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2014-15 TV Cancellations: Under the Dome canned, what will CBS do with CG cows next?

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I mean, it'll probably be at least over a 2.0 just cause it's part of a well-rated block that airs after football, but I wouldn't be shocked to see it fall hard next week.
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
what show was that Penny lady that people keep posting gifs of all the time...everywhere
 

It was only a matter of time. As far as I'm concerned, the reboot ended at the S2 finale with Cliff finally going to jail for good, Elena fucking right off to Mexico and all the major storylines (mostly) resolved.

I tried watching through part of S3, but the show had serious issues that cropped up:

1) Stunt casting (the girl from 90210 who plays the new deckhand). Weak acting, lame plotlines (just shoehorned in to create artificial drama at the farm) and no real point other than to give Christopher someone to romance.
2) Stupid twists. Pamela's "I should be mad at John Ross for cheating on me with his stepmother's daughter, but I guess I'm okay and let's have a threesome - oh wait, medical disorder" twist was dumb as shit. I'm stretching to remember anything in both the original or reboot that was this stupid. Same with the "Elena goes to work for the cartel" nonsense. The guy they hired to play her other childhood friend was just terrible.
3) No real threat. Love him or hate him, Cliff was the mastermind in the first two seasons. Once they dealt with him by planting evidence to accuse him of JR's death, the show suffered. There was nothing that could really fill the void in his passing, and even the main characters became borderline villains for stooping to outright-illegal actions to get their way.
4) No promotion, no online chatter, next-to-no awareness that episodes were even airing (or that the season had started) contributed to the long drop to the bottom.

Good riddance.
 

rude

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That Mulaney character is so distractingly strange looking that I'm almost certain that'll deter most people away from the show. And the fact that it looks like a parody of a sitcom instead of an actual one.
 
We need another hint ivy, like which TV Gaffer will be happiest by this news. (Or if that's not applicable, who'll feel the most soul crushing despair.)
 

Tamanon

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Honestly, the type of show Mulaney is...it just didn't look good in commercials.

I know he's supposedly a funny guy, but it looked no different from Dads in joke structure. At least Brooklyn 9-9 had a different look to it.
 
Who knew cancelling half your shows every year would have repercussions?

What are you even talking about?

Fox's problem isn't canceling too many shows, it's not canceling enough. Why is Mindy Project still on? Why the hell did they renew Glee for two seasons at once? Does anyone think The Following is going to get good ratings this season?
 

Rekwest

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Honestly, the type of show Mulaney is...it just didn't look good in commercials.

I know he's supposedly a funny guy, but it looked no different from Dads in joke structure. At least Brooklyn 9-9 had a different look to it.

Seinfeld wanna be may be?
 
What are you even talking about?

Fox's problem isn't canceling too many shows, it's not canceling enough. Why is Mindy Project still on? Why the hell did they renew Glee for two seasons at once? Does anyone think The Following is going to get good ratings this season?

American Dad was doing better...

1.0 is disaster level.
 

Joni

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What are you even talking about?

Fox's problem isn't canceling too many shows, it's not canceling enough. Why is Mindy Project still on? Why the hell did they renew Glee for two seasons at once? Does anyone think The Following is going to get good ratings this season?

If you don't have any strong shows, the answer isn't cancelling everything and hoping for the best. At that point you're just throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks. Every cancelled show is a couple of unhappy viewers. At one point, those unhappy viewers start stacking up and they stop watching because they know you'll cancel show x anyway. The solution is building up the trust again. Reboot after reboot after reboot every season just starts getting ridiculous.

They couldn't cancel Glee or The Mindy Project because they already need so many new shows just to replace the new shows they cancelled on a whim after they replaced the previous new shows they canned.
 

Patryn

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What are you even talking about?

Fox's problem isn't canceling too many shows, it's not canceling enough. Why is Mindy Project still on? Why the hell did they renew Glee for two seasons at once? Does anyone think The Following is going to get good ratings this season?

Didn't everyone expect that this season will be a Fox bloodbath as the vestiges of the Kevin Reilly reign are torn down?
 

RatskyWatsky

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My Mulaney prediction was mostly based on the assumed strength of its lead in, Family Guy. It premiered last week to a 4.5 so I figured that even if it dropped quite a bit this week (even by half), it would still provide Mulaney with a solid lead in. Oops.
 
What are you even talking about?

Fox's problem isn't canceling too many shows, it's not canceling enough. Why is Mindy Project still on? Why the hell did they renew Glee for two seasons at once? Does anyone think The Following is going to get good ratings this season?
The Mindy Project is actually very funny. Season 1 was a mess but season 2 was great and so far season 3 is keeping it going. It has surpassed New Girl in terms of humorous entertainment.
 

beat

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Damn Fox continues to have a horrible season.
They are gonna have to clean house soon.
Pilot season to make a triumphant return? =(

Didn't everyone expect that this season will be a Fox bloodbath as the vestiges of the Kevin Reilly reign are torn down?
I was hoping that he left the network a solid slate of shows, instead of apparently a pile of crap. Of course the network's new heads would want to cull anything on the bubble and put their new stuff in, but given how late he was fired, they had to hope that this season would at least be serviceable, not a series of ratings disasters in the premieres.
 
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