EDIT: thought I'd turn this into a MOJO thread for all the great lost-cancelled shows out there. So drink up!
Second EDIT: Here's the part that gets me: if a show averages 8 million viewers on the network, why wouldn't one of the cable networks be all over it? If the show has a committed fan-base, it seems to me like a win-win!
I don't watch much television. But I do this every once in awhile -- get hooked by a show that I eagerly look forward to every week.
Most recently, it was Moonlight, which was cancelled just a few days ago by CBS. It was averaging almost 8 million viewers, and winning (for the most part) its Friday time-slot. Won a People's Choice award, too, apparently. But it got the axe anyhow.
Before that, for me, it was "Over There" which was cancelled despite what I considered to be tremendous acting and story-lines.
Any other Kossacks here bemoaning the loss of "Moonlight"?
I'm basically the kiss of death for a television show. If I like it, and the show is not one of those already-popular off-the chart hits, it is almost certain to be cancelled.
This crazy if-I-like-it-it-will-be-cancelled-pattern all started with Twin Peaks. Which lasted a shocking (remember, this a program I was interested in, for gawd sake) two seasons!!
Anyhow, the long and short of this diary is -- there is an effort being made to get another network (CW and SciFi most often mentioned) to pick up the show. There was some initial buzz that these efforts might actually add up to something -- rumors are floating around out there that the game isn't over yet. Hard for me to say what the scope of it is, but it's an effort being fueled by a committed fan base of 7-8 million people.
It's hard not to feel like such a dupe over all this. First, for getting hooked into this show; second, for bemoaning its loss. (Heck, it's only a television show, right?) Third, for thinking there is any hope at all that it will somehow be resurrected from the dead.
What a waste of a good diary, eh? Hooooooooooooowwwwllll !!!