Love Bites Gets Canceled

So many shows gets canceled that it would take forever to talk about each one, but since it is a slow day and because I gave Love Bites a couple of views, I thought I would write something. Lately in Hollywood there has been this obsession with getting as many stars in one picture as humanly possible and the way to afford that is to film short segments for each so their filming days are limited. It has been a trend before, but ever since He Is Just Not That Into You the format has taken off again and as long as people keep paying bucks to see the movies, Hollywood will keep making them.

So, of course the studios said this would work on television and it really didn't. When you go to a movie you are in front of the screen the whole time. Yes, you might get up for a second, but you start at the beginning and finish watching at the end. With Love Bites, the whole anthology thing didn't work because you only have 22 minutes, people come in and out of programs, surf channels or forget to tune in when it starts. I watched it a couple of times and it felt disjointed and there was no attaching yourself to characters or anything which made it tough. It was interesting to see that Greg Grunberg looks like he packed on about 50 pounds since the end of Heroes. In something that even shocks me, the one episode I actually liked featured Michelle Trachtenberg who I thought was really well cast. Probably the last nice thing about Michelle I will ever say, but it is a start.

Do you like these anthology type movies? Did you watch the show?