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Originally posted by spotupj:
Has there been any indication that ABC is even considering bringing back Duel? It was removed from abc.com's primetime list pretty soon after it finished.

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Originally posted by Chimera:

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Originally posted by spotupj:
Has there been any indication that ABC is even considering bringing back Duel? It was removed from abc.com's primetime list pretty soon after it finished.

Their list pretty much shows only active shows currently on the air or ones that have been slated for a specific upcoming timeslot (such as LOST and Eli Stone, for example). It does not list shows that are not on the schedule.

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Originally posted by xwiseguyx:
I wish I knew the answer too, but my gut tells me Duel is done. I think ABC was expecting Millionaire type ratings for some reason. (after all, Millionaire originally debuted in August when numbers are typically lower.)

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Originally posted by Chimera:

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Originally posted by spotupj:
Has there been any indication that ABC is even considering bringing back Duel? It was removed from abc.com's primetime list pretty soon after it finished.

Their list pretty much shows only active shows currently on the air or ones that have been slated for a specific upcoming timeslot (such as LOST and Eli Stone, for example). It does not list shows that are not on the schedule.

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Originally posted by Chimera:

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Originally posted by exmalibu:
Not all of that list has produced episodes yet. The Mole is coming back for summer, not right now for example. Dance Machine is a 1 week special. Duel was hardly a hit.

Duel doesn't need to be a hit -- it pulled in 8 million viewers in the reduced holiday viewing of late December. I believe it's only a few minor tweaks away from being a consistent performer, and even unchanged it can plug a hole on ABC's Monday or Tuesday schedules. For example replacing NFTU and October Road (both of which have been pulling under 4 million viewers) with 90 minute episodes of Duel on Mondays is an easy way to improve ABC's Monday performance significantly. An even better method would be the following:

8:00 Dance War
9:00 Duel
10:00 Wife Swap

Both Dance War and Duel would work better as 60 minute shows (less filler), and Wife Swap needs to come back to Mondays where it has always been successful and escape the AI slaughter on Wednesdays...

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Originally posted by Chimera:

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Originally posted by Chimera:

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Originally posted by exmalibu:
Not all of that list has produced episodes yet. The Mole is coming back for summer, not right now for example. Dance Machine is a 1 week special. Duel was hardly a hit.

Duel doesn't need to be a hit -- it pulled in 8 million viewers in the reduced holiday viewing of late December. I believe it's only a few minor tweaks away from being a consistent performer, and even unchanged it can plug a hole on ABC's Monday or Tuesday schedules. For example replacing NFTU and October Road (both of which have been pulling under 4 million viewers) with 90 minute episodes of Duel on Mondays is an easy way to improve ABC's Monday performance significantly. An even better method would be the following:

8:00 Dance War
9:00 Duel
10:00 Wife Swap

Both Dance War and Duel would work better as 60 minute shows (less filler), and Wife Swap needs to come back to Mondays where it has always been successful and escape the AI slaughter on Wednesdays...

Out of the various scenarios we've described here, I still like this a lot.

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Originally posted by silver_rainbow:

I would like to see Wife Swap and October Road switch days and times. I think they would both be more successful if they did.

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Originally posted by exmalibu:

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Originally posted by silver_rainbow:

I would like to see Wife Swap and October Road switch days and times. I think they would both be more successful if they did.

I don't think anything would help October Road at this point. It is just not a good performer.

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Originally posted by mushu_jj:

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Originally posted by exmalibu:

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Originally posted by silver_rainbow:

I would like to see Wife Swap and October Road switch days and times. I think they would both be more successful if they did.

I don't think anything would help October Road at this point. It is just not a good performer.

Sadly I agree and swapping nights would likely result in lower ratings, especially against the Death Star, whose younger audience would only hurt the show.