I'm fine with Prison Break ending (and I've enjoyed all the seasons), just as long as they don't leave any loose ends. That would be annoying. If it comes back, it would be ludicrous if they were to continue breaking someone out of Prison. (If they really were to continue, keep some of the characters and rename the show.) And how long can Wentworth Miller always wear those long sleeves in the extreme heat to hide the tats that aren't there!
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Originally posted by robert: I hope Ausiello is wrong again
Question: I need some scoop on the future of Prison Break! Despite a lackluster season, the show was beyond awesome and suspenseful this week. Heard anything about its future? — Christy Ausiello: All I know is that Season 3 comes to an end next Monday and the show remains on the bubble for fall. My guess? Prison Break as we know it will end, to be replaced next season with the "women in prison" spin-off that Fox has been developing. But that's just a guess.
Originally posted by xwiseguyx: I'm fine with Prison Break ending (and I've enjoyed all the seasons), just as long as they don't leave any loose ends. That would be annoying. If it comes back, it would be ludicrous if they were to continue breaking someone out of Prison. (If they really were to continue, keep some of the characters and rename the show.) And how long can Wentworth Miller always wear those long sleeves in the extreme heat to hide the tats that aren't there!
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Originally posted by robert: I hope Ausiello is wrong again
Question: I need some scoop on the future of Prison Break! Despite a lackluster season, the show was beyond awesome and suspenseful this week. Heard anything about its future? — Christy Ausiello: All I know is that Season 3 comes to an end next Monday and the show remains on the bubble for fall. My guess? Prison Break as we know it will end, to be replaced next season with the "women in prison" spin-off that Fox has been developing. But that's just a guess.
Now if FOX would say now next season will be the last i wouldn't mind. But no matter what happens in the next episode i don't think it's fair to let the watcher see an episode and after a couple of months to be told that was the series finale. For serialized shows i think the right thing to do is to tell with several episodes before the end that the show is canceled.
But what Ausiello says seems totally illogical. Why cancel a show that does well (let's not forget FOX has only one scripted show that averages above 10 million) and replace it with a spin-off that almost surely will bomb
-Percent Change From the Year-Ago Evening (Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007) Fox: + 4, NBC: -22, CW: -31, ABC and CBS: -32 each
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Note: The fast affiliate results for Tuesday will be posted at PIFeedback by 12 p.m. ET. Go to the website, click on Ratings Box (the first category), then Last Night’s Results, and Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008.
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-Yesterday’s Winners: American Idol (Fox), Law & Order: SVU R (NBC)
-Yesterday’s Losers (Excluding Repeats): Just For Laughs (ABC), According to Jim (ABC), Carpoolers (ABC), Jericho (CBS)
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-Ratings Breakdown: Led by a two-hour installment of the now Hollywood-based American Idol, dominant Fox beat the four competing networks combined by five percent in the overnights. American Idol scored a typically massive 17.3 rating/25 share, building in each half-hour as follows:
As a reminder, you cannot fully judge any show based on the overnights. But CBS had some very disappointing results care of the season-premieres of Big Brother and Jericho. Themed “’Til Death Do Us Part,” this first winter edition of summer guilty pleasure Big Brother opened with a mere (and third-place) 4.3/ 6 at 9 p.m. Overnight retention out of a repeat of NCIS (7.8/12 at 8 p.m.) was just 55 percent. Since Big Brother always manages to flex some young adult muscle, let’s wait and see what happens when the fast affiliate results are released. But, at first glance, how do you like the mismatched Sheila and Adam? Shouldn’t “Ma” at least try to be more flexible?
The second-season premiere of Jericho was left at the starting gate, meanwhile, with a third-place 4.1/ 7 in the overnights at 10 p.m. Comparably, Jericho debuted with a 7.7/12 on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006 at 8 p.m., and a repeat of Without a Trace on the year-ago evening averaged a 5.7/ 9. All together now…ouch!
Over at NBC, just-renewed The Biggest Loser scored a typical 5.0/ 7 in the overnights from 8-10 p.m., followed by a repeat of Law & Order: SVU at a first-place 6.3/10. Comparably, the SVU encore outdelivered Jericho by 54 percent.
ABC’s combination of Just for Laughs (two episodes, original and repeat: avg. #4, 3.3/ 4 from 8-9 p.m.), According to Jim (#4: 3.2/ 5) and Carpoolers (#4: #2.4/ 4) were barely visible from 8-10 p.m. Boston Legal, which is expected to produce four to eight more episodes this season, capped off the evening with a more upbeat (and second-place) 5.2/ 9 at 10 p.m.
The CW had nothing unusual to report with a repeat of Reaper (#5: 1.4/ 2) and One Tree Hill (#5: 2.2/ 3). Five or six new episodes are expected for both dramas now that the strike is over.
Bad news for CBS's Big Brother and Jericho, especially for the latter which would probably mean no renewal next season. I don't understand how their fans could campaign so hard to bring this back only to get something like this on its premiere -- makes LOST's return look absolutely stellar!
And ABC should be flat-out embarassed by their Tuesday 8pm - 10pm block. Truly, an embarassment to see those results every week!!
Originally posted by crateriko: BB will be back in the summer, so I don't really care if this edition bombs. Putting it up against Idol meant disaster.
My guess is that it will pick up as the summer goes on and after Idol gets away from it in March.
Originally posted by pisher: Hey, I thought Jericho's fans had saved it!
Didn't they realize that in order to do so, they had to go out and recruit several million new viewers?
Sloppy work. Very sloppy.
They didn't need to recruit several million new viewers -- just the ones it had for the majority of last season. Its 4.1 rating last night vs the 7.7 it had in last season's premiere represents several millions of lost viewers. So no, all it needed to do was perform closer to last year's levels.
dont forget about House and the results show for Idol is expanding to an hour
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Originally posted by crateriko: BB will be back in the summer, so I don't really care if this edition bombs. Putting it up against Idol meant disaster.
My guess is that it will pick up as the summer goes on and after Idol gets away from it in March.
