By Rachel Bennett
Television Editor & Columnist
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You know the saying: Don’t arrive to a party too early, and don’t stay too late.
The latter part applies to any good TV series. When a show is great, you want it to stick around — but you don’t want it to overstay its welcome.
Usually, as the seasons stack up, a series declines in quality and has to scrape the bottom of the barrel for new ideas. It may try to shake things up, as many reality competition programs have done this season, but it rarely captures that magic that once made the show so fantastic.
One such series, CBS’s Survivor, is on its 25th season. Though the show helped to introduce U.S. viewers to reality TV when it premiered in 2000, it’s now one among several reality programs that have gone through numerous attempts to rebrand, airing...
Television Editor & Columnist
***
You know the saying: Don’t arrive to a party too early, and don’t stay too late.
The latter part applies to any good TV series. When a show is great, you want it to stick around — but you don’t want it to overstay its welcome.
Usually, as the seasons stack up, a series declines in quality and has to scrape the bottom of the barrel for new ideas. It may try to shake things up, as many reality competition programs have done this season, but it rarely captures that magic that once made the show so fantastic.
One such series, CBS’s Survivor, is on its 25th season. Though the show helped to introduce U.S. viewers to reality TV when it premiered in 2000, it’s now one among several reality programs that have gone through numerous attempts to rebrand, airing...
- 10/17/2012
- by Rachel Bennett
- Scott Feinberg
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