In yesterday’s Boston Globe, Matthew Gilbert criticized NBC for trying to overstuff — and ostensibly ruin — the only shows on NBC that are worth watching. Two of said shows are really close to my heart, I speak, of course, of Heroes and my beloved Office.

From  the time it was announced that the first five episodes of the much-anticipated fourth season of The Office would be an hour, as episode to the brisk 22-minute run-time of normal episodes, I felt some trepidation. Trepidation that was confirmed when the premiere of the fourth season dragged on worse than Syriana or every single Peter Jackson movie. Gilbert pleads with NBC in his column not to ruin what was best about The Office.

I wonder if this doesn’t go back to a conversation I was having with a friend of mine about a month ago about what happens when a show makes it. It costs so much money for the networks to develop these shows and so when a show finally hits, the networks (particularly NBC, who has been starved for a hit since Friends went off the air) freak out and over promote the show. It kind of mirrors how I feel about the NFL anymore. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Just because I really like something, like The Office, like Heroes, like the NFL, doesn’t mean that I want to see it every minute of every day.

No more hour-long episodes of The Office. No more bad writing and dead end plot lines on Heroes and please talk about college football on PTI.

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