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Talk TV with Gail
Join Post-Dispatch TV critic Gail Pennington for a live discussion about all things TV -- what's great, what's new, what's dead.
Thursday, September 11, 2008 01:00 PM CDT
stpeteguy: Hi Gail, Is Flash Gordon returning on SciFi?
Gail: "Flash Gordon" was canceled.

Jenny: Hi! I have 2 questions for you: What channel are the Paralympics on and do you know when the new season of "Little People Big World" starts? I enjoy your t.v. news!
Gail: I only see the Paralympics on their own Internet channel, www.paralympicsport.tv.

mindtrick12: Has there been any official viewership stats for Sarah Connor Chronicles or Fringe? I enjoyed both season premieres. Thought T:TSCC was very much improved over last season. Good story, action, and character development. I hope it does better this season.
Gail: In my office, "Fringe" was very popular, and "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" fans all thought the season premiere was good. Looking at viewership based on those two episodes can be misleading, though. "Fringe" had so much buzz that it was expected to do really well, but didn't do as well, so is it a flop with 9 million viewers? In a couple of weeks, when everything has settled in and the other networks have originals, will be a better time to dissect the numbers.

suzyjax: The promos for "Worst Week" make me laugh--especially the recent Sex and the City satire. They don't seem to be promoting with clips of the best scenes, but the promos are funny enough to make me thing the writers might actually be good.
Gail: It's not sitcom-y, which is why I like it. The laughs come out of the situations, which are often physical but don't seem like slapstick for some reason. Good writing? Hmmm....

majigail: I was so happy that the boxer won greatest american dog! Any chance we'll see it again next summer?
Gail: I have a bone to pick with "Greatest American Dog." It's nice that cute Travis and his cute boxer pup, Presley, won -- but did you notice that the prize is a quarter of a million dollars? That's an awful lot of kibble to hand out based on badly thought-out challenges and eccentric judges' whimsical decisions. In the final three, was it fair to tell J.D. that his dog needed a bath, get little Andrew to interact with the judge's dog and ask Presley to learn a command from a strange trainer -- and then compare those, and use the results to eliminate J.D.? Bizarre. They really needed an audience-voting component or some voice of sanity if the prize was so big.
And no, I don't think they'll ever do it again. Ratings weren't that good. But you never know.