Remembering Extreme Makeover R.I.P.

IT IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING to me how many channels you can get on cable television. Don't they have cable television packages now which include literally hundreds of channels, with many categories, cartoon, movies, sports, and so forth, and dozens of channels in each category? Amazing. The most I ever had when I had TV was sixty or seventy, and that seemed like a lot. I remember discovering the show "Extreme Makeover", by accident, the way I discover everything. I was in love with it from word one. What network was it on? One of those cerebral ones, wasn't it...each episode they chose a large family of poor people, good hard working virtuous people who had rought times in a sub par run down house, sent the family on a one week vacation to Disneyworld or someplace, then, while they were gone, brought in a mob an built a brand new beautiful house for the fmaily to come home to. And they built the house in one week. An absolutely bizzare television whow. Bizarrely beautiful. Extremely heartwarming, because the families they chose had so many problems, needed help so badly, were so virtuous and deserving, and the help they got was so wonderful, and they were always so happy to get it. A great advertising for liberal, socialistic, christian, cooperative way of looking at and solving economic problems. Since so many television programs are competitive and violent and capitalistic and corporate, I found Extreme Makeover extremely refreshing. But I sensed, early on, that it couoldn't last. I don't know how many episides I saw before I realized that the plot was always the same, and I lost interest, but I'll bet it was more than most people. I was in denial briefly. It took me a while, maybe four or five episodes, to lose interest. And that was the show's fatal flaw. I assume the producers never intended for the show to last very long. I hope not. I'm just assuming that the show's been canceled long since, I think I heard somewhere that it has been off a while now. Still, it was a great concept; for a little while.