Dakota

The third season of Veronica Mars will be the last, as per CNN.com.

No official reason has been given, but it's due to the ratings hemorrhaging that it's suffered since the beginning of season 2.

ABC likes alienating the eaters of their bread and butter. Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy have had erratic schedules for the last half of their seasons. It's getting really annoying. Desperate has had new episodes far and in-between reruns the last two months.

Both Grey's and Desperate are running clip shows tonight--the second clip shows EACH this season. I get that they want to bring new fans into the show, but isn't this a little late? Both series only have like 2 episodes left in the season...

Plus, Grey's is wonderful, but it's not exactly been a bear to follow this year. Desperate has always benefited/suffered from multiple storylines that take pauses and breaks for a few episodes each, but it's by no means more complicated than last year, and they already covered the first half of the season with a useless wrap-up before sweeps.

This fucked up schedule (there was a month of no new Grey's and _now_ they're running another fucking clip show?!) has been driving me crazy. ABC was on it's last hinges two years ago, and with Lost, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, and to a far, far lesser but Golden Globe winning extent, Commander in Chief, have brought them back to the forefront. And they're fucking it up.

This is reason #2 (commercials still rank as #1) that I hate network television, and will always prefer the DVD format.

I will say that if any show could benefit from a clip show, it's the increasingly harder to follow Veronica Mars, which is entertaining week to week with it's brazen, bubbly star, interesting supporting characters, and keen, quirky dialogue, but a wide-open, unresolved plot you could crash a bus through.