TV? Will it show Its ass or show Its heart?

The other day I got an mpeg of the failed TV pilot for this Warren Ellis comic book turned TV show GLOBAL FREQUENCY, and then I had a chance to read some thoughts on the show by the its TV creater John Rogers (see this site for John Rogers' comments) and I have to say it's too bad this show didn't get picked up.

I would suggest that most people should search TorrentSpy or some other torrent site to find this mpeg of the show and then watch it. It truly is one of those shows that injects faith into the human condition in a way that almost all shows eschew. The concept of the comic and show isn't for me to explain (I'd rather your get the torrent or get the collected graphic novels and experience yourself; eventhough I'm a writer, I don't want to cheapen another QUALITY writer's work by doing secondhand description.)

It would have been an interesting show, but it was slated to go on The WB? Like that channel has any good dramas... It could be a place for challenging TV, like what Fox was doing when it originally came on (and what Rupert Murdock allows on FX).

TV is doing some good shit of late, like OVER THERE and THE SHIELD and the upcoming HBO show ROME. But TV (or whatever episodic filmed entertainment is going to be in the future) needs to be able to address certain issues, ideas, genres and philosophies. GLOBAL FREQUENCY is a SciFi show that wasn't tryinig to be regulated to the SciFi Channel (although the updated Battlestar: Galatica is pretty amazing), it was trying to do what the original Star Trek and Johnnie Quest did back in the day -- attempt to reach the primetime audience with poignant stories or rollicking entertainment.

Damn, why does TV have to be so expensive to continue to produce.