failure-related stories
Posted Aug 17th 2009 8:10AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, Cancellations, Ratings
It's not really possible that every summer premiere on the great
American broadcast TV schedule crashed and burned, is it?
But, out of all the original programs that premiered on the major networks after the completion of the fall 2008 season, not a single one got traction.
According to
analysis reports, you can take your pick from any of the following shows:
Defying Gravity,
The Superstars,
The Listener,
Mental,
The Philanthropist,
Hitched or Ditched,
Merlin and
Great American Road Trip. All of them bombed -- each hovering just above a one market share.
In fact, you don't need numbers to prove that the fall crop crapped out. Ask your friend what his/her favorite summer replacement show was. You'll be waiting awhile.
Continue reading Entire summer TV schedule declared a failure
Posted Feb 28th 2008 11:01AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Cancellations
When NBC picked up the web-only show
quarterlife to show on the network as
writers' strike filler, many were wondering whether this internet-to-network transition might be the wave of the future. Well, it still may be, but according to the show's co-creator, Marshall Herskovitz, that wave shouldn't have started with
quarterlife.
According to
The Hollywood Reporter, Herskovitz told an audience at Harvard Business School that after watching
quarterlife on the big screen, he realized that the show about twentysomething angst
should have never aired on NBC. In fact, within three minutes, he knew that the tight shots and intimate stories he and his partner Ed Zwick used were inappropriate for a broadcast network show; it might have worked better on cable, he thought, but not on NBC.
Continue reading Herskovitz calls quarterlife-on-NBC experiment a failure
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