CBS - Worst Week seems to be gone for sure, while the jury may still be out on Gary Unmarried.
FOX - Moment of Truth may return, while FOX is trying to go towards females now.
NBC - Heroes will come back, Chuck and Life most likely wont.
The CW - Dawn Ostroff is an idiot. They will keep Sunday because "Movies are doing pretty well for us." Oh yes, a little over a million viewers and a 0.4-0.5 demo is pretty well. That is terrible!
ABC - Ugly Betty will return and ABC wants to improve the 10pm hour. Plus, they are working on a lot of comedies.
Originally posted by yankeesrj12: Thanks for posting those interviews lopez.
Here is a quick thing I took from each:
CBS - Worst Week seems to be gone for sure, while the jury may still be out on Gary Unmarried.
The funny part was that CBS is courting women?
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FOX - Moment of Truth may return, while FOX is trying to go towards females now.
And we are supposed to believe that Terminator and Dollhouse may get renewed. No mention of that 2 hour priison break 'movie' that is being tacked on to end the series. Prison Break fans should be happy for the extra 2 hours even if the show is 'officially' cancelled.
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NBC - Heroes will come back, Chuck and Life most likely wont.
...and Lipstick jungle is gone: as if there were any doubt.
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The CW - Dawn Ostroff is an idiot. They will keep Sunday because "Movies are doing pretty well for us." Oh yes, a little over a million viewers and a 0.4-0.5 demo is pretty well. That is terrible!
Please explain how returning the night to the affiliates will change things for the better. As for the interview, it sounds like CW will be going dark again this summer. Note to ostroff: give Reaper a back 9 order and push it through the summer.
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ABC - Ugly Betty will return and ABC wants to improve the 10pm hour. Plus, they are working on a lot of comedies.
I was really surprised to see such a positive statement regarding Ugly Betty.
I think we get semi-confirmation on some things in those interviews, primarily that UB is coming back, and that Life is gone. That's what stood out for me, anyway.
The ABC one interested me the most because it seems like they're going to be taking some risks. ABC's in a tough spot because it has 10x2 weeks of DWTS and 34 weeks of season. Having that split in the middle practically destroys their chances of really getting something going on key nights. NBC giving up 10pm gives both ABC and CBS a unique opportunity to try things that they might not try otherwise. For instance, I can see CSI: NY moving to Sundays simply because Criminal Minds is more than strong enough to launch a new series.
As for ABC, interestingly, he said that UB will be back, but he did not answer an affirmative as to Thursdays. I think it'll be back at 10pm on either Tuesday or Wednesday, and that Brothers & Sisters will get moved to 10pm some point between Monday and Wednesday, at least while DH is still strong enough to launch a new series. If ABC gets any traction with In The Motherhood, it'll definitely help them in the fall. They could do something like this:
Monday: The Bachelor, New Drama, B&S Tuesday: DWTS, Sitcoms, New Drama Wednesday: DWTS Results, Sitcoms, UB Thursday: New Drama, GA, PP
The biggest problems with DWTS is that a) it's never launched a hit, and b) it skews old, thus making it had to mesh with a lead-out that will likely be geared towards young women.
All I can say is the Playboy Playmates are about to takeover 2009 and Holly Madison being on Dancing being a replacement for Jewel is going to be hella funny!
This Holly Madison is really dumb and looks like Gwen Stefani.
Even more dumber but more funnier is Kendra Wilkinson.
Guys check out these two interview vids I found on YouTube during Chelsea Lately last year.
Originally posted by yankeesrj12: Thanks for posting those interviews lopez.
Here is a quick thing I took from each:
CBS - Worst Week seems to be gone for sure, while the jury may still be out on Gary Unmarried.
FOX - Moment of Truth may return, while FOX is trying to go towards females now.
NBC - Heroes will come back, Chuck and Life most likely wont.
The CW - Dawn Ostroff is an idiot. They will keep Sunday because "Movies are doing pretty well for us." Oh yes, a little over a million viewers and a 0.4-0.5 demo is pretty well. That is terrible!
ABC - Ugly Betty will return and ABC wants to improve the 10pm hour. Plus, they are working on a lot of comedies.
This is what I took from each:
ABC - Ugly Betty will return, but likely on a different timeslot There will be a lot new shows, especially during the 10pm-hour. We need comedies.
CBS - We are smart and don't want to fix things that already work. Worst Week is as good as gone, Gary Unmarried still has a shot. We still have patience with the comedy block on Wednesdays and want it to work.
NBC - Heroes returns, Lipstick Jungle and Life are done, Chuck has a tiny shot at returning.
FOX - Lie To Me and Fringe will be back, as we are happy with their performance and don't care how much lead-in-support they squander. We still plan on airing all produced episodes of Dollhouse and Terminator, as advertisers like them. We want more comedy and more shows that appeal to women.
