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From Darkhorizons.com - 2005-10-11 More TV Cancellations And Pickups Several weeks into the new TV season and whilst old favourites like "CSI", "Lost", "Desperate Housewives", etc. are doing as good as usual, no-one is really warming to the new shows. Some are doing pretty well but there’s no breakout hits and already the lines are being drawn. Some have been cancelled, others are being picked up for full season orders, most remain undecided. My personal new show favourite - serial action thriller "Prison Break", along with the likes of Jason Lee comedy "My Name is Earl", Chris Rock comedy "Everybody Hates Chris", spooky teen drama "Supernatural", and multi-racial sitcom "Greetings from Tuscon" have all been granted full first season orders. Undecided as yet but likely to get picked up are Geena Davis drama "Commander in Chief", Jennifer Love Hewitt heart warmer "Ghost Whisperer", David Boreanaz forensic drama "Bones", and Neil Patrick Harris/Alyson Hannigan sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" - all of which are doing well. Likely to get the axe are dramas "Killer Instinct" and "Three Wishes" along with reality bomb "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart". Sci-fi serials "Surface" and "Invasion" are falling but haven’t reached bad enough levels to get marching orders, though "Threshold" is holding its own in its timeslot. Mandy Patinkin led forensic drama "Criminal Minds" started extremely well but has plummeted in subsequent episodes. "E-Ring" started terribly but a timeslot change has yielded improvements. Most shows are still on the fence pending several weeks worth of numbers, although Don Johnson legal drama "Just Legal", Chris O’Donnell legal drama "Head Cases", Bradley Cooper sitcom "Kitchen Confidential", Denise Richards led "Sex, Love & Secrets", and medical drama "Inconceivable" have already been cancelled. |
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| Kitchen confidential cancelled? So NB is out of w**k again already :( |
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| According to Kristin at E! Online Kitchen Confidential hasn't been cancelled (or at least not yet) and will be taking a break due to baseball season. It's still in production at the moment! |
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| According to Kristin at E! Online Kitchen Confidential hasn't been cancelled (or at least not yet) and will be taking a break due to baseball season. It's still in production at the moment! |
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Great news :thumbsup: Lets all keep our fingers crossed :D |
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| Michael Vartan has been filiming his guest spot on Kitchen Confidential this week! :thumbsup: |
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Seriously ? :o :thumbsup: I`m going to swoon in excitement... !! :mandown: |
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Yep! He plays a French Chef! |
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| Does anyone know how many episodes of Kitchen Confidential have been made? I was just thinking Sky One seem to like buying shows that have been cancelled :lmao: so we might get to see it. I do feel sorry for Nick though at least Alyson is having better luck :) |
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| Suddenly I feel shallow and superficial. :blink: And I don`t care ! :lmao: |
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| MV + French accent + chef = :drool: :drool: :drool: |
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Seriously ? :o :thumbsup: I`m going to swoon in excitement... !! :mandown: |
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| Can I just ask who is Michael Vartan because I have no idea :shrug: |
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Nothing wrong with that! :lmao: MV + French accent + chef = :drool: :drool: :drool: |
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| Michael + Bradley Cooper + Nick = perfect viewing :lol: nothing wrong with loads of eye candy in one programme :thumbsup: |
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| QUOTE (little pixie @ Oct 12 2005, 04:49 PM) QUOTE (Kudz @ Oct 12 2005, 03:25 PM) Michael Vartan has been filiming his guest spot on Kitchen Confidential this week! Seriously ? I`m going to swoon in excitement... !! Yep! He plays a French Chef! |
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| Wednesday, October 12, 2005 CBS GIVES FULL SEASON ORDERS TO "HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER," "GHOST WHISPERER" AND "CRIMINAL MINDS" Released by CBS CBS GIVES FULL SEASON ORDERS TO "HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER," "GHOST WHISPERER" AND "CRIMINAL MINDS" CBS has given full season orders to its new comedy HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, and to freshmen dramas GHOST WHISPERER and CRIMINAL MINDS. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, starring Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Alyson Hannigan, Neil Patrick Harris and Cobie Smulders, is averaging 10.41 million viewers and has placed first in its Monday (8:30-9:00 PM) time period in viewers and key demographics against regularly scheduled programs. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER has increased the time period by +6% in adults 18-49 (3.7/9 vs. 3.5/9) and +12% in adults 18-34 (2.8/8 vs. 2.5/7). HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER is produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television. Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline are executive producers. GHOST WHISPERER, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Aisha Tyler and David Conrad, has helped vault CBS into a position of primetime leadership on Friday night in adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 while widening the Network's lead in viewers from last season. GHOST WHISPERER is Friday's most watched and highest rated new program, winning its time period in viewers and key demographics every week this season. GHOST WHISPERER has improved the Friday (8:00-9:00 PM) time period by +29% in viewers (11.07m vs. 8.58m), +21% in adults 18-49 (2.9/10 vs. 2.4/8) and +28% in adults 25-54 (4.1/12 vs. 3.2/10). GHOST WHISPERER is produced by Sander/Moses Productions, in association with Touchstone Television and Paramount Network Television. Ian Sander, Kim Moses and John Gray are executive producers. CRIMINAL MINDS, starring Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Lola Glaudini, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler and A.J. Cook, was seen by more than 19.5 million viewers when it had a special preview following CSI on Thursday, Sept. 22. Since moving to its regular Wednesday (9:00-10:00 PM) time period opposite "Lost," CRIMINAL MINDS has placed a solid second in viewers and key demographics, averaging 11.29 million viewers, 3.3/8 in adults 18-49 and 4.2/9 in adults 25-54. CRIMINAL MINDS is produced by Touchstone Television, in association with Paramount Network Television. Mark Gordon and Ed Bernero are executive producers. |
