TV Ratings (Wednesday 2nd November)
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Excellent numbers for Happy Endings and Revenge.
Harry's Law,the new Matlock.
ABC has given full season orders to Once Upon a Time, Last Man Standing, and Happy Endings and has ordered an additional five scripts for Pan Am.
Waste of $$$ right there
Not if you're a fan of quality TV. Or would you rather they waste their money on the usual sort of crap? They're bound to do that anyway.
Good for ABC, sticking their necks out to support a good show that happens to be ratings-challenged. Everyone jumps all over the evil broadcast networks when they fail to do that, so let's give them a little credit in the rare event when they actually behave like they give a shit about producing anything but pablum for the lowest-common denomenator mentality.
Good for ABC, sticking their necks out to support a good show that happens to be ratings-challenged. Everyone jumps all over the evil broadcast networks when they fail to do that, so let's give them a little credit in the rare event when they actually behave like they give a shit about producing anything but pablum for the lowest-common denomenator mentality.
They're just paying for some scripts. They aren't necessarily going to get shot. They want to know where it's going. They want to know if anything that might get an audience attracted to the show is going to happen.
This isn't sticking their necks out. Doing a whole season, THAT would be sticking their necks out.
Really? I think Pan Am is LCD fluff.
I don't. I think Mad Men is boring.
You know what the God of TV is? Breaking Bad. Is Pan Am better than Breaking Bad?
Good god no.
My point is people have different taste, and Pan Am is better than most of the shit on TV today, even though it will never see a 14th episode.
Good god no.
My point is people have different taste, and Pan Am is better than most of the shit on TV today, even though it will never see a 14th episode.
Yeah, Pan Am just looked like another shit show to me... I haven't even bothered to try it. Probably not gonna...
Good. Maybe this will finally teach David E. Kelley to stop turning all his shows into the umpteenth remake of "LA Law"
I understand the motivation... but, man, that's probably two years away... it is SOOO good.
Pan Am and Once Upon a Time should air back to back, so Pan Am can have the advantage of a series on the upswing. But who knows, maybe ABC will rectify their mistake. Why waste the lead in on a show that's on its way out?
It's on broadcast. What isn't LCD fluff? Pan Am isn't as disappointingly cookie-cutter as, say, Terra Nova, Person of Interest and Grimm. The only other halfway decent show I can find on broadcast is Once Upon a Time. In the depressing world of broadcast, any glimmer of quality or originality is worth singling out.
Oh come on! You know you can't compare cable and broadcast.
Put Breaking Bad on broadcast and (even assuming they don't censor the hell out of it, which of course they would), it wouldn't get anything near survival-level ratings. There's a good reason that there are no shows like that on broadcast.But yeah, Mad Men is boring. And it doesn't even get good ratings by cable standards. It would be a catastrophe on broadcast.
It doesn't reach the ratings heights of shows like The Walking Dead and True Blood, but Mad Men does get good ratings by cable standards.