Dear UPN
Dear UPN Network,
Maybe you don’t care, since by this time next year you’ll be gone, merged into the new CW network with your friend, the WB. However, I must express my outrage at your shoddy treatment of Veronica Mars. The show is ramping up for its second season finale, trying to build momentum as the season’s mysteries come to a close. So, what do you do? First, you change its time slot from Wednesday at 9:00 to Tuesday at 9:00. I can accept that, since it was its original time slot for its first season, and it’s the perfect accompaniment to the Gilmore Girls.
But, in reality, what has happened? For the past three weeks, your New York metro affiliates have pre-empted the show for basketball. Three. Weeks. So, tonight, while the rest of the country is finding out what happens at Aaron Echoll’s trial, what Lucky the janitor did when he brought that gun to school, I’m sitting at home, twiddling my thumbs. (Okay, knitting.)
Granted, I know you’ll re-air . . . what am I saying? To “re-air,” you’d need to have aired it in the first place . . . you’ll AIR the show on Sunday at 7:00, but come on, that is not a convenient time for television watching. And, really, before you say anything, it doesn’t matter that I’ll be able to get recaps all over the internet tomorrow. I don’t want to read about what happened tonight. I want to see it. Is that really too much to ask?
Further, don’t even get me started on the whole ratings issue. You have no right to complain that the show isn’t getting the ratings it should when you don’t even ut the show on the air. What are we supposed to watch?
All I can say is, you had better not play this game next week for the season finale. Really. I would never forgive you. I’ll be on vacation the following Sunday night and if you make me miss the culmination of the entire season because you don’t have the decency to air the show when you’re supposed to . . . I mean, really, why bother moving it to a “new night and time” if you never show it? . . . if you make me miss the finale next week, so help me, I’ll help you along the road into the ether, or wherever it is that dead television networks go. You won’t have to wait until September.
Sincerely….
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It’s not quite the same, but I can tape it for you and send it in the mail if you’d like. I’ll be watching it!
I will be very disappointed if the show doesn’t come back next year.
I don’t watch this show but I know how you’re feeling. I hate when the networks play with schedules and then preempt shows. Hope you get to see the episodes you missed.
Here’s a rare case where I’ll have it better. Being in a basement apartment with rabbit ears, I can’t actually watch UPN so I wait for the season on DVD – I can watch the whole bloomin’ thing without commercials or interruptions. Can’t wait for season 2!!!!
“A long time ago, we used be friends…” Now I’m gonna have it playing in my head all day.
Ah, that’s exactly how I feel about the FOX network. I refuse to watch anything on that network any more because they killed 3 series I really loved, and one that I liked a lot.
As someone once said, “You’re dead to me.” That’s Fox for me. I refuse to be sucked in to any more of Fox’s trickery.
Oh I hate it when that happens! And during sports, it seems to happen a lot. we had one week where Gilmore Girls was pre-empted by a hockey game, then the next week our cable was out for the first 25 minutes of the show, it was very annoying. I began thinking it was a conspiracy.
My, Chappy’s really irked huh?
Unfortunately the bigger networks don’t play any fairer – one of my favorite new shows, Love Monkey, got pulled off the air by CBS and there were 5 unaired shows ready to go. Luckily VH-1 picked up the unaired episodes. If only Sci-Fi would pick up Threshold and let me watch its remaining unaired shows!
Good luck on VM.
wow. *mental note* Don’t mess with Deb’s TV watching schedule…
;o)
My DH loves Veronica Mars and for the past three weeks he has yelled at UPN, well, at the tv, but he was directing his anger at UPN. We didn’t even know they show the repeats on Sunday, so does that mean we missed everything up to the season finale? I wish they didn’t do that.
UPN has never been nice (nor particularly) smart about its schedule. Sorry you’re getting caught with the whole shuffle.