It’s a show that’s so good, it CAN’T actually be on the air.
Here’s what I wrote in my notebook while watching last week’s episode of Smith:
The week-to-week with Smith isn’t as visceral as the pilot, but its still classy and avoids a lot of the trappings of most television dramas. Also, Virginia Madsen is great. I wish her role were bigger, even if her character isn’t particularly interesting… yet.
Maybe it was the ellipsis before the word “yet” that put the final nail in the coffin. For those who haven’t heard, Smith was put on immediate hold, and pulled from the network’s line-up. This week a rerun of CSI: Miami will be placed in its timeslot.
Likewise, Kidnapped on NBC is being pulled from its prime, Wednesday night position and buried on Saturdays for the rest of its 13-episode stay of execution. Had shows like last season’s Reunion not left a bad taste in viewers mouths (a taste that smacked of both ‘unresolved pre-cancelation plot-lines’ and ‘bad acting’), one could have expected Kidnapped to get the Smith treatment as well (immediate, unrelenting termination).
Breaking news!!!! In case the Smith cancelation was leaving you, like me, brokenhearted, I was just informed that Fashion House is still on the air and being broadcast six nights a week.
