I gotta assume the Timeless delay means someone is fighting for it. Timeless is a wonderful show that never deserved a second season. Frankly I can't believe they ended it on a cliffhanger. They should have known better.
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2017-18 Season TV Cancellations/Pilots: E Corp does hostile takeover. Shuts down fsociety
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I only watched the first episode and the politics seemed really forced and turned me off the show completely.
The Friday Night death curse is more of a late 90's and on phenomenon. When I was growing up in the 80's. Friday nights was all about all the networks taking their best shot against the juggernaught that was Dallas. Then TGIF became king in the early 90's(after they had already killed Just The Ten of US *sniffle).
Considering ABC cancelled 12 shows this season and renewed 13, you'll need more than one show to bomb.
Easier to read, less ugly flashy official schedule. A lot of new shows so I'm most excited to see the trailers for this upfront. Especially A Million Little Things has an amazing cast (James Roday!).
Notably absent from midseason on their official ad is SHIELD which confirms Summer.
Just a feeling. I think it would have been canned by now.
They're trying to work it out and I think they will.
They had 8 previous episodes of data, the final 2 wasn't going to make/break it.
Wow I have nothing on ABC to watch. WIll hope whatever ads they show when Im watching tv sells me on the shows.
This is the reason I was thinking of. Much easier for the results from IW to be resolved first, where
everyone is back
Plus there's supposed to be a major death at the end of the finale this season they said.
This doesn't make any sense. ABC is the one who's been trying to get rid of SHIELD the last couple of seasons. Why would they say something like this.
Due to
IW
If it's due to
IW
I was about to say better not be one of my more liked characters, but my problem is I like all of them. :( Unless it's one of those new ones from this season, I'd be ok with that. But I'm guessing you are talking about an established character by 'major' death.
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I keep telling myself the silence must be good news. I thought we would have heard something by now.
Not entirely true. The report last year were the "some" at ABC wanted it canceled. Others did not. One high level programming executive has been liking "#RenewAgentsofSHIELD" tweets on his personal Twitter. And this is on top of Disney pushing them to renew.
So I think that actually lends itself to the idea that Disney might plan on bringing the show over to their streaming service next fall.
We don't know what it's due to or what the cause is. All that they did was tease that "in the finale a major character will die".
I will almost certainly end up getting their streaming service, so I'd be ok with this.
I feel like Disney is planning this launch in a very calculated way, which feels different than, for example, CBS All Access. Yes, fall 2019 is a while from now but they want to launch the service with an actual lineup of shows: untitled Star Wars series, Monsters Inc. High School Musical, Mighty Ducks, a Muppets series, untitled Marvel series and potentially "saving" Agents of SHIELD, which has a very loyal fan base and strong international performance.
And that's ignoring the movies they have planned like Lady and the Tramp and Sword and the Stone.
I think it's going to be a huge success for them.
Oh shit, I'm super happy about this! Probably my favorite new drama this year, but I've never heard anyone else talk about it.
This whole situation stinks. But I agree with others, if there was such an issue with Crawford, why would they let him direct? From what I can tell, these issues began cropping up before he directed.
I don't want to try and guess what happened and who is wrong, but Crawford is gone, why is Wayans doing this now? It's poor taste to post this. He's fired, move on. I'm pretty sure there's more to it, but again, I won't try to extrapolate. It's just sad how everything has turned out.
Leads me to believe that the wait on renewal news was less about the ratings and more about what a Season 6 even looks like after IW. I fully expect that the showrunners had zero idea how IW would end. Season 6 in the summer, after A4, and teeing up a potential segue onto the digital platform makes a lot of sense.
ABC is the mouthpiece here- they speak for Disney in this context.
It just seems weird to blame the director unless Crawford specifically ignored the advice of safety and stunt advisors and pushed Wayans into an unsafe situation. Someone actually died during the making of Deadpool 2 and David Leitch certainly isn't having a hard time finding work.
this. people who think otherwise likely haven't watch the whole season so far.
The prevailing sentiment I'm getting is that fans liked Crawford more and at least so much that they are incredibly upset that he is gone and might stop watching the show. It wouldn't surprise me if Wayans is catching flak on social media and getting trashed. This might be his attempt to spin things and explain why Crawford is gone. However it seems like some news and info might be missing and people don't care about Wayans trying to explain it away. Especially after the fact that Crawford is fired and the show renewed. Wayans probably would have been better off just quietly going about his life and not saying anything.
This is completely unconfirmed, but I'm guessing that Perlmutter is the main person insisting that ABC keep something, anything Marvel-branded on the air. He's definitely petty enough, he has a lot of pull at Disney, and he's also old, so it wouldn't be too implausible for him to be particularly invested in broadcast television even as it's a declining business model.
Most likely not which makes me sad. I don't feel like the bulk of the fans pushed for another network to pick it up like the fans of The Expanse and Wayward Sisters. The Wayward Sisters stuff is very impressive. Over 50,000 signed the petition already and that's for a CW show that never even existed. That show would have been a huge performer for the CW but for some reason they simply refused to pick it up but the fans are pushing hard for it.
I mean people have been blaming him for Crawford's firing instead of holding Crawford accountable for his own actions. He has every right to speak on the situation, other castmates have chimed in and no one had a problem when they did it. It's really weird the way people have been coddling Crawford throughout this entire situation.
With Roseanne being the biggest smash hit since Blackish, it was to be expected. Plus, they want the new shows getting those post rubs.
Looking at what's been announced, i would like to be the first to declare that the golden era of television has drawn to a close
Golden era of television has nothing to do with network television.
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