Why you ask? Quite simply, you have failed to deliver anything that is mildly original to entertain us in movies or television.

Instead of striving to deliver anything that is new on the screen each season, you continue to cookie cut shows from the same vein, this isn't double-mint fun ala Wrigleys. Take for example the multitude of Law and Order spinoffs and CSI clones. How many versions of the same story type can we stomach. Have you not seen what happens when something is copied over and over... it fades to obscurity, oft damaging even the brilliance of the original. Sin no more... fling not the sacred cow original upon thy fires of greed for the sake of a few weak suckling calves you call spinoffs. We don't want to watch them.

Allow not your jealousy of a productive idea by a competitor to lead you down the lane of shameless replication. Again, you think we cannot notice when there is more than one nanny show or wife swap theme... but it just happens to be on a different channel? Come on now. Next time you even think of copying a theme from another network, do us all a favor and just slam your head into the refrigerator door repeatedly until you forget.

Finally, let us delve into the greatest sin of all. The perpetuation of remakes. If you are so desperate for a decent story, do not think that you can delve DEEP into the past to resurrect mild television and movies for a market that you believe never saw the original. How many POSEIDON ADVENTURE ripoffs can we handle... the boat flips over, people try to get out... not a great difference there. Some should never even be made (BEWITCHED). Use some common sense here... slamming a decent actress into a bad movie... still leaves you with a bad movie.

In closing, attempt to consider why cable has seen a rise in viewership, whilst network television continues to take the flume ride down the flusher... why so many people wait for movies to come out on DvD for rental rather than paying to see the theatrical release. Stretch the envelope on ideas, don't use something already done.

Signed,
Apathetic Viewers