NBC cancels "Whitney"

[mr3urious]

Also, CBS has renewed Two and a Half Men yet again, despite Angus Jones pulling a Kirk Cameron and being demoted to extra! You just can't stop this show!

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...lf-men-renewed-by-cbs-for-11th-season/179744/

 

[Teheheman]

The Office was shedding ratings after Carell left. Look how much they dropped off within 2 episodes of the season prior to this one. Other than really bad choices they made in the last season and a half (WHY did James Spader have to leave?), a series that's been on 9 years needs to end at some point. Parks and Rec will be the rightful heir to The Office. That's basically why they passed on The Farm. I just don't think it would have been successful. Now, if they did a show about Craig Robinson working at the sports company, I could see that working, albeit too similar to The Office, but with Sports stars. Frasier worked because the character was just defined enough to carry on a show. Had they given it to Norm or Cliff, the thing would have fell fast.

I think Darryl and Jim working at the sports company would have been a GREAT spin-off. James Spader's character was kind of just a one note character. The only episodes that were decent in season 8 were the ones that were the ones without him in it(The whole 'Florida' storyline was the best one they had then). P&R is the heir apparent to the Office, I will agree with that. Mostly because Michael Schur co-created the show and he was a writer on The Office and played Mose. So there's a connection there. I think that the Office is a show in which the ensemble is SO strong that you couldn't have a spin-off on one certain character.

Daniel

 

[D'Snowth]

I was initially excited about SMASH because I really like Katharine McPhee. I did like the first season. I got disgusted with the turn it took this season

I was disgusted with the turn it took just in the second episode: the very first thing you see is a sex scene... that's ALL you see on TV anymore.

Also, CBS has renewed Two and a Half Men yet again, despite Angus Jones pulling a Kirk Cameron and being demoted to extra! You just can't stop this show!

It's CBS, they ALWAYS milk their shows for waaaaay more than they're worth.

 

[Oscarfan]

Community's coming back, so yay. This past season hasn't been that great; the season finale was really, especially weird.

 

[fuzzygobo]

How 'bout we cut out the middleman and cancel NBC? (Exit stage left, dodging tomatoes...)

 

[D'Snowth]

Considering that networks like NBC require too much control and ownership over the actual programming, and considering these network executives come and go all the time and never know for sure what they want - I'm game.

 

[Muppet fan 123]

YES! Community is BACK! They've really reproven themselves this season! (Besides a few minor let down episodes) they've really turned around and (re-)become a great show.
They've handled Chevy Chase's depature from the show very well, like having him in the puppet episode, and in "Heroic Origins" someone with his likeness can be seen from the back.

They would've been crazy to cancel Community this season. It's not like they have any other major comedies this year besides Parks and Rec.

Community's coming back, so yay. This past season hasn't been that great; the season finale was really, especially weird.

I thought the season finale (which might have just been the series finale) was really good! They've built this ingenious world of the two timelines, which I love a lot. They also brought the paintball guns back! The episode was really written for the die-hard fans, since they weren't sure if that would've been their last episode right there. I'm glad it's not.
Remember when the show was actually about a Community College?

Maybe we'll actually get that "Six Seasons and a Movie" us fans have been hoping for!

 

[Drtooth]

NBC's also got that Betty White hidden camera show about old people playing pranks on young people. Ratings have fallen off dramatically, but because of it being so cheap to produce, NBC will probably keep it going.

The Betty White meme died the second she got onto SNL. That was all the meme was, Cookie Monster didn't get that big an appearance when they tried it with him, and he had a great video try out too. When Jason Segal brought the Muppets in in 2011, that at least stayed for a few skits. Errr... what was I saying again?

Off their Rockers would have been a good idea for a special, but it just can't carry a full series. I actually admit, I kinda dug seeing that one episode, but at the end, I had enough of it.

Also, CBS has renewed Two and a Half Men yet again, despite Angus Jones pulling a Kirk Cameron and being demoted to extra! You just can't stop this show!

The ratings took a bath the episode after Charlie's passive aggressively written funeral. Ashton's character was a completely different character from Charlie's, and it was turning into an unrealized vehicle for him, all about him trying to woo that English woman. And it was a bland, safe, lobotomized sitcom that no one would bother watching. Meanwhile, Alan's character just turned into a cartoonish buffoon that the universe kept dumping on. Now, the thesis of 2.5 Men was that Alan played by the rules and got screwed just as hard while Charlie was the amoral d-bag that kept getting ahead. Ashton's character is not only likable, but pitiable because he was dumped, and he was trying to find a meaningful relationship, now making Alan depressingly pathetic. And since Jake's actor joined a cult that seems like Christianity, and moaned that the show was not overly moral, I think it was time for Chuck to pull the plug, or at least passive aggressively kill off the character.

But I will say this... Unlike Kirk Cameron, Angus didn't turn into a freaking dictator, bullying everyone who worked on the show to live by his exceedingly moral born again code.

 

[jvcarroll]

I haven't been a big fan of NBC's shows for a while now. Whitney isn't terrible. It's Friends meets Mad About You, but most of the humor falls kind of flat.

NBC also canceled the New Normal. While I did enjoy the show, that also fell flat. Viewers would have showed up if there was enough funny.

Smash needed to go. They lost the young viewers by catering to an older crowd during season one. They then alienated those older viewers by catering to a younger crowd that they failed to entice back in season two. The greatest problem with the show was that the home lives of the characters seemed just as stagey as the Broadway production numbers. Little about them rang true. I assure you that every cast and crew member on a production struggles to get by, but they focused too much on all the rich people. When they did get around to the lives of the up-and-comers, they dropped the ball. How the heck did any of them afford their apartments? THAT is the interesting story. How all the people involved juggle their lives in order to make art. That would have been a much better program. Something viewers of all ages could relate to.

The one program I am concerned about getting canceled is Hannibal. I love the show. They took an iconic character and reinvented him for television. The ratings are solid, but not great. That is because NBC decided to drop it in the schedule as a mid-season replacement opposite two programs, CBS' Elementary and ABC's Scandal, that already have rather strong followings. They should have put it on Tuesday nights were it would face much less competition from Body of Proof and Golden Boy. Those were canceled, by the way.

 

[D'Snowth]

They lost the young viewers by catering to an older crowd during season one. They then alienated those older viewers by catering to a younger crowd that they failed to entice back in season two.

This is exactly why when I'm asked who my target audience is when pitching shows, I say I have no target audience. I want everyone to watch.