Comments on: FlashForward joins Cougar Town with temporary production shut-down

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:47:04 +0000

I remember being VERY excited about this show…such disappointment.

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FlashForward deja de grabar nuevos episodios — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:09:25 +0000

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By: elaine

elaine — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:13:54 +0000

Thursday night has too many shows and I am putting Vampire Diaries and Bones on my main DVR and FlashForward has been getting saved in another room and to tell the truth, have only watched the first eps of the show. So I am guessing if it goes away I won’t be to upset.lol

By: Don J

Don J — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:59:36 +0000

I don’t know why the news makes such a big deal about production shutdowns, especially since these were announced during the holidays when pretty much all shows break anyways. Most shows are at least 6 episodes ahead before they hit air, so this “shutdown” isn’t even going to affect FlashForward at all. As for Cougar Town, it still has 3 unaired episodes (2 in 2009), so this shutdown isn’t going to affect them either.

By: Shaz

Shaz — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:45:17 +0000

@vsaint David Goyer takes over as showrunner in episode 14.

I’ll still with FF till the end but the show really needs to learn from Lost (or even 24) how to build in character drama while simultaneously ramping up the tension each episode.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:40:24 +0000

Tom: Nevertheless, the break was built-into the schedule.
And as far as not having “enough free hours” I’m guessing that either you don’t have DVR or you watch too much television. Pick and choose!

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:08:51 +0000

Glad I never started watching FF. Maybe I’ll catch the complete series (i.e. Season 1 ) during the summer.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:26:08 +0000

Because it indicates the network is unhappy with the ratings trend, and the show is extremely unlikely to be back next year barring a significant turnaround.

Personally, the show’s status for Spring is “only watching for lack of anything else”; between Lost, Fringe, and a promising crop of FX shows, there just aren’t enough free hours in the week to watch this (or V).

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:35:49 +0000

Well geez, if the FlashForward shut-down was built into the schedule and you “wouldn’t read anything much into a break like this” then why even bother to report it?

By: vsaint

vsaint — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:53:50 +0000

That’s too bad, do we know which episode the new showrunner takes over?
The last 2 episodes have been alittle different, so maybe it’s happened.
Totally agree, EVIL. Not interesting enough for the casual viewer, i’m having a hard time watching.

By: The Other James

The Other James — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:18:03 +0000

Aw, ya got me all excited that they might finally can that “Cougar Town” crap.

By: skippu

skippu — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:33:45 +0000

i quit watching ff 2 weeks ago. i dvr’d it, and half-way thru viewing, i realized i was bored spitless. so i deleted the half-watched episode and never looked back.

By: Kyall

Kyall — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:19:46 +0000

I just thought i would mention that FlashForward airs episode 10, “A561984″, in Australia, on Network Seven, on Monday November 30th before it airs in the US on Thursday December 3rd. Just thought i would make not of that It’s also a complete flop here in Australia as well. Gets crushed by the Mentalist and FlashForward’s lead out, Criminal Minds, builds on its Audience substantially and wins its slot.

By: Kermonk

Kermonk — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:26:15 +0000

It had potential, but it moves way too slow. Tempo tempo people. You’d think they would get the message.

By: Evil

Evil — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:52:33 +0000

FF has the problem that I doesn’t know what it wants to be. Does it want to be character drama or a mystery drama? Lost managed to balance those two things quite nicely, but with FF you either have a episode with good mystery elements and characters you absolutely don’t care about. Or episodes where the characters start to interest you, but then there is nothing to move the plot forward (see last two episodes.). The show just doesn’t know in which direction it’s supposed to head.

For my personal taste,I hope they finally start investigating those damn towers. Seriously, somebody builds dozens of mysterious black twoers that then suddenly disappear and nobody cares? Come on.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:41:42 +0000

hello more reatily shows

By: Bobbi Jones

Bobbi Jones — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:32:23 +0000

I love this show got scared that it had gotten canceled!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:31:52 +0000

oh lol my bad

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:31:21 +0000

heres the reason why

Arquette has been putting in long hours on the set of in an independent film, The Land of the Astronauts, which has been shooting in downtown Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley for the past two weeks. A source close to the actor says filming has been business as usual in recent days with “no apparent” family issues interfering

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:30:56 +0000

Chris, Rboert included that in the post.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:28:51 +0000

Looks like the Cox-Arquette family is moving past the “family matter” that temporarily halted production on Courteney’s new ABC comedy, Cougar Town.

A source close to the series just told us:

“We were down last Friday and are on a scheduled hiatus this week. We’ll resume production on Monday.”

good news so well wount be missing much witch i am happy

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:26:09 +0000

actually i was on eonline and said Cougartown is going back into prouction Monday

By: Stacy

Stacy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:16:39 +0000

I stopped watching it two weeks ago and I’m really not missing it all that much.

By: PizzaLegs

PizzaLegs — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:10:25 +0000

Oh, and Jayme mentioned Charlie from LOST…Doesn’t anyone else find his character just a bit too annoying? I don’t really care for him on FF.

By: PizzaLegs

PizzaLegs — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:08:58 +0000

Sad, but do I care at all? It’s hard to when the show just sorta sits there week after week. From the very first show I was thinking it just wasn’t that great. Maybe I expected too much. This shut down doesn’t surprise me at all and personally I don’t think it really gives the fans of the show much hope for its future. I’ll keep watching but I wouldn’t be surprised if this turned out to be the end of the show in some way or another.

By: Jayme

Jayme — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:00:58 +0000

Nice Humpty Dumpty lines in there. I re-read it a few times and it brought a smile to my face. Even if, I guess, this is sad news? FlashForward is really struggling to keep my interest. Charlie from Lost is its only saving grace and the writers are making me not care about him.

By: gbd

gbd — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:59:45 +0000

Why oh why did I start watching this show?