The Fox and The Bluths

The Fox Network Partial List Of Crimes
The Tracy Ullman Show
1987- Emmy Nominee
1988- Emmy Nominee
1989-Emmy Winner
1990-Emmy Winner
1990 - Canceled
The Ben Stiller Show
1993-Emmy Winner
1993 - Canceled
Family Guy
2000-Emmy Nominee
2002-Emmy Winner
2002 - Cancelled
Arrested Development
2004-Emmy Winner
2005-Emmy Winner
2005 - Canceled
Look, I'm not saying it doesn't suck. Truly. To paraphrase Bill Hicks, which I really am loathe to do, we live in a world where shows like "Freaks and Geeks" are murdered, yet Jim Belushi Continues to make television. But listen. If you've been watching the infernal network known as Fox since year one, like I have, you just get used to it.
Yes, the suits that run the networks are shortsighted moneymen with no sense of real quality and no real agenda beyond the bottom line. Go figure. That's how T.V. has been run since the Sixties. It's the only way Fox has ever been run. Granted, there's plenty of shows that are better off consigned to the great recycle bin of the ether (Beans Baxter, Models Inc., Freaky Links), but the good ones...the really great ones, you just learn to love at a distance. Sometimes you get lucky and that Great Pumpkin of Television blesses you with a DVD boxset of Undeclared episodes, or in the case of Family Guy, a Lazarus resurection, but most of the time you just sit around moping about how you'll never see Flying Blind again, and if just maybe Fox had given it a chance and not canceled it after one season, maybe Charles Rocket wouldn't have commited suicide last month. But perhaps I'm over thinking that one.
My point is this. A frog and a snake were trying to cross a river and...well, you know where this story goes. After all, we always have known that the Fox is really a snake.
By the way, in the interest of full disclosure, Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox, owns Myspace as well. Don't get too used to it.