Misteroby wrote:The star power of Raquel Welch and Jeff Tambor wasn't enough to draw viewers to CBS' Welcome To The Captain. This show was given the heave-ho after 5 eps. This goes that not even Emeril can make good soup from rotten tomatoes.
Star power from Jeff Tambor?
Raquel Welch....Yes....but Jeff Tambor....No.
Well, I guess we all have different ideas about who's a star & who's a gar! (LOL)
The CW has cancelled the sitcom Aliens In America as of yesterday. However, they apparently plan to air the remaining episodes, the last one due to be seen May 18th.
I look for the whole CW to soon tank if they don't replace Dawn Ostroff as programming director.
Fox has cancelled Back To You, a Kelsey Grammer-Patricia Heaton sitcom. Its ratings were in the 8 million range, but the expense was getting outta hand, & the show gave no sign of being a breakout hit.
I've seen one or two episodes of some of these shows and thought they weren't bad, but then they tried to put them up against shows that they had to chance with in Lost and power shows like that. If some of these networks actually looked at time frames and who they were go up against viewers would watch more.
ABC Family has pretty well made it official that Wildfire is cancelled. The last ep airs tonight.
While fanzz of the show have sent carrots, horseshoes, etc. to the net, they're just wasting their time/money. After the jericho debacle, it's extremely doubtful if a fan campaign will save a show. The nets know the fanzz who holler/send crap in are not nearly enuff to satisfy the SPONSORS whose bux pay for it all.
On 2/28/08, I made the following predictions; I shall post the results under each one.
1.) Look for Quarterlife to soon unceremoniously exit.
Quarterlife bit the dirt after only ONE EP aired, thus joining a fraternity no one wants in...ONE-EPISODE WONDERZZ.
2.) Jericho will finish this season, but it'll be its last.
I got lucky & hit this'n right on the head!
3.) Big Brother will finish this season, but won't be brought back into the regular fall/winter season again. Unfortunately, this reality trash will once again pollute the airwaves this summer, even though I'd liketa see it gone for good.
Unfortunately I was right on this'n...BB will be back this summer. Thankfully, there are lotsa other channels available!
4.) I believe we've seen the lasta Cavemen.
While not "officially" cancelled, its set has been disassembled & its actors have moved on to other projects...sure signs that a show is finished.
5.) Carpoolers will be whacked any day, along with My Dad is Better than Your Dad & Welcome to the Captain.
Carpoolers was cancelled by 'pocket veto', by simply being left off ABC's recently-announced new sked. Same with My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad. However, Welcome To The Captain was officially gonged 5/14/08.
6.) Friday Night Lights will move to another network. (Hopefully, not to either the CW or Mynetwork, both of which may fold soon.)
FNL's 2008-09 season will be first broadcast on DirecTV this fall, then re-broadcast on NBC this winter. Seems I was partially right on this.
OK, let's go out on a limb & make a few more predictions:
1.) The new American Gladiators will soon fold.
2.) ABC was stupid to bring back The Mole after it'd been gone 4 years. It'll soon be gone for good, even though they might be lame enough to air all the eps now in the can.
3.) The CW net is in deep doodoo! If they don't have a BREAKOUT HIT on their new sked, they won't last until 2009.
4.) Viewership of the usual summer trashbag of repeats & dorky reality shows will be MUCH-lower this year, as DVDs, videogames, PCs, and the GREAT OUTDOORS will draw a lot more people from that viewership.
5.) The Bachelor is over for good. While The Bachelorette may finish its current run, it, too, will be history after this season.
6.) There'll be one more season of the Apprentice.
7. Law & Order will continue on, to break all records for eps aired of one show. SVU will stay strong in viewership.
Aint been no cancellations lately, but it's summertime & TV is but an afterthought for mosta the nation mosta the time.
There are campaigns to bring back Moonlight & Wildfire[/i], but I'd say they're in vain...except that the CW, desperate for a hit of any kind, just MIGHT pick up Moonlight. However, I wouldn't get my hopes up. CBS got burnt so badly for renewing Jericho that all the nets are very leery of un-cancelling any show that tanked dueta low Neilsens. (Fox's animated Family Guy, one of the few successful un-cancallations, never had poor ratings. Neither did Moonlight, but its production costs were high, & it skewed to an older viewership than the desired 18-49 demographic.)
I'll still tryta keepya upta date on the latest canxs as they happen! (GOD WILLING, of course!)
Yeah, I liked "The Jury" a coupla years ago, but evidently I was in a small minority. I learned long ago than when a fave show gets axed, to just move on.
The FX netlet has cancelled "Nip/Tuck", but don't start crying yet, fans. There are still 27 eps to go; it'll begin airing again in January, & will run into 2010. 19 of those 27 eps have yet to be made, and all the current cast & crew plan to stick around till all eps are in the can.
Here are some shows that some of the minor nets or single large stations canned, shows that often didn't make the mainstream TRV news:
2 Dudes Catering(Food) About a Girl (N) America's Psychic Challenge(LIF) Better half(BRV) Danny Phantom(NICK) Decision House (MYN) Drawn Together(Com) Eight Days A Week(CW-Only the pilot ever aired) Exalted!(Bet) Flip That House(TLC) Flight 29 Down(Dsc) Hate(Sho-only 1 ep aired) Judge hatchett(Syn) Judge Maria Lopez(Syn) Matched In Manhattan(LIF) Miami Ink(TLC) Pryor Offenses(Sho-only 1 ep aired) The Showbiz Show with david Spade(Com) Side Order of Life(Lif) State of Mind(Lif) Top This party:Las Vegas(Lif) Zoey 101(Nick)
Dance Machine(ABC, after 3 eps)(Yes, I know ABC is more than a mininet, but I didn't see this canx reported here, so.....)
Last night, 7/27, the CW didn't have a million viewers in any primetime half hour! Of course they were showing all reruns, but this is still abysmal. CW itself could be toast if their ratings don't improve this Fall.
Apparently, HBO has cancelled "Tell Me You Love Me", as its writer, Cynthia Mort, apparently developed some sorta 'writer's block' for the show & couldn't decide which way to go with the story. However, I doubt if too many people will give a hoot that it's gone.
