For me it would be Desperate Housewifes because it just seems to have gotten boring and now everyone is sleeping with everyone and it got too silly!
Also, Lost! no more flashbacks! what's the mystery with the island?
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lost!
24!
most of mtv's programming!

evenstar3 said:

I forgot to mention the MTV programming! I remember it used to be about music in the mid-to late 1990's!

Lost. I'm so sick of it now and I've given up on it. They don't know what the hell they're doing over there.

live4lust said:

I wouldn't go as far to cancel Lost, but I agree with you - it's lost it (no pun intended). We were talking about this over lunch.

Break down Lost:

20 minutes flashbacks.
10 minutes cutesy-wootsy island banter/society shit
10 minutes (MAX) plot development

No wonder people are getting sick of it. After so much hope it's totally sold out. Thank fuck it's ending soonish rather than in 6 seasons' time as originally planned.
Were I in charge, flashbacks would only be present when relevant (e.g. Desmond's time travel) and there would be no island society bullshit. Speed of the plot development and tension was what made season 1 so good. Now it's shit.

Paradisekiss03 said:

Yeah, I say scrap MTV, but not 24! NO!

Spookymuffin said:

And they keep adding and taking out characters, and what's up with the Korean lady being pregnant? is she showing yet?
Is Lost going to end soon?

Paradisekiss03 said:

Only 1 or 2 more seasons left. No more than 2. It's good I think I can hold out just about that long. It is grating though. They've promised a huge speed-up during seasons 4 and 5, though they said huge things would be revealed in season 3 too (and that hasn't happened).

Spookymuffin said:

Anything on the Disney Channel. That channel has been crap since 1998, but didn't know how bad until I saw my nieces watching it.

I would cancel nearly everything on E! and BET

I'd recancel Friends over and over.

Spookymuffin said:

"Cutesy-wootsy island banter/society shit"

I agree with pretty much everything you said. The flashbacks are getting incredibly annoying. I thought it would eventually turn out that they all fit into the puzzle somehow, but now that Boone and his sister, Ana Lucia, Mr Echo and a couple of other people are dead, their flashbacks seem to have contributed nothing but character development, and even that was too much considering how early in the story they got killed and how little they were intergrated in the story.

Also, there are so many hints that have been dropped left and right that now seem abandoned or at least temporarily forgotten. Remember for example:

* The statue with only four toes that Sayid saw on the beach.
* Libby was in the same asylum as Hurley, without him knowing.
* The sequence of numbers from the hatch, the broadcast and Hurley's previous life.
* The Egyptian symbols in the hatch.
* The disease that hit Rousseau's team.
* The polar bears and the black horse.
* The Black Rock way up on land.
* Walt's mystical abilities.
etc etc etc etc

It's okay to drop hints but then 1) you have to have a plan for how to follow up on them (which I too am starting to doubt that they have) and 2) you should follow up on them fairly soon after they're dropped so that the audience remembers them and doesn't get frustrated from waiting (which of course started to happen long ago).

So far my favourite season is Season 2 because of all the intriguing psychology and mysteries súrrounding the hatch (I find the Dharma Initiative much more interesting than The Others) and I still have a bit of faith in the series, but it is starting to get really annoying that they - which you already pointed out - only spend around ten minutes or less per episode on actual plot development.

The problem is they write episode to episode, whereas Tim Kring has en entire series mapped out and how each piece of info slots into place.

So you see something in episode 15 and say...ah ha!, so thats why that happened in episode 5 etc.

liberation said:

Oh you can be sure that they have a plan for Lost too. Not only have they always said so, it also makes sense that no producer would spend this kind of money on a show without having a clue where it's going. The problem is just that the plan is poorly constructed in certain ways.

Edit: When I said in my original post that I'm starting to doubt they have a plan, I was referring to some of the individual hints and how they are timed in relation to the stage of the plot. I'm sure they do have the plot development planned out, at least one season at a time. That's how it always works. They also have a more rough idea of where it's going in the following seasons, in the same kind of way that George Lucas had an idea of what episodes 1, 2 and 3 would be when writing the original trilogy (but most likely even clearer than that).
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I disconnected my cable, so that tells you how much I value current programming.

any sitcom about a chubby slob blue collar guy with an impossibly hot wife and their streetsmart/precocious brood.

but then i think the only thing left on TV would be emeril.

Anx said:

the view!

retina said:

I think ol Georgie was blowing smoke all those years ago about having "the story" and he made it up as he went along. Sure seemed like it. It's even more tragic if he had it planned out for years.

I think Lost will probably get cancelled or willingly end itself before a sixth season ever happens. It might not even make it to the fifth season.

i can't believe i didn't think of this before.


THE O'REILLY FACTOR.

Pretty much ALL american sitcoms

Lost

live4lust said:

I think five seasons would be perfect. I wouldn't be surprised if that is what they're aiming for.

retina said:

How can they keep Lost running for say more than five years like so many shows out there?

evenstar3 said:

NO Way!!!!!

I think 24 is ending soon anyway and Lost too

live4lust said:

You have to pay attention, that is what my problem was

Paradisekiss03 said:

Oh that wouldn't be a problem! Just do flashbacks for every single character and you've got at least three more seasons right there.

I would cancel the Simpsons!!!!

Are they ever gonna grow up.....?????

WTF!

x 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Stax said:

agree

scrubs

it makes me dizzy