the numbers are not all accurate or complete, but a few of the entries are interesting.
For example, Deal or No Deal is listed as having 45 episodes left. So, I guess that NBC has enough of that on order to fill their whole schedule, as needed. Las vegas and Medium are the only scripted NBC shows with more than a half dozen episodes left.
Meanwhile, The Apprentice Celebrity Edition can act as an infomercial for Gene Simmons' Family Jewels, which according to the list has 24 episodes remaining. <--- mentioned this one just for TV-aholic.
Also interesting in that the most a scripted CBS show has is 7 and that's Jericho. They best hope the numbers for those repeats really hold up or it will be a very older skewing new year. Unlike ABC and NBC, who basically revamped every night and Fox which will have the Death Star as well as original stuff airing on every weeknight for the most part, CBS will have Survivor, Big Brother filling 3 hours, Jericho, 2 comedies, 48 Hours, and 60 Minutes. Power of 10 and TAR will of course also be along to help out I assume but still, just 10 hours maximum of original stuff will only hurt.
the numbers are not all accurate or complete, but a few of the entries are interesting.
For example, Deal or No Deal is listed as having 45 episodes left. So, I guess that NBC has enough of that on order to fill their whole schedule, as needed. Las vegas and Medium are the only scripted NBC shows with more than a half dozen episodes left.
Meanwhile, The Apprentice Celebrity Edition can act as an infomercial for Gene Simmons' Family Jewels, which according to the list has 24 episodes remaining. <--- mentioned this one just for TV-aholic.
Most interesting to see that there are 6 remaining produced episodes of Viva Laughlin...Saturday nights at 10 pm perhaps, so that 48 Hours Mystery can do work elsewhere during the week? Wouldn't that be a New Years treat!
And CBS also has in its cupboard odds and sods of series from last season:
-> Waterfront: a one-hour drama of which I believe there were 4 produced episodes. If I were Mr. Moonves, I would fashion these four hours into a little miniseries for March. -> 3 lbs: 3 unaired episodes of thsi one-hour medical drama about brain surgeons (the three aired episodes all gained significantly larger numbers at 10 pm than Cane did this season). I would put these into the fray when Jericho finishes its run, and if they rate as well as last season, then I would throw into the mix encores of last seasons episodes. -> Creature Comforts: There are 3 remaining episodes from last summers order. I would put these in for a three week run on Wednesdays at 8 pm or Saturdays at 8 pm, and play the already aired episodes as an 8:30 pm encore. -> Smith: There are 3 remaining episodes... with a cogent "previously on Smith" opener, these might play-off well re-edited together as a three-hour movie.
So, right there you have 11.5 hours of fresh episodes that CBS can add into its programming mix at no additional cost to shareholders.
the numbers are not all accurate or complete, but a few of the entries are interesting.
For example, Deal or No Deal is listed as having 45 episodes left. So, I guess that NBC has enough of that on order to fill their whole schedule, as needed. Las vegas and Medium are the only scripted NBC shows with more than a half dozen episodes left.
Meanwhile, The Apprentice Celebrity Edition can act as an infomercial for Gene Simmons' Family Jewels, which according to the list has 24 episodes remaining. <--- mentioned this one just for TV-aholic.
Most interesting to see that there are 6 remaining produced episodes of Viva Laughlin...Saturday nights at 10 pm perhaps, so that 48 Hours Mystery can do work elsewhere during the week? Wouldn't that be a New Years treat!
And CBS also has in its cupboard odds and sods of series from last season:
-> Waterfront: a one-hour drama of which I believe there were 4 produced episodes. If I were Mr. Moonves, I would fashion these four hours into a little miniseries for March. -> 3 lbs: 3 unaired episodes of thsi one-hour medical drama about brain surgeons (the three aired episodes all gained significantly larger numbers at 10 pm than Cane did this season). I would put these into the fray when Jericho finishes its run, and if they rate as well as last season, then I would throw into the mix encores of last seasons episodes. -> Creature Comforts: There are 3 remaining episodes from last summers order. I would put these in for a three week run on Wednesdays at 8 pm or Saturdays at 8 pm, and play the already aired episodes as an 8:30 pm encore. -> Smith: There are 3 remaining episodes... with a cogent "previously on Smith" opener, these might play-off well re-edited together as a three-hour movie.
So, right there you have 11.5 hours of fresh episodes that CBS can add into its programming mix at no additional cost to shareholders.
