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Reflections on the “Jericho” Cancellation
On this Good Friday, there is little good about the news coming from CBS. Nina Tassler, who nine months away resurrected Jericho from its premature cancellation has pulled the plug for good after...
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Pushing Daisies –“Dim Sum Lose Some”
“Dim Sum Lose Some” October 29th, 2008 If there is a new mantra on Pushing Daisies, it seems quite simple: leave no character behind. Excluding the Aunts, who have been absent for quite some time now...
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Season Finale: Privileged –“All About a Brand New You!”
“All About a Brand New You!” February 24th, 2009 Falling out of love with Privileged was something that I did not do with a light heart. When the season started, the show felt like it had something...
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Series (Season?) Finale: Scrubs –“My Finale”
“My Finale” May 6th, 2009 ABC made a decision last year to save Scrubs, which at the time seemed like a mistake: the show was struggling mightily with its creative focus, and if you go back and read...
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Series Finale: Pushing Daisies –“Kerplunk”
“Kerplunk” Series Finale – June 13th, 2009 I should have known this day would come. No, I don’t mean that I was actually in denial that, after the show struggled to regain its ratings foothold towards...
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Why I Wouldn’t Save Dollhouse from Cancellation
Why I Wouldn’t Save Dollhouse from Cancellation November 11th, 2009 Today, the news came that many expected. Already shelved for November Sweeps in favour of reruns, and with FOX having confirmed that...
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Negotiating 101: Sony, Hulu, and Community Season 6
As I wrote in 2012—and expanded on here at the blog—when Netflix was reportedly in talks to resurrect The Killing after it was canceled by AMC, there is reason to be skeptical of reporting that refers...
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Handicapping Hannibal’s Future: Netflix, Amazon, and Gaumont’s Unknown Design
NBC did not “cancel” Hannibal. Well, okay, that’s maybe a bit confusing. NBC did in fact announce that Season 3 would be the end of the show’s run on the network, following a slide from “problematic”...
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Lone Star Lament: Kyle Killen Discusses the Series’ Rise and Demise at Flow 2010
Lone Star Lament: A Q&A with Kyle Killen October 1st, 2010 While the online narrative about Lone Star‘s demise considered the show as an example of the divide between cable and network, or as a...
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CBS vs. End Times: Notes on the Apparent Death of Limitless
If you’re CBS, End Times—the term TV journalists have adopted for describing the collapse of traditional broadcast viewership and the advertising revenues drawn from it—represents a problem. CBS’...
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