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Slayven

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Desiginated Survivor is a mercy killing at this point, considering how mind numbingly dumb the show had become. How you start off with That strong of Premise and Keifer Sutherland attached and fail to actually do anything with it is beyond me.
The premise seems like you need a STRONG team to keep it going for more than a season.
 

firehawk12

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Desiginated Survivor is a mercy killing at this point, considering how mind numbingly dumb the show had become. How you start off with That strong of Premise and Keifer Sutherland attached and fail to actually do anything with it is beyond me.
I stopped watching it... did they ever solve the conspiracy? lol
I think the fact they made him an independent was such a weak cop out that I didn't care about the political stuff anymore, and Maggie Q's side was duuuull.
 

Slayven

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Why is Once Upon a Time using the Dr. Strange teleporting magic?
 
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berzeli

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THR: The 5 Most Surprising Pilot Passes This Season
L.A.'s Finest (NBC)
Easily pilot season's biggest slam dunk, the Bad Boys II spinoff starred Gabrielle Union reprising her role from the feature film and starring opposite Jessica Alba. It also boasted proven producer in the film's Jerry Bruckheimer. The drama is produced by Sony Pictures Television Studios, which wasn't ideal given that all the broadcast networks (as well as cable and streamers) have been focusing more on owning their scripted originals in a push for greater profitability. Sources say talks between NBC and Sony broke down as part of the annual packaging negotiations that go on between the network (which usually wants one show) — and Sony (which typically attempts to package others in the same dealmaking). Insiders say Sony pushed hard to get Norman Lear's longtime passion project Guess Who Died, starring Holland Taylor, Hector Elizondo and Christopher Lloyd, on the air and package that with L.A.'s Finest and bubble shows The Blacklist and Timeless. Guess Who Died and L.A.'s Finest were both passed over (and are being shopped) and the jury is still out on Blacklist and Timeless.
The Greatest American Hero (ABC)
Inspired by the 1980s drama of the same name, the reboot had an inclusive spin in that the half-hour comedy revolved around an Indian-American woman. ABC scored a casting coup, landing New Girl's Hannah Simone for the role. The part was among the most pursued roles of the season, with Simone among the most in-demand actresses. (She signed on to Greatest American Hero after getting multiple offers for other roles elsewhere.) Sources say ABC felt that the single-camera comedy from Fresh Off the Boat's Nahnatchka Khan felt "off-brand" for the Disney-owned network. Instead, ABC ordered Tim Doyle's comedy about an Irish-Catholic family of 10 in the 1970s; a single-camera family comedy from New Girl creator Liz Meriwether starring Taran Killam and Leighton Meester and the 1990s-set Goldbergs spinoff. All traditional family comedies. Simone bemoaned the decision: "We just found out that network TV isn't ready for the first brown female superhero on TV," she tweeted. "This would have been history making and so empowering for young girls around the world."
Well that's disappointing in both cases (tbh, I wanted Guess Who Died more than I cared about L.A.'s Finest). For the other three, read the damn article you lazy punk.
 

Fuzzy

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I stopped watching it... did they ever solve the conspiracy? lol
I think the fact they made him an independent was such a weak cop out that I didn't care about the political stuff anymore, and Maggie Q's side was duuuull.
Solved then more brought in and also solved.
The funniest part of him being an Independent is that the last episode had both parties courting him to lead them into the next election. lol
 
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berzeli

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NBC is likelier than TBS to me since NBCUniversal owns the show. But I don't think a renewal is all that likely after Hulu passed on it.
 

Slayven

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Has anyone just signed a cast and writers without the show premise and done something new? Seems like a easier sell
 

Volimar

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SOMEONE GIVE STEPHANIE BEATRIZ A NEW SHOW. SHE IS THE BEST.


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TDLink

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Oct 25, 2017
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I read somewhere that Netflix and Hulu haven't "saved" a show in several years so it seemed kinda of silly to hope for that to change. Too bad, I liked the 99.

iZombie getting renewed is amazing. CW is really the best.

