GOOD or BAD: Summer miscellany

[coalescent]

Once more unto the breach:

[Poll #1040140]

As ever, feel free to express your incredulity at others' choices in the form of a comment. For example: buymeaclue, why do you think it is GOOD that I have spilt tomato sauce on my copy of F100? despotliz, what have you got against mustard? Why do you all hate James Bond? And does anyone other than me even watch John From Cincinnati?

Comments

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

Do you mean cancelled as in "there is no episode this week" or not renewed?

[ajr.livejournal.com]

It's dead, Jim.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

That's not a good answer to my question.

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia:"The pilot for the series was shown directly after the highly anticipated finale of The Sopranos, but it failed to capture an audience. The Sopranos received an audience of 11.9 million people (the highest rating on the show since its fifth season premiere in 2004), according to Nielsen Ratings. The finale led into the John from Cincinnati premiere which had an audience of 3.4 million viewers, less than one third of The Sopranos finale's total audience. HBO studio executives remain adamant that the Nielsen Rating system is unreliable and inaccurate. The low ratings may also be the reaction of an audience that was shocked by The Sopranos series finale.[6]

The second episode's ratings also slipped. A total of 1.2 million people watched the episode, which is a drop of 2.2 million viewers.[7]

The fifth episode averaged 1.3 million viewers, an 8.33% increase over the previous week, according to the Nielsen ratings. [8]

According to Newsweek, John from Cincinnati's audience is "sure to be small, but devout, and that's just fine with HBO." [9]

One day after the first-season finale aired, HBO officially canceled the show.[10]

HBO has not announced plans for a DVD release of the show."

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

One day after the first-season finale aired, HBO officially canceled the show

An answer!

[ajr.livejournal.com]

You can keep grasping at straws, but that doesn't change what 'cancelled' means, I'm afraid.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

But Firefly-cancelled is different to not renewed.

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

Should you wish, reality-denial tools here.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I'm not in denial, I'm just a pedant.

[ajr.livejournal.com]

I think the phrase is "splitting hairs".

[abigail-n.livejournal.com]

The latter, but as I understand it the season is over. And isn't the fact that you're unclear on that last point a pretty damning statement on the show's quality?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

No, it just means I've had no time for tv-viewing for the past fortnight, so I haven't watched anything past episode 8 yet. :)

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

The good news is, I hear the finale will take care of any cancellation regret.

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

We here at my place of employment share your disappointment, but the show became increasingly incoherent, and the end ties up almost nothing. Not that I really expected it to.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

As other people have filled in, it's gone, and David Milch is already onto his next project.

[abigail-n.livejournal.com]

Which, infuriatingly enough, is not the promised* Deadwood wrap-up.

* By 'promised' I mean 'something the HBO PR department cooked up to keep irate Deadwood fans off their doorstep, and which, because they weren't dealing with SF fans, was tragically successful'.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

As someone who enjoyed bits of NYPD Blue and never got round to Deadwood, I am in favour of Milch doing a gritty police drama on a channel where he gets to swear a lot.