Hopefully, the media now realize how incompetent the WB executives are and the stench over the failed 2004 DS pilot will fade quickly.
Not so long as reports like this one (from the
Relish Now! Web site) continue to appear in the media:
Tim Clodfelter's picksThursday, December 30, 2004
By Tim Clodfelter
relish staff writerIt was another interesting - and at times infuriating - year on television in 2004. Viewers finally started rejecting the increasingly slimy reality shows and turned back to TV dramas. Sitcoms continued to flounder with no reprieve in sight. Censorship reared its ugly head after America went absolutely nutzo over a distant glimpse of a nipple. And Howard Dean killed his political career with a rebel yell that became one of the most-repeated video clips of the year (excluding that nipple shot, of course). Here are some of the best and some of the worst moments of the year that was....
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Ten bad things about television in 2004
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4. The cancellation of Angel: WB foolishly decided to snuff producer Joss Whedon's classy vampire-with-a-soul drama in favor of a revival of the old angst-ridden-vampire drama Dark Shadows. Then when
Dark Shadows proved to be a fiasco (trust me, I've seen the unaired pilot), the network was left without either show. On a bright note, Angel's "never-ending-battle" finale was first-rate.
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(And thank god that, not only does this article get to diss the pilot - it continues to spread the false notion that Angel was canceled to make way for DS.
One has to wonder when and how he managed to see the pilot when it's been reported that the only people who've seen it are the people who were involved in its production and the WB execs?
Granted, I've only seen the excerpts that were shown at the Tarrytown Fest - but what I saw was far from a "fiasco".)