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"Man Up" - It'll Be Gone By Halloween

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

While watching Indycar on ABC, I saw promos for a new show that was scheduled to debut after the new Tim Allen show "Last Man Standing" - a sitcom titled "Man Up!" This has "failure" written all over it. It seems as if it's a show designed to round out the hour after "Last Man Standing." Even the name alone sounds stupid.

And someone agrees with me. CBS recently demoted "How To Be A Gentleman" to Saturday nights. In my opinion, "Man Up!" will be lucky to still be "up" come the November sweeps period.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/man-up-tv-review-246672
 
Unless it gets a boost from following Last Man Standing, which I understand rated well in it's first week. I didn't think much of it, personally. Do we really need a warmed-over and less funny version of Home Improvement?.

As for guessing which shows have "failure written all over it" - I have three words...According to Jim.
 
You might be right, although you are forgetting that this is ABC, and not Fox. ABC tends to stick with things a bit longer to see if they can gain an audience.

But, with that said, CBS sure didn't give "How to Be a Gentlemen" a chance following Big Bang Theory, and they have previously stuck with shows that were god awful as well for the same reason. I think this year may be different, since Monday seems to be very solid with all four shows, and they already had RoE to burn off on Saturdays, they felt pretty confident in cancelling this one so early because they won't really need to rely on midseason replacements as much as other networks do.

NBC seems to be in the worst shape here, having to replace Free Agents already, and Whitney and Up All Night don't look too terribly strong for them either. Community looks weak, but I think they will work something out to get the episodes needed for syndication. Come to think of it, what does NBC have going for it? Looking just at Thursday night, the whole lineup is falling, but remembering what I've been seeing other nights, it seems the entire network is falling apart, two seasons after the "Leno" fiasco.
 
Good or bad, we should all be happy the networks are making effort to produce sitcoms in the reality TV/"How can we do things cheaper" world of today.
 
mnradiofan said:
DToTheJ said:
mnradiofan said:
...you are forgetting that this is ABC, and not Fox. ABC tends to stick with things a bit longer to see if they can gain an audience...
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You know what? You're right. ::)
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Hey, if that were Fox, it would have been gone on week 3, not week 6. ;)
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What about fringe and raising hope they've stuck with those haven't they despite average to poor ratings, Ah duh you do know they changed management a few years ago the person that cancelled firefly is long gone Ah duh abc cancelled charlie's angels after four episodes and has probably cancelled more shows the last five years than anyone
 
teevee said:
mnradiofan said:
DToTheJ said:
mnradiofan said:
...you are forgetting that this is ABC, and not Fox. ABC tends to stick with things a bit longer to see if they can gain an audience...
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You know what? You're right. ::)
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Hey, if that were Fox, it would have been gone on week 3, not week 6. ;)
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What about fringe and raising hope they've stuck with those haven't they despite average to poor ratings, Ah duh you do know they changed management a few years ago the person that cancelled firefly is long gone Ah duh abc cancelled charlie's angels after four episodes and has probably cancelled more shows the last five years than anyone
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No need to be mean, unless perhaps you work for Fox and I struck a nerve. ;)

You're right, Fox is slightly more patient these days, although Raising Hope has done alright for them, so that's not really an accurate comparison. And yes, Charlies Angels didn't last long, but ratings for that were simply terrible, not like how Fox used to run things where if a show was mediocre, it got cancelled in a week or two. ABC, in the past, has stuck with shows for 2 or more seasons when ratings show it should be cancelled (Better Off Ted, V) something Fox would have never done.

Of course, the dynamics have changed too, where a show that should be cancelled has producers that basically give away the show, such as Til Death, Chuck, etc to keep production going.
 
mnradiofan said:
Of course, the dynamics have changed too, where a show that should be cancelled has producers that basically give away the show, such as Til Death, Chuck, etc to keep production going.
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"Chuck" is a good show and I look forward to its return.

"Man Up" is not. No actors or characters I like, premise doesn't work for me.
 
The above link does list three new episodes scheduled for November - though there's a "TBA" for Week 4. Hmmm...
 
Well, if the ratings don't improve after tonight's airing (November 1st, 2011), the only direction "Man Up" will be going to is towards cancellation.
 
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