It’s been a rough couple of weeks. I knew it was coming and yet, part of me didn’t want to accept it. Still doesn’t. How do you let go? And worse, how do you move on?
My shows are ending – some for the season and some forever. And I’m left … bereft.
Perhaps I’m over-reacting, but Law & Order and I have been together for 20 years. I’ve seen every episode – most several times over. And now, it’s gone. Like my dedication and loyalty meant nothing.
Of course, there’s the teasing hope of Law & Order: Los Angeles this fall, but it won’t be the same. It never is. And how do I open my heart to another set of assistant district attorneys and cops who will come and go without notice?
I’ve also had to say goodbye to Jack Bauer (24), the Oceanic Six (Lost), my favourite FBI mathematicians (Numb3rs) and even Simon Cowell. And what happens to my now cancelled little Ghost Whisperer?
Oh, the studios argue falling ratings, stories finishing and contracts ending. It’s almost as though my feelings didn’t even count.
They say I’ll find another show. Well, I tried that. This past year I was lured into The Deep End and became entranced with The Forgotten. Then ABC quietly axed both once their season had ended.
CBS dumped the fledgling Miami Medical in favour of a reincarnated Hawaii Five-0.
Now, I love Alex O’Loughlin as much as any breathing woman, but does anyone remember 2007’s Bionic Woman? Knight Rider 2008?
You cannot remake a classic cheesy series successfully. And Hawaii Five-0 without Jack Lord is like Are You Being Served? without Jack Inman’s Mr. Humphries and Mollie Sugden’s Mrs. Slocombe.
So if Alex can’t fill the hole in my heart where my fallen Heroes used to be, who can?
The networks new fall schedules are out, showing loads of new programming.
How many get aired past Episode Three is yet to be seen. And that’s the part I hate. It’s TV’s version of the third date rule: “If you don’t have the tingles by then, forget it. Move on.”
It’s so … heartless.
But that’s this fall. I still have to get through the lonely summer months.
And as satisfying as it is to watch ABC’s Wipeout contestants face plant on the world’s largest obstacle course, it cannot take the place of my lost loves.
And this is so not the time to rely on Coronation Street.
I can, however, take this time to put myself out there and introduce myself to some faces I’ve seen in passing but never truly met.
Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva and TNT’s Hawthorne are making their way to Global Thunder Bay this June.
So I guess it’s time I went back out there. A new love awaits.
My shows are ending – some for the season and some forever. And I’m left … bereft.
Perhaps I’m over-reacting, but Law & Order and I have been together for 20 years. I’ve seen every episode – most several times over. And now, it’s gone. Like my dedication and loyalty meant nothing.
Of course, there’s the teasing hope of Law & Order: Los Angeles this fall, but it won’t be the same. It never is. And how do I open my heart to another set of assistant district attorneys and cops who will come and go without notice?
I’ve also had to say goodbye to Jack Bauer (24), the Oceanic Six (Lost), my favourite FBI mathematicians (Numb3rs) and even Simon Cowell. And what happens to my now cancelled little Ghost Whisperer?
Oh, the studios argue falling ratings, stories finishing and contracts ending. It’s almost as though my feelings didn’t even count.
They say I’ll find another show. Well, I tried that. This past year I was lured into The Deep End and became entranced with The Forgotten. Then ABC quietly axed both once their season had ended.
CBS dumped the fledgling Miami Medical in favour of a reincarnated Hawaii Five-0.
Now, I love Alex O’Loughlin as much as any breathing woman, but does anyone remember 2007’s Bionic Woman? Knight Rider 2008?
You cannot remake a classic cheesy series successfully. And Hawaii Five-0 without Jack Lord is like Are You Being Served? without Jack Inman’s Mr. Humphries and Mollie Sugden’s Mrs. Slocombe.
So if Alex can’t fill the hole in my heart where my fallen Heroes used to be, who can?
The networks new fall schedules are out, showing loads of new programming.
How many get aired past Episode Three is yet to be seen. And that’s the part I hate. It’s TV’s version of the third date rule: “If you don’t have the tingles by then, forget it. Move on.”
It’s so … heartless.
But that’s this fall. I still have to get through the lonely summer months.
And as satisfying as it is to watch ABC’s Wipeout contestants face plant on the world’s largest obstacle course, it cannot take the place of my lost loves.
And this is so not the time to rely on Coronation Street.
I can, however, take this time to put myself out there and introduce myself to some faces I’ve seen in passing but never truly met.
Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva and TNT’s Hawthorne are making their way to Global Thunder Bay this June.
So I guess it’s time I went back out there. A new love awaits.
