Originally posted by Marc Berman: NBC needs to pair Law & Order down to one hour next season. Start with SVU, then bring the mother ship on in midseason to give it a rest. Two hours is too much already.
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Originally posted by WlcmLAPD: L&O and L&O: SVU makes a good pair on Wednesday and would provide stability to the night. Wouldn't surprise me to see it happen as Biggest Loser is likely to be two hours on Tuesday next year. I agree that Southland is definately a 9 PM show after seeing the pilot. It couldn't be cut down enough to be an 8 PM show.
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Originally posted by mushu_jj: I think Wed. at 8 is a very likely option for Law and Order, leading into SVU. Southland can't possibly pair with SVU. Both are definitely 9pm shows.
Both shows shouldn't be paired up together for next season. But SVU does better than Law & Order. So, what's the point of bringing in the original when SVU can outrate it?
If anything, Law & Order should go to Fridays at 8pm. It can easily make NBC competitive on the night again (especially if they air Medium with it at 9pm).
Law and Order on Fridays at 8 into Medium at 9 makes sense to me. They could then go with a new drama on Monday and Wednesday at 8 and the third new drama on Tuesdays at 9 after Biggest Loser. Thursday will remain a 2 hour comedy block and if Southland works, it goes Mondays at 9. If it doesn't work, then I would guess Biggest Loser stays two hours and perhaps Law and Order helps out on Monday or Wednesday at 8.
Originally posted by Marc Berman: If I were the CW I would give Sunday back to the affiliates and work aggressively on Friday
Why? Isn't Sunday the more important night for advertisers? Sure, there is more competition if you program Sunday aggressively, but at least there is a bigger audience and an income (advertising) that wants Sunday shows.
Agreed. A theme night on Sundays with Supernatural: Beginnings, Vampire Diaries (a show I think Supernatural fans would like) and Reaper makes most sense to me. Then either go with movies or repeats on Fridays for now. Perhaps the Game can squeak out 13 more eps for syndication purposes. Chris, with 4 full seasons under its belt, seems destined to end this year as it no longer needs the eps for syndication but the Game could use a few more, even with its BET deal already under way. They could air back to back new eps in the fall and then go with another hour of repeats or a movie night at midseason.
Originally posted by yankeesrj12: I would put Reaper on Sundays if The CW keeps the comedies. Viewers seem to follow Reaper around, and it may work on Sundays if promoted right.
I would keep Reaper on Tuesday and put Vampire Diaries after it. Have 90210 and the most likely picked up Melrose Place remake one after it on Sunday.
Tuesday 8/7c - Reaper 9/8c - Vampire Diaries (new show)
Sunday 7/6c - Gossip Girl: Beginnings (season 1 & 2 repeats) 8/7c - 90210 (new time) 9/8c - Melrose Place (new show)
Terminator: This show has been very good since moving to Friday. people not watching it are missing out on a good story. No, it won't be renewed. Yes it is likely just on the air to stretch viewer interest towards the next movie release.
And if anything, it's achieving the opposite result.
I watched quite a bit of last night's ep--I found it boring--again. The characters ALL come across like machines. I'm not a huge fan of the Cameron Terminator movies, but at least they understood the importance of characters people actually care about.
I think that without massively expensive action scenes every week, people just can't bring themselves to care what happens to these people who act like robots, and robots who act like people who act like robots.
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Dollhouse: Last night's episode was lame for the first 3/4ths of the episode, but they pulled it back together in a sensible manner at the end. The problem is, the show is right back to the 'zero progress state' for the 'dolls'. I know this is the result of stupid FOX network meddling to make the show less serialized, but really, this show does not lend itself well to a restart every episode even though that is the premise of the 'dolls'. I still don't see any reason why FOX would be considering this show for renewal. Sure, it does better than FNL and FNL got renewed, but FOX isn't as pathetic these days as NBC.
Actually, it's reached the point where fewer people are watching it than FNL--which self-evidently costs much less to make. And I don't think DirecTV wants to get involved here.
I have a better idea of what Whedon is going for--but that doesn't mean I want to watch it every week. Again, it's not a good premise for an open-ended series. And as we see, it's actually losing ground as Whedon reworks it--people who were already into the show are already expressing dismay about some of his changes. The big problem with starting something like this without having really thought it through.
The problem is not network meddling--the problem is that Whedon and FOX don't understand each other anymore, but Whedon has nowhere else to go. 100% of his work for TV has been for 20th Television. But it's a far different place than it was in the 90's, when Buffy was developed. And Whedon isn't the man he used to be either.
I think a smart thing to do if FOX doesn't want to give Dollhouse another shot is to farm it out to cable. NBC did that will Friday Night Lights and Law & Order: Criminal Intent instead of canceling it, so the same can be done with Dollhouse. Buffy was given to the WB, maybe the CW can take it. They're dead on Fridays. Or maybe the Sci-fi (or SyFy) Channel could pick it up. It's a niche market and it would fit in with the science fiction theme.
