Reality Television's Downward Spiral to Idiocracy...starring Luke Wilson

A friend of mine recently ranted about NBCs decision to cancel some of her favorite shows. At first I did not really understand the frustration. Shows get canceled. It's been happening since the very first gray images glowed from the boob tube. Many of my favorite shows have been canceled. Dead Like Me aired on ShowTime for a very short two seasons and saddened me to no end when they decided it would no longer be meant for cuddle time on the couch with my husband. My So Called Life was taken off of MTV when I was in high school and forced me to watch other non music related television on that channel.

I do not indulge in much TV watching, but I do have my favorite shows that I enjoy watching. In fact, on Wednesday nights you will find my butt firmly planted on my couch with no intentions of moving until "TV Night" is over. I am very attached to the few shows that I do watch and realizing that my friend had similar attachments to the recently canceled Studio 60 on NBC, I began to feel sympathetic to her frustration.

After the cancellation of her beloved Studio 60, NBC replaced it with a show called the Black Donelly's. Not wanting to give up her TV time and couch cuddle time with her husband, they began to watch this show and quickly bonded with it. Just as soon as it became a welcome interruption to their busy day, NBC also pulled it. More fuel added to the fire.

Then, my friend heard the worst news she could possibly hear. This news was so shocking that even I was upset when I heard it. Scrubs may not be coming back for a final season. What? How could they pull Scrubs? This is a television sitcom that is so popular that other television networks have shelled out the big bucks to play the reruns from past seasons on their network. How can the hilarious characters of Sacred Heart not be coming back to entertain me? Has NBC gone mad?

But that is not the worst of it. Rumor has it that NBC will be replacing Scrubs, as well as The Black Donnely's, with a "hot new reality show".