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WHICH NEW SHOW WILL GET CANCELLED FIRST
- Thread starter gregg75
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"The Playboy Club" is as good as dead at this point; just barely higher ratings than what Lone Star had last year in its two weeks before getting canceled and throttled by Comedy Central last night, poisonous reviews calling it "Mad Men Lite", and it seemed like Comcast only went through with the show because the old management greenlit it before they got in. And of course, Eddie Cibrian as a star, who is universally loathed by anyone except his small fangirl community.
I don't see "New Girl" going anywhere. The real pilot is next week because of Damon Wayans going back to "Happy Endings", and Fox will do all it can to promote it to just past the World Series. If Tuesday doesn't work an elegant slide-in to a post-"X Factor" slot will make it catch on. You can't do that with NBC's Saturday Rerun Theater.
I don't see "New Girl" going anywhere. The real pilot is next week because of Damon Wayans going back to "Happy Endings", and Fox will do all it can to promote it to just past the World Series. If Tuesday doesn't work an elegant slide-in to a post-"X Factor" slot will make it catch on. You can't do that with NBC's Saturday Rerun Theater.
Idea for NBC: cancel The Playboy Club if it doesn't work out, move Up All Night and Free Agents to Thursday at 10 and 10:30 respectively (make Thursday straight up comedy and give these two decent comedies a chance to grow their legs) and move Prime Suspect to Mondays at 10.
Wednesdays from 8-9:30 will be an extremely difficult timeslot to fill due to The X Factor, so move Chuck or Grimm (which already have poor shelf life being that they air on Fridays) to Wednesdays.
Fill in the extra hour Friday with another hour of Dateline and they'll be good.
Wednesdays from 8-9:30 will be an extremely difficult timeslot to fill due to The X Factor, so move Chuck or Grimm (which already have poor shelf life being that they air on Fridays) to Wednesdays.
Fill in the extra hour Friday with another hour of Dateline and they'll be good.
I see "Free Agents" as another candidate.
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I realize I am in a very small minority but I liked The Playboy Club. It was not great but I thought it was pretty good. Artistically it was strong. The script had some surprising twists (at least to me). I'll keep watching as long as it is on or they make what I perceive a wrong turn.
radiojomo said:
In the current broadcast model, it's unlikely that the original "Big 3" networks will consistently have comedies airing at 10pm. The reason is the networks are unofficially (?) obligated to provided their affiliates with a good lead-in for their late newscasts. Comedies generally do not fill this role.
1.) Whitney (NBC) - This is the current front runner in my book. Whenever a network does a media blitz for 6 straight months before a show's premiere, it's over compensating for something. If this show makes 3 weeks I'd be surprised.
2.) Up All Night (NBC) - More like "Bland All Right".
3.) Terra Nova (FOX) - "Jurassic Park Meets Lost" this show is too expensive to make to not fail immediately. Also, FOX pulls the plug on anything not written by Seth MacFarland or is not a singing talent show immediately. Remember "Lone Star"? No one does because it was pulled before it could be determined if it has legs or not. "Terra Nova" will face a similar fate.
2.) Up All Night (NBC) - More like "Bland All Right".
3.) Terra Nova (FOX) - "Jurassic Park Meets Lost" this show is too expensive to make to not fail immediately. Also, FOX pulls the plug on anything not written by Seth MacFarland or is not a singing talent show immediately. Remember "Lone Star"? No one does because it was pulled before it could be determined if it has legs or not. "Terra Nova" will face a similar fate.
Thursday night at 10 on NBC makes me think of something Graham Chapman wrote in his autobiography about how he got a job writing for David Frost's "The Frost Report" in 1966.
"[The BBC] were looking for a replacement for 'That Was the Week that Was.' (And they still are.)"
NBC is still looking for a replacement for ER and are going to keep struggling and looking for one for a long time at this rate. "Southland" came closest, but was killed off by the Leno Debacle.
"[The BBC] were looking for a replacement for 'That Was the Week that Was.' (And they still are.)"
NBC is still looking for a replacement for ER and are going to keep struggling and looking for one for a long time at this rate. "Southland" came closest, but was killed off by the Leno Debacle.
