I want my Fake TV :)

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Hee. Sometimes, I amuse myself. Over on Life of Hazard I decided to flesh out the world a bit by talking about the new television season that starts this month. To do that, I had to flesh out the world of entertainment. I've already noted the partial destruction of Los Angeles a few years back, but in this post I talk about The Big Two; the two television networks that dominate the public airwaves. The Big Two were created when the old television networks were forced to merge to survive, as cable, the internet and independent stations showing syndicated hits started draining viewers and revenue. The Big Two are ACS and The Box Network.
ACS, or the Allied Communications System, grew out of ABC and CBS. The Box Network was created when FOX allied itself with NBC. The Big Two have been around for about ten or fifteen years.

ACS Television Shows:
48 Minutes - topical news program
American Vision - topical news program
Boston - drama centered around a Boston family and their friends
Cold Criminals - crime drama centered around a group of hardened criminals
Crime Scene: Miami - police procedural drama based in Miami
Crossed Lives - comedy drama centered on a pair of strangers who mix up their cell phones
Dirty - comedy drama centered on an idealistic lawyer working for an immoral family
Extreme Anatomy! - quiz show with anatomy-related questions
Father Brown - sitcom centered on the life of a Catholic priest and his eccentric parishioners
Ghost Mom - sitcom centered on a ghostly housewife haunting her family
In a New York Minute - drama centered on the lives of a cast of young New Yorkers
Life Knocks - drama centered on the life of a young woman with cancer
Mama's Boys - sitcom centered on a Southern woman and the misadventures of her three sons
Missing Persons - police drama centered on a metropolitan police's missing persons bureau
Private Daisy - comedy drama centered on a whimsical young soldier and her imagination
P.S.I. - drama centered on the faculty and staff of the Paranormal Studies Institute
Samantha the Super - comedy centered on a young attractive building superintendent
Single - drama centered on a group of single friends
Star Wives - drama centered on the wives of celebrities and celebrity wives
The Survivors - comedy centered on three survivors of a ship wreck
The Ugly Wife - comedy drama centered on the unattractive, but kindly wife, of a millionaire
Twilight Junction - fantasy horror centered on a town plagued by supernatural evil

The Box Network's Television Programs:
1 on 1 - news interview program
Alias, the Spider! - drama centered on the life of a vigilante
America's Best Dad - animated comedy centered on a father obsessed with being the best
Big Loser - comedy drama focusing on the life of an electronic store clerk
Bone Up! - quiz show with skeleton-related questions
Breakout - contest show centered on aspiring performers
Family Quest - reality television show centered on families competing against one another
Firefly - science fiction show centered on the crew of an interstellar transport
Good Street - drama centered on the residents of a single street
Karma - comedy centered on a man plagued by a physical representation of Karma
King of the Kitchen - reality television show centered on competing cooks
Knight's Law - drama centered on a police detective who takes the law into his own hands
Life and Death - drama centered on the staff of a major metropolitan hospital
Life in the Jungle - comedy drama centered on the lives of four urban women-friends
Rock Jobs - documentary on the people who work behind the scenes in the music industry
Supertwins - reality television show centered on the lives of super-hero twins
That's My Girl - comedy centered on the misadventures of a young girl and her friends
The Bleeding Edge - drama centered on federal agents investigating superscience related crimes
The Death of Sarah Simpson - comedy centered on the aftermath of the death of a young woman.
The Family Man - comedy drama centered on the husband/father of a dysfunctional family
The Night Shift - comedy drama centered on night shift workers
The Office Pool - comedy centered on a weekly office pool and the people who try to rig it
Undercover - drama centered on an undercover agent infiltrating an organized crime family