And the TV news keeps on coming. Following ABC’s spring-cleaning from earlier, NBC and CBS have decided to get in on the fall schedule action. Via TV Line, the peacock has decided to renew Chuck, the show that will not die, for one final season. The show will reportedly return for 13 episodes, before bowing out permanently. Additionally, NBC has cancelled Lost look-alike The Event, whose season finale apparently also can serve as a satisfying series finale. The show may not be completely dead, however, because Deadline reports that producers are looking to take it to another outlet (Netflix was mentioned as a possibility).
NBC also cancelled underperformer Law and Order: LA and the fairly racist Outsourced. Additionally, the folks over at CBS have picked up the J.J. Abrams/Jonah Nolan (screenwriter of The Dark Knight) thriller Person of Interest starring Lost’s Michael Emerson. The network has also picked up the Kat Dennings sitcom Broke Girls, which pits the actress opposite Beth Behrs as two 22-year-olds struggling to “make their dreams come true” in New York City.
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Wow. I really thought this show had some legs outside of Leila and Sean, the two weakest actors in the whole show. I was hoping Sean was gonna get with Vicky, because that duo just makes soooo much sense. All in all, I thought it was a good show, with a few minor weak points. What a shame though. Majority of the cast were good actors.
Good
Outsourced and The Event are so bad
The last 2 Law and Order: LA were finally actually good … too bad.
How was Outsourced, the show, racist? I thought the main character was a little too obviously dumb and ignorant at the start, but my wife and I loved that show. Oh, well. It ended on a good note. Seems like they knew it was going to be the end because there was some major acceleration on the plot lines in the last episode. It was fun while it lasted.
The Event was pretty broken from the start and I gave up on it fast, but I heard there were a couple good episodes here and there.
I really hate scheduled TV. Good shows get cancelled before they get a real chance. It makes writers go for cheap gimmicks to draw an audience rather than solid storytelling. Fringe had a mediocre start, but got SO much better. Yet shows like Journeyman, Terriers, Chicago Code, Firefly and others are forced into bunk time slots, get little advertising, and are otherwise shafted by scheduled programming.
Problem is it will be here for a long time thanks to cable companies controlling too much of the intertubes and the resistance of TV studios to consumer oriented thinking.
On demand whenever I want and on whatever device please. And yes, I even want to stream to my TV screen — gasp!