When is it time to put a television show out of its misery?
Sometimes a good ending is better than a prolonged showing.That’s never truer than in television.While it’s great when a show is on top, garnering accolades and inspiring viewers it’s completely different when a once great show is limping along and tarnishing what should be a stellar pedigree.Two examples of shows that should have already ended are ABC’s super soapy (and often ridiculous) ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and the CW’s increasingly hard to watch ‘Supernatural.’In the case of ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ the show did save ABC at a time when it looked like it might succumb to a ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ extended hangover. That doesn’t mean that the show should hang on until it doesn’t even resemble the program that it was when it launched.In the case of this show, creator Shonda Rhimes should have let it go when she lost original cast members Katherine Heigl and T.R. Knight – because, sadly, the heart of the show went with them.While Justin Chambers and Sandra Oh are still infinitely watchable, the rest of the cast has become boring and, in the case of show star Ellen Pompeo, annoyingly shrill.Read more here — including a list of 10 shows that went on far too long . . .
When is it time to put a television show out of its misery?
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