I know I just talked TV, but things are afoot in my world
that are taking time to process and deal with, and I wanna talk about this:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/61018
I love that the article basically says, “Hey, what’s getting
cancelled?” Also, I like to pair it with
this:
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7447836/steven-hyden-remake-90210
Which is my favorite article ever about the fact that no one
is watching the 90210 remake.
True story: I was
totally going to watch that show, because it features a black adoptee with
white parents, and also has an actress who was on Degrassi and was awesome.
I recorded the first three or four episodes, then had to get
a new DVR, and never bothered to catch up.
The show now appears to be mere moments from cancellation, but who
knows? The CW keeps a lot of stuff on
the air because they sell downloads and DVDs and whatever else, and so their
ratings almost don’t matter.
That said, my thoughts on the survival of the various shows
I’m watching:
Revolution:
This one fascinates me, as it’s been off the air so long
I’ve almost forgotten about it. I see an
article every once in a while that says, “Hey, we took some time off, and because
of that the show is going to be EVEN BETTER when it returns!”
The question is, will anyone watch it? I’ve got my DVR set to grab it when it shows
up again, sure, but the show went off the air with no real way to go back to
episode one and catch up. In season one,
Glee went off the air for two or three months, but tossed out Season 1 Part 1
on DVD during the Christmas season, and I’m
quite sure that spiked their return numbers.
That said, NBC has almost no bench. The majority of their shows are either ending
this year or have been huge flops, and I’m not hearing amazing things about
pilot season.
So Revolution will almost certainly return. I suspect, however, that’s it’s going to
bleed some of its audience.
Warehouse 13:
This one also feels like it’s been gone forever, but the
ratings are the best that the SciFi channel has to offer. Unless the show gets too expensive (which
wouldn’t take much, granted) I’m sure the next season is a given.
American Idol:
Man this is an interesting one. It used to be the highest-rated show on TV,
but it’s getting beaten in the ratings now on a semi-regular basis. That said, it’s still sitting around in the
top ten, ratings-wise, while most other Fox shows are either getting long in
the tooth (Bones) or slowly flat-lining (Glee).
I can see this going for one more year in a desperate
attempt to cling to one of the few real winners they have left. Of course, the cost keeps going up while the
rewards keep going down… so maybe not.
(Hint: Yes, it’ll be back for another year. I am sure of this.)
Modern Family:
Not the biggest hit in the world anymore, but still a huge
hit. This one will go at least seven
seasons, maybe longer.
Supernatural:
Already renewed for Season Nine, with a fresh, fun premise
to carry it another year or three. I can
easily see this one making it ten seasons, if not more. How many shows go UP in the ratings in season
eight?
The Big Bang Theory:
I’m amazed they don’t just auto-renew the show at this
point, since it’s quite possibly the highest-rated show on TV. You don’t hear too often about shows getting
multiple-season renewals these days, but I wouldn’t be shocked if they did it
with Big Bang.
The Vampire Diaries:
Already renewed for next year, with a possible spin-off in
the works. This one has a few years left
in it.
Community:
Interestingly, it did huge numbers opening week, and then
dropped like a stone the next week, when the episode was a significant
improvement.
I keep telling my buddy that this one is going to become the
next Scrubs, wherein it keeps getting renewed to take the places of the
failures that occur at the start of each year.
He’s dubious, but I’m willing to stick my neck out. If the ratings hold week by week against the
biggest show on two channels and the second-biggest on a third, it’ll be around
next year.
Glee:
This one is… tricky.
The last episode aired last week, and sweeps end… this
week. That just seems like a strange and
possibly damaging choice. Though perhaps
Idol is running two hours this week.
(Okay, I looked it up and they are.
This can’t bode well for Glee.)
The fact is, Glee is obviously overstuffed. Stars of the show are now guest stars. Last week they had to throw out an Asian Bird
Flu joke in a desperate attempt to explain why a huge chunk of the cast didn’t
show up in the episode.
There are ways to make this show work, but it’s increasingly
clear that the writers don’t know what those ways are.
And so it goes.
Ironically, I think one more season might serve the show
well if they chose to cut the budget. By
finally cutting all the deadwood and old cast members who continue to have less
and less relevance as current cast members, they might actually be able to
focus on plot and character again, which is what made the show so much fun to
begin with.
Spartacus:
Sadly, it’s already cancelled. There’s talk of a Julius Caesar spinoff, but
I’ll be surprised if it happens, and I’m only marginally interested anyway.
The Walking Dead:
Another show whose ratings keep going up. I continue to be amazed that it hasn’t gotten
a multi-season renewal.
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