As for the future of George Lopez, is there any point of renewing the comedy after falling short of 5-million viewers last night?
Right on par with what it has been doing and I think the viewership is slightly up. Has anyone even seen a preview or ad for GLo in the past few weeks? Either way, it was a solid finale and will leave me happy if it ends.
I think this was the end. Last night's ep could easily serve as a finale (remember when ABC decided not to renew My Wife & Kids and it ended on a cliffhanger) and was one of the better eps of the season.
If anything, Nielsen is probably OVERcounting VM's audience. People keep assuming that their shows would do better if every household was monitored, not just a sampling. In many cases, their assumptions would be incorrect. Margin of error cuts both ways, kiddies.
I doubt they will move it to Friday. It is too expensive of a show to justify placement on a low HUT mught.
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Originally posted by d: Interesting but I'd hate to see them waste BL on fridays. The show doesn't have a big young audience but it gets the money people watching it. It's 10 million base seems to keep watching week after week no matter the competition for the past 2 years and it's a nice puzzle piece for ABC. Could it take it's audience to fridays? Mondays would be my choice. It's where Kelly's other funny law show was. In fact...why doesn't Calista make a guest appearance on BL. She's on the same network now. In fact, have a crossover and pair up B&S with BL on Mondays. buh buh... da da da da da.... all right... buh buh.. da da da da.... :-)
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Originally posted by tv avenger: As much as I love Boston Legal, I think abc would be wise to try out a new show in that time slot next fall. I feel now would be the time to be aggressive in that time period considering that there is no clear winner at 10 amongst the networks. The ball is definitely in abc's court. I just read on Ausiello report that abc may be moving Ugly Betty to Sun at 8. I think that is a wonderful idea considering that Ex. makeover is starting to show its age, also, this would allow abc to air its much talked about Pushing Daisies on Thurs. at 8. I would pair BL with Men in trees on Fri nights. Would do you think?
Originally posted by pisher: I think the suits at CW are kidding themselves if they think they can turn VM into its own spinoff, and Kristen Bell just doesn't have any Nielsen box firepower at all. People will see their other fave characters diminished or discarded, and freak, and change the channel--as many have already.
Rob Thomas doesn't know how to do an FBI procedural. He couldn't even write decent mysteries most of the time, not even back in S1.
Still, I'll take it. Far as I'm concerned, same thing as a cancellation. AfterMASH episodes don't count as M*A*S*H episodes, now do they?
They want to revamp the show again? Why are people so determined to make this show succeed? This show has received more chances than any other show I can think of. It has had the best lead-ins, tons of promotion, tons of press, I think some of the episodes even aired on CBS (has any other weblet series had that exposure?)!
I really doubt that the audience will suddenly spike in season four...I've never heard of a show that has a ratings resurgence in its 4th season. It really is time to let it go.
Originally posted by SleptOn: I really doubt that the audience will suddenly spike in season four...I've never heard of a show that has a ratings resurgence in its 4th season. It really is time to let it go.
Well, there was Seinfeld...somehow I doubt VM is ever going to reach that status. Call it viewers intuition.
They want to revamp the show again? Why are people so determined to make this show succeed?
Why is the Bush administration so determined to make the Iraq 'war' succeed--or at least keep it from failing until they're out of office? Okay, that actually MATTERS, but it's the same principle--put off the official confirmation of failure as long as humanly possible.
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This show has received more chances than any other show I can think of.
Certainly than any one-hour drama doing this badly in the ratings.
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It has had the best lead-ins, tons of promotion, tons of press, I think some of the episodes even aired on CBS (has any other weblet series had that exposure?)!
Few. But tell this to some VM fans and the promotion was no good, the timeslots were no good, the lead-ins were no good--they just can't deal with the fact that the most important reason for VM's failure is VM. That even a lot of people who used to like it have wandered off in search of something--you know--interesting.
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I really doubt that the audience will suddenly spike in season four...I've never heard of a show that has a ratings resurgence in its 4th season. It really is time to let it go.
Yeah, but that would mean admitting failure. And again, they don't want to do that. So maybe they'll call for yet another surge. And push back the deadline yet again.
But at least nobody's DYING to keep VM on the air. I don't think.
Is it possible for the network to give the show a few weeks in the fall to see how it does or is it at a minimum of a 13 episode pick up? 2-3 weeks would give an idea of how it's going to do. When OTH's repeat on Sunday pulled in about 1 million it was pulled instantly (was happy about that btw), and that was a repeat!! Would the network no matter how silly they seem to be risk another failed season for a possible hit that hasn't happened in 3 seasons?
I was just thinking, we heard about Gilmore Girls official cancellation last Thursday after its lackluster ratings performance, meaning they were probably meeting about it on Wednesday. Might they be meeting over VM as we speak? I'm just getting that feeling that we may hear something very, very soon.
Of course, I'm not ruling out that we'll hear that S4 is a go, because the CW is just that stupid and desperate.
Originally posted by Naleyfanforver: Oh I miss cheers!
All together now...
Sometimes you wanna go Where everybody knows your name And their always glad you came You wanna be where you can see Troubles are all the same You wanna go everybody knows your name
No offense meant Robert, but what is the point of linking to a story which is merely a rewrite (and credits) a Hollywood Reporter story linked here 24 hours ago?
And it is a story which has been discussed ever since then on yesterday and today's thread?
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Originally posted by robert: More 'Mars' Looking Likely Veronica may skip the remaining college years
I was just thinking, we heard about Gilmore Girls official cancellation last Thursday after its lackluster ratings performance, meaning they were probably meeting about it on Wednesday. Might they be meeting over VM as we speak? I'm just getting that feeling that we may hear something very, very soon.
You probably won't hear anything until the CW upfronts, but they are soon - next thursday.
Originally posted by Fred Farrar: No offense meant Robert, but what is the point of linking to a story which is merely a rewrite (and credits) a Hollywood Reporter story linked here 24 hours ago?
And it is a story which has been discussed ever since then on yesterday and today's thread?
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Originally posted by robert: More 'Mars' Looking Likely Veronica may skip the remaining college years
If this is true CW are nuts. How can u renew a show that's below 2 million viewers on a major(at least on paper) network
It's called overkill. That story was written before last night's ratings disaster. Perhaps the CW should enact a Plan B (or C, D, E...)---if they even have one.
