Although I disagree with you about Chase, we are in full agreement with regards to The Cape. What a total disappointment...I really only started watching because of Summer Glau, but not even she can keep me watching this show.
CHASE Cancelled
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Although I disagree with you about Chase, we are in full agreement with regards to The Cape. What a total disappointment...I really only started watching because of Summer Glau, but not even she can keep me watching this show.
Chase would have been a hit show 20 years ago, but it added nothing new now a days.
Chase, The Event and The Cape will all most likely be canceled, The Cape for sure is.
Well, at least 20 years ago we didn't have all these stupid reality shows. I'm not even sure Chase would have been a hit back then though. Its an action/drama with a female lead and that seems to STILL be a hard sell. I think it was an even harder sell 20 years ago. Its a shame because Chase was a good show. I'm not saying it was a GREAT show. It wasn't, but it was a good, fun show. It was well written and well acted too.
As for adding something new, honestly, I can't remember the last time I saw an action/drama show that added something new to TV. Maybe 24? Hmm.
Anyway, maybe Chase didn't add something new, but it didn't have to, imo. It was a well written, well acted show that had good characters and it lived up to its name (always a chase, every episode). So ya, of course it gets canceled. Thats what networks do with new, good shows anymore.
Chase is gone, Cape looks like its going. Nothing on the Event yet, but I think it won't likely survive. I'm sure No Ordinary Family and Detroit 1-8-7 will be gone too (and its a shame about Detroit, since that is a great show).
Back to Chase: I guess I'm the lone voice here that liked it. lol. Kind of use to that. It seems like most of the good (and great) shows get canceled (or have to end) anymore because most people just can't see quality shows anymore (they'd rather watch Survivor or CSI: Miami or Glee).
Sooner or later there will be nothing but junk food on TV.
I tried Chase, it just seems like a lame action show (Walker Texas Ranger) from many years ago, nothing new. I also couldn't stand the female lead, but I said the same on Fringe and it was just the writing and not really her acting.
I don't have cable so there needs to be some better shows on network TV. However I have pretty much given up on that.
I don't have cable so there needs to be some better shows on network TV. However I have pretty much given up on that.
We're gonna have to seriously disagree about it being a good show. I thought the characters were flat and boring.
And yeah, it lived up to it's name... But, for the most part, most shows do.
But, this? Come on. Networks aren't cancelling good shows.
They are cancelling shows people don't watch or aren't making them money.
Even shows where the show lives up to the title.
Chase was TOTALLY junk food. Again, we'll probably disagree on that. But, Chase was TOTALLY style and no substance.
But, again, I have to mention, BAD shows get cancelled too.
Networks aren't spending all this money to create a show (good, great, or bad) with the intention of cancelling it.
Many people feel Glee is a great show. And the ratings support it.
Many people feel Mad Men is a great show, and if it was on a network, it woulda been cancelled, but it's not, so it gets to go on.
Personally, one of my great shows that is still on is Breaking Bad, which, to me, runs circles around Chase in terms of acting and writing.
I guess my point is: I'm a little tired of the the "networks cancel good shows" argument. Like TV fans are martyrs or something...
NBC decided no one was watching, didn't want to spend the money, and so it's cancelled. That happens to EVERY show that is cancelled, regardless of quality.
Dude... as goofy as CSI: Miami is, it's still heads and shoulders above Chase.
Hmm. The last thing I watched on NBC was Quantum Leap.
I honestly think the only show I've wanted to watch on NBC was TNG...
Thats sad.
But where would this board be without the self-important drama queens who view TV show cancellations as a personal attack on them?
Especially the one-sentence repeat offenders who keep bitching the same song and dance about Fox, since you know, 100% of the shows they cancel have been historic television at their finest.
I wouldn't go that far. Although Annie alone is as awesome as Horatio.
But where would this board be without the self-important drama queens who view TV show cancellations as a personal attack on them?
