Bruce Campbell is pretty awesome, but he's also never been able to carry a show by his lonesome. Fillion is not even a tenth as good, but he gets treated a lot better.
Burn Notice gets better demo ratings on USA, with no lead-in, than the Poor Man's Bruce Campbell gets on ABC, with DWTS as a lead-in, against ONE other scripted series.
Bruce Campbell is great. One of my faves. Burn Notice has an awesome cast.
Did someone say Bruce Campbell? All Hail the King, Baby!
Amazon has finally cut the price of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. to a decent price (40 bucks), but my hot water heater broke last week and X-mas is coming. No treats for me.
Originally posted by mushu_jj: Does anybody know if a second round of TAR was ordered for this year? Its numbers are as good as Survivor's these days. Why can't it be treated with the same level of respect?
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: CBS Needs to blow up Sunday nights (8pm - 11pm) I don't think we'll see a second TAR this year and 3 Rivers sucks and CC is well past its time.
Trying a Sunday Block on Sundays is the most logical spot, without disrupting the rest of the schedule
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Originally posted by Julie: Even if they wanted a 4th comedy, where would they put it? Sundays? I just don't see a 4th comedy hour opening up during this season. What I can see see CBS doing is shelving GU January-March and instead going with ROE on Wednesdays, to see how it does. Then in March, AOP can end early, and either ROE can take over the Monday 8:30 slot, returning GU to Wednesdays, or GU can go to Mondays at 8:30.
That's a great question. TAR is doing very well. They could very easily add a second round of shows each season. Oh, I wish they'd go HD.
Originally posted by Julie: My mistake, but you're absolutely right. The Class was always a pretty weak show, though. Even if CBS had renewed it for a 2nd season, it wouldn't have gone anywhere. Instead, they're left with 2 low rated Wednesday comedies and AOP, which is kind of in a similar situation right now.
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the Class was finally showing some signs of life towards the end of its shortened run. Creatively it was much much better towards the end and if I recall correctly, ratings were increasing some at that point. If it had those numbers on any other network, it would've been given a full season.
Originally posted by Julie: My mistake, but you're absolutely right. The Class was always a pretty weak show, though. Even if CBS had renewed it for a 2nd season, it wouldn't have gone anywhere. Instead, they're left with 2 low rated Wednesday comedies and AOP, which is kind of in a similar situation right now.
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the Class was finally showing some signs of life towards the end of its shortened run. Creatively it was much much better towards the end and if I recall correctly, ratings were increasing some at that point. If it had those numbers on any other network, it would've been given a full season.
I believe The Class wasn't picked up for a full first season (and ultimately a 2nd season) because CBS instead decided to go with more Old Christine and Rules of Engagement. And if I recall, The Class had a much lower demo than the other CBS comedies. While it's overall ratings may have been good, Old Christine/ROE were much stronger at the time.
Originally posted by Julie: My mistake, but you're absolutely right. The Class was always a pretty weak show, though. Even if CBS had renewed it for a 2nd season, it wouldn't have gone anywhere. Instead, they're left with 2 low rated Wednesday comedies and AOP, which is kind of in a similar situation right now.
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the Class was finally showing some signs of life towards the end of its shortened run. Creatively it was much much better towards the end and if I recall correctly, ratings were increasing some at that point. If it had those numbers on any other network, it would've been given a full season.
The CLASS was not a good show - it was a GREAT show and it did have very good ratings toward the end. I think some suit at CBS just hated the thing.
Speaking of dumb moves, one of the all time dumbest at NBC has to be when they shot JAG.
Do they realize that 14 years later, the spinoff NCIS is the #1 show on TV. 9 more years of JAG, NCIS going strong, and NCIS: LA off to a good start.
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With TAR's second cycle, as far as I know, CBS hasn't announced anything yet. Some sources say there is one, some say there isn't. If there is a second cycle, I'd imagine they'd have to rush it in a hurry to air it on time.
Originally posted by Julie: My mistake, but you're absolutely right. The Class was always a pretty weak show, though. Even if CBS had renewed it for a 2nd season, it wouldn't have gone anywhere. Instead, they're left with 2 low rated Wednesday comedies and AOP, which is kind of in a similar situation right now.
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the Class was finally showing some signs of life towards the end of its shortened run. Creatively it was much much better towards the end and if I recall correctly, ratings were increasing some at that point. If it had those numbers on any other network, it would've been given a full season.
If I remember correctly The Class averaged 8.3 million viewers and a 3.3 demo. Pretty good numbers for an 8:30 show, but it always lost viewers and demo from HIMYM, and that is why it got canceled. I still think CBS likes to see some growth either in viewers and/or demo from the 8:30 show out of the 8:00 show because of the higher HUT levels at 8:30. BBT always grew out of HIMYM when it was at 8:30, HIMYM always grew in the demo out of BBT at 8:30, and Gary always grows in the demo out of Christine at 8:30. All successes. That is why AOP is not as huge a success as some think. It is steady, but it always loses some from HIMYM.
Originally posted by TheBees: AOP has gotten better each week. I hope it gets a full season. Jenna Elfman is adorable. And not a Castle fan at first but now I really like it. And I love Nathan Fillion.
I agree on both things you said. IMO AOP has had it's best episode yet. Castole has only gotten better eah week. I don't care what other people say. Last nights episode pulled at my heart. It was a great episode. I love that it got picked up for a full season. They showed piser.
