Genre Show Cancellations
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Invasion may jump over to the that new network, small chance...Ranger REG said:
Fast Learner
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Read in the New York Times this morning that Vernica Mars is "renewed" on the CW! Woot!
The CW doesn't officially announce its lineup until tomorrow.
I know it's not a genre show, but it's popular among geeks and genre fans.
The CW doesn't officially announce its lineup until tomorrow.
I know it's not a genre show, but it's popular among geeks and genre fans.
Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad
Jericho is a new sci-fi show next season (see below). Blade is also a new sci-fi show (see below).
Great news on Veronica Mars. I love that show.
Good news on Supernatural. Good show.
Sad news on Surface. Amazing ending. At least the "cliffhanger" it ended on was so over the top that it can serve as an ending.
I was tired of Invasion and just barely making it through to the end of this season.
I liked Threshold but knew it was cancelled a while ago.
4400 is coming back on USA, and I am really looking forward to this upcoming season.
Ghost Whisperer is renewed. That was a bad show that got good at the end, and seems to now finally be on track.
For those interested, I believe these are the shows renewed for CW:
http://comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=14608
“Reba”
“7th Heaven” (despite having aired a series finale)
“Gilmore Girls”
“Veronica Mars.”
“America’s Next Top Model”
“Beauty and the Geek”
“One Tree Hill”
“Smallville”
“Supernatural”
“WWE SmackDown”
“Everybody Hates Chris”
“All of Us”
“Girlfriends”
Other new show announcements:
Jericho (CBS) - 8 p.m. Wednesdays: Or what sounds like CBS' answer to Lost. The small town of Jericho, Kan., descends into chaos after spotting a nuclear mushroom cloud and losing communication to the outside world. Skeet Ulrich and Gerald McRaney head the cast.About a mushroom cloud, a small Kansas town and the coming-apart of society.
Blade: The Series - (Spike TV) - Original scripted action-adventure/drama fare, premieres on Wednesday, June 28 (10 PM - midnight, ET/PT) with Kirk "Sticky" Jones in the title role of Marvel's immortal half-man, half-vampire who uses his superhuman powers and skills to fearlessly battles the demonic creatures of the night in a blood- drenched crusade to prevent their rise over mankind. See http://www.thefutoncritic.com/pr.aspx?id=20060516spiketv01 .
Runaway (CW) - which centers on a father, wrongfully convicted of murder, who is on the run with his wife and kids.
The Game (CW) - spinoff from Girlfriends
Vanished (FOX) - chronicles the disappearance of a senator's wife
Standoff (FOX) - (previously "Primary") is a romantic thriller about FBI hostage negotiators who are partners on and off the job. Fox says the show mixes the banter of "Moonlighting" and the suspense of "24." Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt play the main characters.
Justice (FOX) (previously "American Crime") follows team of defense attorneys who take controversial cases. The show comes from "CSI" executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer and stars Victor Garber of "Alias."
'Til Death (FOX) - comedy starring Garrett and Joely Fisher. Unites Brad Garrett of "Everybody Loves Raymond" and Joely Fisher of "Desperate Housewives" in an unhappy marriage.
Happy Hour (FOX) - comedy, supposed to be a contender for the post-"Simpsons" Sunday. Romantic comedy about a young man trying to rebuild his life.
The Class (CBS) Jason Ritter (Joan of Arcadia) stars in this comedy about twentysomething friends, from David Crane (Friends) - and James Burrows directed the pilot.
3 LBS (CBS) (midseason) - a medical drama with Stanley Tucci
Waterfront (CBS) - (midseason) a political drama with Joe Pantoliano as the mayor of Providence, R.I.
Rules of Engagement (CBS) - a comedy about marriage and dating with Patrick Warburton of "Seinfeld."
On the Lot (FOX) - a reality series from Steven Spielberg and "Survivor" guru Mark Burnett.
Smith (CBS) - Ray Liotta plays an expert thief who wants a law-abiding future but plans to pull off several more heists before retirement. The strong supporting cast includes Virginia Madsen, Jonny Lee Miller, Amy Smart of Felicity and Simon Baker of The Guardian. The mastermind behind the show is John Wells of ER and The West Wing.
Shark (CBS) - This legal drama inherits the most desirable spot on the CBS schedule, behind CSI. James Woods plays a high-powered defense attorney who realizes he wants to work for the Los Angeles district attorney (Jeri Ryan of Star Trek: Voyager). Prepare for workplace clashes: She "despises his ruthless strategies," the network said in a release. Spike Lee directed the pilot.
Great news on Veronica Mars. I love that show.
Good news on Supernatural. Good show.
Sad news on Surface. Amazing ending. At least the "cliffhanger" it ended on was so over the top that it can serve as an ending.
I was tired of Invasion and just barely making it through to the end of this season.
I liked Threshold but knew it was cancelled a while ago.
4400 is coming back on USA, and I am really looking forward to this upcoming season.
Ghost Whisperer is renewed. That was a bad show that got good at the end, and seems to now finally be on track.
For those interested, I believe these are the shows renewed for CW:
http://comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=14608
“Reba”
“7th Heaven” (despite having aired a series finale)
“Gilmore Girls”
“Veronica Mars.”
“America’s Next Top Model”
“Beauty and the Geek”
“One Tree Hill”
“Smallville”
“Supernatural”
“WWE SmackDown”
“Everybody Hates Chris”
“All of Us”
“Girlfriends”
Other new show announcements:
Jericho (CBS) - 8 p.m. Wednesdays: Or what sounds like CBS' answer to Lost. The small town of Jericho, Kan., descends into chaos after spotting a nuclear mushroom cloud and losing communication to the outside world. Skeet Ulrich and Gerald McRaney head the cast.About a mushroom cloud, a small Kansas town and the coming-apart of society.
