Yeah, I dropped them sometime after the revival, around the time Russ "Eagle Semen" Pitts came back. I guess I realized I was watching ZP more out of habit than anything, and being offered a second serving of Pitts was what it took to jar me out of it.

As for my unfounded speculation, their comment "We're bringing in a new movie series in essay format." makes me think they're in a downward spiral; I seem to recall the Escapist did something similar last time as they were starting to fail. Perhaps it's just my memory but I recall someone on a forum - hell, maybe theirs - saying something like "Isn't a site that sold itself on having video series dropping its video series a bad sign?"