Most network-jumpers have either been series that were past their prime, hadn't yet found an audience, or simply were no longer wanted by their network. We might have cynically looked at the games of chicken over ER and Frasier and the like and decided that it was all just part of the negotiation, that eventually a deal would be done. After all, ultimately if a network wants a show, it always keeps it. That time is gone. Open the floodgates.
Nothing's the same anymore.
Jason Snell is the editor of a national technology magazine, the founder and editor of the online fiction magazine InterText , and the editor of TeeVee. He has written 64 TeeVee articles and 14 Station Breaks. Thursday If you're going to abuse us, at least get it right. The little people own you.