Blade: The Series - (Spike TV) - Original scripted action-adventure/drama fare, premieres on Wednesday, June 28 (10 PM - midnight, ET/PT) with Kirk "Sticky" Jones in the title role of Marvel's immortal half-man, half-vampire who uses his superhuman powers and skills to fearlessly battles the demonic creatures of the night in a blood- drenched crusade to prevent their rise over mankind. See http://www.thefutoncritic.com/pr.aspx?id=20060516spiketv01 .
Runaway (CW) - which centers on a father, wrongfully convicted of murder, who is on the run with his wife and kids.
The Game (CW) - spinoff from Girlfriends
Vanished (FOX) - chronicles the disappearance of a senator's wife
Standoff (FOX) - (previously "Primary") is a romantic thriller about FBI hostage negotiators who are partners on and off the job. Fox says the show mixes the banter of "Moonlighting" and the suspense of "24." Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt play the main characters.
Justice (FOX) (previously "American Crime") follows team of defense attorneys who take controversial cases. The show comes from "CSI" executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer and stars Victor Garber of "Alias."
'Til Death (FOX) - comedy starring Garrett and Joely Fisher. Unites Brad Garrett of "Everybody Loves Raymond" and Joely Fisher of "Desperate Housewives" in an unhappy marriage.
Happy Hour (FOX) - comedy, supposed to be a contender for the post-"Simpsons" Sunday. Romantic comedy about a young man trying to rebuild his life.
The Class (CBS) Jason Ritter (Joan of Arcadia) stars in this comedy about twentysomething friends, from David Crane (Friends) - and James Burrows directed the pilot.
3 LBS (CBS) (midseason) - a medical drama with Stanley Tucci
Waterfront (CBS) - (midseason) a political drama with Joe Pantoliano as the mayor of Providence, R.I.
Rules of Engagement (CBS) - a comedy about marriage and dating with Patrick Warburton of "Seinfeld."
On the Lot (FOX) - a reality series from Steven Spielberg and "Survivor" guru Mark Burnett.
Smith (CBS) - Ray Liotta plays an expert thief who wants a law-abiding future but plans to pull off several more heists before retirement. The strong supporting cast includes Virginia Madsen, Jonny Lee Miller, Amy Smart of Felicity and Simon Baker of The Guardian. The mastermind behind the show is John Wells of ER and The West Wing.
Shark (CBS) - This legal drama inherits the most desirable spot on the CBS schedule, behind CSI. James Woods plays a high-powered defense attorney who realizes he wants to work for the Los Angeles district attorney (Jeri Ryan of Star Trek: Voyager). Prepare for workplace clashes: She "despises his ruthless strategies," the network said in a release. Spike Lee directed the pilot.
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Ranger REG
Explorer
See the new season breakdown thread I posted for The CW.Fast Learner said:
Yeah, VM is a cross between "Nancy Drew meets film noir" genre.
On an on-topic note: The CW will not host Mercy Reef, the Aquaman TV series. Excuse the pun but they sank it before they could launch it.
James Heard
Explorer
Isn't The Dead Zone coming back too? I thought I saw a commercial for it on USA a while ago.
Desdichado
Legend
And because of all the stupid stupidity of the stupid American audience that don't watch the same stupid shows that I like.sydbar said:
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sydbar said:
I'm confused. Ratings are done proportionally to the audience that actually tune, both as an aggregate number and as a share of the number of Television sets tuned into a given program at a given time.
When lot's of people watch a show -- it get's kept. When people don't watch a show it gets bounced.
The continued appeal of 'Lost' which is very much an unconventional 'genre' show with crossover appeal proves that there is a market there for good TV. The problem comes from the market clones that just are not as good. (Invasion, Threshold, and Surface...for all their distinctive qualities were, from a marketing standpoint, all attempts to emulate the succes of 'Lost' and appeal to the exact same audience)
We've seen this in other formats: There have been a dozen half-baked "Survivor" clones. Ditto for "American Idol". Ditto for "Friends". Ditto for "The Simpsons". Now we are hearing about new shows trying to clone "Grey's Anatomy" and "Desperate Housewives.
Yet for of the attempts to improve the wheel..."Survivor", "Friends", "The Simpsons" and "American Idol" remain the market standards. Same thing with "Lost" and it's clones.
BTW -- if memory serves me correctly -- the Nielsen Research company, while absolutely wedded to the random and confidential way it distributes ratings kits to representative households; does, in fact, make allowances for write-in letters of support when tabulating the share of a given show.
How such voluntary inputs impact the formula I do not know. But if you like a show -- it is an avenue worth persuing.
Brown Jenkin
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While rating are important that alone is not always the dominant factor. The other factor is the cost of production. Sci-Fi shows are often more expensive to produce per episode because od f/x budgets (same can be said for shows wih big name actors). These costs are then compared to ad revenue based on the ratings. So a show that costs 1 million an episode with average ratings and ad revenue of 1 .1 million may get canceled while another show that costs 200,000 an episode with lesser ratings and ad revenue of 500,000 will survive since it is making 3 times as much per episode. This unfortunately is why reality shows survive, they are incredibly cheap to produce.
I liked Threshold best and actually only ever watched about 10 minutes of Surface.
Invasion did nothing for me, but when Threshold stopped airing I tried to watch it. If
anybody watched the finale, what happened at the end? I saw the sheriff carrying a girl to the water and then the two parents asking "What happened?" What happened?
Invasion did nothing for me, but when Threshold stopped airing I tried to watch it. If
anybody watched the finale, what happened at the end? I saw the sheriff carrying a girl to the water and then the two parents asking "What happened?" What happened?
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