Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Prepare to Say Goodbye to the Last Resort

2012-10-20 Thread PGage
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Michael wrote: > It's fair to note that this most recent ep of "Last Resort," which > aired after TVBTN's proclamation of cancellation, experienced a > ratings uptick. Whether that will impact the show's future is, of > course, unknown, regardless of any prognosti

Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: "Big Game" played TODAY??

2012-10-20 Thread Bob in Jersey
Apropos of nothing, my reason for even going to SFGate was an AP piece about a squirrel being able to get into an electrical complex in rural north Jersey two weeks or so ago... and causing a chain reaction of circuit breakers tripping, bringing a goodly chunk of the passenger railway system in

[TV orNotTV] Re: Prepare to Say Goodbye to the Last Resort

2012-10-20 Thread Michael
It's fair to note that this most recent ep of "Last Resort," which aired after TVBTN's proclamation of cancellation, experienced a ratings uptick. Whether that will impact the show's future is, of course, unknown, regardless of any prognostication. On Oct 20, 11:15 am, Mark Jeffries wrote: > Dram

Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: "Big Game" played TODAY??

2012-10-20 Thread PGage
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Bob in Jersey wrote: > Cal and Stanford -- "Ohhh...the band *is out on the field!!!*" -- > wouldn't play their annual football tilt Thanksgiving week, after the usual > date got bumped there by the PAC-12 title game... plus some guy named Dylan > forced Cal to scra

[TV orNotTV] SportsTV: "Big Game" played TODAY??

2012-10-20 Thread Bob in Jersey
Cal and Stanford -- "Ohhh...the band *is out on the field!!!*" -- wouldn't play their annual football tilt Thanksgiving week, after the usual date got bumped there by the PAC-12 title game... plus some guy named Dylan forced Cal to scrap their pregame bonfire... some, of course, blame the glut o

[TV orNotTV] DEADLINE: Chevy Chase has another outburst on Community.

2012-10-20 Thread Wesley (still in Texas)
http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/chevy-chase-has-racially-charged-tirade-on-the-set-of-community/ Nellie Andreeva: "There was a commotion on the set of NBC comedy* Community* yesterday. I hear hot-tempered co-star Chevy Chase had another outburst, this time featuring the N-word. It appears that the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Prepare to Say Goodbye to the Last Resort

2012-10-20 Thread Mark Jeffries
Dramas can get to 80, since OTA syndication for dramas is largely weekend-only, but cable and Ion still strip. And even though serialized dramas don't do well in syndication, "Gray's" and "Desperate Housewives" rerun on partially-owned by Disney Lifetime and "Lost" is getting another cable run, ei

Re: [TV orNotTV] Prepare to Say Goodbye to the Last Resort

2012-10-20 Thread PGage
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Mark Jeffries wrote: > It's syndication--they all want to get to 100 episodes for syndication. > One of the advantages the Brits have is that they don't really have a > domestic syndication market to tend to, so the series run as long as they > have to--at least

Re: [TV orNotTV] Prepare to Say Goodbye to the Last Resort

2012-10-20 Thread Mark Jeffries
It's syndication--they all want to get to 100 episodes for syndication. One of the advantages the Brits have is that they don't really have a domestic syndication market to tend to, so the series run as long as they have to--at least most of the time. On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:52 PM, PGage wro

Re: [TV orNotTV] Prepare to Say Goodbye to the Last Resort

2012-10-20 Thread PGage
n Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:26 AM, David Lynch wrote: > My feeling is that Last Resort would be the sort of show that would work > well as a 6- or 13-week miniseries where the entire narrative arc could be > plotted out by the moment you started shooting the pilot, but that kind of > show just does

Re: [TV orNotTV] Prepare to Say Goodbye to the Last Resort

2012-10-20 Thread David Lynch
My feeling is that Last Resort would be the sort of show that would work well as a 6- or 13-week miniseries where the entire narrative arc could be plotted out by the moment you started shooting the pilot, but that kind of show just doesn't get made that often in the US these days, and especially n

[TV orNotTV] Prepare to Say Goodbye to the Last Resort

2012-10-20 Thread PGage
According to the boys at TV By The Numbers, Kevin was right when he warned us, because he liked the pilot, the show would not last very long. They have classified it as "certain to be cancelled". Elsewhere they note that ABC just approved two additional new scripts, but they point out that this is

[TV orNotTV] 'Private Practice' Closing for Business

2012-10-20 Thread Mark Jeffries
Considering that the "Gray's Anatomy" spinoff only got a 13-ep pickup for its sixth season and that star Kate Walsh was planning to leave the series, it's not that surprising that creator Shonda Rhimes is calling it quits--"Gray"'s may stick around, being that it's in a respectable second place