NBC dumps Chuck, Life, and Heroes (for January, for January!)

What! No Life in January!!! That is crazy! An interesting intelligent show with actors who can act! replaced by reruns and reality!!!

Mr. Bell,
you're not too dumb to follow a story line.
It's just very hard to follow a story line that has to be changed every week because of a lawsuit.
Google the names ENJAI EELE and AMNAU EELE and find out what really happened to your favorite show.

I just really don't understand having all these pauses in seasons that we've been having the past several years (not just the writer's strike - Heroes has always had a mid-season off-time). I remember when shows were new except for during the summer. What happened to that?

Especially for Heroes, this is a bad move because by the time it comes back, you never remember all that happened last and that makes a lot of people not care to watch again. (Although I guess it makes retconn easier to try to get by with...)

The people who program shows at NBC are idiots. First you don't repeat your new shows that had shortened seasons last year because of the strike. Then you move Life to Friday's at 10:00 after showing it on Monday for 2 weeks. Next you move Life to Wednesday's at 9:00 and then give it a month break just when Lost is returning to Wednesday's at 9:00. Just kill the show now!!!
The only things I watch on NBC are Sunday night football and Life so I won't be tuning in to NBC in January.

Hiatuses are nothing new; many shows take a break around December-January. But the new and disturbing trend is to replace these shows with something else during the hiatus, rather than show reruns. That's what we should have an article looking at, the slow death of the rerun, and how in these days of TiVo, Hulu, and DVDs if on-air reruns are going to go away.

Another moronic move by idiot Studio Executives. Hey, lets interrupt a show that's just gaining it's footing (Chuck) and another that is on shaky ground and replace them with another retarded dancing program, some idiotic reality dating show and REPEATS?

Who runs these studios? Do they even have a brain?
I don't get why you would produce 12 episodes of a show and then stop airing it after 4 (Black Donnelly's) when the other episodes have already been made. And I don't get delaying a premiere of a show to have MORONIC REALITY SHOWS that do nothing but dumb down this country. Simply pathetic.

I have a hard time seeing the combination of suspending the shows plus running more reality shows up the flagpole as being anything other than a fishing expedition with the intention of replacing one or more of these shows.

Chuck is not my speed, Life is interesting but never hooked me, and Heroes is one of my favorite shows. But all three shows have a lot of fans, so I feel for all concerned.

And as for all the squeaky wheel carping about Heroes, I'll just note that it still pulls better ratings than either of the other two, even if the numbers are soft compared to past seasons.

All I can say is, "oy" followed by a long, sad, sigh. (And I'm not even Jewish.)

I don't mind the hiatus so much, its just
the absolute crap they replace these shows
with that sucks.

How does taking a show off the air POSSIBLY help the show? Please, take me down the logic of that path - my ears are open.

The haitus caused by the writers' strike PROVED beyond all reasonable doubt that a haitus will hurt all TV shows, regardless of quality. You're talking about a country with an attention span of 12.5 seconds, with people who need to be reminded of what happened in the last episode! Have you ever read a book where each chapter has a recap of the last chapter? No, of course not. So now everyone who was into the plots of Chuck, Life, and Heroes (not that Heroes actually has a plot, mind you) will be forced to have these shows out of sight and out of mind for four weeks.

They're taking these shows off the air for a month - that means we miss FOUR episodes of each show (1 per week), for repeats of "Law and Order" and a dating show called "Mamma's Boys" from that jackfuck Ryan Secrest? Secrest was just fucking around - those in the know are aware of the fact that Ryan bet a friend of his $100,000 that he could pitch a reality dating show called "Mamma's Boys" to a big-three network and they'd sign on and buy it without negotiation, merely because he's Ryan Secrest and they all want "the next American Idol." Booyah, the money's in the bank. I would have required odds on that bet, his friend is a sucker for taking the $100k bet with even odds. So Ryan Secrest is $100,000 richer and gets even more TV exposure with a reality dating show on NBC. Yay for him. God damn I hate that guy. Why is he famous? I'll never understand it. He's sure milking it for every dollar, though... I'll give him that.

This is proof positive that NBC is run by the dumbest, most retarded assholes in the world. I could do a better job of running NBC, and triple its viewership within three months, out of my bedroom. Seriously.