Dutch television agents are probably the worst gamblers in the world. These are the guys who buy television shows (usually American) to fill their programming with. You would think that they would be able to discern good shows from bad ones, but unfortunately they keep missing the mark.
It gets worse: when they start advertising shows heavily as the big hit series from the U.S.A. and then find out the show was cancelled even before the show hits the Dutch airwaves, how stupid would you feel? It happened to:
- The Nine
- Daybreak
- The Class
- Summerland
- Out Of Practice
Now apparently good shows the Dutch can't pay for. So much that they get dumb and start programming it at around 23:55 on a Thursday or Friday night. This happened to:
- The Sopranos
- The West Wing
- The Agency
- My Name Is Earl
And of course you keep rerunning the same old shows over and over again, like:
- Friends (ENOUGH ALREADY)
- The A-Team
- Will & Grace
- ER
If you know a series is gonna cost a lot of money, why would you spend it so unwisely? And if you wanna gamble, why do it this way? Why do you programme a television evening like a novice poker player plays a hand?
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