2:26:47 pm PDT #6823 of 10289
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Ah. Ok. See, I see them as fitting into the "drama" umbrella (given, in a very different way than, say Rescue Me).
I'm in the camp that thinks that an All the Drama thread would be too big. While it makes some sense to sub-genre and divide All the Drama, our experience trying to get the Experimental Threads set up leads me to believe that there's no way to do that that isn't more work and confusion. The Network/Cable/Premium split seems like it makes more practical sense.
I also think that discussion of a show should go in the thread which it would have gone in on original airing, so that we keep all of the discussion for that show in one place.
Denise - Jun 17, 2007 4:42:53 pm PDT #6824 of 10289
I'm for combining cable and premium drama and having a separate thread for just network drama. All 3 together doesn't make sense to me.
tiggy - Jun 17, 2007 5:05:29 pm PDT #6825 of 10289
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
cable/premium together wouldn't really matter all that much to me, but i would really like to keep network seperate. all three together would be a bit much, i think. i definitely think whitefont needs to be a major componet of this because i'm not sure 24 hour works all that well for the drama threads.
Monique - Jun 17, 2007 7:11:37 pm PDT #6826 of 10289
I totally don't see Psych and Monk as drama. Am I the only one? I heart Psych like you TOTALLY would not believe, but it's so not the same thing as Army Wives or Rescue Me, IMO.
The Dead Zone also seems like it should go in Boxed Set to me.
And I'm with those who've stayed out of Premium because I don't have it.
DebetEsse - Jun 17, 2007 7:29:28 pm PDT #6827 of 10289
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Not the same, but I'd put them there, rather than in a comedy thread or a scifi thread. Any more than that, and we're getting into things that will have seriously fuzzy lines, depending on who you ask.
Monique - Jun 17, 2007 7:36:33 pm PDT #6828 of 10289
Not to be just randomly contrary, but just to throw it out there: I think I'd put Psych in the comedy thread before Drama. I think it took me a Search session to find it on TWOP in the Drama forum, as well, because it just never occurred to me that it would be in there. It doesn't have that ring of seriousness or wholesomeness or, well, drama, to me.
But I could be alone in that.
sumi - Jun 17, 2007 8:05:53 pm PDT #6829 of 10289
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, to me Psych, Monk and The Closer are at heart just different sorts of mysteries so they belong together.
brenda m - Jun 18, 2007 12:49:50 am PDT #6830 of 10289
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