The N revolt.
One more rant and I promise to update you all on my life.

Dear The N,

First off, I have to say thank you for being my home network for four years. I finally got satellite in 2003 and was able to watch your network. But after those four or so years, all that LSD you were taking apparently melted your brain completely and your network took a nose dive to hell.

What's up? You were starting to come into your own. Started to become your own network. Sure, it was pretty cool when you just had Degrassi to call your own.. kinda.. and a bunch of other random shows, but when you started having your own original shows, it was pretty awesome. You started to grow up. The network for tweens became the network for TEENS. The kids stuff went away.

Now it's like we're going back to square one but not really. The first square one was a lot more righteous than this. What happened to all the good shows you used to play? Sometimes I can't tell if I tuned to The N or Nickelodeon. I get that Nickelodeon owns you and that old school Nick shows are the fucking shit. But you don't play old school Nick shows. Naked Brothers Band is not an old school Nick show.. it's not even a teen show! The characters are like 10. And all these Nick shows you're playing can be seen on Nickelodeon RIGHT NOW.

I'm still wondering what happened to all the shows you promised us. Where's Instant Star? Beyond the Break? What happened to that one show, "What Goes On"? Why hasn't that been aired yet? Why did you cancel The Best Years? Why are you cancelling South of Nowhere? I'd like to know why 99% of the time, you change projected and advertised airdates? There really is no reason for you to change it, I mean those shows are all filmed and completed long before you made that little commercial. You never did air anything more important in that timeslot. So what the hell?

I don't recall ANY show on The N lasting more than four seasons. If a show lasted to see its fourth season, it would be considered extremely lucky. The only show I was happy to see go was Whistler and that show is still going on in Canada. I don't really care.

South of Nowhere is probably the most crucial show on The N. Even more than Degrassi. Now let's get into Degrassi. I like Degrassi but not nearly as much as I used to. Quite honestly, and I RARELY SAY THIS, but Degrassi is overstaying its welcome. They are running out of ideas. Come on, a t-shirt business? Yes, the 7th season is better than the 6th, but still. Maybe if they improved, I wouldn't be saying the same thing as I am now. After Degrassi is done, what the fuck is The N gonna do? I'm extremely curious to see.

Recently I just learned that The N is pushing back South of Nowhere's season 3B premiere date to October. OCTOBER? Okay. Season 3A premiered in August. Might I add, that that season also premiered later than originally announced, too. But only by a week or so. 3A ended sometime in September. Now.. waiting 'til fucking APRIL is long enough. That's seven months later. Now they're saying OCTOBER? Over a year after season three first started.

First What Goes On gets knocked off before it even has the chance to premiere and it apparently has gay people in it, now South of Nowhere gets the boot. Does anyone else see a pattern here? I'm not trying to say The N is homophobic and I'm not one of those people who looks for any reason to accuse someone of being a homophobe.
The N just fails at life.