>>>...If this is a harbinger of the week ahead, I may be taking off on a last-minute vacation tonight.
ABC has gone and canceled one of TV's most consistently heartwarming hours, Men in Trees.
The sad, depressing news was just confirmed to me by series creator Jenny Bicks,
who says she was informed of the network's decision late last week.
"I am really proud of the work we did on MIT," she tells me.
"A huge thank you to our supportive fans."
Bicks believes that two years of schizophrenic scheduling ultimately did the cherished dramedy in.
"I wish the show had not been moved six times and put onto two long hiatuses," she sighs.
"No show could survive that."
Truer words have never been spoken.
As soul-crushing as this is, I managed to find a silver lining in all this: Viewers will get their happy ending.
Bicks and her team prepared for Trees' possible demise by shooting an alternate series-finale ending
that will now be tacked onto the show's last episode,
which is slated to air this summer. Trees kicks off its final run of episodes on Wednesday, May 28....<<<
Suzanne e-mailed me a little while ago. I am SO P!SSED ABOUT THIS! We BETTER get a happy ending for EVERYBODY (Marin and Jack, Jane and Plow Guy, Sara and Pastor Eric, and Annie and Patrick).
I am officially DONE with ABC. First they let their head of daytime take over SN (he's the ratb@stard that cancelled our AW to make room for One Tree Hill and The OC!) and ruin it, and now they make the harebrained decision to cancel the best show they've got, Men in Trees. (Forget all that Desperate Housewives hype!)
I had a bad feeling this was coming, though, when they yanked it off the schedule AGAIN a few weeks ago.
I do still have video ideas that I'm going to follow through on for the following:
--Marin and Jack (their whole relationship, as opposed to "This Woman's Work," which focused only on the episode "Sonata in Three Parts")
--Jane and Plow Guy in Season 2
--Sara and Pastor Eric, seasons 1 & 2
--A tribute to the show made up of clips entirely from season 2, since I already did a season 1 video last year
--And hopefully, with a happy ending promised, I'll get to do a video about Patrick and Annie getting back together, or starting to, at least
Songs are as follows:
Spoiler:
Marin & Jack: "Collide" by Howie Day
Jane and Sam (Plow Guy), Season 2: "When You Know" by Shawn Colvin
Pastor Eric and Sara: "If You Could See What I See" by Geoff Moore and The Distance
Tribute Video, Season 2: "Now and Forever" by Carole King
And if I get to do an Annie and Patrick reunion video, it will be to "When You Come Back to Me Again" by Garth Brooks
~~~Just when the incredible Sofia Vergara joined
the cast too!
OMG!! We could be twins!! LOL!! Okay, in my dreams anyway....She's BEAUTIFUL!!
Of course, just as I started to get into the show, it's gone. At least they had the foresight to film a series-ending finale unlike so many other shows that just stop at the end of the season and YANK get cancelled without an ending.
Okay, so where is Anne Heche headed next?
A _________________ "It has been a magnificent journey..." ~ Linda Dano, 1999 Daytime Emmys
LOL Netie you are too funny! See i always wanted to look like Belinda Carslile for some reason. I loved her back in the Go go days and i swear she hasn't aged! _________________
Question: Is it my imagination, or is ABC the worst network for supporting its series?
The recent cancellation of Men in Trees brings this issue up once again. Men in Trees is a charming show
that was strong enough to survive its initial Friday night slot and move
to the coveted post-Grey's slot in its first season,
only to be put on hold and moved to multiple slots since then.
But this is far from the first time that ABC has done this.
I had resolved to boycott ABC way back in 2000
after their similar treatment of Sports Night,
but relented and have unfortunately been disappointed with their treatment of multiple other shows,
including Once and Again and Alias.
It seems that other networks simply cancel shows
when they are not performing. Am I being unfair to ABC? — Fiona
Matt Roush: In a word: Yes. Not that you don't have every
right to be annoyed. But what network hasn't been the villain
in this sort of scenario? Think NBC and Freaks and Geeks,
American Dreams, etc.
CBS and Jericho, Now and Again and Frank's Place,
to name a few. Fox and Firefly, John Doe — the list goes on.
Every network regularly cancels shows that have
some sort of devoted following. It's the price of business.
But ABC is an especially ripe target because this network
often takes the risk of developing shows with heart and soul
that aren't necessarily mass-appeal phenoms.
(Most recently, Eli Stone.) Heck, I'm still mad at ABC
for how it treated Homefront, and that was 15 years (!) and
who knows how many regimes ago.
Sports Night was a heartbreaker, for sure,
and I argued at the time it was the right show
on the wrong network (if it had aired on the NBC of that period,
it might have had a better shot).
Once and Again and especially Alias enjoyed
multiple seasons before they were terminated,
and Alias even got to run out of creative gas
and provide some semblance of closure.
I tend to think that ABC of all the networks is
in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't paradox.
Almost every season, ABC comes up with my
favorite new show — I would be dismayed it if didn't —
and they tend to be shows that I end up fighting for
(Invasion, The Nine — well, at least the pilot of that one)
and often losing. The fact that something as fabulously
offbeat as Pushing Daisies is returning to the schedule
in the fall is reason enough for me not to give up on ABC,
regardless of the shameful mishandling of Men in Trees,
which will go down as one of their more indefensible lapses in judgement.
~~~ICAM, Mr. Roush...MEN IN TREES was
shamefully mishandled by the *mouse*. _________________
Never watched this show but maybe another network will pick it up. When ABC's Fall schedule was announced today it included SCRUBS(a show cancelled by NBC after minimal promotion and multiple time slots) which they're picking up as a November, post-Dancing With The Stars replacement series.
>>>...Never watched this show but maybe another
network will pick it up. When ABC's Fall schedule was
announced today it included SCRUBS
(a show cancelled by NBC after minimal promotion
and multiple time slots) which they're picking up as a November,
post-Dancing With The Stars replacement series....<<<
~~~I know *t_l*, that would be wonderful.
I've always thought there must be some cable channel
out there to scoop them up. I think Jenny Bicks is so p'd at abc
anything owned by them is prob out of the question.
Wonder who owns Lifetime?? Anne's been popular
on there with Fatal Desire, or Hallmark~the
Christmas tale Silver Bells aired there.
There's always Bravo, A&E, & Oxygen.........
At this point, I'm just hoping JB can get Seasons 1&2 out on DVD.
I haven't visited the old 'sn' board in ages...is it really crappy now?
We're very grateful to Wendy for creating the *playpen* for
all the refugees from over there.
The entire Soapnet website has been revamped----just like the network-----to focus on celebrity gossip and cheesy reality stuff. They're even including some primetime ABC shows which doesn't make sense since they're already part of the ABC website. At any rate, it's very disheartening; to think there was a network devoted to classic soaps and to see what it's become.....sad, sad, sad
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