Vox cani

I’ve been missing one of my favourite sitcoms of all time, Action. I used to watch it at 2AM on Channel 4, drinking milk after going out jogging. It ended up good for my health, as the run was a good excuse to stay up that late in days when my default was about midnight. A little research reveals that it was one of Fox’s flagships for the Fall Season (it’s an American thing I reckon, there’s not really the same concept of an Autumn TV season) of 1999, when the awesome West Wing debuted. Back then, people raved on it, and rightly so, because it rocked. Unfortunately, the ratings were rubbish, and it’s swearing, drug use, and general attitude annoyed enough people that they didn’t need too many reasons to cancel it. Apparently the season finale was rewritten when they knew it was being cancelled, and so Peter Dragon, the excellently enthusiastic lead turn of Jay Mohr (the nasty dude in Jerry Maguire, which I watched recently, and which turns out to rock), died of a heart attack, with the time of death as the end of the show’s slot when the final episode was shown. Fox quite literally killed the show. Of course, whilst endless crap comes out on DVD; we’re still waiting on being able to see this masterpiece in anything but glittering memories. Amazon reckon it’s being released on DVD in the future, 1969 actually, so we may have to wait for the calendars being rejigged for the Second Coming (and 1000 years of Satan in charge) to see it again. Please let’s get it back before then, if only just to prepare us for the horny dude; it probably won’t help, but there’s a petition.
It rocked so much….