Heroes - 10-30-06 - Better Halves

[Henry]

I never wonder about TV critics -- this one is as uninspiring to me as he claims Heroes is to him.

I'm pretty sure FNL is a good drama, and hopefully it finds the audience it deserves - but his praising of a show I have no interest in, and slamming of a show that's the most entertaining thing since Firefly, Buffy, and Angel for me, shows me just how far his tastes are from mine. Me, I'm glad that Heroes is the hit that it is... it means I'll be able to watch more than five damned episodes without fear of some executive who thinks like this critic does wanting to pull the show.

 

[LightPhoenix]

I was wondering what they were doing by putting friday night lights on after heroes. Just seems like two different audiences. Who puts a football sports drama on after a geeky superhero one.

They put FNL on Monday as a test, because Studio 60 has been losing viewers rediculously.

 

[JEL]

The guy's a moron. He also really needs to look up the definition of "buxom."

 

[Taelorn76]

because Studio 60 has been losing viewers rediculously.

Really I thought the show was doing well. I actually and and look forward to Monday nights because of both of those shows.

 

[DonTadow]

Really I thought the show was doing well. I actually and and look forward to Monday nights because of both of those shows.

yeah me too. I kinda like having that two hour block of shows to flip between that and monday night football.

Come to think of it. Havn't networks previously given up on monday nights when mnl football is on.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Come to think of it. Havn't networks previously given up on monday nights when mnl football is on.

Not this year since MNF has moved to ESPN.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Really I thought the show was doing well. I actually and and look forward to Monday nights because of both of those shows.

Quite the opposite. IIRC, the show lost viewers through every act (fifteen minutes) of the first four shows, consecutively. That includes between episodes, so the last fifteen of the third episode and the first fifteen of the fourth episode still lost viewers. I don't know about the fifth episode, but there's a reason FNL was testing in Studio 60's slot - not really to see if FNL would do better, but to see if it would be losing viewers as well (it didn't).

Part of the problem as well is that Studio 60 isn't retaining a lot of Heroes' audience, which in theory it should be doing. AFAIK Friday Night Lights actually was boosted a bit by the Heroes lead-in.

Honestly, if the show doesn't turn around soon, NBC isn't going to have a choice but to cancel it. Just to be clear, by "turn around", I mean stop losing viewers and at least hold steady. The show is very expensive to make, there's rumors that advertisers aren't happy, and the FNL swap this week shows a lack of confidence in S60 (note, FNL is new this week, S60 is a rerun).

[edit] This isn't a great representation due to the World Series and repeats for many NBC shows on Thursday, but according to this article Studio 60 came in 60th place.

 

[Seonaid]

Maybe I'm the lone dissenter here, but I am starting to get sick of Heroes. I love the fact that it's popular and I thought it had tons of potential, but if they don't have some great thing happen by the end of this season, I'm done. Thus far it's been terribly predictable and most of the characters aren't compelling. I thought Peter was the least interesting, but after this week, Nikki wins. Hiro and Ando have great potential, but the rest I'm still kind of "blah" on.

I've enjoyed the show, sure, but if they don't do at least one thing to surprise me--truly surprise me, like having Eden be something unexpected as opposed to working with/for Claire's dad--I'm gone. I give them the rest of the season to do the right thing.

 

[PhoenixDarkDirk]

I wonder who was depicted in the "9th Wonders" issue Micah had. I'm sure it was no one in his family, as that would likely have gotten a mention.

 

[Arnwyn]

The guy's a moron. He also really needs to look up the definition of "buxom."

You beat me to it. She's anything but.

Moron, indeed.