Cancelled shows of Tomorrow: The War on Chuck Lorre - Part 8

[Teelie]

That is the risk they get with jumping the gun thinking they have the next Game of Thrones or Walking Dead or Breaking Bad.

 

[squeekness]

I'm fearing the same may come to Cinemax's (HBO's sister station or something like that) Outcast which was given a 2nd season before the series even premiered. I've read that it's ratings aren't so hot.

EW magazine liked Outcast though they said Preacher was better.

 

[chamber-music]

Outcast is great but putting it on Friday nights does the show no favors.

I like Outcast and Preacher. I read both comic series and watch both shows. I enjoy Outcast slightly more than Preacher.

 

[X-Ray]

I also watch both and give a slight edge to Outcast overall. But last week Preacher had the better episode. As for the Friday night timeslot. It makes sense since Sunday is way too crowded at the moment. Saturday would have worked since only Starz series run that night.

 

[rashad]

I also watch both and give a slight edge to Outcast overall. But last week Preacher had the better episode. As for the Friday night timeslot. It makes sense since Sunday is way too crowded at the moment. Saturday would have worked since only Starz series run that night.

Starz shows are going to start airing on Sundays.

 

[Marvolo]

Starz shows are going to start airing on Sundays.

****ing hell. There is too much on Sundays!

Most people in the US have DVRs and premium networks dont rely on consumer ads so it shouldnt make any damn difference to them whether a person is watching their shows ondemand, live, or recorded. Why doesnt HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, and Starz spread their shows across the entire 7 day week? So what if a show has less viewers when the episode airs? Viewers will watch the episode when they can so the episode will still get just as many voewes. Either way people are still watching the episodes regardless of whether these networks cram everything across 7 nights or a single night.

And most DVR's only record 2-4 shows at a time so by cramming everything on the same night these networks are guaranteeing some of the shows wont be recorded.

 

[superhero]

add person of interest to the canceled shows!! that was one of my favorite shows!!

 

[Teelie]

I'm going to say Uncle Buck is another movie to television adaptation failure.

I struggled through three episodes and gave up ten minutes into the fourth one. It's every tired cliche of incompetent fathers/uncles and sitcoms in general you've seen. So far we have the father who can't take care of his kids, the mother who is a control freak, the carefree uncle who is just totally cool. The kids who "test" their nannies/mannies to see if they are up to the task. There was nothing particularly good about this show.

You could replace them with virtually any other sitcom in the past 40 years and have probably seen that episode before.

The episode I quit on is the one where the control-freak mother who is perfect is confronted by a past rival who bested her, and now she has to best that rival. I didn't even bother finishing it because I was so sick of it.

 

[Shifty]

****ing hell. There is too much on Sundays!

Most people in the US have DVRs and premium networks dont rely on consumer ads so it shouldnt make any damn difference to them whether a person is watching their shows ondemand, live, or recorded. Why doesnt HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, and Starz spread their shows across the entire 7 day week? So what if a show has less viewers when the episode airs? Viewers will watch the episode when they can so the episode will still get just as many voewes. Either way people are still watching the episodes regardless of whether these networks cram everything across 7 nights or a single night.

And most DVR's only record 2-4 shows at a time so by cramming everything on the same night these networks are guaranteeing some of the shows wont be recorded.

With 400+ scripted shows available to watch throughout the year it does cause a traffic jam. There's less competition on Fridays but less eyeballs watching TV. The subscription channels do take in repeats and on-demand but even that wasn't enough for Vinyl. They spent $100 million on the first season, for the amount of cumulative viewers it earned (and probably lost HBO subscribers) it's best to take that $100 million and order 4 shows that bring in 4 different audiences or has people keeping their subscriptions longer.

For every smart move by HBO (Veep, Silicon Valley, Last Week Tonight) there's two dumb ones. They need to not be constrained of airing 2 hours of original scripted programming 40 weeks of the year. They need comedies and dramas on Monday, on Tuesday, etc. That's when people are watching Netflix shows.

