I don't know what happened, but I've actually grown to like this show, and fairly quickly too.
2011-12 pilot buzz thread
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I don't know what happened, but I've actually grown to like this show, and fairly quickly too.
ffs ABC you realise no one is watching it. Unhappy to learn Poe has been dropped the concept sounded cool.
Two more half-hour comedies picked up by ABC: Work It and Suburgatory.
I wanted to see Identity for Wentworth Miller but the premise sounded like a snooze.
Agh! ABC just picked up the cringeworthy drag comedy, Work It!
Funny how all the networks are skewing female this year while female-skewing ABC is picking up some male-skewing comedies...
And why is the CW being so quiet? Or is nobody paying attention to them?
Agh! ABC just picked up the cringeworthy drag comedy, Work It!
Funny how all the networks are skewing female this year while female-skewing ABC is picking up some male-skewing comedies...
And why is the CW being so quiet? Or is nobody paying attention to them?
NBC has cancelled Outsourced.
CBS and the CW are scheduled last in the upfronts next week - on Wednesday and Thursday respectively - so that's why they haven't been making calls on cancellations, renewals, and pick-ups yet.
CBS and the CW are scheduled last in the upfronts next week - on Wednesday and Thursday respectively - so that's why they haven't been making calls on cancellations, renewals, and pick-ups yet.
Since I can guess what CBS and CW are going to do, I can start assessing how many shows I'll be checking out next fall. Practically everything will be new, and it's definitely more than I've been interested in, in previous years, and way more than I can watch so hopefully about half of these will suck and/or get cancelled early:
NBC
Awake
Smash
Playboy Club
Grimm
Chuck - at least the series finale
ABC
Once Upon a Time
The River
Pan Am
Apt 23
maybe I'll check out Revenge if I have time
FOX
Alcatraz
they passed on Exit Strategy, right?
hey - did we ever hear about Touch???
Terra Nova, assuming it ever happens
CBS
Person of Interest
How to Be a Gentleman
CW
The Secret Circle
And that's not even counting cable.
AMC
Breaking Bad
The Walking Dead
Hell on Wheels
Showtime
Dexter
TNT
Falling Skies (summer)
Cartoon Network
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
FX
Sons of Anarchy
Archer
American Horror Story
Jayzus. I better quit my job.
NBC
Awake
Smash
Playboy Club
Grimm
Chuck - at least the series finale
ABC
Once Upon a Time
The River
Pan Am
Apt 23
maybe I'll check out Revenge if I have time
FOX
Alcatraz
they passed on Exit Strategy, right?
hey - did we ever hear about Touch???
Terra Nova, assuming it ever happens
CBS
Person of Interest
How to Be a Gentleman
CW
The Secret Circle
And that's not even counting cable.
AMC
Breaking Bad
The Walking Dead
Hell on Wheels
Showtime
Dexter
TNT
Falling Skies (summer)
Cartoon Network
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
FX
Sons of Anarchy
Archer
American Horror Story
Jayzus. I better quit my job.
I just read an interesting interview with Dan Harmon, creator of Community. I agree with what he has to say here:
Yay... Michael Emerson is coming back to TV.
Well don't blame me if CBS does something crazy but it sure does look that way!!!
Since Hallelujah is dead, Terry O'Quinn should get a role on Person of Interest
should play Robert Franklin Stround aka Birdman on Fox's Alcatraz.
Ah, some CBS news earlier than I expected: they've picked up Person of Interest and Two Broke Girls.
In cable news, HBO has renewed Treme for a third season. That's very surprising given how low its ratings have sunk. HBO really does put creative commitment over ratings at times (and I know ratings don't matter as much to them since they're a subscriber service, but very low ratings would seem to indicate a lack of interest in the show from their subscribers).
In cable news, HBO has renewed Treme for a third season. That's very surprising given how low its ratings have sunk. HBO really does put creative commitment over ratings at times (and I know ratings don't matter as much to them since they're a subscriber service, but very low ratings would seem to indicate a lack of interest in the show from their subscribers).
Ooh, good idea!
Re, airing the pilots online, here's my idea: assemble internet focus groups of a few dozen or hundred people each and show the pilots to them. (Or, just allow everyone to view the pilots after signing onto various teams of random people: Red Team, Yellow Team, Blue Team, etc.)
The first year, don't factor in the groups' opinions into show decisions; just take note of which group said what. Then when the shows air, note which groups correctly predicted successes and failures.
The next year, go back to only those groups and ask for their opinions on shows. Maybe don't even factor in their opinions that year either but check them again to make sure the first year wasn't a fluke. The third year, you can start trusting the opinions of whatever group got things right two times in a row.
That eliminates the problem of listening to anyone on the internet: that they are not representative of anything but themselves. Make them prove that they actually can predict success.
In lieu of the team idea, people could just be followed individually and the most accurate ones will be given the privilege of shaping future network picks.
Of course the networks will never do this because it would expose that a bunch of random idiots on the internet can do a better job of picking shows than the network bosses can.
Like Alcatraz, I'll sample Persons of Interest but J.J. Abrams' stuff can be hit--LOST but mostly miss--Fringe, Undercovers, Star Trek XI. And Ben Brafman (The 4400), Margot Lulick (Kings) and Greg Plageman (Chase) and Dave Semel (No Ordinary Family) are working on it and I didn't care for any of those shows.
As expected, Body of Proof has been renewed, making it the only one of ABC's six drama freshman shows this season to be renewed for a second season.
Or Nikita. Is this a sign the CW is growing up?
