And the Next Cancelled Show is...

[bigdaddy]

Great news, I blasted through The Good Wife via Netflix over the last 6 months, ending it just before The Good Fight started and so far I've really enjoyed the spin off.

I hate The Good Wife, the actress can't act and the character is horrible. I used to watch it with a friend and she was just blehhhh. But the rest of the show seemed a lot of fun.

 

[Jax]

the actress can't act

How so?

 

[Captain Shaw]

Fuck, I'm a jinx.

I loved the British Home Fires. Cancelled after S2.

The USA's Civil War drama Mercy Street. Just cancelled. By that logic, get ready to kiss Timeless goodbye.

I'm the kiss of death. I rarely watch new shows, sticking to documentaries, historical shows (war and such) or news, but when I do chance a drama, it always gets the fucking ax.

Will you be watching Discovery?

 

[T'Bonz]

Only the premiere. I'm too cheap to pay for CBS All Access*. I'll wait for the DVD set.

*subject to changing my mind after the premiere.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I don't think that would ever work. For example, it already stretches the credulity of "geek cred" in BBT when one of the characters makes an EP IV reference, but spells out the full title in the show ("Star Wars Episode IV", or "Star Wars, A New Hope", or some variant thereof) to make sure the "mundanes" who think themselves non-geeks know exactly what they're talking about. Around here, if I just said "SW EP IV", pretty much everyone would know what I meant. Every character on the show would know that too, but for the sake of the audience, they're unconsciously breaking the 4th wall to over-explain something that they should already know. Same thing with any TOS ep. For the most part, I would say something like "Mirror, Mirror", and everyone knows it. On BBT, they would say "The Star Trek Original Series Episode Mirror, Mirror". Ugh...fucking ponderous.

Now, take that into the basement of TRUE geekdom, where the denizens of such a world barely emerge into the sunlight and have a hard time interacting with others because they have zero social skills. The only place they could reasonably function is a sci-fi convention. And like the others have mentioned here, no scientific references to keep it even mildly interesting, fresh and relevent. It would really ONLY be funny to non-geeks, feeling good about themselves that they aren't the pathetic troglodytes on the screen, constantly struggling in quick-to-get-tiresome fish-out-of-water situations, and it would guarantee to be even more offensive to some geeks than BBT is now. It would kill a core demographic that they would hope to acquire. Many geeks have a hard time laughing at themselves, and this would definitely cross the line and cause a geekdom shitstorm (geekstorm?) of biblical proportions, IMO.

I imagine it would. And the show would tank. But the shitstorm would be glorious to watch.

Not a geek here, well I'm not sure what I am. I was never in the geeky circle growing up, or the cool circle.. I was always the other..

I still am the other to some extent. Though now in later life I see how people react and it's kind of painful

 

[bigdaddy]

How so?

In the way most actors who can't act, can't act, she doesn't sell the role. Hell half the time I felt like a robot was there in her place.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Around here, if I just said "SW EP IV", pretty much everyone would know what I meant. Every character on the show would know that too, but for the sake of the audience, they're unconsciously breaking the 4th wall to over-explain something that they should already know. Same thing with any TOS ep. For the most part, I would say something like "Mirror, Mirror", and everyone knows it. On BBT, they would say "The Star Trek Original Series Episode Mirror, Mirror". Ugh...fucking ponderous.

I see it as a sign of their pedantry. Like Spock giving out a number to millionths decimal place.
While I might say "SW EP IV" in text format. If I was speaking, I'd just call it "Star Wars". V is "Empire" and VI is Jedi" The prequels, I don't actually speak of them much.

 

[Guy Gardener]

What about IV.5?

 

[137th Gebirg]

You mean the dreaded holiday special?

 

[Nerys Myk]

What about IV.5?

We do not speak of it with outsiders.

 

[Spot's Meow]

I could sort of see this Sheldon spin-off working, maybe. I think there is an audience for watching appropriate, non-negative portrayals of those on the autism spectrum. Of course, appropriate and non-negative are the key words here. They treated Sheldon's "issues" with a little more respect in the early seasons, but as with all personality traits late in a sitcom's run they have now been exaggerated to the point of irritating and ridiculous (Ross, anyone?). If the spin-off could strip that away and portray young Sheldon as a sympathetic and realistic character then it could work.

 

[bigdaddy]

^You have way too much hope it a stupid ass prequel.

Shockingly So you think you can dance? is NOT canceled! It returns June 12th.

 

[bigdaddy]

The Knick is canceled.
http://tvline.com/2017/03/23/the-knick-cancelled-season-3-hbo-statement/

CBS has also renewed a ton of crap.
http://tvline.com/2017/03/23/renewed-tv-shows-2017-hawaii-five-0-scorpion-cbs/

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

How does Scorpion keep surviving?

 

[bigdaddy]

How does Scorpion keep surviving?

Because in total viewers it's a top 20 show?

Yes I know only the 18-49 year old demo group matters.... most of the time. It's CBS so it doesn't really matter as much.

My bigger question is how is Kevin Can Wait getting such great numbers even in the demo.
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/we...top-25-and-network-rankings-march-13-19-2017/

 

[Guy Gardener]

Even I quit Kevin.

(I quit man with a plan during the same breath.)

I did maybe 6 episodes of each?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I think that's how I felt about Scorpion. I tried to watch the full first season but just couldn't I've tried random episodes when they were on TV here too but it has never grabbed me.

On the other hand I changed my tune and really liked MacGyVer and now that's gone.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I like Scorpion, but it's so contrived, that they always find a disaster each week that requires 17 solutions in 16 minutes.

 

[Morpheus 02]

^You have way too much hope it a stupid ass prequel.

Shockingly So you think you can dance? is NOT canceled! It returns June 12th.

It's a cheap show to make, and with America Best Dance Crew off, it is the only place to see creative street dance in TV

 

[1001001]

How does Scorpion keep surviving?

Old people.

When Walter launched himself into space by accidentally pushing one button...

Yeah...