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Stupid Fox. They keep moldy, unfunny crap like the Simpsons on the air five years after it should have gone off, but kill AD midway through its third season?! Stupid, stupid, stupid Fox. Well, when King of the Hill finishes its run this year, I'll no longer have any reason to watch anything on that crap-producing network. Anyone know where I can write them a letter telling them so?

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Also, what say we start a campaign to get Comedy Central to pick up the show? What a coup that would be for them!

Man, my whole day is just flippin' ruined...

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How stupid are Fox? Let's hope a decent network pick up AD.

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Taste these tears! Taste my sad!

I thought maybe FOX would swallow the crappy ratings and enjoy keeping an emmy winning comedy on their network. I mean the DVD sales are good and it would make tons of money on iTunes.

I fear the only cable network that could afford this show is HBO. It's too much money for Comedy Central or FX.

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I don't care if it gets picked up by Lifetime! As long as SOME network has the brains to save it!

My motto used to be "Carpe Diem." Now it's "Stupid Fox."

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It's terrible to read that this is finally offical.

AD is by far the funniest damn thing on television, and now Fox is killing it. I was really hoping that they would give this season a chance but I was wrong.

Damn you Fox! This show is great!

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This is a sad, sad, sad, sad day. I'm not going to comment on Kitchen; I liked the episodes so far, and it had promise, but I don't have such a passion and connection with the show as I do with AD.

SHAME ON FOX. Sorry for the caps, but it's the best form of written expression, at least in my case. Smart, sophisticated, brilliant comedy gets shelved mid-season. Just awful. What makes it more insulting is that a show like this is canned while utter garbage like "Stacked" and "The War at Home" (which stole the Sunday 8:30 spot) stays on. Disgraceful.

I was starting to believe in sitcom television again. Seinfeld left the airwaves, and it took a few years, but smart shows slowly arrived. "Scrubs." "Curb." Now "My Name Is Earl" and "Everybody Hates Chris" show promise. But AD was the king of them all.

Today is a sad day indeed.

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All I have to say about this is three words: Dammit, Dammit Dammit!

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tell me it ain't so...

What is wrong with TV execs these days killing all the good shows and bringing us crap to fill the voids? It's been a long time since TV had great shows, and lately it seems they only run 1-2 seasons before they kill them because, "We were glad to have a good run, but we think we have some great stuff lined up."

Seriously. Do we really need another Survivor and more CSI spinoffs than you can spit at?

This show is one of the main reasons I got back into PrimeTime sitcoms. I was just beginning to get back into weekly TV shows with all the great shows lately (Everybody Hates Chris, My Name is Earl). But, just like radio, they continue to dissapoint - only TV does it not with crappy playlists, but with crappy lineups and killing great, creative, entertaining shows. It's no wonder people are flocking to Sattilite Radios and DVR's; so they can listen/watch what they want, when they want and have some moderate control over it.

Fox can really make some stupid moves, yet everyonce in a while they pick up a show that has such great potential and builds such a following... yet they never fail to axe it right when it really takes off.

Reminds me of a Californian voter... Ask for one thing, then when you get it, complain and vote it down. Maybe TV shows and Hollywood movies should be run by a national election. Oh, wait, isn't that what RATINGS are suppose to be?

I'm buying this series on DVD, and waiting for a cable station (Comedy Central, Showtime) to pick it up after the season ends.

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Can someone tell me why the show War at Home is still on and signed on for another year and AD is being cancelled?

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Hopefully this will turn into another Family Guy situation and Fox will bring the show back after seeing good DVD sales.

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This is ridiculous. A campaign to save AD must be started. First step, create a website where fans can sign up and have it automatically send every FOX exec and email expressing our displeasure each time a new person signs up. Second step, post names of all companies that advertise during crappy shows like War at Home and Stacked and threaten a boycott. Third step, stop watching FOX all together until they put AD back on.

Ok, there's the plan. I nominate someone other than myself to get going on it.

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ARGH!! Not only did FOX cancel Arrected Development, but they cut the season to 13 episodes! IDIOTS! (Gosh! ;)) Network suits are confoundingly asinine. I urge everyone to email their disdain to getarrested@fox.com ASAP.

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Lets start the bets:
-How long before Oprah declares it's the best show on tv(well the second...) so her millions of followers cause a big riot that eventually turns into WWIII, and then FOX brings it back but Oprah followers just don't get the show so it is cancelled again after a few weeks...?
I say anytime between now and Oprah's big Christmas giveaway(I suppose she has one of those..I mean she's giving stuff all the time)
So get to work you "World's most powerful woman" (according to Forbes)

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sad sad day indeed, i feel like sryiny. is oprah a fan or something?

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AD should have gone to HBO a long time ago. It was way too good for network TV. There's no way that Comedy Central would pick it up. It's not un-PC enough.

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I think I'm gonna just not watch FUX anymore.

I can call it FUX, right? I don't think anyone here is really gonna get offended by calling them FUX. Except for FUX itself. And quite frankly, FUX them.

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Every goddam year we have to deal with this. Who the hell has the Nielsen boxes cause I want to kick their asses. I cannot comprehend how a critically acclaimed, award winning show keep getting threatened to be cancelled every year, and this year the hammer finally comes down. Some other network HAS to pick this up. I am so fricken pissed off.

Seriously, who has the Nielsen boxes? I have never seen one or heard of someone whom has one. Maybe only the red states in the rest of the fricken country do, and all they want is more goddam Roseanne. Give me a break! Use Tivo statistics!! They know what we watch and would be able to provide better statistics. Grrrrr.

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Wow. Pardon my French, bit that blows some serious donkeydik. That network had better have some great GREAT things planned to replace those shows.

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First of all:

http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/play/play.cfm/sound_iid.4899

Second of all:

http://saveourbluths.com/

Third of all:

http://forums.prospero.com/foxarrested/start

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