Take your favourite TV show . . . and test it. In a wonderful flow diagram by Winston Rowntree, creator of the web comic
subnormality and which you can find at cracked.com (click on the one below and it will open bigger), he has drawn this hilarious (yet so true) progression and evolutionary lifespan of 99% of hit TV shows ever made . . .
. . .the excited originality and early accolades, the steady mainstream pop culture buzz and viewership success, the mature well-oiled production brimming with great production values, plotlines and interesting characters, the declining drift into creative fatigue and the inevitable slide into no longer relevant oblivion.
