I have heard nasty rumors that the TV show Heroes is not pulling in the rating that powers-that-may-be desire and may be cut at the mid year.
Can anyone confirm or debunk?
I like the show.
Noooooooooooo. I love Heroes!
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Umm...
Heroes is the best performing show of the new season. It's on the cover of god knows how many entertainment magazines and is constantly being discussed. The show is being touted as saving NBC's bacon and is frequently compared to Lost, which you may remember saved ABC's bacon a few years ago.
To answer the question, not only is that just a rumor, it's equivalent to saying "I hear that CBS is going to cancel that Survivor show."
http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1553770_3|117918||0_0_,00.html
http://www.movieweb.com/tv/news/63/15063.php
http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/11/08/nielsen-ratings-for-the-week-ending-novem ber-5/
Etc...
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I am like the most pessimistic sci-fi t.v. guy you will ever meet. If it's not on Sci fi channel, my gut instinct is that it is being handled by uncaring ham-handed non-science fiction-loving guys in suits. I can proffer no scientific evidence whatsoever, so I don't even know why I am compelled to comment.
However, I just watched it last night for the first time, because I just got to the point where I felt it wouldn't be a futile emotional investment such as the ones I paid into like American Gothic and Firefly. I think it has staying power.
That's all I got.
well, since I enjoy the show they will probably cut it; most of the shows I like dont survive and most of the garbage that stays on tv is the reason I dont watch tv much if at all unless it is Heroes, Cattlecar Galactica, Eureka or something on the military, history or pbs that catches my eye.
ooooh, he said Firefly... *sniff* I feel the blues coming on :( "their's a tear in my beer.....
Just to point this out, and let me preface this by saying that Heroes may go on for 12 seasons and become a television classic. That having been said, the two comments in this thread are not mutually exclusive.
A new show can be the best performing show of the new season and still get canned, and a show can do extreemly well, but the suits can still expect "more" from it.
There have been many times when a show that was doing really well was put on hiatus so that a network can push a show that they swear should be doing better, on the assumption that said show in hiatus can come back later. The problem is these shows almost never have the momentum they had when they are put back on (with a few exception).
Again, I don't know any facts in THIS case, I just wanted to point out that a "non tradition" from Hollywood's point of view show tends to get scrutinized to a maddening degree while shows that fit their preconceived notions of what a show "should" be tend to get more of a pass.
Keep in mind, most of this has to do with network (mainly CBS, ABC, and NBC) shows. Shows that are done by cable networks are often more in touch with their actual viewing demographic, and they can afford to think of their networks as putting on "niche" shows more than networks, which try to appeal to everyone everywhere.
For what its worth, I really wonder how long the "big networks" will still be around, especially with some of the younger "networks" doing a lot of "regional programming" as well as carrying their "big hits" (i.e. Fox affiliates, the . . . er . . . CW? . . . well, they have Smallville).
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For what its worth, I really wonder how long the "big networks" will still be around, especially with some of the younger "networks" doing a lot of "regional programming" as well as carrying their "big hits" (i.e. Fox affiliates, the . . . er . . . CW? . . . well, they have Smallville).
They'll be around, but I'd expect a MAJOR (I hate this word)
paradigm shift in the next five years.Who needs newspapers anymore? YOu have the net. Who needs tv news anymore? Net.
Shoot, everybody can make their own shows on the net anymore. And then there's TiVo.
I think television as we know it is going to change into renting shows off of webfeeds in a few years.
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ooooh, he said Firefly... *sniff* I feel the blues coming on :( "their's a tear in my beer.....
I feel your pain. I still can't believe they CANCELLED FIREFLY! Yet one more reason FOX News can disembowel itself with a rusty can opener, and strangle itself with its own entrails.
And by the way, HEROES IS MORONIC. For some interesting, if campy, fun, watch Special Unit 2.