FOX’s much talked about move of Fringe to Fridays looks like it might be a good thing after all. Based on the overnights, last night’s episode pulled a 1.9 rating in the 18-49 demographic and around 4.9 million total viewers. That total viewers number doesn’t look too great (coming in less than what AMC’s The [...]
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Cancellation Watch Breaking News: Fringe Rules Friday!
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Cancellation Watch: It’s Make or Break Time for Fringe, Human Target May be Dead
By John J. Joex On the Cancellation Radar This Week: Fringe returns from its Winter hiatus to its much talked about Friday night timeslot this week and will likely set the high mark for the ratings in the new time with this upcoming episode. Almost certainly the numbers will go down in subsequent weeks, just [...]
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Cancellation Watch: Season 2 of V Arrives DOA but The Cape Shows Life
By John J. Joex Before the season began, I warned that ABC’s V reboot was heading into its second season on very unsure footing. I revisited that this past week in my Sci Fi-Pocalypse post. And now after seeing the ratings for the Season 2 premiere, I’ll bet good money this one is headed for [...]
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Cancellation Watch: So What is FOX Thinking with Human Target?
By John J. Joex As one of the only genre shows still airing new episodes during the holiday season (in fact, one of the few network shows at all with new episodes), Human Target again posted low numbers this past week as it only mustered a 1.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 5.75 million [...]
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Cancellation Watch: Is FOX Toying With Us on Fringe?
By John J. Joex This past week, FOX released and add promoting the move of Fringe to Friday nights and playing up the “deathslot” talk that has been buzzing around the web since the announcement of the move first came out. Now FOX has been drawing the ire of genre fans for years with the [...]
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Cancellation Watch: Walking Dead Sets New Highs with Finale
By John J. Joex AMC’s The Walking Dead has blown away the genre competition on television since its debut on Halloween, beating out both the cable and network broadcast entries. And with its season finale, it set an even higher mark as it posted a 3.0 rating with adults 18-49 and pulled in nearly six [...]
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Cancellation Watch: Ratings Get a Slight Bump for Mid-Season Finales
By John J. Joex Most of the Science Fiction and Fantasy shows had their mid-season finales this past week (and when did this mid-season finale thing creep into standard practice anyway?), and most shows saw a bit of a bump in their ratings. But not enough to impact the Cancellation alert of any of the [...]
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Cancellation Watch: Most Science Fiction and Fantasy Shows had Little to be Thankful for Last Week
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: 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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