Join me for a moment, won't you to mourn the passing of a good television show:
Fox has cancelled 'The Chicago Code.'
I'm not usually one for 'cop shows.' Network television is littered with Law and Orders, Criminals Minds, CSIs and who knows what else- they're formulaic, they've been done to death and they're oftentimes very tiresome. There aren't that many good ones that stand out from the pack and 'The Chicago Code' immediately grabbed my attention. Whether it was the fantastic cast with Jennifer Beals, Jason Clarke and Delroy Lindo all proving their amazing talents or the writing or the plots or the fact that this was a show that didn't have a formula and got deep into the culture and history of the sometimes amazingly corrupt city of Chicago.
It could have been the next great show- but the ratings weren't where the money-grubbers at Fox wanted them to be and so, once again, showing no patience at all, they shit-canned the show.
What a pity- television is cold, cruel world and I guess intelligent, well-written television shows don't pay the bills like they should.
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