Bryan Fuller to remake The Munsters for NBC

[Paradox1]

Damn that sucks

 

[SuperBatman]

Ugh I was really looking forward to seeing more.


Sigh

 

[Matt Mortem]

I just don't understand the thought process behind this decision. Everything was so ****ing last minute that it's a minor miracle that the show did even half as well as it did. Idiots.

I agree, I think NBC made up their mind as soon as they saw that what Fuller had cooked up didn't match their preconceived notions about what "New Munsters" would look like.

I'm pretty sure there was no force on Earth that could have saved this show once the network made up it's mind. That's a damn shame too. Mockingbird Lane was actually really good.

 

[Sawyer]

Maybe Syfy is paying attention... *crosses fingers*

 

[Matt Mortem]

SyFy would be a good fit for it, but I don't know if they'd back the budget it'd need.

 

[flickchick85]

Yeah, I think SyFy's out for budget reasons alone. This one's dead. Sad, once I finally saw it, I loved it.

 

[bored]

Well, that sucks...

 

[DrDoom]

NOW will you change your sig Sawyer?!?

 

[Sawyer]

Make me.

 

[Prison Mike]

I wasn't impressed with show. It's probably for the best.

 

[Shifty]

That was the 2nd most watched episode of Grimm, with the pilot being the most watched. Order 9 more episodes to pair with the last half of Grimm when it returns in March. They actually could have a decent Friday lineup and win in the demo for the night. So that would add to their victories on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Suddenly they only have to strengthen Wednesdays and Thursdays. I guess they didn't like the extra scripts and their decisions with The Voice and Revolution worked so I guess they feel they know what they're doing.

 

[Sawyer]

I wasn't impressed with show. It's probably for the best.

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[Prison Mike]

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[Sgt.Pepper]

Son of a *****. The realist in me (kind of) knew that the show wouldn't move forward but I was still holding out hope that NBC might changed its mind. Despite a few rough edges, it showed a lot of promise.

 

[Lasirius]

I really enjoyed the pilot, it's a shame it's not coming back. Hope other networks are paying attention since the show did good in the first place.

 

[Primal Slayer]

I think the budget was its downfall. I guess they thought it was to much for its ratings (which had the show been cheaper they probably wouldve picked it up given its ratings)

 

[Sawyer]

The budget is the only acceptable reason I can think of. I loved it, but looking at it, there's no reason it should've cost that much. Still, they could've effectively trimmed it down. I don't see why it would need a bigger budget than something like Once Upon a Time.

 

[Primal Slayer]

The special effects they had were better than OUAT, and OUAT relies a lot more on green screen then anything. Where as this tried to use a lot of special effects.

 

[Sawyer]

The special effects they had were better than OUAT, and OUAT relies a lot more on green screen then anything. Where as this tried to use a lot of special effects.

Ehhh...

 

[Majik1387]

The special effects they had were better than OUAT, and OUAT relies a lot more on green screen then anything. Where as this tried to use a lot of special effects.

While I agree, that's really not saying much at all.

 

[Sawyer]

The effects in OUAT serve their purpose.

 

[Majik1387]

Same can be said for many shows, but honestly can't think of any show where any CGI/green screen effects look for lack of a better word/term, praise-worthy.

 

[Sawyer]

Eh, I don't disagree, but at least that keeps it from being the special effects pissing contest that alot of the big-budget movies are these days.

 

[Shifty]

Greenblatt twists the knife in the back and today said that NBC is still opening to doing another pilot and getting a Munsters reboot on the air.

Deadline:

Just 10 days ago NBC passed on its Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane, which had been in the works at NBC for two years under two regimes. But the network is not closing the door to bringing the family of monsters from the classic sitcom back. “I won’t say we won’t do another version of The Muensters again,” NBC chief Bob Greenblatt said after the network’s executive session at TCA. He addressed the reasons for the decision not to proceed with Bryan Fuller’s Mockingbird Lane despite the pilot, which carried a reported $10-million price tag, doing decent ratings business when it aired as a Halloween special in October.

“We just decided that it didn’t hold together well enough to yield a series,” Greenblatt said. “It looked beautiful and original and creative, but it just all ultimately didn’t come together…, it just didn’t ultimately creatively all work.” The pilot featured a cast led by Jerry O’Connell as family patriarch Herman Munster, Portia de Rossi as his wife Lily, Eddie Izzard as Grandpa, and Charity Wakefield as cousin Marilyn. “We felt great about that cast,” Greenblatt said. “But we tried to make it not just a sitcom. We tried to make it an hour, which ultimately has more dramatic weight than a half-hour. It’s hard to calibrate how much weirdness vs. supernatural vs. family story. I just think we didn’t get the mix right.”

 

[HighFivingMF]

So...

"Iunno."