The West Wing is Closed - for Good

Last week NBC announced it was cancelling The West Wing after seven seasons. This is a bummer - not only is The West Wing one of the best shows (excellent writing, casting and directing) on television today - it's a classic political drama,  a genre which hardly exists today. Since I have not watched a single episode of Season Seven yet, I am going to patiently wait until the release of the DVD collection so that I watch the entire Presidential race between Santos and Vinnick unfold over a few days.

Having said that, I never fancied Law and Order all that much. There must be something about it since NBC keeps renewing it season after season.

Of the new shows yet to be broadcast in Sri Lanka, I would love to see the following:

1) Commander-in-Chief
2) Prison Break
3) My Name is Earl
4) Weeds
5) Grey's Anatomy

It's high time a tv channel in Sri Lanka is set up for only television shows instead of using it as a news channel as well. It's impossible to broadcast live news in addition to prime times shows successfully. Every time there is a "breaking news" story or a live debate, all scheduled programs are shuffled away and never seen again. Since shows are not repeated constantly, it doesn't help a viewer at all. ETV does telecast repeats but sometimes I get the feeling  ETV doesn't seem to know what planet it's on at times. Check out ETV's website and take a look at the programs for this week - according to the site "ER", "That 70's show" and "Seinfeld" should be on but in reality none of them are shown at the specified times!! There are several new shows coming up in February and all trailers feature the phrase "check with www.etv.lk for details on all our programs" - right!!