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'Terra Nova' Renewal Could Depend On Mid-Season Flop

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The decision on whether or not to renew "Terra Nova" is no longer up to the big-budget dinosaur epic to perform. It now all depends on Fox's mid-season schedule to not perform.

During Sunday's Television Critics Association winter press tour, Fox president Kevin Reilly said that "Terra Nova" was a strong family show for the network, but it is expensive to make, and the show didn't necessarily meet audience expectations.

Yet, the fact that the show has not been cancelled yet is a good sign. Only as long as Fox has little luck in the shows it plans to premiere mid-season. That might mean genre fans who love "Terra Nova" may have to bet against new shows, like J.J. Abrams' upcoming "Alcatraz," to ensure there will be more prehistoric times in the network's future.



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I swear if Fringe and Terra Nova get cancelled im done with Fox. I just go back to reading books. Whats the point of having cable tv when their is nothing and i mean nothing on.
 
Isn't Fringe pretty much assumed to end this season?

As to Terra Nova I just can't muster up much more than a weak "meh" of interest. There could be a good show there, buried under all the rubbish, but it'll take a major shake up of the writers and producers for that show to emerge, and I can't see that happening, even if it does get another season.

Plus they have a huge structural problem on the show to overcome. The Shannons are the crux of the show, and they are the weakest element of the show by far. Worse, all the best episodes of the first season were not about the Shannons(although they were shoehorned in awkwardly). How can you make a show better if you're unwilling to admit that the core of it is weak?
 
I was done with Fox when they cancelled Alien Nation, Space Above and Beyond and Firefly. And yet I came back for Terra Nova.
 
TV's a business. Terra Nova is the most expensive weekly show ever made, has been heavily advertised, and (AFAIK) aired without network meddling of the order -- and the ratings have been weak. That's a recipe for cancellation, and it has nothing to do with being on the FOX Network.
 
I'm just crossing my fingers-but based on my own personal track record, TN is doomed.

Loved Jericho.
Loved Journeyman.
Loved Sarah Connor.
Are you noticing a trend here? :(
 
Terra Nova certainly isn't the best show on television, but it does have a certain charm to it. I'd love another season, but even if it doesn't get one, at least it has a satisfactory ending. There are worse fates for a show.

Mind you, it would help if they dropped all the family melodrama and just made it a fun campy show in which Commander Lang journeys out into the forest each week riding his triceratops steed and gets into barehanded fights against velociraprtors. And time travelling Nazis, also riding triceratops steeds.
 
The Wormhole said:
Terra Nova certainly isn't the best show on television, but it does have a certain charm to it. I'd love another season, but even if it doesn't get one, at least it has a satisfactory ending. There are worse fates for a show.

Mind you, it would help if they dropped all the family melodrama and just made it a fun campy show in which Commander Lang journeys out into the forest each week riding his triceratops steed and gets into barehanded fights against velociraprtors. And time travelling Nazis, also riding triceratops steeds.
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So basically a live action version of Dino-riders then?
 
After the rather impressive season finale, I'm actually looking forward to a second season. It may not be the deepest or most sophisticated show, but the characters are all really likeable and engaging, and I just found it really fun to watch.

Hell, by the end even the cutesy Shannon family was starting to grow on me. Lol.
 
Bah Humbug said:
I was done with Fox when they cancelled Alien Nation, Space Above and Beyond and Firefly. And yet I came back for Terra Nova.
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Dark Angel, Tru Calling... Hell, I go as far back as Strange Luck. I still tune in when Fox starts a genre show I might like, but I KNOW, going in, that they'll surely cancel it after one or two seasons.
 
Shouldnt a show only be bought back if its on its own merit, not because everything else is shit. Even more so with a show like Terra Nova it isnt cheap to make, why continuing paying for an overly expensive under preforming show?
 
Silent_Bob said:
The Wormhole said:
Terra Nova certainly isn't the best show on television, but it does have a certain charm to it. I'd love another season, but even if it doesn't get one, at least it has a satisfactory ending. There are worse fates for a show.

Mind you, it would help if they dropped all the family melodrama and just made it a fun campy show in which Commander Lang journeys out into the forest each week riding his triceratops steed and gets into barehanded fights against velociraprtors. And time travelling Nazis, also riding triceratops steeds.
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So basically a live action version of Dino-riders then?
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That sounds more like a SyFy series than anything that would attract a broadcast audience.

wamdue said:
Shouldnt a show only be bought back if its on its own merit, not because everything else is shit.
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Renewals and cancellations are always made in context of a) what do we have now? and b) what could we put in its place? Those decisions are never made in the abstract, and it should be obvious why.
 
wamdue said:
Shouldnt a show only be bought back if its on its own merit, not because everything else is shit. Even more so with a show like Terra Nova it isnt cheap to make, why continuing paying for an overly expensive under preforming show?
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I'm assuming, they're not looking at it as hopeless, but, more of "We wish it would've done better, and it's worth trying again with some changes based upon S1 feedback, if something else doesn't knock it off the lsit of possibiities"

I think they have a good core, and change the a few things and make it better. The "Season 1 boring Universe and arc building" has already been gotten through, so, there's every chance they make a go of it with a S2 (Of course, there is no guarantee, and a Season 2 may not attract new viewers, and may even lose some of the existing ones, but, I think there's a chance it could be made good). Also, if they do decide to go with a Season 2, rather than run with another show, they'll likely cut back on the budget (Alot of the S1 budget was probably spent on the massively expensive Pilot)
 
For a scifi show they actually got a pretty decent audience (and one that stuck with it all the way through, which is even more rare).

The only problem is the thing cost so much that they needed a lot more viewers than they were probably ever going to get.
 
You know how meth is bad, but once you start, you can't stop and it feels less and less good the more you take it but you know it will be worse if you stop and you just pray for some external source like the pigs might shoot your dealer a thousand times so you don't actually have to make a decision that will cause you so much pain.
 
Guy Gardener said:
You know how meth is bad, but once you start, you can't stop and it feels less and less good the more you take it but you know it will be worse if you stop and you just pray for some external source like the pigs might shoot your dealer a thousand times so you don't actually have to make a decision that will cause you so much pain.
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I burned all the Episodes to DVD, if you need a hit off the Terra Nova pipe :devil:
 
As much as I wanted to like Terra Nova from the outset, the first few episodes left me feeling let down. (I guess my expectations were too high and skewed in a different direction) By the end of the season however, I was interested and invested in the character dynamics and where they might lead.

So it's not the show I originally wanted, but it turned into something that I like and enjoy despite that.

Now if it comes down to a coin-flip between Terra Nova and Fringe... bye bye Hope Plaza.
 
Really dig Fringe, Terra Nova is OK so it's no contest which show I have to choose from. Besides from looking at the Terra Nova and given Spielberg's track record with genre shows I get the feeling that even if it survives to a second season that it will bleed more viewers and get canceled.
 
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