Per Marc - " 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. "
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Originally posted by lopez: Why Big Brother is not a loser?
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.
Which required new viewers, because clearly once people leave Jericho, THEY NEVER COME BACK.
Given that this time around Jericho already filmed a fitting "Series Finale" (along with an alternate Season Finale which will never see the light of day), the loyal watchers should rejoice either way that they got their ending. Treat this season as a mini-series and move on with your lives.
Originally posted by Chimera: 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
"Cagney and Lacey" it ain't.
-- "Better Off Ted," Wednesdays at some time or another at some point or another in the near future. Because we can't all live in mansions and not ever work like the people on "Modern Family."
Originally posted by mushu_jj: The CW imo has an obligation to the fans of Girlfriends to air a one hour series finale event this May. Its the least they can do and its not like it will cost them much to put it on. A one hour clips show would also be nice.
I'd love to see a series finale, but if they don't make one for this season, I think that last season's finale will serve that role just fine.
Well as long as it was somewhat satisfying for fans then I'd say its ok.
Last season's finale was designed to serve as a series finale if it had to because the producers/writers/cast felt that they would likely not be renewed for another season. When they were renewed and given a set number of episodes to 'work with', you can be sure that they planned to use all of those episodes and build up to a 'finale'. I am sure that they were not expecting to get shown the door the day the writer's strike ended. As for the fans, like fans of any show, they never want it to end. AOL had a front page story/link up most of the day with phone number and e-mail addresses for Dawn Ostroff and Nancy Tellem. The fans are definitely churning in the hopes of 'forcing' the network into putting a series finale on air.
In my opinion, a series finale would benefit the studio and DVD sales, so maybe they should just do it themselves, like ABC Studios has promised to do for Scrubs if NBC doesn't air final episodes.
