Moonlight was, simply put, the most addictive show I have ever watched in my long life as a TV viewer. CBS has always been my favorite network. Moonlight was trashed before it had a chance to get going, so for all kinds of reasons listed above, I don’t watch CBS anymore. I’ve seen Swingtown go down in Moonlight’s time slot, and I see Ex-List tanking as well. Who can say we “disgruntled fans” are not making life a little miserable for CBS? Are you so sure about that?–all of you wise dispensers of viper juice and snarkiness? I’m proud to be among the viewers who recognized Moonlight for what it was and always will be: a beautiful show, shot in a “noir” style that was different (!) from the other mediocre fare, with brilliant actors who meshed exactly as you want a cast to do, which had an actual HERO every week pitting himself against evil and winning! and this made it the best show on television, whether people found it or not.

GMC

P.S. I thought you were done here. So you’re an idiot and a liar. So typical.

Nice use of hot words like “stupid”, “idiot” and “moronic”. Good job name-calling. Nice manners.

But by all means, I’m enjoying the vampires feasting on Ex List’s slowly rotting carcass.

Open source WordPress with a bunch of people co-creating is awesome. That’s NOT CBS’ model, and to suggest that it is — just freaking stupid. That might not always be the case, but for now, and probably years and years to come — it will be. Perhaps you’re working too hard to think straight but that’s your problem, not mine. So, you’re an arrogant idiot and I’m rude. Life will go on.

Thank you, Robert. With as hard as I’m working on the academics while working a full-time job, I really appreciated the mock-out.

If you carry an iPhone, the next time you download one of the apps for your phone developed by other people than Apple, think of co-creation.

I think you’re a rude person. I’m done here.

As I said before, GW did not interest me except as a lead in to Moonlight, and after Moonlight was cancelled, I never once felt the pull to watch it. I have watched some of their other shows, such as NCIS, Without A Trace, and CSI Miami, but don’t care enough about GW to keep watching it with no Moonlight to follow.

It will be interesting to see what happens when there is actually something worth watching on Friday nights.

Ghost Whisperer is UP compared to last season, so your anecdotal “I abandoned CBS on Friday” isn’t exactly widespread is it?

How is this an improvement? NBC has to wait until February to air “Friday Night Lights” again as its hard-core fans are already enjoying it if they subscribe to Direct TV. Who is running the show over there at NBC???

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2008/09/sepinwall_on_tv_diane_ruggiero_2.html

Doubt the Israli version would turn out to be any better. It has to do with the premise of the show, the fact that she has to go back and revisit all these guys is what makes it seem so lame, like the character is a whore or something. Women tend to like it when they have to choose between two guys, both enamored with the female lead. But I guess this show won’t last long enough for the producers to get a clue.

Watching Moonlight made me crave Forever Night and Beauty and the Beast from my childhood again. I would really like to check out True Blood. Sanctuary was ok, but I’m in the market for something more upbeat I guess on a Friday, and less dark. Like Moonlight. That is why I love Eureka so much, all the outside scenery, it truely captures the essence of a home town feel in the wilderness. I hope I can get hooked on True Blood like I had Moonlight. FNL premier on NBC would be something to see.

Check out Eureka Unscripted: http://eurekaunscripted.tumblr.com/

I find that it is really cool that tv show cyber stalkers such as myself can get this much material to become preoccupied with. ><

The last airing of The Mentalist got TWICE as many demo viewers as the last airing of Moonlight.

I can’t recall the exactly rating for FNL, but I saw it somewhere and it was very very small. I believe it may have been 200,000? Possibly as much as 500,000. I can’t find where I saw it.

Moving on (well sort of) two things have perked my interest. Two shows that Universal Studios produce are being sponsored more unconventionally this season, most likely due to the cause of the writers strike – That is Eureka by degree deodorant, and Friday Night Lights by Direct Tv, I realize that NBC is down ratings wise, But how do these shows match up against the overall competition so far. I mean Eureka signed up for 21 episodes with Scifi, but only 8 aired during the summer. And how did Friday Night Lights do in its timeslot. Are people really going through the trouble to switch in the States just because of FNL?

