Editorial: Cancelled!
Well, I've been foiled again. Fox has essentially cancelled "The Inside", my favorite show of the summer. Of course that's not saying much, as the summer season has been mostly pretty painful to watch. For those who didn't know, this show was from the creator of the cult hits "Firefly", "Wonderfalls", and "Angel". The thing that bothers me is that Fox never even gave this show a chance. I've seen promo after promo for the sure-to-be-awful "Princes of Malibu", but nary a commercial for the far superior "Inside". I say "far superior" having never seen "Princes", but I think it's probably a safe assumption that an innovative new FBI character study/crime drama/suspense thriller is better than another spoiled-rich-kids-behaving-badly "reality" show. "Reality" TV, and why I put it in quotation marks, is a subject for another day.
This is the second time in the last few months that a show I've raved about has been yanked after a brief run. "Eyes", the excellent ABC drama, was cancelled about four episodes into the series. My mind still can't wrap itself around that one. I read somewhere that an ABC executive said something to the effect that since this was such an outstanding season for the network, they had to be more picky about what they would keep. This is the same channel that's renewing "The Bachelor" for another season. The ratings have been abysmal for that show. In the meantime, they hyped the heck out of "Eyes", gave it a lead-in of "Lost" and "Alias" (briefly making Wednesday night on ABC the best night of television in my opinion), and they gave us just enough to want more before pulling the rug out.
So this is the story of two different networks canceling two quality shows, and going about it in completely different ways. I don't pretend to know the economics of all this. All I know is that quality has suffered for the sake of...well...who knows?
But that's just my two cents.
This is the second time in the last few months that a show I've raved about has been yanked after a brief run. "Eyes", the excellent ABC drama, was cancelled about four episodes into the series. My mind still can't wrap itself around that one. I read somewhere that an ABC executive said something to the effect that since this was such an outstanding season for the network, they had to be more picky about what they would keep. This is the same channel that's renewing "The Bachelor" for another season. The ratings have been abysmal for that show. In the meantime, they hyped the heck out of "Eyes", gave it a lead-in of "Lost" and "Alias" (briefly making Wednesday night on ABC the best night of television in my opinion), and they gave us just enough to want more before pulling the rug out.
So this is the story of two different networks canceling two quality shows, and going about it in completely different ways. I don't pretend to know the economics of all this. All I know is that quality has suffered for the sake of...well...who knows?
But that's just my two cents.
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