Especially the one-sentence repeat offenders who keep bitching the same song and dance about Fox, since you know, 100% of the shows they cancel have been historic television at their finest.
Fox is the evil that must not be NAMED!
Yep.
I hate it when shows I love get cancelled, but, it's rare that a conspiracy to cancel only "good" shows is to blame.
My problem with a lot of the cop/legal/hospital dramas these days is they are just doing the same old stuff--Bones Rizzoli & Isles, CSI, L&O, The Mentalist, NCIS, Criminal Minds, Grey's Anatomy, Burn Notice etc. It was fresh and new a decade or two decades ago with shows like Hill Street Blues, The Profiler, The Equalizer, Hunter, St. Elsewhere. Now it is just stale. In fact, I'd argue this decade's tv and films have been mostly recycled ideas or storylines that were done before on earlier dramas or sitcoms and done better--and they go so far as resurrecting or rebooting a bunch of popular 80s/90s tv shows or films--Melrose Place, 90210, Bionic Woman, Knight Rider, Karate Kid etc etc. Fringe is just a poor man's X-Files. And the reason they are canned and don't share the same fan following is they are just pale imitations.
I first saw this pattern emerge with ENTERPRISE where the first two seasons were pretty much nothing but recycled Trek episodes that offered nothing new and it has continued with shows like Fringe or V. It doesn't exactly encourage me to watch these contemporary shows when it just reminds me that I could just go watch an episode of an older series and enjoy it more.
The writing was just simply better with better actors and more engaging characters 10 years, 20 years ago.
I don't want the same stories I've seen over and over I want new ideas and believe it or not they are out there just look at LOST.
Meh, for the most part tv 20 years ago fucking sucked imo; what, you want 90210 back, and Baywatch and Friends and Fresh Prince?
Well I enjoyed lots of shows back then that were magnitudes better and actually stuck around like Dallas, Falcon's Crest, Hill Street Blues, St Elsewhere, Murder She Wrote. Hunter and Silk Stalkings were fun cop shows. The Profiler was great--Criminal Minds sucks. Melrose Place was a great primetime soap with fun characters and everyone was talking about the crazy shit that went down the night before the next day. Sitcoms were great Three's Company, Soap, The Jeffersons, Laverne & Shirley, All in the Family, Roseanne, The Golden Girls, Martin, Empty Nest all eclipse the lame unsophisticated juvenile humor of sitcoms these days. TNG, DS9, Friday the 13th The Series, The X-Files had great characters, consistency and interesting storylines unlike the plethora of middling sff these days--V, Flash Forward, Stargate Universe, Stargate Atlantis, Torchwood, Haven, Persons Unknown, Surface, Invasion, Fringe etc. Daytime soaps were great--Days of Our Lives was on fire in th 90s with a lot of fun and zany storylines. Now it is horrible.
So yeah I'm not saying there wasn't crap back then but the good outweighed the bad and the good was really entertaining.
There's lots of shit on tv these days, but I honestly think that the average quality is vastly superior to the 90s, or at least, there's more good stuff now than there used to be.
Emphasis mine.
I'll grant you Torchwood isn't always great. But Series three, Children of Earth, is probably some of the most GRIPPING television I have ever seen. Those 5 episodes were brilliant.
If you haven't seen them, seek them out. Fantastic.
I would also add there's a greater variety of TV now as well.
From your bubble gum cop (Hawaii 5-0) to layered drama (Mad Men), your character pieces (Breaking Bad), to holy crap, this is totally not what I would let my kids watch, but I really like it (Spartacus)
With more channels, and those providing funding, there's SO much out there... and quality. If you can't find it, you're not looking hard enough...
I did watch it but I wasn't that impressed. That's when I knew Torchwood wasn't for me since those that really liked the series pointed to that 5 part story as being great.
Why do all threads devolve into discussions about the state of television? I can think of 25 shows that I watch during the course of the year and I'm picky.
90210 is back and aren't they making a Baywatch movie?
How dare you make fun of French Prince!
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