Do you see this as a real trend happening even though it is just Universal going this far at this stage, or simply a necessity of the writers strike?

Oh, and this weekend I have decided to stop watching my reruns of this series and to take a little break. I am just going to wait until Christmas eve at midnight after its a wonderful life – I’m going to watch all the episodes of Moonlight, maybe then I’ll be able to let go of the series. *Sigh* I feel as though my fanatasism has taken control of my life

Ayla

I am eagerly awaiting Crusoe, because it looks like it was written with someone who has at least 2 brain cells they can rub together!

OK, so let them try Moonlight on a different night. I find Wednesdays is empty of anything I want to see, so I picked Wednesdays. I really don’t care, because I was happy with it on Fridays. Moonlight is a better show getting better numbers on Fridays than either Swingtown or Ex-List, and I still say that CBS made a huge mistake by spending all the money and effort trying out lousy shows to replace it.

You are not going to be able to tell the true viewership of Chuck until later in the season, when Dancing With the Stars scales back the number of hours it is on the air. Anything you put up against that show is going to suffer.

I still like the campaign that NBC is doing with Chuck. It is worth going to their website and taking a look at the animation. Chuck is the only really clever, original action/comedy on the air. All the other so-called comedies consist of people sitting around in one room trading insults. Zzzzzz! I was over that before Cheers was cancelled!

What’s your thesis on, conspiracy theories and misinformation?

Moonlight’s cancellation was not abrupt. Indeed, even its fans were worried about it and bracing for it weeks in advance of it actually happening.

It’s you who is being arrogant. Co-creation is BS proliferated by dopes like you. CSI, Two and a Half Men, The Mentalist, Criminal Minds, NFL Football — oh gosh golly, CBS is blowing it soooo bad. But how come none of those shows is hurting as a result of the Moonlight fans not watching CBS?

Tiger Woods being injured impacted CBS ratings more than a few crazy and disgruntled Moonlight fans who claim to not watch any shows at all on CBS anymore.

Given the economy, it’s going to be fairly bleak for all broadcast networks as far as advertising revenue goes. You gonna blame the Dow falling over 20% on CBS’ decision to cancel Moonlight, too?

You are funny, putting Moonlight on Wednesday. In what timeslot, 9h00 to 10h00 or 10h00 to 11h00?. Of course CBS would have to move Criminal Minds or CSI:NY two its best performers in the ratings this season, 16.00Millions viewers with demo 4.3 for CM and 15.90Millions viewers and 4.0 demo for CSI:NY to make way for Moonlight with its 8.00millions viewers and 2.0 demo….right with that decision Nina Tassler would have lost her job!

As for how NBC did promote Chuck well it isn’t paying that much Chuck is at the bottom of the rattings, it started the season with 6.84Millions viewers and a 2.7 demo and a week later it lost 1Millions viewers and 0.4 in the demo.

Looking at how well CBS is doing, I say CBS was right to cancel Moonlight to try something else, something that would have performed better, at least to ghost whisperer and Numb3rs level. Unfortunately for people working on the Ex-List, the show isn’t getting any ratings that would justified keeping it on the schedule. So if 11th hour isn’t doing better in the upcoming weeks, I think CBS will move 11th hour on Friday in the Ex-List spot.

Sorry CBS, you not only blew it with “Moonlight”, but you blew it with nearly everything you are doing, from the fans to the writers to the producers and to the sponsors. The bad taste left from the abrupt cancellation of “Moonlight” will last a very long time for a lot of viewers.

I disagree with you. I say that Moonlight would have started making money for CBS if they had marketed it properly and given it another season to prove itself.

Seinfeld was not a big hit right away: it took a couple of seasons to catch on! Once it did, it was unstopable.

Moonlight is a very entertaining high quality series, with fantastic writing, amazing art direction, a charasmatic cast who have wonderful chemistry with each other, great photograhpy, gorgeous lighting, and belongs to a popular-and-growing genre of vampire romance. Moonlight took the audience through the full gamit of emotions, offering us romance, joy, laughter, romance, sorrow, suspense, tension, action, romance, nostalgia, love, really evil bad guys… did I mention romance? Moonlight is the ONE truly romantic show I have EVER seen on television. A love story is not the same as a romance. This is something that most studio executives can’t get through their heads. Good romance has a major element of suspense to it, and it is the suspense that arouses the passions of a woman, not people meeting and junping into bed like trained fleas. Wham, bam, thank you m’am just doesn’t make my putter flutter!

