Grim Reaper Circles: What TV Series Is Next

Ratings this week shows that some shows are circling the drain, particularly NBC whose shows on Wednesday are dying week to week. The awful awful, awful Law and Order:LA is spiraling out of control with it's rating down 33% since it's premiere three weeks ago. SVU, still strong after all these years, is seeing it's rating killed by being sandwiched in between the soon to be cancelled Undercovers and LA. Some are contributing the fact that both leads in Undercovers are black and therefore unworthy of white America's attention, but the more likely factor is the blah factor of two dull leads and crappy writing. Can you honestly say that if Zoe Saldana and Denzel Washington were in this show the ratings wouldn't be sky high? Race only matters when you do something racist with it (Outsourced I'm looking at you). Thankfully that show is not doing well either. Thursday's saw some sort of hope for NBC from 8 to 9:30 with their comedy block all up from last week and had an inspired live episode on 30 Rock that saw many a star factor. The Apprentice continues to delcine and I think it's only a matter of time before it gets moved, possibly to Saturday where it will join the ousted Outlaw. Cable continues to outperform with shows like Jersey Shore, Teen Mom, South Park and Sons of Anarchy all doing better than most big five shows, finishing in the top five for the night for some. Tonight sees the weakest night of TV with shows like Medium, Good Guys, and CSI:NY all on the bubble for cancellation. It will be the last season for all of these series even if they do somehow make it till the end. CSI and it's like are dead. New material is needed. Get cracking writers.