Charlies Angels cancelled

[Obiwanshinobi]

Ah well Minka Kelly will bounce back.

 

[doubleohfive]

Sucks for the writer

No.

This show had terrible writing. These were the same writers that made Smallvillle so bad. Bad shows don't deserve to be rewarded. They deserved to be cancelled.

Please don't misquote me in order to make such a vindictive post.

Regardless of the quality of the show, my larger point (which I should have expounded upon in my initial post) was simply that it sucks for the writers and crew of the show because they're all out of work now. Having been in that position before, I can sympathize without having the negative outlook or the bitterness you clearly feel toward them.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

At the same token, I doubt anyone glad that the show is cancelled is celebrating the unemployment of the crew any more than war protestors are trying to keep the military, subcontractors and suppliers unemployed.

 

[Gaith]

The AV Club identifies a possible culprit in the show's failure: a dearth of early, systematic girl-kissing.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

I find it kind of funny that on the cover of the TVW (TV Week) magazine Charlies Angels was the cover story.

 

[Brolan]

It was a horrible show and died the death it deserved. None of the girls could act and the plots were recycled from the corny 80's original show.

 

[Captain_Nick]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAaaa

Geez this one lasted a while didn't it?

Serves you right you lazy TV producers. I can't believe these clowns get paid money to take old TV shows and ruin them.

 

[23skidoo]

Sadly, this is why I rarely watch new shows during their first season.
If something turns out to be good, then I'll try to watch it on-line or DVD after the first season and catch up.

I hate to say it, but that's become my policy now too. I just have too many other things I'd rather be doing (like reading, playing a game, going out) than devoting time to a show that might die in 4 episodes. And even with shows that do survive, there are several I simply don't have time to watch now so have decided to watch after they conclude and are on DVD.

I wonder if the general decline in ratings for scripted shows is due to other people doing the same thing? Reality shows are rarely released to DVD (I don't see American Idol: The Complete Season 7 or Big Brother Season 3 at my local Best Buy, do you?) so people are more inclined to watch them live (or time-shifted on DV-R) because those shows "can't wait" (and since the endings of those shows tend to make news headlines and are harder to avoid, unlike, say, the resolution of Fringe's latest cliffhanger or whether Gibbs & Co. caught the bad guy on last week's NCIS).

In the case of Charlie's Angels, I saw this coming a mile away. There was some residual interest in Minka Kelly being in it, but the casting really didn't work for me. And for a show like Angels, casting is everything (2 words: Farrah Fawcett-Majors). I don't feel too bad for Kelly - she can always get work playing Leighton Meester's twin sister on Gossip Girl...

Alex

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I wonder if the general decline in ratings for scripted shows is due to other people doing the same thing?

It is for me. I've got a bunch of shows languishing in my queue - Terra Nova, Pan Am, Person of Interest, Vampire Diaries, and the whole season of The Clone Wars so far.

What will I watch tonight? The Walking Dead, because that one, I can't wait to see. Sons of Anarchy and Breaking Bad are also in the see-it-NOW category.

Sometimes, I even go so far as start watching a mere 15 minutes after they begin, which is enough time to still zap all the ads. That requires that I remember which night a show is on, and when I do that, that really proves how much I love it. For everything else, I just check the queue and watch things a week or two after they air. I can't remember what night most shows are on, or even what channel they're on, since the DVR handles all that shit.

Advertisers don't care about viewing past three days out. They consider the ads to be dead and useless beyond that time frame. So only the see-it-NOW shows matter anymore, and that is a high hurdle to meet.

As for Charlie's Angels, I didn't even bother to sample it. Looked like junk.

 

[Mr Pointy Ears]

Why spend so much money on a remake and then it flops big time,i knew this wouldnt last,but didnt think it would only do less than 12 epsiodes.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

They didn't know it would flop when they spent money on it!

Hawaii 5-0 is doing fine. So you can't say they should have known "remakes don't work."

 

[Guy Gardener]

Hawaii 50 and Charlies angels were two shows I couldn't make it past the 5 minute mark with...

House made a Charlie's Angels joke last night,

Coincidence or salt in the wound?