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Sunday, December 28, 2008 12:00 AM

The year the small screen fell flat

Lackluster pilots, slumping sophomore shows and the devolution of the serial drama. The golden age of TV suddenly looked tarnished in 2008.
By Heather Havrilesky

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  • Saturday, December 27, 2008 11:23 PM

    I stopped watching...

    ...when they canceled Max Headroom and replaced it with Mr. Belvedere. That was 1987.

    Been downhill ever since. When I was a teenager and cable was first invented (ok, installed), we had a saying: the only thing worse than nothing on three channels is nothing on 32. Things have not changed much in the interim.

    Thank god for The Pirate Bay.

    —vaporland Read vaporland's other letters

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