https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvP4iZs05g4
The good news is that CBS ordered the back 9 episodes for Limitless, the bad news is that NBC’s The Player had its episode order count cut down to 9 from 13. The news is not really a surprise for either show.
When it comes to The Player, I didn’t hate it. It just wasn’t the type of show I watch and I guess others felt the same way.
When it comes to Limitless, I stopped watching it midway through the second episode. While I got bored with that show, others did not. Thus, why it will be around until May.
How do feel about today’s TV news?
UPDATE: The well has run dry for Blood & Oil because ABC cut their episode order down to 10 from 13. Not shocking at all because the show was treacherous to watch.
The good news is for some reason Fox picked up Rosewood for a full season by ordering the back 9 episodes. Chances are they did this because all their other new shows have proven to be ratings disappointments even though they are all better than the cop show. Which proves placement matters. If only Grandfathered, The Grinder or Scream Queens got the timeslot before Empire, they would be doing better. Oh well.
The bad news is that after 6 years, Rookie Blue was cancelled. At least the show went out on a high note with Andy’s wedding and not a cliffhanger. Personally, I am sad to see this summer show go away. It wasn’t game changing television, but it was something fun to watch during the TV season hiatus. Oh well, at least there is still Mistresses. Who is watching that crap anyways?
On Friday, NBC announced that they picked up Blindspot for a full season and today ABC announced that they are doing the same for Quantico. Unlike Blindspot that got an additional 9 episode order, the FBI drama was only picked up for 6 more episodes.
Why they are only doing 19 episodes instead of the traditional 22, we don’t know. But I can’t fault their decision because after 3 episodes, I am struggling to keep interest in the show. Too many characters, too many twists, too many turns, too much for my brain on Sunday night. I think if they ease up on all of that, they will keep people interested. If not, they will continue to lose viewers like they did this week.
How do you feel about Quantico?
Last season, ABC had a great show on the air called Forever, and then they cancelled it for two horrible dramas Blood & Oil and Wicked City. But that is not the point.
So a big part about Forever is whenever Dr Henry Morgan would die and come back to life, he would come to in a body of water completely naked. Well, we never saw him naked on the show.
That was then and this is now. Over the weekend when Ioan Gruffudd was watching his Welsh team beat England, he got a little excited. His wife thought it so was cute that she recorded him jumping up and down, screaming at the television in just his underwear. Since he was overheating, he then decided to jump completely nude in their pool. Even though she told him she stopped recording, she didn’t. Alice Evans was able to capture a photo of her hubby butt naked mid-jump.
Looking at how cute his super moon is, I wish ABC would’ve showed it once or twice when Forever was on the air like they showed Dennis Franz’s on NYPD Blue. Maybe if they did, we would still be watching new episodes of Forever instead of the nothing that ABC currently has programmed on Tuesdays at 10p. Can you tell I am still bitter about its cancellation?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dV3HaglFqg Blood & Oil debuts on ABC tonight at 9p and I think this is the worst new show of the fall. For some reason people have been comparing it to Dallas and I have no idea why. Dallas was exciting and this show is a real snooze. So much so, I fell asleep watching it, 14 times before I was finally able to finish the pilot. I wish I was exaggerating, but I am not.
Blood & Oil is about a newlywed couple, Billy (Chace Crawford) and Cody (Rebecca Rittenhouse) who decide to open a laundromat out of state. On the way there, they get into a car crash and lose everything. They are stuck in a small town that is known for oil.
They try to earn money to pay back all the people who loaned them some to open the laundromat, but they are barely making enough to survive on. Then he gets a tip on a piece of land that might have oil under it, so he weasels his way into it. Then he makes an offer to the Oil Baron (Don Johnson) he can’t refuse. Now Billy is swimming in money.
If this is what Dallas was like when it debuted, it never would’ve lasted a season. So if you need a sleeping pill but don’t want to deal with the side effects, then this is the show for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRnFFinkCFA
Then at 10p if you somehow managed to stay awake or are smart enough to set the alarm, you should check out Quantico.
The drama follows the story of several people who are in Quantico studying to become FBI Agents. Six months after they started, they are guarding the Democratic National Convention in NYC and the worst terrorist attack happens in Manhattan, a few blocks away from their assignment. Now one of them is suspected of blowing up Grand Central Station and leveling it to the ground.
FBI Agent-in-Training Alex (Priyanka Chopra) wakes up unscathed in the middle of the rubble and the surviving FBI Agents question her to see which of her colleagues might be responsible for the bombing. As they interrogate her, we learn what they have been up to this last six months. Each reveal is a clue to who might be responsible or is it?
We will just have to tune in to find out to show that is full of sex and intrigue.
