Next week's episode of Cupid is being bumped for The Unusuals, which will air twice next week. The simple rundown:
The episode of The Unusuals originally scheduled for April 22 at 10pm, moves to April 21 at 10pm. The episode of The Unusuals that was supposed to air on April 29, will now air on April 22. The episiode of Cupid originally scheduled to air on April 21, will air on April 28.
It's hard to know exactly what to make of this, but the simplest tea leaf reading suggests they want to try to give The Unsuals a little more exposure right now at the expense of Cupid.
So will Cupid run two in one week after The Unusuals ends? Or will they quietly remove it from the schedule altogether before the 28th?
it might work on Tuesdays
Cupid definitely (for now) has an episode on 4/28 (and that week The Unusuals will run in its normal slot on 4/29). I didn’t see any information for what happens after…
ABC must be desperate for some kind of cop show to succeed.
this is ABC’s way of saying good bye cupid. however, for the unusuals, i dont know yet, I cant imagine it doing any better, so to be honest ABC probably won’t renew any of its new shows.
That Cupid is dead isn’t a surprise – didn’t ABC reduce their episode order a couple times before the series even aired?
That they think The Unusuals could survive is surprising, given the ratings so far. Or are they just trying to gauge how much of a show killer the post-Lost slot is?
Jared,
I agree 100%. it looks like ABC is looking for a succesful cop show, and I guarentee a few new cop shows will be introduced next year, if the unusuals and castle dont work out.
I don’t think this will matter much in terms of Unusuals ratings. And for the “it’s getting hurt going opposite two procedurals” crowd (who may have a point), it’s simply trading CSI:NY/L&O for Without A Trace/L&O:SVU. With a weaker lead-in I’m guessing it will do worse.
ABC is desperate. Not going to work.
>I don’t think this will matter much in terms of Unusuals ratings. And for the “it’s getting hurt >going opposite two procedurals” crowd (who may have a point), it’s simply trading CSI:NY/L&O >for Without A Trace/L&O:SVU. With a weaker lead-in I’m guessing it will do worse.
But Dancing With The Stars is a stronger lead in, especially with WAT/L&O:SVU in reruns this coming week. I think if it can do a million or two better than what Cupid’s getting in that slot, they may keep it around, just cuz they’re desperate not to have 300 empty slots going into next season.
faraday, I’m assuming you are talking about total viewers, which is not the metric that the health of shows is judged by.
In the important 18-49 demographic, Lost scored a 3.9 this week, while the Tuesday DWTS results show got a 3.4
In addition, The Unusuals was only able to scrape together a 1.9 against a repeat of Law & Order, and what I’m told is the lowest-rated original CSI:NY. I think that even if SVU and WAT are repeats, Unusuals will be lucky to crack a 2.0
I’m glad ABC moved it but its still the wrong timeslot. The reason why The Unusuals didn’t do good on Wednesdays was b/c it went against CBS procedurals and its still going against CBS procedurals and now its Trace and SVU. Its going to get killed there.
ABC needs to move it to 8pm like FOX has done with Bones and LTM to get it away from CBS procedurals.
probably cause Lost has a clip show next week giving a low ratings lead-in so and they want to give Unusuals a chance
ihatework: good call.
Ratings aside I think The Unusuals is a very good show. I think it is a different show than all the other cop shows out there and it has some very interesting characters with mysterious backgrounds. Maybe some of the alphabet execs feel the same way and are trying to give the show an opportunity to reach a larger audience before they have to decide its fate.
(but then again what do I know I also like Cupid)
So it comes down between Castle and The Unusuals. Cupid is dead.
But its still going to air an original episode out of the Lost clip show though…
I’d guess they just want to see if it does any better with a Dancing lead-in and they can’t really shift the Monday schedule to test the waters on that at this point. I don’t think its going to make much difference. Of course if it does do fractionally better on Tuesday I wonder if they’ll just drop Cupid in after Lost in two-weeks and keep The Unusuals on Tuesday.
On the plus side Unusuals fans are going to have a tough time arguing that ABC didn’t at least try to make it work before cancelling it now.
Cool, I agree. But I think Unusuals is dead too. And I think Castle is 90% dead.
Mark me down for all three shows dead. Regardless of these gyrations.
Alex,
“On the plus side Unusuals fans are going to have a tough time arguing that ABC didn’t at least try to make it work before cancelling it now.”
lol, true