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The following link provides info on which shows made it and which didn't.
How did your favourite shows fair? http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/05/19...0-so-far/19110
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Do i read that right? boston legal cancelled? No more denny Crane!
What a disgrace best show on tv by a mile, devastated. Last edited by Archilino; 21-05-2009 at 04:54 PM. |
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Well thats a good link if I was sitting at home watching American TV channels.
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Those American channels are the obvious source for the programs that get picked up by the local networks. The network designation has no relevance, the program title certainly does. Funny enough Boston Legal took plenty of shots at the networks in the closing episodes. Programs that actually rate well have been cancelled due to inappropriate timing or an age demographic that isn't the networks top desire. They mocked sued a network for exactly that. A show like “The Unit” had strong numbers in the +45 age group but it’s not what CBS wanted. Torrents. PVRs have changed the way ratings configure and the networks are pretty much to blame through scheduling and running repeats in prime time. People have had enough. Our industry reacted by showing new season programming so close to the US running that they hope people won't waste bandwidth with downloads. In the Boston Legal episode, they argued that the age the networks now target are the ages that don't watch programs completely, in that they text or twitter or laptop through an entire episode supposedly designed for them. In the end the most affluent age group, the group with money to spend in these times, gets ignored. They won that case but lost the battle.
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Boston Legal turned like The Simpsons have. Was great in the beginning but towards the the end went downhill, but alot faster.
It started out as a real good comedy surrounding the funny side of law, then I felt it went to more of a soap type program as if it should be played after the "The days of our life"... with all the love, marriage, relationship they introduced. 24, NCIS, Alias, JAG, M.A.S.H are all get straight to the point, action shows with a comedy side. God I miss JAG and Alias.
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cant believe they renewed LOST. does anyone even watch that show anymore??
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Star Trek TOS was cancelled, as was Firefly and a host of others that later became extremely popular whereas some of the long term rubbish (oprah, jerry springer, dr phil etc) is just banal beyond belief. |
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It does not help when Networks miss episodes, play them at obscure hours/times and expecting viewers to be telepathic and just KNOW when it will be on or let other shows encroach 15 to 30 minutes into scheduled times.
I don't know how many times I have set record for a show via EPG or whatever only to have some dingb@t reality show that no one really watches anyway; go overtime for seemingly no other reason than it can. I fill up the HDD with excess info because I have to record at least 1/2 to 1 hour after a show in the hope it does not get shifted. It's the reason I switch off networks and download via torrent or buy the whole series when it is cancelled after 2 seasons due to no interest because no one can find it on the network...blah...blah...vicious circle. And don't even get me started about Lost: It's like reading a Tom Clancy novel - starts out ok...then ten minutes later... ![]()
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Today, I don't watch live Aus TV. My TV is actually a computer monitor. 95% of the TV I watch I download, the other 5% I'll grab on a video capture card if I can be bothered. |
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Requires a bit of a brain to completely understand it. Something that most viewers of TV these days wouldn't be able to do, considering all they like to watch are the reality/competition/how not to be fat type shows etc etc... |
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Greys anatomy, terminator, battlestar galactica,stargate, all gone :(
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Spewin! Can't believe that they didn't give "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" a reprieve. Apparently it didn't have the ratings over in the US.
I would've thought they'd hold off until Terminator Salvation runs it's course. Yeah, I'm still getting over no more BSG! Sucks being a SciFi fan. Now, where am I at in my emotional response? as laid out in THIS post on the originally mentioned TV forum Quote:
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MY NAME IS EARL NBC 2.4 2.29 1.05 canceled
WHAT!!! How could they!!! :jab: Oh well at least Scrubs survived. Long live Dr Perry Cox!!! |
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Surprising. At least the American Re-makes of British shows (looks to Avatar) didn't make it. I couldn't watch the US Life on Mars.
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I download all my television because I gave up on the networks. Foxtel is another who give me the irrits. I like to watch National Geographic and Discovery channels for the engineering docos. But they always play the same god damn ones over and over. I am sick of learning about London's Heathrow airport and the bloddy Ferrari factory......
Whatever happened to Extreme Engineering? That was a good show........ |
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Lost is actually much better this season. No more completely unexplained stuff like previous seasons, it all gets looped back around and integrated back into the story. All you need is patience.
I'm with you Paxton. Although I do watch the American Life on Mars it didn't even hold a candle to the "real" series. I'm glad Dollhouse was renewed so it didn't end up the next Firefly. Now I just hope it comes to free to air TV or at least to DVD.
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The 2hr season finale was just GREAT and it really reveals ALLOT. Season 5 has really been about tying everything in and has progressed the story toward its conclusion. Something the writers had to do considering they only recently decided the end date of the show. 1 more season. Will really miss it that's for sure. |
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Kath and Kim didn't last that long.
The american version was terrible to begin with, I didn't see it lasting.
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Hmmm...no word on He-Man returning.
Bummer.
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Scrubs, Bones & Criminal Minds survived, im happy.
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Scrubs has sort of finished on their own terms. Was an article about it in the paper a few weeks ago. The network are talking that they might bring it back with a new cast because the current cast is finished.
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