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So i looked at all the extended promos for the CW pilots on YouTube. The Vampire Diaries looks like it might be good. Yeah, it's jumping on the Twilight bandwagon quite a bit, but i kinda miss that romance on my screen every week. Y'know what I mean, right? Those intense relationships between a human and a nonhuman like Buffy and Angel or Liz and Max. It might be good.
However the CW also decided to pick up The Beautiful Life and Melrose Place. Really? That soooo didn't need to happen. They already have Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and 90210. How many nighttime soap operas do you need? Neither look particularly wonderful. If they have to take a show like that, couldn't it have at least been Lily? I mean at least that has the fun 80s twist.
Parental Discretion Advised actually looks...what's the word i'm looking for? Charming? Wonderful? Brilliant? Take your pick. It's about this girl finding her biological parents (and can i just say how weird it is to see Shiri Appleby (aka Liz on Roswell) to be playing a mom?), but it doesn't seem all sappy. It seems more like a dramedy. So the CW puts it on as the midseason replacement. WTF?
Bigger WTF? They didn't pick up Body Politic. Here you have a smart show about a bunch of young twentysomethings in Washington, DC with a kick ass cast. Seriously, you've got Minka Kelly from FNL as the lead, Jason Dohring from Veronica Mars, as well as Gabrielle Union and Jay Hernandez, who both have their fair share of movies on their resumes. Why would you throw that away? It doesn't fit thier "vision" for the CW? Yeah, if you're aiming for an audience of young girls, you wouldn't want to have a show with a smart young girl doing something with her life as the lead; no, you'd much rather have multiple shows that involve girls wearing skimpy clothing and getting into catfights over boys.
Seriously, this is why the CW isn't viewed as a good network. This is why the Emmys and most other big awards shows totally overlook the few good shows on the CW. Because the CW is just plain stupid.
However the CW also decided to pick up The Beautiful Life and Melrose Place. Really? That soooo didn't need to happen. They already have Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and 90210. How many nighttime soap operas do you need? Neither look particularly wonderful. If they have to take a show like that, couldn't it have at least been Lily? I mean at least that has the fun 80s twist.
Parental Discretion Advised actually looks...what's the word i'm looking for? Charming? Wonderful? Brilliant? Take your pick. It's about this girl finding her biological parents (and can i just say how weird it is to see Shiri Appleby (aka Liz on Roswell) to be playing a mom?), but it doesn't seem all sappy. It seems more like a dramedy. So the CW puts it on as the midseason replacement. WTF?
Bigger WTF? They didn't pick up Body Politic. Here you have a smart show about a bunch of young twentysomethings in Washington, DC with a kick ass cast. Seriously, you've got Minka Kelly from FNL as the lead, Jason Dohring from Veronica Mars, as well as Gabrielle Union and Jay Hernandez, who both have their fair share of movies on their resumes. Why would you throw that away? It doesn't fit thier "vision" for the CW? Yeah, if you're aiming for an audience of young girls, you wouldn't want to have a show with a smart young girl doing something with her life as the lead; no, you'd much rather have multiple shows that involve girls wearing skimpy clothing and getting into catfights over boys.
Seriously, this is why the CW isn't viewed as a good network. This is why the Emmys and most other big awards shows totally overlook the few good shows on the CW. Because the CW is just plain stupid.
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