The Lone Gunmen

click the pic for epguides tvtome episode info It seems epguides.com is defunct. I wonder if the TV executives have done it again and forced closure of a site that gave them free advertising. Nope -- epguides.com is back. Must have just been a glitch. Whew!

I waited with bated breath for The Lone Gunmen last night, wondering if I would see something as scary as X-Files at its best, or just a trashy spinoff. I was delighted to find that it was neither. The Lone Gunmen was hilarious! I howled with laughter. It was wonderful! It was X-Files humor at its absurd best. I am rapt that I caught it.

Unfortunately, the inept, totally clueless channel 7 programmers have done their usual trick of screening the second episode so that we have come in on some unexplained previous history. Maybe they will screen the pilot one day, maybe not. Sadly only 13 episodes were made. (A plague upon TV and network executives!!)

In order to see all of these I might have to download them (they aren't available on DVD). Bummer...

The Chronicle

It is back on. Weirdly, starting from the first episode again [oops, my mistake, it was the 3rd episode]. I'm sure it was on channel 9 last time and only ran for about 3 episodes [ummm... 2 episodes]. This time it is on channel 7. It is on at 11:40pm tonight. It is a good laugh... a very enjoyable comedy. Pity it never received the run it deserved.

Seems to be the way with TV these days. If a series costs more than a pittance and attracts less than a massive audience then it is doomed, unless it it is independantly funded. I can't help feeling that the big organisations are in slow suicide mode, and that they are only kept going by inertia. I don't know how correct that feeling is, but that is how it seems to me.