You may or may not have heard that king of C movie brawn, Steven 'Nice Ponytail dude' Seagal has popped up on your small screens recently in A&E's 'reality' cop show Lawman (it's original title Numbnuts was dropped for some reason). Well after surprisingly good ratings for the pilot people seem to have come to their senses as episode 2 saw a cheer-worthy 43% drop off. To sit here and complain that A&E are producing such drivel is the definition of pointless and of course there are actually worse shows on TV (have you seen MTV's Jersey Shore?). I guess the reason this irks me is that A&E started out as a channel wanting to promote, yes you guessed it, Arts and Entertainment. Sadly the noble goal of bringing culture to cable was dropped when no one showed up to watch and so while they have one or two decent shows, Intervention, A&E Indie Films they mostly show dross like Lawman and Parking Wars.
OK rant over. I know TV is ludicrously subjective and I am certainly not a small screen snob (I watch Big Brother for goodness sake) but shows like this in the words of Peter Griffin, 'really grind my gears'!
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