QUOTE (jedal @ Jan 11 2009, 11:53 AM)

To USA Network executives: ABC has foolishly cancelled one of their best shows, Eli Stone. Please consider picking up this excellent show. I believe it fits well into your "Characters Welcome" theme. There are various petitions on the web for ABC to save Eli Stone, so you can see it has a loyal fan following - and not a small contingent either. Anyone who agrees, please post here. Thanks!
I couldn't agree more! Eli Stone is one of the most creative, original, brilliantly written, acted and directed shows I can recall. More than that, it repays viewing repeatedly--as literature rewards re-reading. I fervently believe that USA Network would gain an incredible boost in viewers from keeping a powerhouse of a show like this going. Ultimately, I can only encourage those who make the decisions to watch ONE episode--any episode of Eli Stone--and let the experience of its intense value speak for itself! Perhaps those of us who've faced death often, as I have in many firefights, and later in unexpected, dangerous surgery, find a particularly high level of appreciation in what this particular show has to say about what matters and what doesn't. True Characters understand some things. ABC patently didn't. I suspect USA very well might.