Don't assume all religious conservatives are stupid or reactionary.

Many of us will miss JAG more than Joan.

And who has respect for CBS anyway? :))

At the end of the day, CBS is a company just like Burger King and if their product isn't stellar, then they don't have any buisness putting it out there. Christians should try to make a great product or deal with the fact that mediocre shows will be canceled. And is it that big of a deal that a show that not that many people watch anyway gets canceled in the long-term goals of Christianity?

As long as they leave NCIS alone, I don't care what they do with JAG.

Ah, yes. Religious conservatives talk to angels, secularists talk to ghosts. Tell me, if there are no souls, what's a ghost? I'm not even religious and this kind of hair splitting makes me nutty.

Bear in mind that "skewing younger" is relative at CBS. The network's target demographic has been the group between retirement and fossilization for years now.

If Joan had decided God was dead, could she have kept talking to him/her/it?

I think it is a fundamental misunderstanding of Christian Conservatives to think that they thought highly of Joan of Ark. If many of my friends' reaction to Seventh Heaven is any indicator, they think of it as a false depiction of God, etc.

My wife is a big fan of "Joan", but I could never get into it. Even she was starting to admit that the plots were becoming repetitive.

Regarding the headline on this entry, it only took a couple of hours for Matt Drudge to start pouring gasoline on the fire. This battle in the culture war has officially begun.

I'm a religious conservative (I guess the definition would be someone who believes in God and conservative values, gee how horrible), anyway. And since I do, my beliefs are reinforced by this new show actually. Anybody that sees Jennifer Love Hewitt in those outfits you linked to Daniel, KNOWS there's a God...

a team of experts called in when the Navy discovers aliens have landed in the Atlantic Ocean.

A team of experts?

Shouldn't conservatives be happy that 60 minutes II is off the air ?

"Shouldn't conservatives be happy that 60 minutes II is off the air ?"

We should ALL be happy when any Entertainment Program mascarading as a News Program goes off the air...

I agree with Christopher. Being at least a nominal religious conservative, I find it unlikely that TV will supply me with anything that would satisfy. If I wanted God, I'd either crack open the Bible or go read Donald Sensing's sermons.

"Touched by an Angel" and "Joan of Arcadia" and that ilk are palatable-for-TV versions of Christianity; I'm not sure anyone is served well for it. You're right -- JAG will be missed much more. (If only for more Catherine Bell.)

CBS canceled "Judging Amy," "Joan of Arcadia" and the Wednesday spinoff of "60 Minutes" while adding Jennifer Love Hewitt to its prime-time lineup — all in search of a more youthful appeal....

Hey Moonves, us Boomers aren't dead yet. More youthful appeal? How could network television get any younger, short of getting rid of all the adult characters?

There are few TV programs that are worth the time, especially now that commercials are threatening to get more minutes that the program itself. Are we there yet?

Now we get ghosts, angels and aliens. wonderful.
I guess "younger" means the 6 to 12 year mental bracket. So-named Christian programs seem to work the gimmick of miracles too hard, or else are too pius and stuffy to pull good ratings.

One thing I will give the Brits: they know how to put on drama shows and documentaries, and time was that the good ones weren't cluttered with ads for personal hygine and sex performance.
We, however, are constrained by less and less time to develop a story.

But talking to ghosts DOES skew younger than talking to God. Does anyone deny that the teeny-bopper audience for Buffy and Angel was better than that of Joan of Arcadia?

Hmm, good old fashioned stereotyping.

Of course when it works against a person, it's not so good.

Do you look suspiciously at minorities when they drive through your neigborhood?

Or is that different, . . .

I stopped watching Judging AMy when the slid into the slime of Liberal propoganda seeral years ago.

As for Joan of Arcadia, I;ve seen ti once, and didn't see much it in that had anything to do with biblical Christianity. Moonves is a moonbat if he think Conservative Christians give a flip about either show. If his comment was in jest, then it just shows his antipathy for Christians. Not surprised, I have to say.

"As for Joan of Arcadia, I;ve seen ti once, and didn't see much it in that had anything to do with biblical Christianity. Moonves is a moonbat if he think Conservative Christians give a flip about either show. If his comment was in jest, then it just shows his antipathy for Christians. Not surprised, I have to say."

What I find humerous as well is that none of these shows, at least the ones I've seen such as Touched By and Angel, etc. ever even mention "Jesus". Funny, I kinda thought he had something to do with Christianity. These are 'Christian" shows, they're modern versions of Lassie Come Home without a Dog. Dreck.

"These are 'Christian" shows, they're modern versions of Lassie Come Home without a Dog. Dreck."

Sorry. "aren't" Christian shows. Damn keyboard...;)

Um, who could have read this comment, even without the ' joked' portion cut off, and not realized that he was joking?

Give people some credit.

The only dramatic show on TV worth watching is Law and Order, particularly the SVU version.

But it's hard to take seriously any mass medium that can only make money by catering to the lowest common denominator. If any of the networks could make money by showing farmers cutting off the heads of chickens and then chasing the headless chickens around the barnyard, they would. As the late, great Congressman Ozzie "Abscam" Myers once put it (on videotape, courtesy of the FBI), "Money talks and bullshit walks."

Don't assume all religious conservatives are stupid or reactionary.

Very true. Just happens to be the ones we hear from the most.

(the 'headless chicken' theme would sell)

(sorry - that was uncalled for. Bad day at office)

If you'd been reading Ann Althouse you'd know why Joan of Arcadia went downhill. The people who were making it essentially decided to knee cap their show. No, I'm not kidding.

Many of us will miss JAG more than Joan.

* Although I will miss Enterprise more than JAG since the former actually got better its last season.