2016-17 TV Cancellations Thread: TNT finds "Nothing can come of nothing."

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EdReedFan20 said:
I don't know how it's doing in ratings (I am enjoying it, though), but with what ABC is doing to Designated Survivor, they should be the last to question "what happened?" if the audience numbers plummet and the show is a one and done. Tonight the show had its Fall Finale, on December 14th. It won't come back until some time in March, three months later (depending when in March). I remember a similar break is what ruined the momentum Revolution had during the first half of that season. It limped on to a cancellation (after a, rather surprising season 2 renewal). I could see this happening with a show that's been around and has a massive fanbase, but for a freshman show, that is quite a gamble. So many of the other ABC shows, I've heard January (or in some cases, February), but not March. If this was a one season only show (which is something I would love to see more of, but that's a whole different can of worms), I think that would make it easier to swallow.
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Trump happened. Pretty sure the ratings went from 1.6/1.7 to 1.1/1.2 after the election.
 
dead souls said:
Sadly that's probably right. Neither would make my top 50 for the year.

Westworld will be on my fail of the year list for sure.
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I loved the first few episodes but it lost me after Episode 5. After that point is when the troubled production became really apparent to me as a viewer. There are a couple plots that just get dropped, deaths that nobody reacts to, while the rest of the show spins its tires. It's like they're going "This is important. Pay attention to this. Look at thi-you know, never mind. Look at this other thing."

And the finale is up there with Homeland Season 1 for anticlimactic season finales. I have almost no interest in coming back for Season 2.
 
maxcriden said:
FB to start paying for original shows:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/facebook-start-paying-original-shows-956117
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Maybe Facebook will pick up all the series Netflix cancels.


[edit to avoid double posting] http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/the-sked-wednesday-ratings-12-14-2016.html

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I think that's Star's series premiere and Empire moved up an hour to accommodate it. Empire's ratings actually went up by about 0.2 over last week while Star's ratings are about 0.3 worse than Empire's in that same time slot last week.
 
Watched the first episodes of Search Party & The Americans. Both decent shows, although I have an issue with the Americans because I dislike the Russian government immensely. I know it's just a tv show, but still stuff like this happened and it's still happening. Not sure if I can qualify it as entertainment as it hits to close to home.
 
what happened to American Gods, wasnt it supposed to be this year?
 
Went back to Pure Genius to give the show another show and tapped out in 15 minutes.

Something I've found interesting is that Google pulls reviews and displays 3 aggregate score sites but its not always the same. Looked up blackish and pure genius and they have a difference of rotten tomatoes and tv.com
 
Watching so man New Girl episodes in a row, I've started making a game out of how much they butcher the opening to make it fit the 20-ish minute running time.
 
There's three or four episodes of Frequency left, hopefully it'll have closure, I mean who knows with the CW but yeah, probably not looking good unless they just want to stuff Netflix with content.
 
PHOENIXZERO said:
There's three or four episodes of Frequency left, hopefully it'll have closure, I mean who knows with the CW but yeah, probably not looking good unless they just want to stuff Netflix with content.
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Yes, this is exactly my hope as well.

I’ve put off watching the last 5 episodes (on my DVR) as I want to see if it has closure first, than watch all of them and have this cliffhanger at the end of the season (series).

In the same boat with No Tomorrow.
 
Hobbun said:
Yes, this is exactly my hope as well.

I’ve put off watching the last 5 episodes (on my DVR) as I want to see if it has closure first, than watch all of them and have this cliffhanger at the end of the season (series).

In the same boat with No Tomorrow.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, No Tomorrow needs to end with Xavier being right.
 
Maybe I wasn't paying attention before, but it seems like a few shows are playing it much tighter with their hiatus

Like most of the ABC comedies are back after 2 weeks off
 
Penguin said:
Maybe I wasn't paying attention before, but it seems like a few shows are playing it much tighter with their hiatus

Like most of the ABC comedies are back after 2 weeks off
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Maybe execs are finally wising up to the fact that three-month waits kill ratings and piss off fans.
 
Joni said:
It won't be. They will have finished filming by the time the official notice comes in.
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Well we do know they didn't give it an additional order. I'm wondering if they finished filming before they found out they weren't getting additional episodes for the season. At least hoping they filmed an ending as an option.
 
Linkura said:
Well we do know they didn't give it an additional order. I'm wondering if they finished filming before they found out they weren't getting additional episodes for the season. At least hoping they filmed an ending as an option.
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It could be the case but I have bad experiences with that, even on the CW.
 
The Exorcist had a tremendous first season. It better get renewed, but if not, the ending was pretty good to serve as a show ending.

Still though, hoping for that swift renewal news.
 
Alan Sepinwall just revealed the big twist in The OA and... I can now totally understand why Netflix released it the way they did.

