Flight of the Conchords, sadly, has come to an end.

If I were to be perfectly honest about it, I’m of two minds on this. Part of me is quite sad about it, as it was one of the funniest shows out there. The songs were hilarious, the deliver impeccable.

But the problem is that the show was based on the songs that FOTC (Bret and Jemaine) composed. The first season was based on songs they already had written. Season two took as long as it did to get on the air because they had to write a whole slew of new songs.

While Season 2 was not as consistently hilarious as the first, it was still funnier – consistently – than most sitcoms.

From FOTC’s website:

Bret, Jemaine and James (co-creator/director) said “we’ve noticed the less we say about the future of the show, the more people want to talk about it, so in an effort to reverse this trend we are today announcing that we won’t be returning for a 3rd season. We’re very proud of the two seasons we made and we like the way the show ended. We’d like to thank everyone who helped make the show and also everyone who watched it. While the characters Bret and Jemaine will no longer be around, the real Bret and Jemaine will continue to exist.

I just have to say, I’m quite relieved that the REAL Bret & Jemaine will continue to exist.

For those who can’t remember how the second season ended: Bret & Jemaine were deported back to New Zealand, where they were tending sheep on a mountaintop.

Here are some of my favorite FOTC songs:

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I rarely root for a series I once loved to end, but an exception could certainly be made for Heroes.

Looks like I could easily get my wish, as Airlock Alpha (once syfy.com, before the SciFi Channel became SyFy) reports that NBC sources say Heroes is being asked to wrap up its entire story by season’s end.

An unidentified source was quoted as saying:

There isn’t much happening with this show in terms of audience, and giving it a ‘final chapter’ feel is something the network is considering to help allow the show to go out with a bang.

As I wrote earlier this season, even the most die-hard fans have been having a hard time staying interested. It’s all unfocused – the storyline’s all over the place, the characters are no longer interesting and they don’t seem to be working toward anything.

Even the disjointed, strike-impaired second season seemed to be working toward something. And last season had a good start before trailing off into “who the hell cares” anymore land.

I would love for Heroes to wrap up at the end of this season and answer these questions/resolve these plotlines:

• Who’s the third Nikki/Tracy triplet and what’s her power. And what’s the story behind their creation?
• Adam Monroe – what time is he REALLY from and how long has he actually lived?
• How far back to the heroes go? How many generations? Why do some of their children have powers and some don’t?
• Why has Peter’s ability to keep previous powers he absorbs gone away? (Or was that just a side effect of his father’s “hug”?)
• What happened to Peter’s Irish girlfriend in the plague-inflicted future that was prevented?
• When is Sylar going to actually figure out who he is, already, and is Matt just crazy and imagining Sylar in his head or did Sylar actually manage to crawl up in there?
• Where is Micah?
• Seriously, where is Micah? And what about his cousin? And the Haitian?
• What about future Hiro with the goatee. If you can’t change the future, as Hiro is finding out, where is Goatee Hiro?
• What is WITH this carnival? They obviously are aware of HRG and Primatech. How many generations do these carnies go back? Actually, you know what? I don’t even care that much about the carnie folk. I kind of wish they hadn’t been introduced, though there were a couple of cool scenes with them, because that just adds a whole new thing they need to answer and I find that to be obnoxious.

I know I’m forgetting some. Please leave your questions you want resolved in the comments. We should send them a letter or something and say, “THESE ARE THE THINGS YOU MUST RESOLVE BEFORE GOING OFF THE AIR. kthanxbai”

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Sad news: According to sci-fi uber site io9, Kyle XY has been canceled.

Including tonight, there are just four episodes left. Ever.

That’s a damn shame, because it was just starting to get good again after a rather lame Season 2.5.

Jessi and Kyle have been super-powering out the last few episodes, really testing their limits. The super-sappy Kyle-Amanda storyline may finally be at an end (yay! – and I used to be a Kyle-Amanda supporter, but I just can’t take her whining anymore), Josh and Andi are the new cute and we’re finally getting to see Latnok.

I finally saw last week’s episode last night, and seeing Kyle conduct electricity and jump (noislessly) from a height to kiss the memory blocker from Amanda’s head was really cool. How many high school kids can blow up a light bulb just by forcing electricity through it?

Kyle XY producer Scott Schofield told i09:

We’re all very sad about it.

No word yet on whether all the storylines will be wrapped up. It appears the episodes may have been completed already. If they’re not wrapped up, perhaps ABC Family wil be good enough to give fans a TV movie to clear up the rest?

Besides that, last week’s ep left me wondering if Amanda was going to remember everything – the kidnapping, etc., – because Kyle took the memory blocker out of her brain. Will that blow his cover?

I love the thought of Kyle getting plastered, though, which is what it appeared, from the previews, was going to happen.

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