If it wasn't before, it's official now... A&E TV has Jumped the Shark: "Steven Seagal: Deputy Sheriff"

[deckeda]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=trisho.]
Ugh. I remember (cue old person voice) when A & E (and Bravo) had a line up of great theatre classics with Sir Anthony Hopkins or Sidney Poitier. This was only a whopping 15 years ago. How trashy they have both become. Feh!

I miss those days.
What I miss is back when A&E was commercial-free. They showed old feature-length movies. Back then, your basic-cable subscription paid for channels that didn't have commercials. I know, what a nutty concept. Thank you, cable companies, for extorting ever-increasing amounts of monies from content providers to the point where they either perish or must chase advertising.

[$tevie]

I thought that saying Jumped the Shark had Jumped the Shark. Or maybe it's just wishful thinking.

[RAMd®d]

I thought that saying Jumped the Shark had Jumped the Shark. Or maybe it's just wishful thinking.

Bravo!

It has, but some user haven't read the memo.

I'm nowhere near dumping TV. Like people, there's good and bad. I don't know what Seagal is like in the *normal* performance of his duties as a Deputy, but putting a camera on him can't be good.

Has he lost weight? He was a regular Sta-Puff marshmellow man for awhile.

A few celebrities have been reserve officers or deputies long before the television public ever found out about it. Van Williams had about 25 years on the LASO.

I'm afraid that the Seagal thing will be a train wreck. But his martial arts style is well suited to police work.

[Paul F.]

Hey, can YOU think of a MORE appropriate use for the term "Jumped the Shark" than this?

I don't use such terms lightly...

[Blankity Blank]

I've read a couple of stories on the show, and generally they come off as being surprised that his police work seems to be an up and up, non-dilettante deal. So if that's true, all I can say is 'You go, Steven.'

No interest in the show though. Sometimes people are more than they seem. If the pious, upstanding, charitable vicar down the block can turn out to secretly be a ravening child molester, I guess it shouldn't be all that hard to believe Seagal has been a cop all these years. You wouldn't have ever thought it, but there it is.

[$tevie]

I think it would be much better if they had Steven Seagal be the Deputy Sheriff of Mayberry. Now that I would watch.