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Great news :thumbsup: Lets all keep our fingers crossed :D |
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| "How I Met Your Mother," "Ghost Whisperer" and "Criminal Minds" weren't the only ones to receive good news yesterday (read the story) as CBS has asked for three additional scripts for its fellow freshman entries "Out of Practice" and "Threshold." Said orders will allow CBS to evaluate the pair's ratings for a few more weeks before having to make a final decision about their fates. To date this season, "Threshold" has averaged a solid 8.39 million viewers but only a 75.86% retention rate of lead-in "Ghost Whisperer" (11.06 million). |
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| top 10 TV show the most watched Desperate Housewives 17.3 Lost 13.8 Invasion 10.2 Medium 8.5 Surface 7.3 Ghost Whisperer 7.2 Threshold 5.4 Supernatural 3.1 Charmed 2.7 Smallville 2.1 |
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| Paris Hilton's reality show axed Fox Television has cancelled a fourth series of reality TV show The Simple Life after its two stars, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, fell out. The show proved a success as the two socialites ditched their millionaire lifestyles to travel across the US. Its production company is hoping another network will pick up the show, despite the fact the former friends are still publicly feuding. Fox said it "did not see a place" for the show in its schedules. Bunim-Murray Productions, which produces the show with 20th Century Fox, said it was still behind the show. Replacement idea "We're very excited about the creative plans for the next group of episodes, and are confident this situation will be remedied quickly," it said in a statement. Earlier this year Hilton confirmed she and Richie were no longer friends, throwing the series into doubt, but would not be drawn on the reasons. She had lobbied for the daughter of Rod Stewart, Kimberly, to take over from Richie but Fox rejected this proposal. Producers insisted Hilton and Richie would be held to their contract to make another series of The Simple Life. Hilton said she is concentrating on movie projects and a singing career. She recently called off her engagement to shipping heir Paris Latsis, while Richie is engaged is to DJ Adam Goldstein. Story from BBC NEWS: |
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| From Mediaweek.com - 2005-10-19 What follows is an update of the status of the 31 new primetime series. ABC -Commander in Chief: shoo-in for a full-season renewal. -Freddie: strong start after one week. with Freddie Prinze Jr. -Hot Properties: on the fence. -Invasion: on the fence. -Night Stalker: waiting for the axe to swing. CBS -Close To Home: one the fence. with Christian Kane -Criminal Minds: full season renewal. -Ghost Whisperer: full season renewal. -How I Met Your Mother: full season renewal. with Alyson Hannigan -Out Of Practice: three additional scripts ordered. -Threshold: three additional scripts orders. NBC: -The Apprentice: Martha Stewart: on the fence. -E-Ring: on the fence. -Inconceivable: canceled. -My Name Is Earl: full season renewal. -Surface: full season renewal. -Three Wishes: on the fence. Fox: -Bones: full season renewal. with David Boreanaz -Head Cases: canceled. -Killer Instinct: waiting for the axe to swing. -Kitchen Confidential: waiting for the axe to swing. with Nicholas Brendon -Prison Break: full season renewal. Marti Noxon is producer & "Buffy"-guest star Wentworth Miller is the lead. -Reunion: on the fence. with Alexa Davalos and the producer is Jon Harmon Feldman, the "Tru Calling"-executive producer. -The War at Home: full season renewal. UPN: -Everybody Hates Chris: full season renewal. -Love, Inc.: on the fence. -Sex, Love & Secrets: canceled. with Eric Balfour, Jesse from the "Buffy"-pilot and Tamara Taylor ("Serenity") WB: -Just Legal: canceled. -Related: on the fence. -Supernatural: full season renewal. -Twins: on the fence. |
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| From Zap2it.com: LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) On the heels of its first pickup of a new series this fall, ABC has given the full-season reward to another ofits new dramas, the sci fi-tinged "Invasion." The series, which follows the odd occurrences in a South Florida town following a hurricane, earned its pickup on the basis of having made ABC more competitive at 10 p.m. ET Wednesdays than it's been in several years. And though part of that credit may go to the show's lead-in, "Lost," "Invasion" has managed to hold up well against CBS' "CSI: NY" and NBC's "Law & Order." |
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How fans fight back. Article in "The Guardian" about fan support for axed TV shows |
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| SG-1, Atlantis Renewed SCI FI Channel announced that it has ordered a 10th season of Stargate SG-1 and a third season of its spinoff series, Stargate Atlantis. Production on both 20-episode seasons is slated to begin in early 2006 for summer premieres on SCI FI. Heading into a 10th season, Stargate SG-1 becomes the longest-running SF drama in American television history, outlasting The X-Files, The Twilight Zone and every iteration of Star Trek. The first half of SG-1's ninth season has averaged 2.4 million viewers per week. Stargate Atlantis has averaged more than 2.3 million viewers a week for the first half of its sophomore season. SG-1 co-creator Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper will return as executive producers on both series. Stargate SG-1 is produced by Double Secret Productions, in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and Sony Pictures Television. Stargate Atlantis is produced by Acme Shark, in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and Sony Pictures Television. |