Netflix is the only one that consistently "saves" shows, but they still do it rarely. That said, it hasn't been years at all. They just saved Travelers a couple months back. They did however have the distribution rights on it as a "Netflix Original" in International Territories, so they already had some sort of investment.

This is why The Expanse may make sense as a pick up for them (it's in the exact same situation), but why Brooklyn 99 may not.
 

Fable

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Oct 25, 2017
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Can pilots that are passed on be picked up by other networks? Like, could Wayward Sisters be picked up by Netflix?
 

Kschreck

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Oct 27, 2017
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Other then CW stuff, I won't watch anymore nee shows on network tv ever again. Guess it's time to look elsewhere for shows to support. I'll still watch already existing shows like Gotham if anything I like at all returns at this point.

Only network tv shows left I am interested in that hasn't been canceled yet:

-Gotham
-Agents of Shield
-X-Files
-The Blacklist

Confused as to why Blindspot got renewed and yet Blacklist with much higher ratings appears to be in limbo. I also suspect X-Files is almost certainly dead and already forgotten about at Fox.
 

Blitzrules240

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Oct 25, 2017
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Honestly I think the most shocking thing is still A.P. Bio getting a 2nd season.

B99 yes is unfortunate but I thought A.P. Bio was DOA.
 

RatskyWatsky

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Oct 25, 2017
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Confused as to why Blindspot got renewed and yet Blacklist with much higher ratings appears to be in limbo.

L.A.'s Finest (NBC)
Easily pilot season's biggest slam dunk, the Bad Boys II spinoff starred Gabrielle Union reprising her role from the feature film and starring opposite Jessica Alba. It also boasted proven producer in the film's Jerry Bruckheimer. The drama is produced by Sony Pictures Television Studios, which wasn't ideal given that all the broadcast networks (as well as cable and streamers) have been focusing more on owning their scripted originals in a push for greater profitability. Sources say talks between NBC and Sony broke down as part of the annual packaging negotiations that go on between the network (which usually wants one show) — and Sony (which typically attempts to package others in the same dealmaking). Insiders say Sony pushed hard to get Norman Lear's longtime passion project Guess Who Died, starring Holland Taylor, Hector Elizondo and Christopher Lloyd, on the air and package that with L.A.'s Finest and bubble shows The Blacklist and Timeless. Guess Who Died and L.A.'s Finest were both passed over (and are being shopped) and the jury is still out on Blacklist and Timeless.

Basically, Sony is trying to get NBC to renew both Blacklist and Timeless, but NBC wants only Blacklist, so it's stuck in negotiations.
 

SeanM

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Oct 26, 2017
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Variety has the details on why Designated Survivor got axed:

But "Designated Survivor" was handicapped almost from the start by a revolving door of showrunners. Entertainment One had lined up drama veteran Neal Baer to take the helm of season three, which would have made him the show's fifth showrunner. Sutherland per his contract had veto power over showrunners and had approved Baer. Sources say Baer had been busy this week meeting with writers to assemble a new staff before the word of the cancellation came down.

Another factor that may have played a part in ABC's decision to pull the plug was the fact that Sutherland's contract called for production of the show to move to Los Angeles in season three, after two seasons in Toronto. Such a move would have raised the cost of producing a show that was already on the higher-end of budget for broadcast dramas.

A source close to the situation said Sutherland was frustrated by the creative twists and turns that the series took — shifts that were no surprise given the number of changes behind the scenes. David Guggenheim created the political drama about a cabinet member who becomes President under duress after a terrorist attack takes out the previous President and the rest of his cabinet. But given the rotating lineup of showrunners, the show zig-zagged from being a political thriller to a more earnest look at the struggles of Sutherland's Tom Kirkman and his family amid the fishbowl of living in the White House.
 
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