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This just in from CBS, "Jericho" is cancelled. Guess we all need to create a series end inside our own skulls.
Then, too, if it's bringing in "only" 3.5 million viewers per week, it's a bomb (so to speak).Claudia, I wouldn't say that this is a one-way thing. After all, serials had their day in the movies, too. It seems to be more of a cycle that comes and goes every year, just like sitcoms and procedurals. We're just at the tail end of that cycle and beginning the next one.
I think that a lot of modern TV production is to blame. After all, if no one is willing to preorder more than 3 or 4 episodes of a pilot, how on earth can they avoid the absurdly long midseason breaks we've been seeing so much of and which is probably responsible for the death of many good shows.
I almost miss the days of summer reruns. It was always so cool to catch something on rerun that I had missed the first time around.
Humph.
This show had become really, really good -- the quality had taken an immense step upward in the second half of the year. It's a pity more people didn't see it, but that's CBS' scheduling stupidity, not the show's problem.
The serialized dramas are the way of the future; we're in an adjustment phase now, but the episodic shows will eventually be a minority, and if you even tried to display a slate of wholly episodic shows like they had in the 1970s, people would laugh at you. The change began with "Dallas" and "Hill Street Blues" -- there's no going back, and there shouldn't be, because the absolute best writing comes from the serialized stuff. But networks and viewers have to learn some patience and some sophistication, and that's going to take a while. CBS dropped the ball on a good one here.
Yes. And Stephen Bochco is Neo.So the future started in the 80s?
Hope you're right.Worry not. I refuse to allow this show to die.
It'll be back. Mark my words.
Do it like the old days when a show started in September, and ended in May...there were some repeats but a show didn't end in the middle of the season and stay off for six weeks.