The only way "Two and a half men" gets cancelled is if Kutcher leaves the show after this season. Still gets great ratings. i think Pan Am, Unforgettable are next on the hour long shows to get canned New girl has had a full order pickup so it's staying put
I'll be shocked if New girl gets renewed. From day one it fell flat and none of the guys are remotely funny. Revenge my be another hour show that dies.
Wikipedia's got a good list of rapidly cancelled shows (here) and my favorite has to be Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos... New Girl, much as I think it's stupid, is going to have to absolutely crash to be cancelled by the end of the season; last night's episode got the highest ratings of the night.
Some of the shows, Scantron, had questionable plots....a show about who was the baby father was, in a group of impostors?
I knew a show that I only watched 1 episode of. One kid even yells out that name of the show in TV Tag. After the years past, I forgot the name of the show. Until awhile ago I found out it was called, "Aliens in the Family". and discovered that show was cancelled after 8 episodes.
My guess will be American Horror Story on Fx, 2 1/2 men after this season. I like New Girl, and particularly like Up All Night, but that's just me. Pan Am really should have been a miniseries, not a series pilot, and Charlies Angels is like trying to reboot Knight Rider, it just doesn't translate very well, even though the movies were well received. It really makes me wonder how Wonder Woman is going to do in the summer of next year, or was that already canned?
I know right. I mean there are people out there who like that steaming pile of crap Arrested Development. And you (and I) would be wrong. The pilot did very well, and FOX is quite pleased with the show.
I think a show has to do really well in ratings these days to warrant it's production costs. The existence of cheap reality shows have really lowered the bar.
You'd think they'd use the fat sacks of cash they make off of those cheap reality shows to help off-set the costs of scripted series.
Yes, but Fox was also happy with the way Terminator: TSCC was rating, and we know what happened to that show. Terminator: TSCC was getting great ratings until Fox pushed it into the Friday deathslot. I will be very surprised if Terra Nova isn't fucked over the same way.
You mean the ratings for the second season are in the toilet, which let's face it sucked balls, so they can it? Yeah I can see that. But Terra Nova would really have to go the same was Terminator went, that is take a huge dive in quality for that to happen.
It's this reason why I feel they are diggin their own grave. As silly as it is to compare it, imagine a girl who keeps lying to you. You want to trust in her and invest in her, but every time it's another lie. I've gotten to the point where I just don't watch new shows. I wait until they get a second season, and sometimes not even then (V). My reasoning is "why get involved in the story and characters, if they will probably be pulled within a month and I'll never know the ending?". It will snowball if they keep doing this because less people will invest and they will mistake that for poor ratings. LOST was a very isolated miracle.
I think studios need to look at reality....Once apon a time we had a dozen channels, and that was IT! Shows either got HUGE ratings or they tanked. Now we have hundreds of channels, streaming videos, and all sorts of other distractions. Shows just aren't going to pull the same numbers as the old days...but many of the old execs still expect the same results.
I stopped watching new shows several years ago. I typically only will start watching shows that seem intriguing a couple of seasons in or so after they've established themselves, LOST and Big Bang Theory excluded. I totally see what you're saying about investing in a show only to see it get cancelled.
I really got into that show Defying Gravity. It was kinda like a more-realistic take on Star Trek. Not "realistic" so much as "possible in the next decade", and it had a cool mysterious plot going, and then bang, it's over. It's like the continuously tell you these stories, and you never get the ending. I appreciate that Life on Mars forced an ending, even if it hit people as contrived because it happened so suddenly. But for the most part we as viewers get burned by these networks, and more and more people are feeling this way.
