What Are "V"'s Chanches For A Second Season?

[Truth_Seeker]

What Are "V"'s Chances For A Second Season?

I really like this show so I hope it gets a second season, but I realise that it's all up to the network and networks often tend to cancel good Sci-Fi shows. I know very little about TV ratings, so I wonder what are the chances for a second season?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V_(2009_TV_series)_episodes#U.S._Nielsen_ratings

OOPS!!! A typing error in the thread title! I would appreciate a little help from a moderator! Thanks!

 

[Amasov]

Like yourself, I really like this show also and I'm nervous we won't see it come back after this season. The ratings are dropping off week after week and you would think that being placed after LOST, that would've been a prime spot for any series to do well.

 

[melancholymecha]

I dont think the chances are good, there's just no hype for it. And for a sci-fi show on the networks, thats deadly.

 

[Tom]

Scifi on ABC this year does not look to promising for next year, Flashforward is also in danger and Lost is in it's final season.

 

[Nomad V]

After watching a few episodes with others I'd say ZERO AND NONE are the best chances for season 2.

 

[AviTrek]

The only hope V has is if ABC decides they need at least one Sci Fi show next year. In that case V probably gets the nod over Flash Forward. But if the shows are all judged on their own then odds are V and Flash Forward are both over.

 

[Peter the Younger]

The only hope V has is if ABC decides they need at least one Sci Fi show next year. In that case V probably gets the nod over Flash Forward. But if the shows are all judged on their own then odds are V and Flash Forward are both over.

I expect they will keep one of them around, with probably a half-season order. If I had to guess, it would be V; Flashforward has fallen farther, and the plot arc sort of locks them into more of the same. V, on the other hand, could be retooled pretty easily.

 

[Starbreaker]

Zip nada zero.

 

[Level 2 Diagnostic]

Re: What Are "V"'s Chances For A Second Season?

networks often tend to cancel good Sci-Fi shows.

What does that have to do with V?

 

[Truth_Seeker]

Re: What Are "V"'s Chances For A Second Season?

networks often tend to cancel good Sci-Fi shows.

What does that have to do with V?

I see what you mean. You're implying that "V" is so good that it has nothing to worry about.

 

[Guy Gardener]

V can be saved with the over use of a single word, and that word is "sexfood".

Once Sexfood is the new noun for "human being" and we see the V eating what they fuck as they fuck...

Not good family TV?

But it happens on True Blood all the time!



Even on Buffy.

Riely Finn paying vampire prostitutes to suck him out a little.

Fun for all the family.

V is doomed.

You know what might save them?

If the producers brought the rights to Mars Attacks too.

Mars attacks the V.

Whoever wins, man loses.

My, that sounds familiar?

And then they come back 500 years later and it's Mars and V attacks the Planet if the Apes!!!

 

[Jax]

V has a slim chance to be picked up and IMO will not return though ABC handling of the show is the real reason for the ratings fall.

 

[Aragorn]

V can go to premium cable and require Laura Vandervoort to walk around naked every episode. That could help ratings.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

you would think that being placed after LOST, that would've been a prime spot for any series to do well.

Yeah but watching V after Lost is pretty depressing. The gulf in quality is just too wide.

Lastest ratings - second in the demo for the timeslot, and hanging onto more than 60% of Lost's audience. I still dunno about its chances. I think a lot depends on what ABC is going to try out among its pilots to fill the cult/genre niche.

No Ordinary Family is the obvious contender, but I've heard some worrysome noise that it's not turning out as well as you'd expect from the nice cast they have lined up.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

V can go to premium cable and require Laura Vandervoort to walk around naked every episode. That could help ratings.

I like the way you think.

 

[Aragorn]

you would think that being placed after LOST, that would've been a prime spot for any series to do well.

Yeah but watching V after Lost is pretty depressing. The gulf in quality is just too wide.

If you put V on after Smallville, people will be amazed at how great it is!

Of course, on The CW, the show would revolve around Tyler and Lisa because everyone else is too old. Maybe they'd recast Tyler's mom with Mandy Moore.

 

[23skidoo]

Lastest ratings - second in the demo for the timeslot, and hanging onto more than 60% of Lost's audience. I still dunno about its chances.

I think those numbers are pretty good, actually. Considering this is SF on a major big-4 network, that's actually encouraging news that the series stands a chance for a pick-up. I agree ABC has mishandled the show, but at the same time I'd like to believe that someone at one of the networks has gotten the picture that one reason why a lot of people don't watch these shows has nothing to do with quality issues, but the fact they assume from the outset it will be cancelled in a few episodes, so they don't bother investing the time.

Right now, V is the only American network show I actually make time to watch on its actual broadcast night, so I'd hate to see it go. I think the story is interesting and while I'll agree Morena Baccarin, though hot, hasn't quite reached the same level as Jane Badler, and the terrorist guy hasn't quite managed to cover Michael Ironside's stomping grounds, I'm still liking it better than the original series. I certainly want to see it last long enough for us to get the inevitable cameo by Marc Singer, Ironside, or Badler!

Alex

 

[RandyS]

V can go to premium cable and require Laura Vandervoort to walk around naked every episode. That could help ratings.

No, they would need somebody appealing for that.

 

[Hermiod]

I wouldn't say it has any chance at all. It's been a huge disappointment to me.

Oh well, another one for the scrapheap.

 

[Garak]

I'd say on par with Arsenal's chances of winning a trophy in the next 5 years.

It's dead.