Posted by Nick K in Movies | 4 comments
New TV Show Cancellations
Another week and another crop of shows have bitten the dust. And now as that Queen song âAnother One Bites the Dustâ bounces around my head, it will become apparent to most why a couple of these shows got the axe. Itâs always hard to see a bunch of shows go, even if they more than rightly deserved it. To see something fail that people put time and effort and love into is a sad thing to have to witness. So letâs get on with it and pay our respects to a few more fallen shows.
1. Hank- There was really no hope for this middling laugh track infested sitcom starring Kelsey Grammer about an executive who has to move his family back to the town he grew up in. Iâm not sad to see sitcoms facing death after death while more cutting edge comedies, with zero laugh tracks to hear from, thrive on and upwards. Maybe itâs just Iâm not a big fan of Grammer but I think his time for leading sitcoms has come and gone. I found Back to You to be that not that bad but nowhere close to his glory days of Cheers and Frasier. This show dies as well as his possibilities of ever getting another sitcom.
2. Eastwick- A few more people might care about this show because it at least had a bit more of an interesting concept than Hank did. Basically inspired by the book and movie âThe Witches of Eastwickâ, the show followed a group of women living in New England with magical powers. The show got very mixed reviews and apparently couldnât attract a decent following even though it had the incredibly hot Rebecca Romijn leading the cast. Even worse is that the show was so quickly yanked from the schedule that the few fans there were wonât even get a decent wrap up episode. Witches just arenât as in as vampires right now I guess.
3. Doll House- Now hereâs the one I really hate to have to report on. I love Joss Whedon and really anything he did for TV was very special and inventive and never pandered to formulaic concepts. Hmm, I wonder why this show got canceled then. As Firefly before it, Doll House has is now facing the chopping block, but at least it got a better un out of it then that beloved sci-fi opus. Eliza Dusku will be missed as she ran around in tight out fit after tight out fit and smart, edgy sci-fi takes another hit, which I fear Fringe might not be too far from sharing. Potentially this show couldâve been saved if it hadnât been relegated to its Friday death march, but there was probably nothing that really couldâve saved this very liked cult followed show. It just doesnât have the appeal of D-list stars dancing and making fools of themselves that apparently is the only thing people want to see right now. FOX will graciously be airing the rest of the season come the beginning of December so enjoy this gem while it lasts.
I refuse to feel bad for Joss Whedon at ALL. The man was effed over by Fox before and can't seem to learn his lesson. I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner. I wasn't a huge fan of Doll House because I resented it going on and Terminator getting cancelled instead.
Joss's shows worked well on UPN/WB type networks before they were CW, and with CW having shows like Smallville in their ranks, I'd think it'd be a perfect place for Joss to launch another show. Buffy lasted on those networks forever, as did Angel, and to not stick with a company that's treated you that well is just dumb.
I'm sorry but Joss needs to stick to making online musicals, writing comics, and maybe one day he'll put a show out on a network that's not going to fuck him.. like SyFy. You put Dollhouse on SyFy and it'd have been a huge hit, but nooooooo.
wow, dollhouse was overhyped and way over-rated by its tens of fanboys. i tried to keep an open mind through the first season, and the last episode (where it was set in the future) was an effective piece of story telling that should have been a fitting end to this show. The fact that it got a second season boggles the mind. And talk about totally under-utilizing dushku – what a waste. maybe the lesson he should have learned is that tv is not for him anymore and he should try more innovative stuff like Dr. Horrible. that's my two cents anyway.
Fox doesn’t seem to tolerate scifi shows for very long. So one wonders why they even picked up Dollhouse in the first place. Also scifi in general isn’t well liked by the general tv watching public. Shows like this usually do better on smaller networks like Syfy or Fx. This show started off kind of slow in the first season and then found it’s footing by the end. The second season started off kind of boring but finally started picking up. While not a huge fan of Dollhouse I will sad to see it go as it will surely be replaced by some lame reality show that people can’t seem to get enough of. RIP Dollhouse.
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