Already happened. It starred Ving Rhames.

Lost got renewed for three seasons of 16 episodes each, not two.

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Annoymous is right, Lost was renewed for 3 seasons of 16 episodes.

If I recall what I read correctly, Lost's producers wanted two more seasons with 24 episodes but the network want it to last longer. So they went with 3 seasons of 16 episodes.

I had grown tired of Jericho. I'm happy to hear that it's been axed - now I don't have to go back and watch the episodes that I've saved on Tivo. DELETE button, here I come!

Lost, Lost, Lost, Lost!

Ugly Betty - does anybody genuinely find her ugly? America F., I love thee.

A lesson I learned a long time ago was not to judge a pilot by its name or concept. The concept of a teenage doctor was patently stupid, and should be dismissed immediately. At least until I saw the pilot of Doogie Howser, M.D. It turned out to be a finely-crafted sitcom, and Neil Patrick Harris has been doing well ever since.

There are certainly stupid pilot concepts out there, but talent before or behind the camera can occasionally make them work. It's an idea Hav probably hasn't ever encountered; a premise as potential, not a handicap. Cavemen might concievably be a bomb, but declaring it DBA (dead before arrival) is thoughtless. Who knows? It might even be good.

In the same way, I believe Havrilesky might be salvaged and might become an honorable and worthwile TV columnist, despite her many handicaps and failings.

The way the comment about "Drive" was written makes me think that Fox decided to slowly, carefully step away from the corpse. I caught five minutes on my way to something else and was impressed with how awful it was. Can't someone give Nathan Fillion something worthwhile to do, if they're not gonna bring back "Firefly"?

They were right to kill Deadwood. Regardless of who was at fault, the third season was so bad Wu's pigs wouldn't have choked it down.

Hey, I liked Drive. I only saw two episodes or so, but it looked like trashy goodness. If Fox gave it half a chance, it could've been awesome.

Not nearly enough outrage here about Veronica Mars. The CW fast-forwards "One Tree Hill" (Thomas's idea for VM) and then cancels the only decent show they have outside of "Chris" -- they are out of their minds! The reason I started watching VM, btw, is because of the recs here. I'm terribly sad that it's gone.

What you describe sounds so utterly awful so willfully agressively bad that the gravimetric effects of the black hole of banality may squirt us into an alternate universe. I'll be in my bunker watching DVD's.

I, uh, really don't think that Heather's been watching Lost lately. It's been on fire (Jack tattoo episode excepted) since the beginning of the year, though the last eight episodes or so really stand out as great. It's got its mojo back big-time, and if she's been watching I don't know how she could think otherwise.

Other than the new Parker Posey show, the only thing I'm eagerly awaiting this craptastic tv season is the demise of the Geico Caveman show.

I want it to suck so bad that actual caveman will somehow return to Earth and drag the show by the hair into a cave and club it to death. I want it to be so abhorrent that drivers with lapsed auto insurance will run over the show with monster trucks. I want it to be so stupifyingly awful that viewers will pine for the return of "Baby Bob." I want it to be so soul-suckingly deplorable that we will be forced to pull the troops out of Iraq to prevent any possible stateside revolts. I want it extinct.

Oh, and please bring back "Deadwood."

From a storyline perspective, Jericho came back really strong after the hiatus. It was just plain head-up-the-a** stupidity on CBS's part to cancel it. The strong fan response I've been reading reveals that Jericho appealed to a wide demographic... of whom I'm proud to say I'm a part. I'm desperately hoping another network will pick it up and run with it. I'm not a big TV watcher; I don't even have cable. But Jericho was one show I was glad to tune in for every week.

Jericho got canceled. I was not looking forward to watching it without the patriarch of the series. Actually, I wasn't looking forward to it anyway. Unlike last year when they canceled Invasion.

Nothing stands out as much see TV for the new season. Ever notice how the copycat shows nearly always bomb. Only new concepts are really big hits (Heroes, Lost, etc.).

I was saying to everyone, Bionic Woman? Who are they kidding. But Battlestar Galactica is great, so maybe it'll actually be good. It remains to be seen.

cmsforall is right.

Veronica's good enough to draw readers in by leading with her in the headline, but there's no real outrage at all--or even much space--given to the worst programming decision of the year.

Pathetic.

p.s. Just how bad is CW??? Here in LA, KTLA pre-empted Veronica and Gilmore Girls two weeks back to cover the fire in Griffith Park. (Haven't they ever heard of a newsbreak???) Then, adding insult to injury, they didn't even bother to apologize to viewers, or tell them when the shows would be aired instead.

Worst. TV Network. Ever.

1) I love Parker Posey, but why is she getting stuck with dreary material like this? Have _any_ shows about fertility/bay-bees ever done well? I never can figure how networks figure there's an audience for this stuff. People with kids don't want to catch more of that on TV; people without kids could not care less.

2) High props to CBS for canning CLOSE TO HOME. If anyone was looking for Jerry Bruckheimer to do to domestic crimes what he did for forensics...forget it. A real disappointment.

3) CASHMERE MAFIA and LIPSTICK JUNGLE, eh? Shoot two shows about older successful women is a lot more than what we've got now...

4) GHOST WHISPERER is better-written than one would expect, amazingly enough. They do a nice job of answering the questions they raise and handling long-term arcs. HH's description of SHARK was right on the money, though...