| Show | Status | Notes |
Sons of Anarchy | Active | |
Sopranos | Permanent Hiatus | Six seasons of laughter, pain, therapy, gangland executions...pretty much the same stuff David Chase gave us in I'll Fly Away and Northern Exposure. It was a crazy, critically-beloved ride -- but then, should we be referring to it in the past tense? There could still be movies! Don't stop! Believing! |
Sorority Life | Permanent Hiatus | Because the world was clamoring to see what went on inside a sorority house, the great Sergio Myers created Sorority Life. Because what we found had no resemblance at all to our fantasies, no one watched. Though the cat-fighting and back-stabbery that came with girls desperately trying to become the Queens of Davis, CA and Buffalo, NY was at times amusing, it wasn't enough to keep TWoP recapping the thing. Goodnight, Maggie's Gigantic Boobies of Hatred, wherever you guys are. |
Sports Night | Permanent Hiatus | ABC never seemed to know what to do with this half hour, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Was it a comedy? A drama? Certainly the network could be blamed for a couple of bad decisions, like imposing a jarring laugh track early on and never giving the show a regular timeslot. After two seasons, ABC cut the show loose, but it'll live on in our hearts forever. |
Step It Up & Dance | Permanent Hiatus | Step off. |
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip | Permanent Hiatus | Aaron Sorkin came back to network TV to save it from itself. At least, that's what he told us in the pilot. Unfortunately, years of watching "illiterate" reality programs had left viewers enfeebled and unable to watch his new show correctly. We kept expecting the lauded sketch comedy show-within-the-show to be funny, for example. We can be so stupid sometimes. Sorry, Aaron. |
Stylista | Permanent Hiatus | H'elle no. |
Suits | Active | |
Summerland | Permanent Hiatus | It was summer. There was...land. But somehow the mix of teen poster boys, family hijinks, and Francie from Alias didn't have enough appeal. We blame the Creepy Cult Kid. |
Supernatural | Active | |
Surreal Life | Permanent Hiatus | Imagine if you will, six former celebrities who still have egos the size of Pittsburgh being forced to live together in a mansion for two weeks and do all sorts of crazy activities like visit a nudist colony and take part in a fake talk show that crushes those huge egos. Sounds like a great show, right? So why weren't you watching it and reading the recaps? |
Survivor | Active | |
Swingtown | Permanent Hiatus | Summer dreams ripped at the seams, but oh, those summer nights. |
Tarzan | Permanent Hiatus | The jungles of Manhattan. This show was toast before it ever aired. You'd think a pseudo-superhero show starring a supermodel famous for being naked, a syndication queen like Xena, and all the fun of Mitch Pileggi would have been the ultimate guilty pleasure. But absolutely everything went wrong. And then it got worse. Behold the carnage. |
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Tell Me You Love Me | Permanent Hiatus | If you combine explicit sex with a lot of relationship-based talky-talky, do you get a show with something for everyone, or a show that everyone will avoid? Well, if the show also features no plot, dreary cinematography, and intolerable characters, as well as talky-talky that's almost as dull as the sex, you get Tell Me You Love Me. Unsurprisingly, almost nobody did. |
Temptation Island | Permanent Hiatus | Who would think whoring would ever go out of style? Well, when saddled with the sad, hangdog face of host Mark L. Walberg and a post-9/11 America desirous of purity and goodness, it can. Fox hit gold with the first Temptation Island, a show about trying to break couples up -- mainly due to the slutty ways of the aggressively hungry-for-fame and unfortunately-coifed Mandy. The second season, however, failed to catch on, and Fox pushed it permanently out to sea. Good news: Mark L. Walberg is back, with a show on The Game Show Network. "Where's the good news?" you ask. That means we never have to watch him again. |
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | Permanent Hiatus | If only this had been The Cameron & Derek Chronicles... |
Terra Nova | Permanent Hiatus | Our biggest regret about this costly, underwhelming sci-fi series: Fox cancelled it before we could see a meteor wipe out the majority of life on prehistoric Earth, including (and especially) every member of the Shannon family. |
The Agency | Permanent Hiatus | You know, it sounded like a good idea at the time...CIA. Espionage. Everyday lives of operatives. Knowledge of covert operations happening every second of every day that not a single human in America is aware of. Too bad Wolfgang Petersen and the powers that be at CBS managed to create a show that holds no interest for ANYONE ALIVE. I mean, for God's sake! It's up against ER! What in the HELL were they thinking? Apparently, they weren't thinking much; this show is over. Over. Done. Kaput. Without continuance. Or without further recapping, anyway. CBS picked it up for the whole season, for some reason, but we're done. |




















