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@SitcomsOnline twitter page: BREAKING: ABC has pulled @ZeroHour_ABC effective next Thursday. No scheduled replacement just yet.
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Julius May said:
Another quick hook, since it only premiered on Valentine's Day.
Too bad, my wife and I had enjoyed the show, despite the rather wooden acting. Interesting storyline.
I presume the entire short season was already in the can, so perhaps ABC will burn off the remaining episodes somewhere.
I presume the entire short season was already in the can, so perhaps ABC will burn off the remaining episodes somewhere.
Mediafrog+ said:
They might simply post them online and be done with them.
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ansky212 said:
That's the same problem I had with Flash Forward. For me, it's hard to get involved with a show week after week when you know there isn't going to be any resolution by the end of that week's show. These types of ongoing storylines are better as a miniseries than they are a season-long weekly show.
WOW! That was quick indeed.
I never saw the show, but heard about it and it's really suprising considering the network that pulled the plug.
As much as a previous post talks about NBC's woes at least they have The Voice and Sunday Night Football that can still draw strong ratings for the future.
To me ABC and FOX have a lot if not the same issues that NBC has in that they have to compete with the CBS juggernaut, granted that
most TV critics will never held the Tiffany Network's programs in high regard as in The Walking Dead, but they still seem to somewhat know what their
audience wants.
Although granted the overall O-T-A audience declines year after year, you still need to be patient with a show.
That's really my one big complaint with how Network TV promotes itself:
1. They make a big deal about a new show hyping either a big star or big director's involvment, etc.
2. Hype it like crazy until premiere.
3. Wait until the ratings.
4. Then depending on whatever a TV executive feels like it, decides to pull the plug in either 2 weeks, 2 months or 2 years, but less attention to the show becomes noticeable when it dosen't deliver in the ratings.
I guess now TV is a wasteland, but I guess it took us half a century to see that too much options, in my opinion, is a bad thing.
I never saw the show, but heard about it and it's really suprising considering the network that pulled the plug.
As much as a previous post talks about NBC's woes at least they have The Voice and Sunday Night Football that can still draw strong ratings for the future.
To me ABC and FOX have a lot if not the same issues that NBC has in that they have to compete with the CBS juggernaut, granted that
most TV critics will never held the Tiffany Network's programs in high regard as in The Walking Dead, but they still seem to somewhat know what their
audience wants.
Although granted the overall O-T-A audience declines year after year, you still need to be patient with a show.
That's really my one big complaint with how Network TV promotes itself:
1. They make a big deal about a new show hyping either a big star or big director's involvment, etc.
2. Hype it like crazy until premiere.
3. Wait until the ratings.
4. Then depending on whatever a TV executive feels like it, decides to pull the plug in either 2 weeks, 2 months or 2 years, but less attention to the show becomes noticeable when it dosen't deliver in the ratings.
I guess now TV is a wasteland, but I guess it took us half a century to see that too much options, in my opinion, is a bad thing.
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ansky212 said:
The $64 million question is....if you could notice that, why couldn't a bevy of highly-paid programming
executives whose JOB it is to notice stuff like that, not notice that?
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Everybodys looking for the next Lost so too many of the new shows are a lot more convoluted than they need to be. Wonder why simple narratives like CSI, Castle, The Good Wife keep chugging along while that thing about the submarine and 666 Park Avenue and Zero Hour and now the new Red Widow go under? Because we hardly get to know the players before we get.....Lost.
These days, it takes more time to build a new show's popularity.
Were I a network programming chief, I would not yank a new show so quickly, unless:
(1) It's premiere was extremely low-rated (for an example, even fewer viewers than "Zero Hour" got), or,
(2) The show turns out to be so lousy that my network gets criticized for airing it (this was one reason why ABC yanked "Turn-On" in 1969 after one episode!).
"Zero Hour" probably should have had at least a few more weeks.
Were I a network programming chief, I would not yank a new show so quickly, unless:
(1) It's premiere was extremely low-rated (for an example, even fewer viewers than "Zero Hour" got), or,
(2) The show turns out to be so lousy that my network gets criticized for airing it (this was one reason why ABC yanked "Turn-On" in 1969 after one episode!).
"Zero Hour" probably should have had at least a few more weeks.
It obviously didn't help putting it in a "death slot" against a Top 5 show like "Big Bang Theory" during sweeps month.Joseph_Gallant said:
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One problem - ABC would only be able to bring back the reruns of Wipeout as the rights to the current shows belong to Turner Broadcasting & TruTVTroy Goodwin said:
As for Last Resort, that is one show that would've developed a cult following like NBC's The Revolution has so far & 24 on Fox did many moons ago if given half a chance. But alas ABC was to squeamish to see that
Cheers & 73 ;D
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