“Cougar Town” had potential, but the manic tone and over-the-top acting is soooooo grating. I want to stab them all in the face, except the son (whatever his name is, he’s saving the show for me…oh, and the hot neighbor man-cougar, despite his character being a tool). They need to get their shit together or just piss off altogether.

“Hank” sucks and I only gave it a shot the first week because that Melinda McGraw was on Mad Men, and she’s awesome. Everyone else should DIAF.

I can see them cancelling all but “Hank”. This may be the last season of “Scrubs”, which means MF + TM + CT + “Better Off Ted” = a solid comedy block.

Can’t wait to see what happens. Also, I hope “The Forgotten” is cancelled soon so my mother can stop clogging up the DVR with it and never watching it….

They are doing at least 18, and maybe 19, half hours this season and you’re asking if it will be schedulable for February?

a.) 2 minutes of Dancing With the Stars overrun that was included in the preliminary numbers but stripped out in the finals and

b.) Monday Night Football was shown on the local ABC affiliates in Green Bay, Milwaukee and Minneapolis (where about 50% of the people watching TV in those markets were watching the game. Those numbers were included in the preliminary numbers but stripped out in the finals.

Hope that helps.

Episode Ratings, Season 2
Episode Number Episode Rating Share Rating/Share
(18-49) Viewers
(millions) Rank
(Overall)
1 “Deep in Death” 6.1 10 2.3/6 9.26 TBA
2 “The Double Down” 6.2 10 2.6/6 9.56 TBA
3 “Inventing the Girl” 6.1 10 3.0/7 11.64 TBA
4 “Fool Me Once…” TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA
5 “When the Bough Breaks” TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA

I got this from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_(TV_series)

But you’d be wrong!!!!

It would have been a hit.

Will Scrubs even be schedulable for late Jan/February if they are only casting now (to say nothing of shooting?)

“Ted’s” shot half their 13-ep order. And I hear the new episodes are fantastic. Don’t follow “Scrubs” production (or watch it, for that matter), except they started casting the 5th show of the season last week. So, they’re available… whenever ABC feels like using them. I believe “Ted” and 20th were told to plan for a December premiere — although subject to change, obviously.

The renew/cancel index is fine, its just the way the articles talk about these shows like their already dead “Melrose Place joins TBL in the TV Graveyard” etc, at least add a question mark on the end. I think its fun to see how the shows progress but i think its idiotic to put headlines like that which declare that a show is over.

Thats all, no offence meant to anyone who posts on here.

So by my math, they only have three midseason hours – Lost/Happy/Wife (and Wife is only a last resort for prime slots), and all signs point to them needing 3.5 hours in Feb already (Forgotten/Eastwick/V/Hank). Castle may get a reprieve (or at least time share the slot with Deep End) for lack of anything else to air during Feb.

As for Castle, I sincerely hate that it’s in trouble, but it is and it’s first week’s DVD sales of 53,294 did nothing to make me feel better about it’s chances.

At this rate, of the shows that I watch, Lost has the best chance of making it back next Season.

I feel bad for Kelsey, Back to You was a better post-Frasier show for him. Hank is just okay to say the least. I’m rooting for The Middle, I hope it could find a way to survive.

Although, it hasn’t aired yet, I’m hoping Ugly Betty would pull respectable ratings when it premieres on its new Friday slot

“Lost can go anywhere and probably bring its audience with it, so it goes to Tuesday at 9pm, sandwiched by DWTS and V. Why V? the Elizabeth Mitchell connection, of course. That will get the attention of some Lost fans, at the very least.”

In which case, why not put “V” before Lost?

My general guideline for scripted one hour dramas is that if a show is below a .94 or so that gets it into “on the bubble” range. Shows less than .85 are in serious danger, and shows lower than a .75 not on a Friday are doomed.

Given that Lost is in its last season, and I say this as a huge fan who will be gutted after the last episode airs, as a series, it really doesn’t matter to ABC anymore. Lost can go anywhere and probably bring its audience with it, so it goes to Tuesday at 9pm, sandwiched by DWTS and V. Why V? the Elizabeth Mitchell connection, of course. That will get the attention of some Lost fans, at the very least.

Though I believe Hank is doomed regardless, the actions around 30 minute sitcoms are harder to predict. If The Middle had even a slightly lower score than Castle, I wouldn’t necessarily find it to be in worse shape.

Here are the rest.

does that help?

I need to be more careful with my Hollywood lingo!

It’s the studios that balk on under-13 episode orders. The license fees they get from 12 episodes on top of the pilot help to better amortize the costs of keeping production running than the license fees from 5 episodes on top of the pilot do. Mind you, when renowned cheapskate Jeff Sagansky was running CBS back in the early ’90s, he got to a point where he stopped giving anything — even the new fall shows — 12 episode pickups. The studios were PISSED OFF, but he pretty much told them to take it or leave it. Anyone who wanted a show on CBS took it. This was back when CBS had the World Series, and as I recall, I think he tried to use that as an excuse. That 6 or 8 episodes would take them up to baseball interruptions, and then he’d reevaluate whether or not to order more while the show was off for a month. This was all well and good in theory, except that Sagansky didn’t actually have 6-8 weeks of patience… so most of the shows got yanked after, like, 3-5 episodes. (Coincidentally, that practice ended overnight when he mercifully quit in 1994. “Chicago Hope” even got a 22-episode order right off the bat.)

Of course, as ABC has proven time and time again, Steve McPherson will pick up 13 episodes and then it gets cut down to 10 or 8 or 7 (or in “Single with Parents’” case, 1) shortly thereafter.

I don’t think ABC will move Modern Family and CT from Wed @ 9 as others seem to think might happen. As long as they continue to hold up well and remain competitive in that hour, why mess with that? Even moving them to 8 isn’t good since that hour has fewer overall viewers. I think LOST will either air Wednesday @ 10 or possibly back in its Season 1 slot of Wed @ 8. I know nothing leading out of LOST ever did well but ABC has never had anything on after LOST that already had an established audience so it could happen. Of course this would involve ABC not having comedies at 8 so I don’t know how willing they are to give that up.

I kind of liked seeing week to week progress per average network rating and being able to see if renewal cancel changes were more from increased/decrease viewers or increase/decrease in the overall network average.

Lee – Thats not going to happen. Maybe a slight increase, but in general, the numbers for Eastwick and The Forgotten will only go down.

Kevin – Its never the actors fault, its usually the show itself doesnt catch on or isnt good. Hank doesnt look like it fits in with the other ABC comedies and seems like the weak point. Its reviews arent that great either, which makes it a good candidate for cancellation.

From everything I’ve read Castle will see an increase from previous weeks even after the DWTS and football numbers are shaved off from last night. Final numbers can’t come soon enough.

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