By John J. Joex Thanksgiving week is usually a slow week for television viewing with plenty of preemptions and repeats across the schedule, so it’s rarely a good indicator of how a show is performing. And I’m sure that NBC’s Chuck and The Event would like to blame the holiday week on their poor numbers [...]
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Cancellation Watch: Most Science Fiction and Fantasy Shows had Little to be Thankful for Last Week
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Cancellation Watch: Why FOX Should Not Cancel Fringe
By John J. Joex FOX’s Fringe is currently into its third season and has built up a reputation as a quality, engaging Science Fiction show that has really started to hit its stride (after a shaky first season start and a bit of a lapse last season) and is on the verge of working its [...]
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Cancellation Watch: Updated – Human Target Gets Good News, Fringe Gets Crushing News
By John J. Joex On the Cancellation Radar This Week: Human Target had its second season bow this last week but mustered only a 1.8 rating in the 18-49 demographic and less than seven million viewers, even lower than the mediocre numbers it pulled toward the end of its first season. And it will see [...]
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Cancellation Watch: The Walking Dead Gets Second Season as The Event Heads Closer to Cancellation
By John J. Joex AMC announced a second season renewal for The Walking Dead after the show has only aired two episodes. Actually there was word before the season even started that the cable net would go ahead and greenlight a second season, so the news should come as no surprise. But the show has [...]
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Cancellation Watch: Why Was Undercovers Cancelled?
By John J. Joex Why was Undercovers, NBC’s spy series from J.J. Abrams, cancelled? Well the obvious reason is the ratings. They started low, then went even further downhill. By the time that NBC decided to pull the plug on the show, its rating in the all-important 18-49 demographic had fallen into the same territory [...]
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Cancellation Watch: Finally a Series Showing Some Life this Season – The Walking Dead
By John J. Joex AMC’s The Walking Dead debuted a week ago Sunday with a 2.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic. That marks the highest rating we has seen for a Science Fiction and Fantasy show since the week of September 25th when ABC’s No Ordinary Family debuted with a 3.1 rating and the second [...]
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Cancellation Watch: The Sci Fi-Pocalypse Continues as Undercovers Gets the Axe
By John J. Joex I knew that NBC’s spy series Undercovers was in trouble with the paltry ratings numbers it has pulled so far in its inaugural season. And I originally considered it a candidate for the first genre casualty of the season. But seeing as it airs on fourth place NBC and has J.J. [...]
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Cancellation Watch: Are Syfy’s Scripted Shows on the Extinction List?
By John J. Joex On the Cancellation Radar This Week: Syfy’s Caprica got the axe last week, and I had considered that one a decent candidate for the network executioner going into the season. Now Stargate: Universe has to watch its step because it is only performing slightly better than Caprica, and I had previously [...]
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Cancellation Watch: Why Was Caprica Cancelled?
By John J. Joex Why did Syfy choose to cancel Caprica, the prequel series in their flagship BSG franchise. Well for starters my review from yesterday of Season 1.5 acts as a good overview of the reasons. Basically Caprica was too bleak, too slow, and too muddled. And that turned the show into a ratings [...]
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Cancellation Watch: Caprica is the First Casualty. Let the Sci Fi-Pocalypse Begin!
By John J. Joex Syfy’s BSG prequel Caprica was suspect coming into the Fall season after posting less than spectacular ratings in the first half of its freshman year which began this last January. Then when Season 1.5 kicked off in October, the show’s numbers dropped even further resulting in this series becoming the first [...]
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