Unfortunately this post isn’t about a show about zombies (which would probably be awesome for at least the first season), it is actually about the television show Day Break that premiered on ABC Fall of last year.

After a few episodes, ABC took the show off due to its surprisingly low ratings. I say surprisingly low because the show was great. You’d think with its Groundhog Day-esque premise that it would be hard to have interesting mysteries and story arcs in each episode but the show and its writers did an excellent job. Each episode would expand as well as clarify some points from the previous ones and get you closer to the concluding 13th episode.

However, ABC promised to start showing new episodes on their website and finally they’ve made good on it. January 29, ABC put 3 new episodes up and has been adding new episodes as the weeks go on. I think they’re up to the 6th new episode now.

Of course they did this with no fanfare. How do you advertise for a show that you’ve already canceled (but still have to finish making because you’ve already sold the international distribution rights)? Still, it wasn’t until last night that I realized the new episodes were up.

I am sad that I never got to catch any of the episodes in HD. All I can hope is that it’ll eventually come out on Blu-ray and that I can see it in that way.

So yeah, if you never watched the show, I believe they have all the episodes so far online. The pilot and the second episode are a great two hours of television that I strongly recommend. Consider it a free movie rental with another 5 free rentals following it. You just have to watch it on your PC.

If they would just support streaming to my TiVo, I’d already be watching this. Maybe then more shows could keep shambling on even when they’ve been deemed not successful enough for main broadcast slots.

So I didn’t notice this until today, but a new (and actually quite interesting) show, Love Monkey, got cancelled last week. Add to that the cancellation of Arrested Development (with its Series Finale last Friday) and it looks like we’ll be short two interesting television shows.

Worse yet, they’ve also cancelled The War At Home and American Dad, both of which were phenomenally multifaceted comedies. What’s that? They didn’t cancel either one of those bastard shows?!?

I know it’s too easy to blame “dumb people” for watching stupid shows (like why is COPS still on?) and getting sucked into hype machines. Does anyone have any idea what is going on in Lost or Desperate Housewives anymore … I’ve watched like 2 episodes of each show and I’m completely bewildered as to whatever is going on in them.

Still, it’s so frustrating when there is an enjoyable TV show that people won’t watch because it’s “too funny” or “not retarded enough.” I’m convinced that CBS took Love Monkey off because they realized that it wasn’t a police procedural. Perhaps if we told them that Tom Cavanagh’s character was an undercover cop, looking to bust drug dealers in the NY music scene, they’d have left it on.

In its place we’ll probably get another CSI … wait, no, we’re getting the Unit instead. It’s like 24 but with different actors the same actors. Hmmm … ok. Good for it.

What’s the point of this? I guess it’s that I got my new TiVo set up last night and as I was going through and rescheduling my Season Passes, I realized that some of my favorite new shows (like that dreamy Emily’s Reason’s Why Not .. that show was awesome!) are already gone. This made me think about shows getting canceled quickly (other examples include Firefly, the Tick: Live Action Edition, the original Family Guy, Upright Citizens Brigade, etc.)

So I sign off with this: to shows that are gone because they were not police procedurals, I salute you! To those that just sucked … I’m sorry, better luck next time. And to those bags of crap still on the air … I really can’t think of anything clever to say about you.