• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

The Book Of _Cancelled_ (via WND)

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48476

NBC's "The Book of Daniel" may have launched to great controversy and hoopla.

But, today, the show ended with a whimper – pulled unceremoniously from NBC's Friday night schedule, effective immediately, with no more of an announcement than an entry on an NBC blog by creator Jack Kenny.

One NBC affiliate after another dropped the show. Advertisers ran from it. And, apparently, despite all the controversy it generated, so did viewers.<P ID="signature">______________
raccoonradio5ap.gif
</P>
 
> the show ended with a whimper – pulled
> unceremoniously from NBC's Friday night schedule, effective
> immediately, with no more of an announcement than an entry
> on an NBC blog by creator Jack Kenny.
>
I won't be surprised if this show doesn't surface ever again in any form -- after all the headaches created for NBC, you can bet it won't be repurposed on an NBC cable channel or released on DVD. I won't even be surprised if NBC has "spies" or "mystery shoppers" at comic book or fan shows, just to keep "Daniel" boots from the public eye.

All things considered, "Daniel" was probably the worst TV series for NBC since "Supertrain".
 
That's going a bit far, it was bad, but not that bad.
Here's the thing....

Instead of JC just "popping up," there should have been a build up and a humorous scene the first time. Kinda like the "Oh God" movies. But the writing was just bland, and there was no character development. So after all that contrversy, there was really nothing to see. And because the producers and networks' short sightedness, when JC did show up, it just looked silly, and it didn't make sense.

Let's suppose that it was All in the Family. That show debuted at the bottom of the barrel, but it was actually funny, a good show, and thought provoking. TBOD was none of the above.

So, not a bad show, imho, just not an interesting one, and poorly executed.

> > the show ended with a whimper – pulled
> > unceremoniously from NBC's Friday night schedule,
> effective
> > immediately, with no more of an announcement than an entry
>
> > on an NBC blog by creator Jack Kenny.
> >
> I won't be surprised if this show doesn't surface ever again
> in any form -- after all the headaches created for NBC, you
> can bet it won't be repurposed on an NBC cable channel or
> released on DVD. I won't even be surprised if NBC has
> "spies" or "mystery shoppers" at comic book or fan shows,
> just to keep "Daniel" boots from the public eye.
>
> All things considered, "Daniel" was probably the worst TV
> series for NBC since "Supertrain".
>
 
> That's going a bit far, it was bad, but not that bad.

> > All things considered, "Daniel" was probably the worst TV
> > series for NBC since "Supertrain".

As they all say, "your mileage may vary". Even if Daniel was a fun show to watch, Madison Avenue wasn't laughing -- someone mentioned that there were no paid ads on last week's episode, even during the station breaks on the station he watched.

Anyone else recall a series whose ad inventory was 100% vacant (or close to it)? Tom Snyder once mentioned that on the debut edition of his "Tomorrow" show back in 1973, Wrigley's gum was the only advertiser on the show -- all other ad spots were PSAs.
 
Some are claiming religious group-pressure for the cancellation, and perhaps
sponsor defection from that was a factor, but it mostly just didn't get ratings.
This despite the controversy.

Though sometimes controversy can HELP a show or movie. Protests against Married With Children may have helped attract viewers to the show, and a Martin Scorcese
movie, The Last Temptation of Christ, was also probably helped by
protests (people were curious to see what the fuss was about!)

> All things considered, "Daniel" was probably the worst TV
> series for NBC since "Supertrain".
>
<P ID="signature">______________
raccoonradio5ap.gif
</P>
 
> That's going a bit far, it was bad, but not that bad.
> Here's the thing....
>
> Instead of JC just "popping up," there should have been a
> build up and a humorous scene the first time. Kinda like the
> "Oh God" movies.

You'll be pleased to know the JC is still an occasional character on
Family Guy. One episode had someone thanking Jesus on TV, and they
showed Jesus watching TV and His phone rings. "Yeah, I'm watching it,
isn't it great? They thanked me, cool!" or something like that!<P ID="signature">______________
raccoonradio5ap.gif
</P>
 
The funny thing is, it costs alot of money to produce a show like this, good or not, and there had to be a test market prescreening...was there not?
Didn't something alarm NBC that the test pilot episode results were poor? Why air something if ratings won't pull through? Why produce more than just a 2 hour movie...which may very well have been all that would have worked...and if demand pulled through, a BOD 2, then a third movie...movie format, not series...and remember...I SAID IF! (I did like the humour in the show, and apreciate the time and effort that went into producing it.)<P ID="signature">______________
"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
</P>
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom