Why I refuse to watch "regular" t.v.

I have trust issues.

I define regular t.v. as ABC, NBC, CBS, or Fox.  I do watch some: Once Upon a Time, I kinda like Revenge, New Girl DVRs for me and I usually get around to it…but for all intents and purposes, I avoid the major networks.  I stick to AMC and those channels I have to call to add and cancel a couple of times a year (HBO and Showtime) because I'm cheap and won't pay for them indefinitely. Also, a lot of things I find on Netflix are okay.

Okay, so this is why.  Last week, we were watching Jeopardy and then Scott fell asleep and I was reading and didn't notice that Hawaii Five-O was on until I realized I was half-watching it.  I became filled with this bitter resentment…you see, Alex O'Loughlin was on another show a few years back and I loved it.  Moonlight.  He played a vampire.  So, yeah, I really liked this show about vampires.  It was the fall of 2007 and I was enamored with the whole thing.  It was before my DVR days and I would make sure I was home on Friday nights in order to see it.  I mean, I was student-teaching that year so being home and ready for bed early was the norm on Fridays (because exhaustion).

Anyway, I loved this show.  It was brilliant in my opinion.  Like, I actually own the one and only season on DVD and I've watched it many times.  

The fall of 2007 was the year of the writers' strike in Hollywood and Moonlight fell victim to it.  Shows never had the chance to get off the ground because no one was writing new episodes.  There was one season.  16 episodes.  Then, no more.  (If you click that link up there, you'll probably be as baffled as me when you realize that Rules of Engagement and How I Met Your Mother lasted for so many years…I'm probably one of the only people who didn't like "HIMYM", but did anyone actually watch Rules of Engagement? It was awful.)

You see, the networks I concentrate on now aren't affected as much by such things.  Mostly, I'm assuming, because their seasons start at different times of the year.  Mad Men always starts in March/April, for example.  They aren't held to a strict schedule.  Shows like that have enough of a following that people will watch no matter when the season begins.  They aren't forced into the cattle chute of potential viewership and that "sweeps" week thing.  It's really like the difference between the testing that's held in public schools and the absence of state testing in private schools.  (I think I just made a brilliant comparison that also sums up my feelings on my career choice.)

After that, I lost faith in the networks and stopped watching them.  Until I picked up Once Upon a Time last year, I don't know that I'd watched anything on ABC for years.  I still haven't forgiven CBS.

Then, after Hawaii Five-O (which actually wasn't bad), I noticed that Criminal Minds was on and I saw a commercial for NCIS and I thought, "Stupid CBS. How have these shows been on for so long?" and I turned on Netflix to watch The Fall.

Is there a t.v. show that you desperately miss and are still bitter about?  Or is it just me? Technically I've been stewing about this for 7 years.