Fox is making some news with its confidence that it will go through the fall with no cancellations. And it's released it's November "sweeps" calendar which includes Dollhouse, Brothers and 'Til Death to back it up.
Might that PR tout goad ABC (Hank, Eastwick, the forgotten), NBC (Trauma) (D'oh! already forgot about Southland) and CBS (Three Rivers) into keeping their loser shows on air until January for PR purposes alone?
Maybe. Broadcast TV has made scheduling decisions for seemingly goofier reasons in the past.
Well, they’re advertising this Sunday’s THREE RIVERS episode, and wasn’t it yesterday they released the story about Mandy Patinkin guesting on an upcoming episode? — so maybe prophecies to the contrary, this one’s not going away as soon as expected.
NBC is already out due to Southland. CW too due to Beautiful Life.
ABC is a special case – they could very well keep Hank/Eastwick/Forgotten on for all 13 episodes, but how do you consider V, if they never fire up production again?
But as I said in the other thread, the real mystery is CBS and Three Rivers – AoP is strong enough to stay on until RoE takes over.
D’oh! Already forgot about Southland!
Hadn’t seen Wednesday’s ratings when I wrote the above. ABC is definitely out of the running, with Primetime specials replacing Eastwick any day now.
Even considering Southland I don’t know if NBC can cancel Trauma before sweeps, what will they put in its place?
I don’t think there’s anyway ABC holds onto all three of Castle, the forgotten and Eastwick. Maybe two out of three or one out of three but not all three. That leaves this between CBS and Fox. Will pride really keep Three Rivers on the air? Only time will tell…
Tom; Accidently on purpose’s ratings are really good why do u asume there gonna replace it?
i hope some cable channel picks up Southland! that show is really good, and i think it will grow on a cable network
Ryan Accidentally’s numbers are not really good relative to the Monday comedy block. I’d agree that it’ll likely stick around until Rules is ready to come back and then quietly sail into the sunset. I don’t however think CBS will pull it ‘early’.
AoP’s ratings are not “really good” in comparison with the rest of the Monday comedy block – they are down at least .5 from the show preceding it every week (when total viewership should be higher). It absolutely won’t run for the whole year, the only question being when Rules of Engagement takes over.
On an absolute level, are the numbers good? Yes. But it is all the block around it, which is why none of the other Monday orphans (The Class, Worst Week) ever get picked up by other networks, despite supposedly high ratings.
CBS isn’t likely to deviate from its normal procedures.
Well , Three Rivers is killing Cold Case. But because Cold Case is in its last season maybe CBS doesn’t care and will keep Three Rivers until January. Three Rivers got 7.4 millions last Sunday , I don’t think it can get lower than that. So CBS may keep it.
“Even considering Southland I don’t know if NBC can cancel Trauma before sweeps, what will they put in its place?”
In the event that NBC cancels Trauma any time soon I’d imagine Heroes moves back to 9PM, Law & Order gets moved off of Friday night and is either paired with SVU on Wednesday (which would move Mercy to Monday) or moved to Mondays at 8. That would then leave two-hours of Dateline leading into Leno on Friday.
NBC can cancel one of Trauma or Mercy without too many problems. Things might become a little more problematic if they want to get rid of both. Unless they’re prepared to bring Chuck back early, which I think is a bad idea.
Gloria, No. Cold Case’s 18-49 ratings average is a 2.1, Three Rivers is a 1.8. In the two weeks they both aired, CC beat TR’s ratings both nights.
Sorry Bill, I meant that Three Rivers was hurting Cold Case’s ratings. But because Cold Case will be finished this season, maybe CBS doesn’t care.
Well, CBS issued a press release yesterday solely to announce that Mandy Patinkin would be a guest star at a pretty stunning episode of Three Rivers which probably will air in mid November (unless they move up that episode) so I’m being cautiously optimistic at this point about Three Rivers. If CBS were smart, it would move Three Rivers (at least for the Mandy Patinkin episode) to Wednesday nights to get the Criminal Minds audience.
Gloria, gotcha. CBS certainly cares about that at some level, and that would be one of the reasons to get rid of TR early.
@amyvil,
Why would CBS sacrifice CSI: NY for 3 Rivers?
I like FOX’s assertation that not picking up the back 9 of a fall show somehow equates to “not a cancellation.” I know News Corp. knows how to spin, but they’ve certainly outdone themselves here. All the better to cover up an awful development season, I guess. Oh, none of our pilots were good? Let’s just move all our summer hits into the fall, have them take up 3, 4, whatever hours of space, only put one new show from pilot season on the fall schedule, and even though we’re having our lowest-rated Friday lineup on record and even know we’ve certainly mastered the art of yanking far higher-rated shows after 3 weeks in the past, let’s just leave all these bombs on the air and proudly boast that, YES!, we are going to make it through the fall by not actually cancelling anything! Aren’t we just so successful?!
But Riff, if they announce the cancellation on December 20th,for example, it’s technically not a “fall cancellation”. See?