I was doing my usual round robin visit to various TV Web sites this afternoon, and stumbled across an interesting tidbit. Media Life Magazine reports the NBC drama, "Southland" has been canceled before the series' second season even started. Here's the link: http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Hereandthere/Southland_busted_before_its_debut.asp.
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Yep, the nerve of that Leno, taking a sweet deal when offered to him.
That aisde, what's to say that if the 10 pm hour was available that they'd have made a different decision on this particular show?
That aisde, what's to say that if the 10 pm hour was available that they'd have made a different decision on this particular show?
KTU_Fan said:
Apparently there were many more of "me" than "you".
I don't find repetitious gun-waving at stereotypes inspiring or even "good". "Southland's" stories can be read in every daily edition of any big-city newspaper. Maybe it's just me but I'm getting very tired of the same old shoot 'em ups and cops with alcohol, drug, sex and partner problems. Maybe the rest of the country is too.
Southland was an excellent TV crime drama. Some of the people involved in ER put Southland on the air. The characters had depth and interesting background stories. Maybe there were too many characters.
In fact, I resent NBC for introducing the show last season in ER's time slot to much fanfare with a limited initial run of just a handful of episodes, then quietly cancels the show saying it has nowhere to put it. NBC could have cut held it in limbo in case another show fails... although NBC also reportedly said it was too "dark" to run at 9pm. I guess all the Law & Order shows are light and breezy? Oddly enough, the original Law & Order with Sam Waterston is still on NBC's schedule. More than a year ago, NBC had said new episodes would run on USA, not NBC, with a cut in the per-episode budget. Yet here it is, sometimes running twice a week, on NBC's new schedule.
It must have cost tons of money to put a show like Southland together just to run a few episodes. I had heard the ratings were OK.. although anyone knows a drama with a complicated storyline needs time to build an audience... but as ER proved, once you got'em, you hold onto an audience for a long time.
I suppose NBC is trying to cut its outlay for programming and Southland is a victim.
Gregg
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In fact, I resent NBC for introducing the show last season in ER's time slot to much fanfare with a limited initial run of just a handful of episodes, then quietly cancels the show saying it has nowhere to put it. NBC could have cut held it in limbo in case another show fails... although NBC also reportedly said it was too "dark" to run at 9pm. I guess all the Law & Order shows are light and breezy? Oddly enough, the original Law & Order with Sam Waterston is still on NBC's schedule. More than a year ago, NBC had said new episodes would run on USA, not NBC, with a cut in the per-episode budget. Yet here it is, sometimes running twice a week, on NBC's new schedule.
It must have cost tons of money to put a show like Southland together just to run a few episodes. I had heard the ratings were OK.. although anyone knows a drama with a complicated storyline needs time to build an audience... but as ER proved, once you got'em, you hold onto an audience for a long time.
I suppose NBC is trying to cut its outlay for programming and Southland is a victim.
Gregg
[email protected]
It's just this type of decision that further fractionalizes their potential audience, driving more and more people to cable where shows like "Weeds" "Dexter" "Mad Men" "Breaking Bad" and others are thriving. It's almost like the parent company is actually trying to kill NBC.
Never saw the show, but it's too bad that hardly anyone who was in "Band Of Brothers" can land a steady gig, in this case, Michael Cudlitz, who played Bull in "BoB". If I'm not mistaken, Damien Lewis's cop show "Life" is gone, too. That leaves Neal McDonough ("Desperate Housewives"), Matthew Settle ("Gossip Girl"), and yes, Jimmy Fallon.
It's a soap...He can come back, right? I mean, if Jimmy Fallon can wake up with Al...
Corky Marlowe said:
To be honest I don't remember if he actually "died" in the crash. The writers might have left him hanging (so to speak). He was a scary-looking dude though. Would have been a natural for that "NY family" they have in there now.
Personally, I liked DH much better when they capitalized on black humor as opposed to all the standard soap fare. It seems to lose something when they get serious.
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