Have a blessed and happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Just do NOT have dinner with Andrew Zimmern or Adam Richman.

U.S. Shows Cancelled/Ended 2008-2009:

According to Jim (ABC)
Battlestar Galactica (SciFi)
The Beast (A&E)
Boston Legal (ABC)
Brotherhood (Showtime)
Crusoe (NBC)
Cupid (ABC) 1 ep unaired
Dirty Sexy Money (ABC)
Do Not Disturb (FOX) 3 eps unaired
Easy Money (CW)
The Eleventh Hour (CBS)
Eli Stone (ABC)
ER (NBC)
The Ex List (CBS) 9 eps unaired
The Goode Family (ABC)
In Harm's Way (CW) 5 eps unaired
In the Motherhood (ABC) 3 eps yet to air
Kath & Kim (NBC)
King of the Hill (Fox) 2 eps yet to air
Kings (NBC)
Knight Rider (NBC)
Kyle XY (ABC Family)
The L Word (Showtime)
Life (NBC)
Life on Mars (ABC)
Lipstick Jungle (CBS)
The Listener (NBC) 6 eps yet to air in Canada
The Middleman (ABC Family)
My Name Is Earl (NBC)
My Own Worst Enemy (NBC)
Opportunity Knocks (ABC) 6 eps unaired
Primeval (ITV)
Prison Break (FOX)
Pushing Daisies (ABC)
Roommates (ABC Family)
Samantha Who? (ABC)
The Shield (FX)
Sit Down, Shut Up (FOX) 9 eps unaired
Stargate Atlantis (SciFi)
The Starter Wife (USA)
Surviving Suburbia (ABC)
Survivorman (Disc)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (FOX)
Testees (FX)
Trust Me (TNT)
Under One Roof (MyN)
The Unit (CBS)
The Unusuals (ABC)
Valentine (CW)
Without a Trace (CBS)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTN3s2iVKKI

People always asked me why I kept a poster of Network in the office.

ttfn

No movement on any of my pending contributions (most of which are over two months old). None of my accepted submissions seem to affect the points on the person guides, so it's very clear I'll never attain the arbitrarily required 40 points needed to edit the guides that I care about. Really, what's the point?

The person guides here are needlessly complex and overly crowded. Movie credits, web links, and news items weren't carried over from TV Tome, meaning potentially hundreds of points on each guide were just plain lost. Possibly those will eventually appear here, but in the meantime, thousands of person guides are utterly untended. Case in point: my oldest pending submissions were in response to an email request from one of the actors I used to edit. He wanted to change the contact info on his own guide. At TV Tome, I usually handled such requests within the hour, sometimes even within minutes. Here, an actor personally requests a change to his own page, and that change sits on a frellin' shelf for two and a half months!!!

I used to check TV Tome at least daily, and not even just because of my editing duties. The only reason I check TV.com is out of sheer morbid curiosity. There are better and more easily accessible resources out there. And I find that sad.

edit:

Just found this after writing the above diatribe:

Excerpts from Official TV.com FAQ wrote:

TV.com is not meant to be a resume service for people in the industry. Data from credited sources goes through the same submission process and is subject to the same terms as data from any other user. TV.com is a show-specific, not an actor-specific, database. This means that all links between an actor and a show happen at the show or episode level.

Assuming these facts remain true (they've changed their minds before on innumerable occasions), it's clear that this site will never be what I and many others would like it to be, certainly never anything like what TV Tome was. Not much point in sticking around in that case....

We now have a form up and running for adding new shows to our database. I know lots of you have been asking for that, understandably. We just ask that you send us a link to a web site that shows up the show exists, and fill out a short summary. This makes it much quicker for us to add new shows.

Add Form

I am beginning creation of a new website dedicated to TV. It will be similar to TV Tome. I will use this blog to post details about the status of the website and other TV Tome/TV.com related info.