It is a waste of time and money for CBS to keep trying out series after series, when they had a obvious winner with Moonlight. CBS failed to promote Moonlight adequately, and didn’t give it a chance on another evening (Wednesdays would have been good, there is often nothing worth watching on Wednesdays).

CBS should take the Ex-List off the air and rerun the first season of Moonlight. Meanwhile, they should start making the second season. Then they should spend a lot more effort marketing the series.

I have heard that CBS is STILL shopping Swingtown around to cable networks. I have heard that some of the sponsers are refusing to back it anymore! Why don’t they put some of that effort into marketing Moonlight?

A good example of what they can do is the way that NBC is promoting CHUCK, a cute, quirky comedy that they were considering cancelling. NBC decided that CHUCK was a good bet after all, and they stepped up the marketing, including having the star promoting other shows. They also created an animated graphic novel series on the website that is really cute!

CBS imagines themselves to be forward thinking, but I think they can take a lesson from other networks!

I blame CBS for not promoting the show, for lying to fans, and for disrespecting fans. Whether canceling Moonlight was a good decisions I can’t say because I know that I’m biased. However, canceling Moonlight to put on The Ex-List I think is something that I think we can all agree, based on the numbers, was a bad decision.

When the season started last year, Mr. Gorman noted “overall ratings for network television were considerably softer compared to one year earlier.” He theorized that increased DVR usage was one explanation and I think the looming writer’s strike could also have played a role. Especially given GW’s bounce from last year (although the marketing campaign by CBS also likely helped). But while GW is up from last year, Numb3rs,a show that is more likely to be affected by its lead-in, is down by about 1 million viewers. For all its faults, Moonlight never did that but The Ex-List does. And this is despite facing less competition than Moonlight did at this time last year.

THEN COMPARE IT TO MOONLIGHT: http://www.ramblingsofatvwhore.com/2007/09/20/a-moonlight-review/

Moonlight got some bad reviews, but mostly based on rumor, by mid season it was great, something to look forward to on a Friday night, would it have done better if Nina Tassler decided to up the budget on promotion the way Scifi did with Eureka, Oh Year! Believe me. It started off as, but looked like it could turn into a prolific Buffy the Vampire Slayer fave instead. Incidentally the same guy who created Beauty and the Beast created Moonlight, it had a chance at a pretty much extensive run. It is a real shame, one worth crying over.

Eureka episoed review: http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2007/09/feeling-hot-hot.html

Eureka scifi site: http://www.scifi.com/eureka/

check out the podcasts on the downloads page it is really awesome.

Yes there is a conspiracy by CBS to lose money by throwing away those shows that have a little fanbase. They are doing it to deliberately anger each one of you personally.

Guys, face it, if CBS could have made money they would have, Moonlight wasn’t going to make money for them or the CW. Now move on and find something else to obsess over.

Please stop blaming CBS for cancelling someone that not enough of you liked, they need the mass market with some good demo scores, Moonlight did not provide it to them

The Axe List is history! VvvV

I’ve now got HBO at home and I’m enjoying True Blood.

The idea that CBS should apologize to fans of every show they cancel is laughable. Every season shows get canceled. It’s the way the TV industry works. Not many shows make it and fewer are real hits. If the audience of any show decided to take that personally, that is their own problem, not that of the network.

And don’t try to argue that it should be CBS’s problem because LOOK! The fans won’t watch CBS so one show is doing poorly! There are shows every season that do poorly, and this season, one of them is The Ex-List. Last season, one of them was Moonlight. It’s simply the way things work. Even if there were a correlation between Moonlight getting canceled and The Ex-List doing poorly, there is absolutely no way to prove it and CBS doesn’t really have much to worry about when they are still winning the night, and much of their Fall lineup is up.

So, sorry, but it’s just business.