Talk:Tom Braidwood

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Controversy over Cancellation[edit]

FOX inexplicably decided to cancel The Lone Gunmen after only 13 episodes, even though the first season of The Lone Gunmen actually had better ratings than the first season of The X-Files. The cancellation of the well-rated Lone Gunmen has thus led to conspiracy theories that the Bush administration pulled strings with the Republican-friendly owner of FOX, Rupert Murdoch, to have The Lone Gunmen cancelled in order to have full control of the nation's emotions with no questions asked, because the Administration was actually aware of the plots to attack The Towers and Pentagon before September 11 yet had wanted them to happen, just as people have long argued that FDR willingly let the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor because he wanted it to happen in order to get into the War.

Conversely, others blame the cancellation on the changing landscape of network TV. Where once networks gave shows time to build a following, now shows are often axed immediately unless they're big hits. (In the case of the 2006 ABC show Emily's Reasons Why Not, the show was famously cancelled after just one episode aired.) All in the Family, Cheers and Seinfeld are all shows that started small and built their audiences, and all of them would probably be cancelled if they were new shows today. It should also be pointed out that The Lone Gunmen aired on Fox on Friday nights, the slot where one genre series after another, including several from Lone Gunmen and X-Files creator Chris Carter, have all had brief runs. What's more, Carter's relationship with Fox had soured by this point, and the network clearly had little affection for this show or Carter's other series Millennium or Harsh Realm (the latter was axed before its first season was completed, with several episodes still unaired.) Some have seen the abrupt and tragic deaths of the Gunmen on The X-Files as Carter's statement about Fox's treatment of The Lone Gunmen.

Rubbish. I removed that 9/11 conspiracy section. Wikipedia is supposed to be an informative, educational site. Not a site for baseless conspiracies. There already is a section about "conspiracies"

The Pilot[edit]

Somone had added something about the Pilot of The Lone Gunmen. There is no reason that it needs to be on page so I deleted, please don't add it again. Zerath13

The L Word[edit]

I think he played a hotel clerk on episode #5 of The L Word. It's not on imdb, but the voice/face was the same. Google's coming with nothing, but you'd have to check for yourself, I suppose. - Too Lazy to Log In —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.17.210.194 (talk) 04:38, 22 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]