Why no Best of Ellen Cleghorne?

In the past, I've expressed my love for Saturday Night Live. While this season hasn't really tickled my fancy, outside of the Taylor Swift episode, I've been watching a lot of classic episodes from the late 1980s and early 1990s lately, along with the Best Of discs for several performers from that era. At that point, you are past the weird, early-1980s casts of Anthony Michael Hall, and into Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Dennis Miller, Kevin Nealon, Adam Sandler, David Spade and Chris Farley.

However, for each of these above-average performers, there is some other cast member pulling a Kristen Wiig and getting way too much airtime. (See how I turned a right on to Topical, as Daniel Tosh would say?) From the title of this entry, you can no doubt tell that I'm referring to Ellen Cleghorne.

According to Wikipedia, she was on the show for four years, then basically dropped off the face of the Earth. Since Wikipedia normally records every single little aspect of a person's career, she REALLY must not be up to much.

I guess after leaving SNL, she had her own sitcom on the new WB network for a single season. This means that it must have been one of the most wretched shows ever if it only lasted a single season on the WB, since they nursed along anything with a pulse - The Steve Harvey Show, Charmed - for years and years.

Because of this, I feel it is the duty of SNL to release a Best Of disc for Cleghorne, to satisfy my morbid curiosity. She didn't really play any compelling or funny characters, so I'm also interested to see how they would fill up two hours of such a product. You could even make it a double disc for $20, along with the entire run of Cleghorne!, her WB show. Let's go NBC, let's get a hand in and get this done!

The Cleghorne picture is from the always-excellent Saturday Night Live transcript web site, which is here.

Uncharmed

Short on talent, large on... something else.

The bad thing about the WB / UPN / CW / future Sucky Network is that their continual lack of programming means shows that are just OK survive for years, to the point where their crappy producers can then package up 100 episodes and spread their stink to TNT.

Please TNT, give me anything besides Charmed, which is like a second-rate cheesy magic show. Just splurge and buy Buffy (another show I'm not crazy about but clearly better than Charmed) or show more Law and Order. Yes, I realize they already show Law and Order two to four times a day, but they do have about 400 to chose from (about 22 per year for 18 years).

My two main critiques of Charmed would be 1) it arbitrarily makes up characters and rules and powers for its characters, even more so than normal for a show of its nature and 2) the characters have the personality of this chair I'm sitting on. Shannon Doherty was the lone interesting one, and she probably knifed someone backstage, explaining why she left. I would too if my co-stars' main "acting" abilities were the knee-jerk whine (Holly Marie Combs), and being short and hot (Alyssa Milano).