The problem with those shows dumont is that they're better off airing repeats of CSI and the minnions than those, which I'm sure is exactly what will happen.
Originally posted by mushu_jj: Also interesting in that the most a scripted CBS show has is 7 and that's Jericho.
"Old Christine" has 8. But, yeah, when you don't really greenlight many scripted midseason replacements, it tends to happen that you don't have too many of them.
(P.S. Brian Ford Sullivan apparently just pulled most of those numbers out of his ass. Just skimming through the list of CBS shows, most of the ones that don't say TBD are off by 1 or 2 episodes -- and it's even worse for other nets. Maybe dumont sent in the list.)
I love your sense of humor Dumont. I can envision a Viva Laughlin vs. back to back Joey episodes on NBC being the match up of the decade. And ABC can throw in Emily's Reasons Why Not and Jake In Progress. And FOX can finally show us those great unaired episodes of Anchorwoman.
And by the way, CBS can also dig into their vaults and air the the Steven Bochco produced sitcom from 1996 called Public Morals. 13 eps were produced and only one aired. This would attract astronomical ratings if promoted right.
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Originally posted by dumont: Most interesting to see that there are 6 remaining produced episodes of Viva Laughlin...Saturday nights at 10 pm perhaps, so that 48 Hours Mystery can do work elsewhere during the week? Wouldn't that be a New Years treat!
And CBS also has in its cupboard odds and sods of series from last season:
-> Waterfront: a one-hour drama of which I believe there were 4 produced episodes. If I were Mr. Moonves, I would fashion these four hours into a little miniseries for March. -> 3 lbs: 3 unaired episodes of thsi one-hour medical drama about brain surgeons (the three aired episodes all gained significantly larger numbers at 10 pm than Cane did this season). I would put these into the fray when Jericho finishes its run, and if they rate as well as last season, then I would throw into the mix encores of last seasons episodes. -> Creature Comforts: There are 3 remaining episodes from last summers order. I would put these in for a three week run on Wednesdays at 8 pm or Saturdays at 8 pm, and play the already aired episodes as an 8:30 pm encore. -> Smith: There are 3 remaining episodes... with a cogent "previously on Smith" opener, these might play-off well re-edited together as a three-hour movie.
So, right there you have 11.5 hours of fresh episodes that CBS can add into its programming mix at no additional cost to shareholders.
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If we are fashioning an evening centered upon a Battle of the Network Unaired Episodes, then we must include MyNetworkTV and "American Heiress", its one and only series to have unaired episodes sitting in Mr. Meidels credenza, and also include The CW where Miss Ostroff could programme Mr. Darren Star's "Runaway" at 8 pm, an unaired "Living with Fran" at 9 pm (from her WB drawer) and an unaired "The Random Years" (from her very empty UPN drawer...UPN was pretty tenacious about airing every episode they paid for).
ION doesn't produce originals (and there is no such thing as an unaired unoriginal), but PAX did, and PAX has a very few unaired episodes that are probably gathering dust in some cupboard...there are supposed to be a couple of "Palmetto Pointe" episodes that were finished in post-production but never aired.
The only other network with unaired episodes is DuMont, but sadly, whatever remained unaired, along with most of what was aired, was tossed into New York harbour in the 70s in a crime against culture.
So DuMont is excused, but who would air the DuMont legacy anyways? Present company excluded, of course.
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Originally posted by xwiseguyx: I love your sense of humor Dumont. I can envision a Viva Laughlin vs. back to back Joey episodes on NBC being the match up of the decade. And ABC can throw in Emily's Reasons Why Not and Jake In Progress. And FOX can finally show us those great unaired episodes of Anchorwoman.
And by the way, CBS can also dig into their vaults and air the the Steven Bochco produced sitcom from 1996 called Public Morals. 13 eps were produced and only one aired. This would attract astronomical ratings if promoted right.
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Originally posted by dumont: Most interesting to see that there are 6 remaining produced episodes of Viva Laughlin...Saturday nights at 10 pm perhaps, so that 48 Hours Mystery can do work elsewhere during the week? Wouldn't that be a New Years treat!
