Re: Bother with "New Amsterdam"?

In article <Xns9A48E0EC675Ejayembeesnurcher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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jayembee  <jayembeenospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>tmcd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Tim McDaniel) wrote: 
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>> I've seen a fair number of ads on Fox for _New Amsterdam_.
>> I've seen the Wikipedia article
>[which states that Fox shut the production down after seven eps]
>> Is that indeed the latest news?  If so, why is Fox promoting it
>> fairly heavily (note: "because it's Fox" is a valid answer)
>
>Because they still want people to watch it.
>
>> and why should I bother with it?
>
>Because it might be worth watching?
>
>I've seen the pilot. It's not mind-blowing great, but it's more
>than good enough, and suggests an interesting series. If enough
>people watch it, Fox may order more episodes. If no one watches
>it, they definitely won't.

It was crap. It was not the worst show I've ever seen. It wasn't even the 
one of the worst one hundred episodes of series telelvision I've seen. 
(ST:TNG's The Outcast, for instance.) But it was pretty bad.
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