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And the Next Cancelled Show is...

I wonder how long Gotham will last. By my calculations, we need twenty seasons to get to Batman. By that time, they will have run out of any villains.
How do you get 20 seasons? I don't think Batman started off in his 30s. At least not in the comic's current incarnation.
 
Sleepy Hollow took a ratings plummet because of the vast hiatuses between episodes. It took a month long break before showing its last 3 S1 episodes. Then eight months between Season 1 and 2. Casual viewers didn't remember it existed anymore. The ratings were already tanked in early Season 2 when the show was still serialized.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sleepy_Hollow_episodes

You can blame the 8 months off all you want, it didn't help, but it wasn't the death note.

The show started off popular and then fell a lot in season one. Season two started lower and kept going.

How to Get Away With Murder will be gone for at least seven months, but I doubt people will forget it when it returns. Of course ABC will also be running more ads than Fox.

I wonder how long Gotham will last. By my calculations, we need twenty seasons to get to Batman. By that time, they will have run out of any villains.

Your math seems very bad.
The funny thing is that the show was supposed to be about Gotham and not feature that much Batman, yet kid Batman is in every episode.
 
And it's some of the best stuff in the show. I look forward to the interactions between Bruce and Alfred every episode and miss them when they aren't there. I think Alfred is my favourite character on the show.
 
The funny thing is that the show was supposed to be about Gotham and not feature that much Batman, yet kid Batman is in every episode.
Sort of like how L&C wasn't going to have Supes.

I think the producers of both shows realized quickly what a terrible idea it would be.
 
And it's some of the best stuff in the show. I look forward to the interactions between Bruce and Alfred every episode and miss them when they aren't there. I think Alfred is my favourite character on the show.

Me too! As much as I try to convince myself that "Gotham" is an ensemble cast, I can't stop thinking, "this is good, but where's Alfred?..."
 
Wouldn't Bruce's age demand about 20 years to get to the age he needs to be to be Batman?

I haven't been watching much, how do they put Bruce in every episode? How much exactly can you say about a kid who's angry about his dead parents?
 
That would put Batman in his mid-30s when he starts being Batman. If he was a hockey player he'd practically be over the hill at that age. I'd say being Batman is at least as physically demanding as being a hockey player.
 
That would put Batman in his mid-30s when he starts being Batman. If he was a hockey player he'd practically be over the hill at that age. I'd say being Batman is at least as physically demanding as being a hockey player.

In Batman Begins he was 30 when he became Batman, and it always looked to me like a reasonable amount of time. He needs education, and he needs special training, and he travels all around the world. Comparisons with professional hockey players... he's a vigilante using his money super power to build crazy gadgets, how's that comparable in any way?
 
I watch Revenge regularly. I kind of had a feeling this would be the last season, I just hope they get a chance to do a good ending.
 
I am a big fan of Gotham.
By season 7 Bruce should be 19, that's not a terrible age for him to start doing serious vigilante work even if he needs more training. I expect by the time he's 16 or so he'll be a proto-Batman at some point.
 
Sleepy Hollow has become monster of the week with shitty Buffy-like monster masks with only a nebulous threat of end times instead of the "oh shit, look out! Apocalypse!" Teetering on the edge of the abyss it should have focused on. Characters get killed off, vanish or take heel turns seemingly based on the random die rolls of the writers. They clearly had no plan beyond Malak from season one rising and destroying the world and they couldn't even wrap that up properly. Meh.

Backstrom is really quite funny. Rainn is great and the cast does well supporting him. I'd be very disappointed if it got cancelled so early. I miss my grumpy, funny, abrasive and brilliant show lead since House went away. The show has a lot of potential if given a chance.

Allegiance died because the lead is a charisma vacuum. The family is interesting and the spy plot quite engaging but having to cut back to Agent Bland McMilktoast kills all momentum every time it happens. The show also feels like I've seen these plots before just with magic doodads on Alias a decade ago.
 
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