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The New York Times says that there's a glut of serialized dramas on TV (link from a comment on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
urbaniak's journal). I have to agree—I'm watching 12(!) of them currently: Studio 60, Heroes, What About Brian, The Unit, Lost, Jericho, The Nine, Survivor (yes, I think this counts), Six Degrees, Battlestar Galactica, Kidnapped, and Vanished. I was also watching Smith, but that got cancelled after 3 episodes. I used to watch 24, but I got tired of it in the middle of season 3 (but I've heard it's gotten better since then), and I would like to watch Prison Break but I missed the beginning of the series and haven't gotten around to catching up. These are all good shows (and Smith was not even the weakest), but the problem is that people don't have time to watch all of them, don't want to come in in the middle of the story, and don't want to commit to a show that might get cancelled without finishing the story. It's an embarrassment of riches, in some ways, but the way broadcast television works is just kind of a broken model for this sort of thing. I'm somewhat surprised that there hasn't been a series released direct to DVD (or download) yet, but it's not clear that that model is economically viable either. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out, though I'm not optimistic.
urbaniak's journal). I have to agree—I'm watching 12(!) of them currently: Studio 60, Heroes, What About Brian, The Unit, Lost, Jericho, The Nine, Survivor (yes, I think this counts), Six Degrees, Battlestar Galactica, Kidnapped, and Vanished. I was also watching Smith, but that got cancelled after 3 episodes. I used to watch 24, but I got tired of it in the middle of season 3 (but I've heard it's gotten better since then), and I would like to watch Prison Break but I missed the beginning of the series and haven't gotten around to catching up. These are all good shows (and Smith was not even the weakest), but the problem is that people don't have time to watch all of them, don't want to come in in the middle of the story, and don't want to commit to a show that might get cancelled without finishing the story. It's an embarrassment of riches, in some ways, but the way broadcast television works is just kind of a broken model for this sort of thing. I'm somewhat surprised that there hasn't been a series released direct to DVD (or download) yet, but it's not clear that that model is economically viable either. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out, though I'm not optimistic.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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WRT Egan, in the first episode my first impression of him was he was one of the bank robbers, and was hiding a gun in the toilet for them.