Comments on: If The Showrunners of THE EX LIST Were Smart…

By: Marge

Marge — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:58:24 +0000

http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-cbscancelsmoonlight,0,6764293.story?track=rss
nina tassler chuckled, that just goes to show you. at least be apologetic to the fans of the show, but nope, she chuckles.
but to have swingtown and the ex list???

By: Naf

Naf — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:41:36 +0000

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.

By: girodet

girodet — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:38:54 +0000

I will not be watching The Ex List. I am hoping that the ratings for the show are so bad that it is canceled after two episodes. I would also love it if Ghost Whisperer lost a few million viewers even though I like that show. Vindictive and petty, sure, but what CBS did to Moonlight was illogical and cruel. I could understand if the show had bad ratings but it didn’t. I would also understand if they replaced it with a show that was trying to bring a larger demographic. The Ex List is an insulting attempt to appeal to female viewers. The show is about a woman in search of her husband based on a psychic reading! Garbage. Ghost Whisperer has a strong female lead, Moonlight did also and even the women on Numbers are great. Why would I turn into a show that glorifies 1950s ideas of female self worth?

By: LW

LW — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:33:37 +0000

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!

By: Kristen

Kristen — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:51:08 +0000

I love TV as much as the next person, but I think some of you take it WAY too seriously. It’s a form of entertainment… lighten up!

By: Gwen

Gwen — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:10:05 +0000

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.

By: allie

allie — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:34:22 +0000

Good advice, but even if they followed it I still wouldn’t watch. I refuse to watch the show that has taken Moonlight’s slot. I want the show to achieve worse ratings than Moonlight to send a message to CBS that they shouldn’t have cancelled Moonlight. (Although I realise that because I don’t have a Neilsen box and won’t count, I’m still doing this for my own conscience).

By: Naf

Naf — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:04:06 +0000

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.

By: Kay

Kay — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:51:24 +0000

I saw in a clip of Nina Tassler of CBS saying that with the Ex-List they were aiming more for what young women were after and going back to their “roots” whatever that is. Hello? Most of the 8M viewers of Moonlight were not only young but cut across the demographics they are after and won it’s time slot. They don’t have a clue what we want because if they did Moonlight would still be on. I will not be watching this piece of–well–their ROOTS!

By: Gwen

Gwen — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:11:01 +0000

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.