Night Stalker dusted

ABC has performed a mercy-killing: Night Stalker is dead.

The premise had promise: I love me some supernatural television shows (when done in an entertaining fashion) and far be it from me to turn my nose up at an iconoclast crusading journalist character.

But other than the pilot (which was apparently the second go-round on one), the series was just … blah. Like hardcore-fans-pretend-they-never-existed bad X-Files episode blah.

The biggest remaining question left by Night Stalker being jerked off the air is … what happens over at iTunes? “Selected episodes” of Night Stalker, along with the complete runs of Lost and Desperate Housewives (and some Disney kids’ shows that only kids seem to have ever heard of) were part of the store’s foray into on-demand television. What will take its place in the line-up? It’s not like ABC is lacking for candidates. Any number of good dramas and comedies are on the network nowadays. Myself, I’m hoping for both seasons of the surprisingly good Boston Legal and the final season of The Practice, which introduced the firm of Crane, Poole and Schmidt (albeit with some different associates and partners than are on the show today) and set up a lot of the plots that are still unwinding today.

And as for Night Stalker, let’s hope, this time around, the death sticks.

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