Now I only question why it was made in the first place.
 
Eh, Sepinwall is wrong on The OA. Like not having a different opinion wrong, but getting basic facts wrong.
The show has a strong and (mostly) consistent internal logic and the events in the final episode aren't totally out of the blue.

Now if you don't buy into the show's internal logic (and that is an ok thing to do, just as it is ok to not buy into the internal logic of something like Hannibal) I can see how the show pretty much mocks you by taking itself seriously. But I think it is a good thing that it actually takes itself seriously.

There are plenty of flaws with the show (episode six feels like filler with a subplot that doesn't affect the main story and never gets mentioned again), so going after something which isn't really a flaw seems like a dumb thing to do.
 
They added Van Helsing to netflix in my region tiday, I did a double take and thought it was already added earlier this month, but it was Wynnonna Earp before >_>

They even have similar art on netflix. Will watch both because im a sucker for anything remotely supernatural ;_;

They cant be worse than The Strain right? :3
 
Rhaknar said:
They added Van Helsing to netflix in my region tiday, I did a double take and thought it was already added earlier this month, but it was Wynnonna Earp before >_>

They even have similar art on netflix. Will watch both because im a sucker for anything remotely supernatural ;_;

They cant be worse than The Strain right? :3
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Van Helsing is pure cheese. If you accept that and keep your expectations low, you might have fun. Like, if you enjoy Underworld or the RE movies for what they are, you'll be ok.

Edit - I just realized we might be referring to different things. I'm referring to the Hugh Jackman/Kate Beckingsale movie.
 
Rhaknar said:
They added Van Helsing to netflix in my region tiday, I did a double take and thought it was already added earlier this month, but it was Wynnonna Earp before >_>

They even have similar art on netflix. Will watch both because im a sucker for anything remotely supernatural ;_;

They cant be worse than The Strain right? :3
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I'm actually a huge fan of Wynonna Earp. It is the kind of fun genre show that sadly doesn't get any respect these days. I do remember it taking an episode or two to find its footing though.

Van Helsing took itself too seriously for my taste, never finished it.
 
gforguava said:
I'm actually a huge fan of Wynonna Earp. It is the kind of fun genre show that sadly doesn't get any respect these days. I do remember it taking an episode or two to find its footing though.

Van Helsing took itself too seriously for my taste, never finished it.
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I honestly wonder if they'll just bite the bullet and do a Wyonna Earp/Van Helsing crossover. Seems inevitable.
 
TV/SyFy Van Helsing, yeah takes it self too seriously but I found it entertaining enough to watch it all, Kelly Overton should've had a good career doing action movies simply because she's got the look/build for it. I mean besides that Tekken movie she was in.


EDIT: Looking at her IMDB again, no surprise she was a "star athlete" in high school. She could've made a good Wonder Woman.
 
Finished up Arrested Development. Count it in the list of Netflix shows that have disappointed me column. That one is a bit like How I Met Your Mother S8. All that build-up on less than a week's worth of events. And they need to bring Maeby and George Michael together in S5.
And now watching a random Revolution episode - tv remote is broken - and damn, never realized that annoying little brother was Quantico's Caleb Haas.
 
Joni said:
Finished up Arrested Development. Count it in the list of Netflix shows that have disappointed me column. That one is a bit like How I Met Your Mother S8. All that build-up on less than a week's worth of events. And they need to bring Maeby and George Michael together in S5.
And now watching a random Revolution episode - tv remote is broken - and damn, never realized that annoying little brother was Quantico's Caleb Haas.
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Sometimes I wonder, has Netflix ever produced a great show. Not a decent or good one, but a great one? For whatever reason they've been storming the awards shows and getting all this acclaim from critics and fans where "Oh, Netflix is making it. Sold!" but most of their output is pretty mediocre. With a few exceptions (mainly documentaries) their original films are just garbage that studios didn't think was worth the marketing money.

Yeah, I wasn't a fan of the netflix season of Arrested Development. If they can't have the cast bounce off each other, the show isn't worth it.

I'm watching Frasier but my hand is inching closer and closer to the controller so I can start up Amazon Prime and finish Season 1 of Man in the High Castle. I tried watching The OA and I just can't with that show. Made it 90% through Episode 1 and bounced.
 
Well Netflix good shows are typically said as:

House of Cards (Season 1)
Orange is the New Black
Bojack Horseman
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Master of None
Stranger Things
Sense8(?)
& their comic book shows (?)

And they had at least one good movie:

Beasts of No Nation
 
Netflix makes great shows. Are they all Wire's, Breakig Bad's or Soprano's? No, but that's okay. They make like one show every other week.

For every AD Season 5, there is a The Crown, or a Black Mirror Season 3, or a Daredevil.

Hell, even amongst their "mediocre" output there is plenty to like, like Club de Cuervos.
 
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