It's about friggin time! I still don't see why they couldn't have done this months ago. By now the casual audience has forgotten about the show and the hardcore fans will probably just wait for the DVD. I'm happy for the episodes, but I still don't understand the reasoning, financial or otherwise for the delay.
I'm sure other fans will tune in so they dont have to wait another month and a half to see the final three episodes. I know I am already counting down the days till May 30th!
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It's about friggin time! I still don't see why they couldn't have done this months ago. By now the casual audience has forgotten about the show and the hardcore fans will probably just wait for the DVD. I'm happy for the episodes, but I still don't understand the reasoning, financial or otherwise for the delay.
I'm sure other fans will tune in so they dont have to wait another month and a half to see the final three episodes. I know I am already counting down the days till May 30th!
Variety seems like love Southland and dislike Harper's Island. Still wish NBC would back out of the jay Leno thing but hopefully it will only last one season. (If it bombs, at least NBC can be rid of Zucker...)
http://www.variety.com/article...l?categoryId=14&cs=1 Some nice info about the ratings of ER. Wow, that from the first to second airing, it gained a full 2 points/8 share in the demo (and against Chicago Hope) and of course its biggest ratings came after the Seinfeld finale.
Who cares? Fast & Furious will get a close to 70 millions OW while being ravaged by critics
Typically, if critics absolutely hate something, then its even more likely to do poorly. However, there are exceptions: According to Jim comes to mind early in its life. I watched Southland via hulu. Its not a CBS crime drama in that people are these insane complex serial killers every week but more or less gang members and general bad guys. Regular people's lives getting affected. I think fans of NYPD Blue will really like it.
Originally posted by Mredman: It has the right to be renewed with over 10 million viewers it deserves to be renewed. CBS will be idiots to cancel it. because it is very tough to get a new show performing this good now a days. And you know it.You might say this nonsense is because you don't like the show.
I agree. And you can really tell how much having over 10 million viewers means to CBS by their decision to pull "Million Dollar Password" off the air back in January and stick two episodes on the shelf. (It's since been removed from their shows list.) What do you suppose an episode of "Password" cost compared to an episode of "The Eleventh Hour," hmm?
There's no way 11th Hour will return. CBS is dumb though for not airing the remaining eps of Password, even on Saturdays where it would even do better than most crime repeats demographically.
11th Hour needs to go. CBS can get almost ANY series to pull these numbers after CSI. CBS Needs this slot to do better than just the minimum.
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Originally posted by Marc Berman:
-Not Expected Back Next Season: Eleventh Hour (CBS) followed by the season (or series) finale of Eleventh Hour at an also second-place 10.38 million viewers and a 2.5/ 7 in the demo at 10 p.m. Although the overall season to-date performance for Eleventh Hour was certainly not bad, retention out of CSI was never spectacular and CBS can certainly put the time period to better use. Next up: mystery Harper’s Island, which kicks-off next Thursday. Chances are Eleventh Hour will not be back for a second season.
It has the right to be renewed with over 10 million viewers it deserves to be renewed. CBS will be idiots to cancel it. because it is very tough to get a new show performing this good now a days. And you know it.You might say this nonsense is because you don't like the show. If this should be cancelled your beloved Brothers and sisters shopuld be cancelled as well
Gave Dollhouse another viewing as it was so long since I saw it I wanted to check if it was as bad as I remembered.
It was ghastly. Whedon is a sick f..k. How many shareholders' millions does he waste to produce his rape fantasies?
That's way too harsh. Mr. Whedon has some unresolved issues towards women, and he's working on them. In public. His intentions are good--like those of the Dollhouse itself.
Which I now see is not a metaphor for the institutions that program us, as has been explicitly (and a little self-importantly) stated, but rather a metaphor for Whedon's attitude towards his own profession--trying to make art while at the same time working for corporate overlords who don't understand what he does, or how he does it, and compromising right and left, rather than being his own man--he's arrogant and weak-willed at the same time. In other words, he's not identifying with Echo nearly as much as he's identifying with Topher. But I guess he does keep going right back into the Dollhouse. So that part felt sincere.
"Show, don't tell."
An old scriptwriter's motto. It's a TV show about TV shows. Again. Write what you know.
This could have been a decent miniseries, TV movie, or even a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode.
He's already reworking the premise, realizing it doesn't work for the kind of show he's doing.
It wasn't bad last night, but it wasn't good enough either.
You're getting there. Yep, the show is metaphorless except as a reflection of Whedon's internal problems, but not the ones you think (= my polite way of saying he is a sick f..k). Beyond that a pretty, pretty, biomechanical roofie farm is not a metaphor but a personal fantasy to indulge in.
This equation will explain it simply:
+ ludicrous
+ desperate
+ lifeless
+ unengaging characters
+ roofie farm
+ network TV
= SICK F..K WITH RAPE FANTASIES [to the power of expensive]
There now, it's scientific.
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I may be in the minority, but I thought the Series Finale of ER was one of the worst I have ever seen. Seinfeld's was better than This.
People like me, who have not watched it for years, and saw exactly why we quit watching the series.
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Originally posted by yankeesrj12: FROM THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ABOUT ER: "The performance is the most-watched drama series finale since CBS' "Murder She Wrote" ended in 1996 and the highest-rated among the adult demo since Fox's "The X-Files" concluded in 2002."
About CSI: "the 200th episode of "CSI" (14.4 million, 3.7) hit a series low"
I ended up not watching, just reading reviews. Most didn't seem that disgusted with it. I'm really in the minority though in that I never really watched the show. I was like 6 when it started so you get the picture, was too young to watch the really good years. Have watched most of the early years eps though courtesy TNT's morning repeats.
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: I may be in the minority, but I thought the Series Finale of ER was one of the worst I have ever seen. Seinfeld's was better than This.
People like me, who have not watched it for years, and saw exactly why we quit watching the series.
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Originally posted by yankeesrj12: FROM THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ABOUT ER: "The performance is the most-watched drama series finale since CBS' "Murder She Wrote" ended in 1996 and the highest-rated among the adult demo since Fox's "The X-Files" concluded in 2002."
About CSI: "the 200th episode of "CSI" (14.4 million, 3.7) hit a series low"
