ABC finally realized towards the end of last week what the rest of the world had already figured out: Charlie’s Angels needed to be taken off the air.
With Charlie’s Angels finally being put out of its misery, the total number of new shows to hit the chopping block from this fall season has risen to five. The Playboy Club was the first to go and was quickly followed by H8R, Free Agentsand How to be a Gentleman.
Most of the shows are burning off their remaining episodes, but production has been shut down on all of the shows so what has been filmed is it.
This season looked rocky to begin with, but the shows are falling even faster than I suspected they would. I thought we’d lose one or two in the fall, a few more at mid-season and then several wouldn’t get second season orders. Instead, these shows are doing to badly that they can’t even get complete their initial orders.
Pan Am looks to be the next series heading for the chopping block as it barely came in ahead of Charlie’s Angels last week.
Things are not going well in TV land, and perhaps it will finally tell the networks they can’t just slap any old thing on the tube and we’ll tune into it. There are just too many options these days, so getting us to watch sub-par programming just isn’t as easy as it once was.
This means that in short order that NBC, the network most in need of a hit, has lost two new shows, and there is no clear break out success story for them. It’d be nice to see them get back in the game at some point after being #1 for so many years, but every time they turn around they are failing.
The other cancellation comes from The CW, and is anyone really surprised it was H8R? Yes, the idiotic “reality” show where people were “forced” into meeting celebrities they hate. This show was so insanely stupid that I still can’t believe it ever even ended up on the air, but then again it is The CW, so it isn’t like it was on a real network.
I am certain this won’t be the end of the cancellations for this year. The selection of shows that got picked up was some of the weakest I have ever seen, and now the networks are finally realizing it.
ABC finally realized towards the end of last week what the rest of the world had already figured out: Charlie’s Angels needed to be taken off the air.
It took only one show failing to start the domino effect for this fall season. The body count now stands at three.
NBC has announced its 2011/2012 schedule, and it’s making a lot of changes this year with a heavier focus on “female friendly” shows.
