Show Status Notes

The Casino

Permanent Hiatus

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune," some girl once said, "must be in want of a wife." We don't know which girl that was, because girls are just silly and we don't need them: we have shiny cars. But it turns out she was right, because when you don't marry those rich guys off, you never know what can happen. Two particularly terrible examples are Tim Poster and Tom Breitling, of the "Tim and Tom Connection," who randomly bought a historic hotel and casino in downtown Las Vegas with their dot-com bubble-illions. And then filled it with crap like transsexual hookers, regular hookers, roofie parties with hookers, creepy swingers, hillbillies that dressed like pimps, actual pimps, psychics, child welfare cases, and a host of other crap we never got to see, because we proved once and for all that TWoP is smarter than FOX by canceling it straight to hell.

The City

Permanent Hiatus

We bailed before the deliciously bitchy Erin/Olivia feud made the non-Whitney parts of the show watchable.

The Contender

Permanent Hiatus

Not even the overexposure of Mark Burnett, not even the stroke-y slur and anti-heat of Sly, not even the corpse-stiff line-readings of Sugar Ray Leonard, or the heavy price tag, the un-Midas touch of DreamWorks Television, or the scheduling nightmare posed by Fox's copycat The Next Great Champ, or the widely-publicized suicide of one of the contestants, or the general lack of interest in boxing could doom this well-crafted show. Oh wait, yes it could.

The Event

Permanent Hiatus

Uneventful.

The Following

Active

The Fugitive

Permanent Hiatus

What's the magic formula for TV success? First you take a hit vintage TV series. Then, thirty years later, make a blockbusting movie from it. Finally, sponge off that concept, don't update it at all, and add one washed-up sitcom star. Wait, that's the recipe for TV failure! Keep running, Dr. Kimble; we don't feel like catching you anymore.

The Gates

Permanent Hiatus

Sucked.

The Good Wife

Active

The Hills

Permanent Hiatus

LC > KC, Speidi > no Speidi, Laguna Beach > The Hills. The rest is still unwritten.

The Killing

Active

The Mole

Permanent Hiatus

Plenty of cancelled television programs deserve another chance to attract viewers four and a half years after going off the air. And then there's The Mole.

The Mountain

Permanent Hiatus

The Nine

Permanent Hiatus

As if they haven't been through enough, being held hostage in a bank by two robbers while mysterious things happened, now we're sending The Nine to Permanent Hiatus. What can we say? We like to see people suffer.

The O.C.

Permanent Hiatus

This show surprised everyone with its stellar first season. Great ratings, an awesome soundtrack, and fun and fresh dialogue helped make the young stars of the show -- and, perhaps more importantly, the tradition of Chrismukkah -- household names and instant pop-culture icons. From Death Cab for Cutie to Peter Gallagher's eyebrows, everything this show touched turned to gold. And then Season Two rolled around, and it all got old. Even the adorable Seth Cohen became annoying. The welcome death of Marissa and a strong fourth season wasn't enough to undo the damage, and the sun set on The O.C.

The Office

Active

The Osbournes

Permanent Hiatus

If there ever was a case of the mighty falling, it was this show. When it was rocking, stee made sure to give credit where credit was due as Ozzy fell out of chairs, Kelly and Jack fought as only siblings could, and Sharon loved her doggies. By the time Stee abandoned it, Pamie was left recapping Jack's dildo collection. Sad but true. Watching this show was like watching a loved one hang on to his last days because he knows you're in the room. We walked away, and let this show die with dignity and peace. The Osbourne family, however, will continue to whore their hearts out in any medium. (Buy the book!)

The Others

Permanent Hiatus

We thought TWoP users would dig a show about the supernatural and freaky. We thought wrong. (Either that, or y'all get your fill of "supernatural and freaky" at the hands of the Buffy wardrobe department.) But you can still read up on the first eight episodes right here. Spookay!

The Practice

Permanent Hiatus

After writing, "How many plots does it take for DEK to be redundant, yet again?" far too many times, TWoP has blessedly done what ABC is far too scared to do -- get out the big gaffer hook and jam it right into Dylan McDermott's massive ego. Whew. While The Firm will continue defending rapists who are innocent, murderers who never committed the crime, and friends we've never met before, as well as fighting with insect-like District Attorneys, TWoP has realized that one more year of recapping the same story line over and over and over and over again would finally put us over the edge.

The River

Permanent Hiatus

Unfortunately, the failure of this ABC horror series wasn't the death knell of the found-footage craze, but it's failure may at least make TV networks think twice before attempting to cash in.

The Street

Permanent Hiatus

There was a time when Darren Star could do no wrong. He was riding high with Sex in the City and had a critically-acclaimed freshman sitcom, Grosse Pointe... and then disaster struck: he somehow convinced Fox to give him $2.3 million per episode for a new hour-long set in a young, hip New York City investment bank. Problem? Well, he was so busy finding ways to make the show lurid and pretty, he didn't notice that his casting people had quietly assembled the most unlikable and unbankable ensemble since Down Periscope. In fact, seven episodes was a shockingly long run, considering.

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