David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. The fall TV season is hereby cancelled
While there was much speculation over whether “Cavemen” or “Viva Laughlin” would be the first new show to get cancelled this season, what was overlooked amidst such theorizing was the fact that both of those series have pretty late premiere dates (Oct. 2 and Oct. 18, respectively), so they’d have to do spectacularly poorly to get the hook quickly enough to die first.
No, ladies and gentlemen, we have our winner: The first new show to get cancelled this season will likely be the first new show to premiere: Fox’s soapy reality show “Nashville,” about aspiring country singers. Turns out none of them will likely be stars, given the paltry 2.7 million viewers who turned out for the debut on Friday.
Perhaps even worse news for Fox – and the TV industry in general – was the tune-out suffered by the Emmys last night: A mere 12.9 million watched the industry’s biggest night (guess Seacrest wasn’t that big a draw for the youngsters, after all), down nearly four million viewers from the abysmal ratings performance of last year. Doesn't look like "30 Rock'll" be getting much of a bump as NBC was hoping, if its big victory was seen by so few people. Apparently, people don't care that much about their quality TV shows.
Which calls to mind that existential brain-teaser: If a big, splashy awards show can’t draw 20 million viewers, does it make any noise?
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Despite that I work at broadcast television station, I don't watch much TV at all.
There hasn't been much in ages that I was really inspired to watch. Veronica Mars was a good one, Scrubs is great. I'll watch House but only if it's convenient.
There just isn't anything that's interesting out there. I'd rather spend my time browsing the internet where the advertising is less blatant and intrusive and the story isn't trying to hook me with anti climactic cliffhanger season long story arcs.
I hate the idea of having to plan my life around keeping up with a show with a season long story. I don't have time for that and I don't want to be lost for missing an episode. Especially when shows get tossed around time slots so much these days. Ok, the time slot issue isn't as bad as it used to be at the time when my interest in TV as a real form of entertainment died but it can still be an issue.
Bleh, I'm starting to get long and rambly now.
Posted by: Josh Miller | September 17, 2007 1:19 PM