Friday, September 01, 2006

JonBenet Season Finale;
Karr to star in his own show

The season finale of the runaway hit series 'Who Killed JonBenet' left a lot of viewers fuming because the show producers cut short John Mark Karr's role by booting him off the show in the final moments of the episode.

'Who Killed JonBenet' was this season's most watched television series according to Nielsen ratings, with John Mark Karr in the lead role. The series started with Karr undergoing a sex change operation. As a result of sex change, Lady Karr now had to use 20,000 words per day, as opposed to 7000 that Karr was normally used to. That led to Karr blurting out that he was the person who the killed JonBenet. Evil District Attorneys immediately set into action by arresting Karr in Thailand in the very first episode of this season.

As the season continued, a lot of viewers tuned in to watch the series due to the heavy exposure on the Internet. At least 1000 fan sites were registered in less than a week. The web interest sparked interest of a lot of people who otherwise did not watch the TV, thus making the series one of the biggest success in the media history.

Karr was booted off the show when the DNA evidence did not relate him to the crime scene. Messages across the Internet show that the viewers are not convinced that Karr's exit from the show was in the original script. One online viewer going by the web handle, KarrMyHero, said that Karr was removed from the show because he demanded a pay hike to star in the next season, but the producers did not want to raise his salary. Another viewer going by the handle Karr_for_20008, thinks that politics has to do a lot with why Karr was booted off the show. "Conservatives financing the show did not want to be associated with a transgender character during the sensitive phase of election year politics. More over, the religious belt of America were giving their acceptance to transgender issues, the political bigwigs thought it can lead to acceptance of homosexuality, and therefore pulled the plug on Karr".

Show producers are tight lipped about the shows next season but promise a lot of action when the show returns in spring. Karr isn't doing bad himself. He has landed a deal with Sonoma County to star in "American Paedophile" in which he plays the part of a man accused of possessing child pornography.

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