They've got new management and will hopefully stop ordering shows that would be hits in 2007 but are duds in 2016.

I think Outcast will stick around for a second season as Cinemax only has Quarry on the bench ready to go this fall and there's been no movement on The Knick's third season which may be spring 2017 now. Doesn't seem like an expensive show to produce, the bidding war for it may have been costly. Banshee just ended and their other shows in development won't be ready until late next year at the earliest.

 

[terry78]

Sunday is the biggest night for tv, it's been a staple for years. People are gearing up for Monday but they're at home with the tv on while doing so.

 

[chamber-music]

I think Outcast will stick around for a second season as Cinemax only has Quarry on the bench ready to go this fall and there's been no movement on The Knick's third season which may be spring 2017 now.

I thought The Knick was done.

 

[squeekness]

I thought The Knick was done.

I had heard that it was "probably going to be done", but nothing actually official.

 

[Marvolo]

Sunday is the biggest night for tv, it's been a staple for years. People are gearing up for Monday but they're at home with the tv on while doing so.

With DVR they can watch their shows whenever it's convenient for them. Premium networks need to stop thinking like it's the 90s when they had to actually worry about when people are watching live. Premium Networks should spread their shows evenly throughout the week (24/7) and let the viewer record the shows and decide when they want to watch. The more evenly spread out the shows are the more likely viewers can record all the things they want to record. For people that don't have dvr there is on demand.

 

[halo10]

Supergirl Ordered to Series

I haven't sat down to watch every episodes, but the ones I got a glimpse on seem like it was fairly enticing. I'm hoping get to watch It on some streaming show soon (Netflix ? Hulu ?)

Ditto for NBC's cancelled Constantine.

 

[wiegeabo]

SG is one of those shows with a rough first month or so, with episodes feeling rushed. Then they start finding their footing and it begins to come together nicely.

 

[Sawyer]

Rob Lowe Joins CBS' Code Black as New Series Regular

Post-Grinder and Parks & Rec, this really confused me, but then I remembered that he was on The West Wing for, like, five seasons or so.

 

[Blue42]

ABC Cancels Uncle Buck After One Season

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

good.... never COULD get into it... I won't miss it in the least...

 

[TheCommissioner]

Syfy cancels 'Hunters'

 

[rashad]

Hunters - Cancelled by Syfy

It's game over for Syfy's Hunters.

The NBCUniversal-owned cable network has canceled the straight-to-series adaptation of Whitley Strieber's best-selling novel Alien Hunter, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The 13-episode drama was first put in development in October 2013 and picked up to series in September 2014 without a cast attached.

Hunters bowed to little fanfare in April, drawing 540,000 total viewers and was panned by critics (it has a zero rating on Rotten Tomatoes). Through 12 episodes, it has averaged a dismal 316,000 viewers. Monday's season finale will now serve as a series finale.

Hunters is a rare miss for Syfy of late. The cabler has focused heavily in the past few years to reinvent itself with a focus on more traditional science-fiction fare along the lines of critical favorite Battlestar Galactica. Syfy's recent success stories include critical darling 12 Monkeys (renewed for a third, yet smaller season), The Magicians, The Expanse, Z Nation, Killjoys and acquisitions Dark Matter and Wynonna Earp. (A decision on Wynonna Earp has not yet been determined.) Up next, Syfy has anthology Channel Zero due in October and Incorporated, set for the fall.

 

[Sithborg]

Not too surprising since the shunted it off to 1 am.

 

[Teelie]

I never even heard of this series before.

 

[wiegeabo]

I remember seeing a commercial once or twice. And then promptly forgetting them.

 

[rashad]

I started to watch it and couldn't get into it. It's definitely a rare miss for Syfy of late. They have a pretty solid lineup of series that I watch.

 

[Shifty]

I thought The Knick was done.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/the-knick-season-three-steven-soderbergh-1201675175/