TheCW - Privileged's return depends on how good the new pilots are. We have holes in the schedule, but we are aware of that. We like young women who like young adult soaps, therefore we will bring you more until nobody watches us anymore.
Life on Mars producers persuaded the network to announce the show's fate right now in order to at least go out with a bang.
"The producers were really pushing for it," said ABC Entertainment exec VP Jeff Bader. "Based on the ratings the way they are now, it didn't look like it would be back.
"So (the producers) said, 'Let us end it.' We thought, Let's do the right thing and give viewers a satisfying ending."
"Mars" exec producer Andre Nemec said he and the show's other producers -- having just come off another show, "October Road," that left the air without a proper goodbye -- decided to sit the writers down at the very beginning and hammer out what the series' end would look like.
"Obviously we would have loved to be on the air for nine years, and none of this comes without great sadness," Nemec said. "But we found ourselves riding the bubble. The network was aware that we knew where we were going. We think (it's cool) that we're able to wrap this series up and not leave the audience high and dry."
As a result, the mysteries of "Life on Mars" will more or less be resolved when the show winds down at the start of April. But that scenario doesn't frequently occur.
4.5million people still unready for DTV switch. Of course, Nielsen admits that they are counting as 'unready' anyone that has a converter box, but hasn't bothered to hook it up yet since the switch to digital hasn't happened yet.
Meanwhile, the 4.5million that are unready also largely comprise the segment of the population that watches the least amount of tv; hence they have the least reason to prepare for the switch.
Tax payer dollars...welcome to the hole you have been pissed in to.
Life on Mars producers persuaded the network to announce the show's fate right now in order to at least go out with a bang.
"The producers were really pushing for it," said ABC Entertainment exec VP Jeff Bader. "Based on the ratings the way they are now, it didn't look like it would be back.
"So (the producers) said, 'Let us end it.' We thought, Let's do the right thing and give viewers a satisfying ending."
"Mars" exec producer Andre Nemec said he and the show's other producers -- having just come off another show, "October Road," that left the air without a proper goodbye -- decided to sit the writers down at the very beginning and hammer out what the series' end would look like.
"Obviously we would have loved to be on the air for nine years, and none of this comes without great sadness," Nemec said. "But we found ourselves riding the bubble. The network was aware that we knew where we were going. We think (it's cool) that we're able to wrap this series up and not leave the audience high and dry."
As a result, the mysteries of "Life on Mars" will more or less be resolved when the show winds down at the start of April. But that scenario doesn't frequently occur.
Thanks for sharing this. I am a fan of the show and will miss it, but now I am excited to see how it will resolve. Judging from this week's show, it seems that the lead male and female may ultimately get together. The question is will he stay in the 70's or return to present day? I hope if Chuck is not renewed, that we also get some resolution of the relationship between Chuck and Sarah. Kudos to the producers of LOM!
Thanks for the interviews, there was a little news made, not much, a few comments:
- Surprised at CBS vote of confidence in the Wed 8pm comedy block. So they improved on KID NATION and the JERICHO fadeout.
- FOX sounded like alot of happy talk. I agree that too much is made of the retention %'s sometimes, but it is far too early, in my view, to consider LIE TO ME in the same category as FRINGE.
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On the subject of LIE TO ME, I think you'll find that its biggest problem is not that it has been airing against CRIMINAL MINDS.
CSI NY was referred to by a poster as a "beast." Formula to become a beast - get middling ratings for your recent original eps, then crack off a good rerun number.
Also, while it can be argued certainly that HOUSE was aided by IDOL, I simply do not recall 24 being built out of IDOL. 24 started with very middling ratings, though good demos, and gradually built its numbers and only reached really large numbers in season 5 and the beginning of season 6, IDOL not involved.
Procedurals vs. Procedurals - good procedurals can compete against other good procedurals and everybody can be happy. But when the shows are aging or otherwise mediocre or bad, the key word is not competition, it is indifference.
And this alleged competition becomes just another excuse for poor ratings.
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She sounded like a non-decision maker. And very much full of hot air.
Paraphrasing:
'We can renew as many shows as we want.'
'It's been good to be out of the country, unencumbered by what has been going on.'
'We are filming shows in a variety of different cities, so the city can become a character.'
But I give her credit for one thing. When the questioner asked her if the reduced hours would lead to possible saturday nite programming, she shot that down. It would be the height of doublethink to strip 5 hours out of your weeknite schedule for the right to spend money on programming saturday nite.
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When asked about a low-rated show getting renewed, and they say "It's too early to rule it out" or "it's too early to tell"--it's already been ruled out. You can already tell.
