Why Not Enjoy Some Mongrel TV.

There isn't really any way to phrase my opening statement that doesn't paint me in a certain (inaccurate) light… so here goes.

I watch a lot of TV. It used to be movies that held my attention. I had about 1600 DVD's at one point in time. Now however, I find myself getting more and more into TV series. My wife and I spend our evenings… what sort ones we have after the kids are in bed, house is tidied and my daily dose of writing has been done, watching series from Episode 1. We have worked our way through Buffy, Bones, Carnivale (Season 1) Flash Forward, Supernatural, Big Bang Theory…. well, the list goes on but I am sure you get the idea.

There are also many that we have been watching just on TV, but the scheduling is Holland is  so appalling that you easily lose track. The swap from new episodes to repeats without warning. They advertise new episodes, put on repeats and then have one new episode every now and then. So we lost touch with several others shows such as House and Grey's Anatomy, but we are up to date enough to be able to say we have seen it.

What has been playing around in my mind recently is something that seems painfully obvious, and yet I don't think has ever truly been attempted or achieved. At least not attempted with much belief.

Imagine it, you are watching an episode of Greys, there is a Patient who just keeps getting sicker, what do you do?  Call up Dr House of course, or give him a call for a consult at least. Why not have the vampires from Vampire Diaries pass through Louisiana and bump into Anna Paquin one Sunday afternoon.

or..

to put it in British Terms, why do none of the Coronation Street cast every take a nice relaxing holiday at the B&B in Emmerdale?

You don't even have to worry about the show's story lines being ruined,  mean, Supernatural have done more than enough 'random entertainment' episodes to prove this point.

I know that Grey's and Private Practice have done this, but that doesn't count as they are one and the same. I realize that the answer to my question can be given in one word… Contracts, but indulge me for a moment and think of this untouched well of possibility.

Long distance, cross show relationships… I mean if that isn't a hive of opportunity, then I don't know what is.