GOOD GUYS?? OUTLAW?? CHUCK?? WHOLE?? FRINGE?? UNDERCOVERS?? MEDIUM?? WILDE?? 187?? CSI NEW YORK?? What Gets Cancelled Next??
Published at: Oct. 4, 2010, 7:16 p.m. CST by hercules
I am – Hercules!!
I find that when you’re trying to predict what’s getting cancelled, it’s most useful to break the adults 18-49 demo score by network.
So:
“Good Wife” and “The Defenders” are the lowest-rated CBS shows not on Friday or Saturday, but “Good Wife” just won its timeslot for the first time in a while. “Defenders” is the second biggest of the three 10 p.m. Wednesday lawyer shows.
On Death-Slot Friday, “Medium” and “CSI NY” have seldom if ever scored lower, but “NY” wins its timeslot and “Medium” is almost first-pace at 8 p.m. “Blue Bloods,” the night’s top series, easily wins its timeslot.
“Running Wilde” and “Fringe” are the lowest-rated Fox shows not on Saturday. "Wilde" loses a lot of the audience of "Raising Hope," which loses a lot of the "Glee" audience. On Thursday “Fringe” dipped below 2.0 for only the second time ever.
“The Good Guys” is tied with The CW’s “Life Unexpected” as the lowest-rated show on broadcast, lower even than the already-cancelled “LoneStar” and “My Generation.”
“My Generation” was cancelled this week; I believe it could be replaced by a third Shonda Rimes lady doctor show called “Off The Map,” transforming ABC Thursdays into an all-Shonda lady-doctor night.
“The Whole Truth” is somehow not yet cancelled and fresh unaired episodes of “V” starring original Nazi-lizard Jane Badler are just sitting somewhere.
The failures of “Generation” and “Truth” have to be great news for the floundering “Detroit 1-8-7,” as ABC has only so many hourlongs in reserve.
“Outlaw” is the lowest-rated scripted Big Four series not titled “The Good Guys.”
“Outsourced,” I believe, is frightening away “The Office’s” audience before it can get to “The Apprentice,” whose celebrity edition was doing just fine on Sundays last spring.
“Undercovers’” first two episodes were co-written by J.J. Abrams. Can its fortunes improve as Abrams heads to West Virginia to make “Super 8”?
The implosions of “Outlaw” and “Undercovers” have got to be good news for struggling “Chuck” and “Parenthood.”