THE MAYOR OF TELEVISION WHAT YOU MIGHT SEE ON A&E (OR NOT).Byline: David Kronke's blog and podcast Earlier in the week, A&E, in a marvelous show of smoke and mirrors, unveiled nearly as many shows they won't ever air as those they will. Here are the shows we know A&E will be presenting in the near future: A miniseries version of "The Andromeda Strain," based on Michael Crichton's prescient-ish novel about killer viruses and plagues, not to be construed as a metaphor for A&E programming. Unless, of course, you're specifically talking about "The Two Coreys," a reality show I'm fairly certain no one has been clamoring for, starring those heartthrobs of undiscerning fans of bad '80s teen flicks, Corey Haim and Corey Feldman. "Crime 360" -- No idea what this is about, but from A&E's description it's a reality show about crime-solving in which the CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. graphics are far more important than the investigations themselves. "The Rookies" -- In this rather grim-sounding reality series, hastily prepared rookie cops take on the mean streets of post-Katrina Louisiana, where the crime rate (particularly the murder rate) has risen exponentially since the disaster. Why didn't they send those "Armed & Famous" guys into this shooting gallery shooting gallery Substance abuse A place–eg, an abandoned building in an economically-depressed urban area–ie, a ghetto, where IV drug users congregate, purchase, inject–'shoot' heroin, cocaine, oxycodone or other drug. ? "Paranormal State Paranormal State is a docu-drama reality television series for A&E about the United States' only university-backed paranormal group, The Penn State Paranormal Research Society. " -- A&E rips off Sci Fi Sci fi may refer to:
"Confessions of a Matchmaker Matchmaker - A language for specifying and automating the generation of multi-lingual interprocess communication interfaces. MIG is an implementation of a subset of Matchmaker. " -- Reality fodder featuring a "raw," "brutally honest" matchmaker who takes money from lonely people desperate enough to find anyone of the opposite sex nominally attractive and introduces them willy-nilly. The ones you won't see "The Pendletons" -- Spinoff of A&E's reality-tattooing epic "Inked," which was so successful, its lead character, Thomas Pendleton, left the show. Now, A&E's intrepid cameras follow the guy as he wanders aimlessly aim·less adj. Devoid of direction or purpose. aim  less·ly adv.aim around America with a mobile-tattooing bus service. "Good in the Hood" -- Ice Cube produces this look at the positive side of inner-city gangs; namely, some of them eventually feel remorse and try to atone for their behavior. |
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