Even though Minority Report, The Player, Truth Be Told and Blood & Oil were basically cancelled, they are still airing. We wondered how low would a show have to go for a network to pull it from the lineup. Today we found out. On Tuesday, Wicked City was seen by only 1.7 million people, and this upcoming Tuesday it will be seen by 0 people. That is because ABC pulled the plug on the ABC serial killer show.
This has not been a good year for shows that stars former Gossip Girl actors. First Jessica Szohr’s Complications was cancelled by USA after one season. Chace Crawford’s Blood & Oil saw its episode order cut from 13 to 10 and now Ed Westwick’s show Wicked City only aired 3 episodes.
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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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