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Show	Status	Notes
Living Lohan	Permanent Hiatus	If you call that living...
Lone Gunmen	Permanent Hiatus	Chris Carter must have smoked too much crack. He turned some great characters -- three ultimate journalistic outsider hackers -- into pratfalling ninnies who mention themselves in their own columns. They were quirky on The X-Files, yet bumbling and inept in their own spinoff show. It was a midseason replacement that never got a lead-in from Cops, sucked in the ratings, and got canceled for a reason. The Lone Gunmen never got a chance. Alex Richmond gave it her best shot, but it wasn't enough. Gurgle, sputter, croak.
Looking for Love	Permanent Hiatus	Looking for Love: Bachelorettes in Alaska might not have been the worst "reality" show ever produced -- a title for which there's healthy competition. It wasn't the first show to cause people to despair for all humanity, and it unfortunately won't be the last. But for six inglorious episodes in the summer of 2002, it was easily the worst thing on television. None of the husband-seeking women went home with a ring, and no one who watched the show did so without a few (or several) pangs of guilt. And the show defiled Alaska's breathtaking beauty as badly as any oil spill ever could.
Lost	Permanent Hiatus	Five seasons of groundbreaking storytelling that changed television and how we watch it -- and one final season (and series finale) that made us question whether it had all been worth it.
Lost (2001)	Permanent Hiatus	Lost was a fourth-rate reality game show that was supposed to air for six weeks, but only lasted for three. Amazingly, those three hours of television were some of the worst hours in Alex Richmond's life. And that doesn't even count monitoring the boards!
Louie
Love Cruise	Permanent Hiatus	The concept was oh-so-right, but the timing was oh-so-wrong. FOX filmed this "Survivor on a ship" reality show and then held it for ages and ages. And it finally started airing at a time when viewers were denouncing both reality shows in general, and tawdry pasttimes in particular. This show had plenty of tawdry reality, from Toni's bug eyes to Anthony's smarm, but in the end the multiple episodes per week and general viewer malaise contributed to the show's being put on Permanent Hiatus after only one season. Oh -- and the fact that the producers totally changed the rules around during the finale didn't help.
Love in the Wild	Permanent Hiatus	In theory, a combination of Survivor and Paradise Hotel could've been a fun addition to the summer reality TV line-up. In theory.
Luck	Permanent Hiatus	Horseshit.
Lying Game	Permanent Hiatus	We don't know all there is to know about the The Lying Game, but readers seem to have had their share of The Lying Game. Just hope that one day soon we can still tell the moon about The Lying Game.
Lyon's Den	Permanent Hiatus	Rob Lowe left The West Wing to star in his own primetime legal drama. Either the show was terrible -- which was difficult to judge given that only six episodes aired -- or NBC had an ax to grind. Either way, the show was quickly canceled.
MDs	Permanent Hiatus	Let's face it: MDs was living on borrowed TWoP time from the beginning. So we did it -- and ourselves -- the favor of pulling the plug early and sending it to that big bedpan in the sky.
Mad Men	Active
Make Me A Supermodel	Permanent Hiatus	Never did we appreciate Tyra Banks more.
Making the Band	Permanent Hiatus	O-Town said O-Revoir to us after three long seasons. Jacob, Ashley, Trevor, Erik, and Dan weren't just hearthrobs, they were boys becoming men in our living rooms. Men who weren't afraid to wear bad clothes and prance around to really bad music. They were men who weren't afraid to write horrible songs and play them for us on acoustic guitars without a hint of irony. They were men hated by more people than loved, and we loved them all the more for it. We miss those boys so much. We love those boys. And if you call that love, then love should definitely be a crime.
Married By America	Permanent Hiatus	A show so bad that we suspect that other bad shows took it aside out of compassion to gently tell it how bad it was, this "experiment in arranged marriage" stood for the unhappy fact that there is nothing too stupid for FOX to air and the happy fact that there are things too stupid for the viewing public to watch.
MasterChef	Permanent Hiatus	Undercooked.
Melrose Place	Permanent Hiatus	Sometimes, you just need to let sleeping bitches lie.
Men In Trees	Permanent Hiatus
Mind of the Married Man	Permanent Hiatus	We here at TWoP pride ourselves on our ability to watch bad TV so you don't have to. But sometimes, a show can be so incredibly awful that even trained professionals such as ourselves are forced to flee in terror. The Mind of the Married Man is one such show. Warning: No matter how brave you may be, attempts to read these recaps will never, ever have a happy ending.