And CBS also has in its cupboard odds and sods of series from last season:
-> Waterfront: a one-hour drama of which I believe there were 4 produced episodes. If I were Mr. Moonves, I would fashion these four hours into a little miniseries for March. -> 3 lbs: 3 unaired episodes of thsi one-hour medical drama about brain surgeons (the three aired episodes all gained significantly larger numbers at 10 pm than Cane did this season). I would put these into the fray when Jericho finishes its run, and if they rate as well as last season, then I would throw into the mix encores of last seasons episodes. -> Creature Comforts: There are 3 remaining episodes from last summers order. I would put these in for a three week run on Wednesdays at 8 pm or Saturdays at 8 pm, and play the already aired episodes as an 8:30 pm encore. -> Smith: There are 3 remaining episodes... with a cogent "previously on Smith" opener, these might play-off well re-edited together as a three-hour movie.
So, right there you have 11.5 hours of fresh episodes that CBS can add into its programming mix at no additional cost to shareholders.
Pax also had a one episode game show hosted by Jim McCrell in 2000 called Genesis:The Family Bible Game Show. It was some kind of quiz show where two teams of four, each representing a different church, competed to answer Biblical trivia questions to win money for their church and a trip to Israel. I'm sure that would score well too!
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Originally posted by dumont: If we are fashioning an evening centered upon a Battle of the Network Unaired Episodes, then we must include MyNetworkTV and "American Heiress", its one and only series to have unaired episodes sitting in Mr. Meidels credenza, and also include The CW where Miss Ostroff could programme Mr. Darren Star's "Runaway" at 8 pm, an unaired "Living with Fran" at 9 pm (from her WB drawer) and an unaired "The Random Years" (from her very empty UPN drawer...UPN was pretty tenacious about airing every episode they paid for).
Tell that to "Under One Roof," "As If," "Hitz," "Head over Heels," "DiResta," "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer," "The Beat," "Freedom," "Level 9," "Haunted," "The Mullets," "Jake 2.0," "Sex, Love & Secrets" and "Get This Party Started." (But please don't air another episode of any of them if you do tell them.)
UPN practically aired more reruns of "Level 9" and "Hitz" than they did new episodes. Such was the programming genius of Tom Nunan. Why spend all that money airing a new one and paying twice the royalties of a repeat when our eleven viewers won't know the difference!
Pax actually did have a good legal show called Just Cause about a woman whose husband left her and took her daughter or something like that. Anyways, PAX didn't end up paying for some episodes and the canadian company that produced it got torked and pulled the series. It was an interesting development. PAX couldn't even air repeats from that point forward of the aired episodes. As for Dumont's Palmetto Point, I believe that only produced a few episodes as the company that produced it also ran out of money. It was really a nickel and dime operation if there ever was one.
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Originally posted by xwiseguyx: Pax also had a one episode game show hosted by Jim McCrell in 2000 called Genesis:The Family Bible Game Show. It was some kind of quiz show where two teams of four, each representing a different church, competed to answer Biblical trivia questions to win money for their church and a trip to Israel. I'm sure that would score well too!
Yes and she spent some time in jail and that's how she became a lawyer and the whole reason she was in jail was because this husband took off and left her as dead meat for some shady business practice. It was quite interesting and then she was always on the pursuit of justice for those less fortunate as well as tracking down her dirty rotten ex. It was cheap and often cliche, but not a half bad way to spend the 10pm est. hour on Sunday nights (I believe it did well mostly because it aired behind "PAX hit": Sue Thomas FBEye about the blind woman in the FBI. Anyways, money issues tightened the budget the next season and Doc with Billy Ray Cyrus and Sue Thomas made the cut for shortened seasons while Just Cause did not.
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Originally posted by xwiseguyx: So it sounded like Legal Action regarding a show about Legal Action. Interesting Mushu.
Originally posted by mushu_jj: As for Dumont's Palmetto Point, I believe that only produced a few episodes as the company that produced it also ran out of money. It was really a nickel and dime operation if there ever was one.
Oh, God. I actually watched the premiere of this steaming load of you-know-what. It was the worst thing I've ever seen in my life! And not an entertaining "so bad it's good" like "October Road," either. It was just plain bad! Looked like some first-year film student's thesis project -- except that no first-year film student could make something that bad. Apparently, it really was a nickel and dime op. Literally. Many people who worked on it said they never got paid. The production company shut the thing down after 5 episodes (of a 17-ep order), and for the life of me, I can't remember PAX ever airing anything beyond the pilot. Although they did show that more than once. And once was plenty, believe me.
For anybody who missed it when it was on and wants to get a sense of just how bad we're talking, watch the NBC.com show, "Coastal Dreams." It was ALMOST up to the quality of that.
