the problem with tv today be that people have be spoil by lite tv viewing . this type of television show be the equivalent of elevator music or easy listening jazz . the typical viewer idea of continuity be remember who get vote off the island last week and wondering who will be the next to go . show them a program like surface and firefly and dr. who and or anything with a plot arc of more than three episode and . well and they will just flip back to survivor . 95 % of the sheep watching tv do not want to rack their brain . they want excuse to not think . they want to make sure the boob tube live up to it name . and they do not want show that try and go any other route . because of this and surface and many other high quality show that should have last far longer have get the axe . tv viewer do not want story and or moral and or philosophy and or anything over a third grade vocabulary level . they want people eat earthworm and or over dramatize real life series ( no such thing . you can not observe something without change the very nature of what you observe ) or hormonal show involve group of people have tryst and then brag about it to their friend . today television be nothing but a wasteland and and the few diamond you can pick out of the dust be just toss out because no one even know what a diamond be anymore . surface be one of those diamond .