TV 101: Channel Drift (or, what the hell happened to A&E?)

January 21st, 2008 | Category: TV News, OpEd

Do you remember coming back from your first semester at college and running into a kid you used to go to high school with who decided to use college as an excuse to totally reinvent him or herself? Like he was the course dork and in three months he’s all of a sudden a death-metal anarchist? Or she dated the basketball team (the varsity, junior varsity, AND the freshmen) and now she dresses like Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman?

There was always something disturbing about it. Not so

much that they had changed — everyone has a right to change — but considering what they now were was different from the template you had made for them. When the universe doesn’t act like you expect it to, you get uneasy; it’s a natural reaction. I couldn’t help but feel that way that week, when I watched A&E’s new show Parking Wars.

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Original post by Jay Black

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