The TV Addict 

Lest anyone think you’re blowing smoke with that reference to The WB’s heyday, here is the Frog’s 2000 slate of all first-run series:

- 7th Heaven & Roswell
- Buffy & Angel
- Dawson’s Creek & Felicity
- Gilmore Girls & Charmed
- Sabrina, Grosse Pointe, & Popular
- Jamie Foxx, For Your Love, Steve Harvey, The P.J.s

Note to The CW execs: THIS is how you program a successful network.

Common Sense… you just made me cry a little inside for all the shows that are no more.

While this season’s B&S was a tad uneven for my liking I’m chalking UGLY BETTY’s ugliness to the traditional sophomore slump [see: HEROES]. Thus in my books, BETTY gets one more season to prove itself.

The Good:
- A surprisingly excellent s4 of Lost after an uneven & disappointing s3.
- A fun, pleasant s2 of Men In Trees, one of the best returning show of 2007/2008.
- The overall best season of Boston Legal yet with one of the most surprisingly successful cast shake-ups since Stargate SG-1 s9 or The Practice s8.
- ABC renewing (albeit reluctantly) Boston Legal for one more season this fall. After next year, I will miss Alan’s long, eloquent, thought-provoking closing arguments and his balcony conversations with “Mad Cow”-afflicted Denny Crane.
- The rescue of Scrubs, which the ex-must-see network (NBC) apparently grew tired of.

The Bad:
- First and foremost, the abusive scheduling and eventual cancellation of Men In Trees.
- The overly-prolonged and very fake-feeling presidential campaign of Robert McCallister on Brothers & Sisters
- The robbing of Rebecca’s relation to the Walkers on Brothers & Sisters.
- The sophomore slump of Ugly Betty, particularly the repetitive nature of Daniel’s partying, Wilhelmina’s evil deeds, and Betty & Henry’s on-again/off-again romance.
- The increasingly annoying characters and over-written dialogue of Grey’s Anatomy.
- The generally disappointing Private Practice.
- The morbid gimmick, gaudy color palette, unappealing plotlines, and drastically annoying voiceover narration of Pushing Daisies.