The TV Addict 

You have given them good advice. I still will not watch it or any other show from CBS. The reason is because I feel like I am a lover that has been hurt many times and I will hate to fall in love with any thing else produced by CBS, only to be dumped unceremoniously again. Never again will I give them that chance.

Even if I wasn’t refusing to watch any CBS show I wouldn’t watch this show no matter what. The basic premise is extremely insulting. This isn’t the 1950s anymore. Women don’t feel that they have to find a husband - nor do they go to psychics for advice about their love life. Putting the cast of Moonlight on the show isn’t going to get us to watch. We want to see them in Moonlight, not The Ex-List. I think the premise is bad, the acting in the promo clip was far from adequate and CBS is putting it on in place of a show I actually enjoy. There is nothing that would get me to watch this show.

As a Veronica Mars fan, I’m more than willing to give The Ex List a try. Moonlight got cancelled, but this is television. Things get cancelled. Yes, it sucks, but if I stopped watching a network that cancelled something I love, I wouldn’t be able to watch any television. This year along, Fox cancelled Back to You, The CW cancelled Aliens in America, CBS cancelled Kid Nation, ABC cancelled Men in Trees, NBC cancelled Journey Man. That doesn’t mean I’m going to stop watching the other excellent shows these networks occasionally offer. How about we give the show a chance before we declare television dead.

Naf, I’m not going to give a show a chance that is blatantly reinforcing the idea that a woman needs to be married in order to be fulfilled. I find the basic premise of the show incredibly insulting as a female and even if it wasn’t in Moonlight’s time slot I still wouldn’t watch.

TV isn’t dead, but it is dying because networks won’t adapt to the new situation. They rely on the massively flawed Nielson system rather than trying to cater to the new ways of viewing - such as DVR and online. People aren’t always able to stay in and watch a show. Speaking for experience I’ve had class or work on nights when I would love to watch a show. But those people don’t count apparently. Actually unless you are a Nielsen family you don’t count. And so I’m not going to waste my time on a network that is most likely going to cancel any show that I like. NBC managed to save “Friday Night Lights” which was consistently beat by “Moonlight”. I would much rather watch their shows than CBS because they show that while not perfect they do listen to what their viewers want. CBS could care less which is why they keep canceling shows with devoted fan bases and giving us another version of CSI or other mindless drivel, like The Ex-List.

Well, maybe a good thought - but I’ll more than likely never watch CBS again. I haven’t watched for years since I’ve not been a fan of any of their shows, and I only tuned in for Moonlight. In fact, I actually suffered through Ghost Whisperer a few times waiting for Moonlight - so now I can say that CBS has been removed from my favorites on my remote!

I feel your pain Gwen, but it feels like your problems with The Ex List have very little to do with Moonlights cancellation. The show wasn’t developed as a replacement for Moonlight, that’s just how things worked out. And, the show is being written by a Veronica Mars alumni. Diane Ruggiero knows how to write strong, intelligent woman, so I feel it’s a bit harsh to criticize it based on its premise alone. A lot of shows sound terrible on paper, but the paragraph of information we know about the show is a very little indication of how the show will turn out. Even Moonlight, for example, sounded like a blatant rip off of Angel when it was first announced.