Watched CBS's "Unforgettable" which may not have enough meat on the bone plotwise to survive, although I have learned not to pass judgement on a show on just the pilot episode.
NBC sure screwed with "Harry's Law." Last season it was a quirky yet fairly enjoyable show with sharply defined characters. This season's first episode was overloaded with too many characters and too many moving parts. Everyone except Kathy Bates is lost in the crowd. At least it has some ongoing storylines to hold interest, but many of the standout characters from last season barely got any time to shine.
I am torn about "Terra Nova." I will watch the premiere, but I have a feeling I'm going to hate it. Afraid it might turn out to be a stew of too many ideas taken from other series, and dreadfully tedious on top of that.
NBC sure screwed with "Harry's Law." Last season it was a quirky yet fairly enjoyable show with sharply defined characters. This season's first episode was overloaded with too many characters and too many moving parts. Everyone except Kathy Bates is lost in the crowd. At least it has some ongoing storylines to hold interest, but many of the standout characters from last season barely got any time to shine.
I am torn about "Terra Nova." I will watch the premiere, but I have a feeling I'm going to hate it. Afraid it might turn out to be a stew of too many ideas taken from other series, and dreadfully tedious on top of that.
Robnoxious said:
FOX might as well be the network version of the Friday Night Death Slot. They must've canceled more shows than any other major network in the last ten to fifteen years or it seems that way.
Mediafrog... liked your review of Harry's Law. I want to like it because I like Kathy Bates. But man, if her crankiness and slogging along is part of her character, she deserves an Emmy to go with her Oscar. This reminds me of Whoppi Goldberg's last sitcom. She had it written into the plot that her character was a smoker so she could smoke on the set.
And you're right... too many characters in Harry's Law. No real storylines for any of the younger actors. The young African-American law student who was sort of in a romance with the receptionist seems to be gone. And I have no idea why the lawyer who acts like a used car salesmen gets so much screen time. If you're trying to get younger viewers to support a show like this, why put most of the plot on the two oldest people in the cast?
I haven't seen Two Broke Girls but based on the coming attractions, that looks like a goner for sure. A modern Laverne & Shirley it isn't.
And I think American TV viewers are so conditioned to expect dramas or hour-long comedy-dramas at 10pm that I don't think NBC is going to put half-hour sitcoms at 10 & 10:30.
Gregg
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And you're right... too many characters in Harry's Law. No real storylines for any of the younger actors. The young African-American law student who was sort of in a romance with the receptionist seems to be gone. And I have no idea why the lawyer who acts like a used car salesmen gets so much screen time. If you're trying to get younger viewers to support a show like this, why put most of the plot on the two oldest people in the cast?
I haven't seen Two Broke Girls but based on the coming attractions, that looks like a goner for sure. A modern Laverne & Shirley it isn't.
And I think American TV viewers are so conditioned to expect dramas or hour-long comedy-dramas at 10pm that I don't think NBC is going to put half-hour sitcoms at 10 & 10:30.
Gregg
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Robnoxious said:
Terra Nova was also like Whitney, in which it was advertised for months beforehand on Fox and on as many cable channels as possible. You could not watch a cable channel anywhere without seeing an ad for Terra Nova. As we learned before, hot and heavy promotion does not necessarily equal a successful series.
Re: WHICH NEW SHOW WILL GET CANCELLED FIRST (WHITNEY!)
I'm watching Whitney as I'm typing this.
I've seen so many shows without laugh tracks/audiences mock shows with the chuckles by delivering unfunny lines followed by laughs. The lines are painfully unfunny and they're followed by hahahahahahaha!
Basically, that's Whitney.
I'm watching it the same way I watch car chases. Though if there is a car chase I'm turning over to KCAL 9.
IMHO stick a fork in Whitney, she's done (or bumped to USA network)
I'm watching Whitney as I'm typing this.
I've seen so many shows without laugh tracks/audiences mock shows with the chuckles by delivering unfunny lines followed by laughs. The lines are painfully unfunny and they're followed by hahahahahahaha!
Basically, that's Whitney.
I'm watching it the same way I watch car chases. Though if there is a car chase I'm turning over to KCAL 9.
IMHO stick a fork in Whitney, she's done (or bumped to USA network)
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