Sad about 11th hour.

Your hope appears to have been dashed. I’m told it got its annual CBS “we hate you but we need you” 13-episode pickup. “Cold Case,” reportedly, also only got 13.

http://forum.planet-hood.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=52

Do you know if they’re giving out the presentations for the CW shows (like BP and Beautiful Life, I think both were only presentations) to bloggers? I’d like to hear other people’s thoughts on it, even if it’s not picked up at all.

But it’s probably too late for me to try and launch an established television blogging site in the hopes of getting a copy, hee.

I have a copy of BP that was sent to me. I liked it best out of all the CW pilots (which isn’t saying a whole lot). It is better than most of the pilots I’ve seen from NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX though.

I wonder if they’ll program Operation Fabulous or some other stupid reality show during the fall?

No matter, I just hope we find out more soon. I’ve never followed pilot season so closely before and I’ve got my heart set on BP some way or another. If you don’t mind me asking, you enjoyed the presentation, right? About how long was it? How was the cast? Thanks so much, again!

I, for one, enjoy the fact that the networks appear to be focusing on comedies again. With how the economy has been, doom and gloom in the media, etc…it’s good to see a focus on something fun to watch. Plus, it helps that 30 minute sitcoms are a lot cheaper to produce and (if successful)bring in money to the studios if they are able to make it into syndication.

Eleventh Hour might have been pre-mature with regards to cancellation. However, it all comes down to money in the end, and that type of format might be expensive to make and if the return is minimal, I can see why it was canceled.

The key for fans to try and get a “bubble” show renewed is to focus on three things…(1) DVR Numbers, (2) Advertisers…The show Chuck is a good example of this…The Subway campaign. If the advertiser who buys time on the network sees how the fans buy more of their product from watching a show, they will also contact the network in their support of the show…which might be the biggest argument/support a show can receive. (3) Campaigns such a letter writing and other creative ways…like the peanut campaign for Jericho.

TV is a business. Studios need a financial motive to keep shows on the air. Bottom line is money, and if the producers are willing to make concessions, the show will go on so to speak.

If you want to keep a show on the air, support it like fans on the show Chuck. How I Met Your Mother was a bubble show for a couple of years and the fans came out in droves and the show was saved and now it is a success.

Looking forward to an interesting 2009-2010 season.

MON: GOSSIP GIRL, ONE TREE HILL
TUE: 90210, MELROSE PLACE
WED: ANTM, THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE
THU: SMALLVILLE, SUPERNATURAL
FRI: THE VAMPIRE DIARIES

What gets in that last hour on Friday? I have no clue. I heard BODY POLITIC or PRIVILEGED a week ago, but so far only PRIVILEGED has been eliminated. I expected that to mean BODY POLITIC but someone said that was a mid-season show. Now THE GAME and EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS are off the table so I don’t know what is going in that hour. Everyone says LILY is dead too. So I’m clueless at the moment. It could end up being LIGHT YEARS. However that is the worst pilot I’ve seen in 3 years. So knowing Dawn she likely loves it.

Which isn’t an opinion on the subject matter. I think MEDIUM is one of NBC’s highest quality products. The reason is that MEDIUM is tainted goods. It’s an NBC show that wasn’t good enough for NBC and NBC sucks. That is what some people are going to think and those some people might be enough to hurt the chances of success. However when you combine that with people not knowing the back story it might be hard to convince a new viewer to stick around.

Then again they may prove me wrong and get 10M+ viewers and a 2.4+ on Fridays from it.

Funny how Eleventh Hour and Life On Mars (another show I liked) started off the year as BBC imports competing in the same time slot. I guess Eleventh Hour won that battle, for whatever that is worth since they both met the same fate…

Awesome. People are funny.

Thank you CBS. I won’t watch anything you broadcast ever again.

As for they didnt have well known actors … I think all 3 of them are fairly well known … They all have been in stuff I have seen… not sure if they would command a higher salary or not… I would assume above average tho.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1118697/

@vsaint, re: Lie to Me… as a fan of both shows, while they’re quite similar, there’s room for both shows and I’m quite pleased that Lie to Me is not in direct competition with The Mentalist.

You forgot about The Amazing Race which has been renewed.

Seriously, where are they going to slot all of them? Two new shows are sharing time with ROE & GU in some manner (GU Wed Fall, ROE Mon Spring again)?

CBS picked up Medium according to this. Maybe it will be a midseason replacement to whatever new show they end up cancelling.

CBS has renewed Cold Case, Numb3rs, Gary Unmarried, Rules of Engagement, The New Adventures Of Old Christine (22-episode order). It has not renewed Without A Trace, The Unit, Eleventh Hour. And I’m told that newly picked up pilot MIAMI TRAUMA is for midseason, and that it’s pickup was a carrot to Jerry Bruckheimer after he received the stick of the Without A Trace cancellation. CBS also has bought Medium, which had been airing on NBC. Here’s what happened: I’ve just learned that NBC did pickup Medium last Friday, but only for 13 episodes. But Endeavor Talent Agency which packages the show wanted 16 episodes (and Patricia Arquette’s contract called for 22 episodes). A difficult negotiation ensued, and now CBS has swooped in and snagged Medium, which is produced by CBS Paramount TV, to air it with Ghost Whisperer. NBC is now spinning that Medium is best suited for the CBS demo than for the NBC audience, and that it rated lower than 2 shows CBS cancelled – Eleventh Hour and Without A Trace.