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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.
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.
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.
Okay, to me Psych, Monk and The Closer are at heart just different sorts of mysteries so they belong together.
Just FYI, I'm off to the airport and away for work the next couple of days, so I won't be around to answer questions or respond or anything, but I'll catch up as soon as I'm back toward the end of the discussion period.
The Dead Zone also seems like it should go in Boxed Set to me.I agree, but so far I haven't seen anything that will prevent the new/revised thread from from overlapping with Boxed Set. Dead Zone is an original drama for cable. So is The 4400. So is Galactica.
haven't seen anything that will prevent the new/revised thread from from overlapping with Boxed Set. Dead Zone is an original drama for cable. So is The 4400. So is Galactica.While I agree with this in general principle, in practice, I'm going to end up finding it confusing if a line isn't drawn.
Oh, me too. That's why I'm a bright-line booster.
You know, it might be worth revisiting the genre-lines divisor. Something like Procedurals, etc, that a couple people made up back in April. I mean, I'd still prefer to have Cable Drama in Premium; but we could always suggest another genre-type thread.
Monk and Psych ride the line for me, which is why I called them dramedies. They are primarily dramas, to me, that are designed to be funny, too. I wouldn't go to a Comedy bucket to talk about Psych, definitely not.
I think, though, that this is kind of like a Daily Show/Colbert thing. The discussion will pop up where it pops up, and will stick wherever it seems to fit. Bright lines are all well and good, but not everything in television (or life!) fits into a bright, clear lines. And I don't think it has to.
Still, it's worth reiterating the difference between CABLE DRAMA and CABLE ORIGINAL PROGRAMMING, and while it's up to Brenda whether she wants to make the distinction, I think that's the best Bright Shiny Line there could be--where Original Programming is the catchphrase, not Drama. Drama is not bright at all. Drama is like a French brothel hazy with cigarillo smoke. Drama is a dim bulb in a room full of halogens. Drama is like an umbrella that only works for giants that hold up planets, and are not nearly small and focused enough to keep the rain off human heads.
Please to be making sense now? Hello, two am. The hour of mixed and incohate metaphors/analogies/thingies with words.
"Cable Original Programming" would include South Park, Daily Show/Colbert, Adult Swim, etc. I don't think that was the intent at all, but (like SA says) when Brenda gets back she can make the call.