CBS cancels Cold Case, Ghost Whisperer and 5 more
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I would be too if this season had been better. The writers are not doing anything to advance the growth of any of the characters. It has turned into a formula show. It's telling that the episode I've enjoyed most this season was last week's Ariel vehicle. Sofia is blossoming into a talented young woman.
But Medium's show runners need an injection of creativity. The last couple seasons have been dull-as-powder retreads of old plots.
Oh, snap. CBS cleaning house...
A remember talking to a friend once who frequently thought Ghost Whisperer and Medium were the same show, just with alternating characters like one of those Law & Order shows have...
To be fair, Arquette is rather busty too, but her character tends to dress more like a soccer mom.
A remember talking to a friend once who frequently thought Ghost Whisperer and Medium were the same show, just with alternating characters like one of those Law & Order shows have...
**whistles** Wow. Talk about cleaning house, CBS. Unfortunately, I think it's going to come back and bite them in the buttocks in a very bad way. None of those replacement shows sound interesting in the least — *especially* the Shatner one — so I expect CBS will decline in viewership.
Rumor does, indeed, have it that ABC will pick up "Ghost Whisperer."
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Rumor does, indeed, have it that ABC will pick up "Ghost Whisperer."
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Another fan of Numb3rs here. At least it ended well enough
They cancelled a bunch of junk and replaced it with a bunch of junk.
But I'm not a "CBS viewer" by any stretch of the imagination. I'm sure some of their vanilla garbage will go over well with their standard audience.
CBS is desperate and it's showing. They keep seemingly canceling random series that fail to live up to some unknown formula for determining success. Most people I heard thought it'd be reversed; Ghost Whisperer renewed, Medium canceled. The rest of those series is a mixed bag too. I'd thought some would be renewed but others canceled. Other than Medium and the CSI franchise, there's not much on CBS I watch.
I only watched a handful of episodes every season, and the show was goofy and highly improbable. You could call it CSI: Math.
I guess the characters are more important than the weekly plot. Sort of like NCIS.
The math, while still relevant, essentially became technobabble used to advance the plot. It's fairly inoffensive I suppose and you either end up watching because you like the characters (Judd Hirsch and his two sons) or you like the pacing of their cases.
Strangely, for a show produced by the two Scott brothers, I don't think either of them actually directed an episode of the series.
Ah, never mind, Tony Scott did direct the season four premiere... Ridley was too busy making Robin Hood I guess.
I read that it was dropping in the demos.
Why would you think that? It didn't protect Time of Your Life (her short-lived Party of Five spin-off) either.
I was listening to the Coast to Coast AM show(Formerly the Art Bell show). The guest was James Van Pragh, a guy that claims to talk to dead people. I think he is connected to the Ghost Whisperer show. He let it spill on the show that Jennifer Love-Hewitt didn't want to do the show anymore. The next day or maybe just the day after the show, I see that it has been cancelled and what a big surprise it was.
Awww, I liked Gary Unmarried and The New Adventures of Old Christine. Dammit. Could care less about the rest.
From everything I'd heard Medium was the better bet for renewal. Its ratings have been slightly better than Ghost Whisperer this season, plus it's wholly-owned by CBS, whereas Ghost Whisperer is an ABC/CBS co-production (with ABC owning a greater share of the show - hence why ABC may pick the show up and continue it). Medium also has a significantly richer syndication deal than Ghost Whisperer, so every additional season of Medium that gets produced translates to a richer ongoing revenue stream for CBS down the road.