Of course, low ratings. But the network put it on the family hour which means kids can't watch it; too raunchy. So adults either don't watch it or record it, which doesn’t count with ratings. Irregular times make us play hide and seek to even find it. In other words, the network sabotaged it. But don’t they always do that. CBS, NBC, ABC, even HBO sometimes. They all do it. But I did buy the song, Hockey Monkey, on iTunes.
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family guy and the simpsons are also on fox, so they're not battling with The loop
shareSimply put, Fox has a history of sabatoging all the shows that actually have potential.
shareWhile I agree with that statement I hope you don't apply it to this show.
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Well... the first season had potential but the second season was... embarrassing.
shareIt didn't help that they were spacing episodes shown on the same night to be at least half an hour apart. I remember them putting out 3 new ones last Sunday at 7:30, 8:30 and 9:30! I didn't know that and ended up missing the first one. Some consistency from Fox would be nice.
"This year I'm voting Republican. The Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth."
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It really drives me crazy. NBC did it with Scrubs, which I loved for about the first 3 seasons. However, that show, now gets into distasteful soap opera themes. Who is interested in Dr. Cox's depression or the Dr. girlfriend’s pregnancy and debate about having an abortion? This used to be a comedy. Sounds like the writers are depressed with unwanted pregnancies.
shareI know what you mean. I recently discovered Scrubs a few months ago when I was sick and decided to spend that time watching the boxsets. I don't watch much tv anymore; but I'll watch the shows that are on DVD. So when I tuned in for the season finale, I was kind of shocked by how unfunny the show was compared to all the old episodes I caught. I could care less about whether Elliot's sure about marrying Keith. I think the show became more melodramatic because the writers exhausted all their ideas.
I remember that happening on "Frasier." I used to love that show, then stopped watching when I went to college. A few years later I tuned in to find that Miles finally did hook up with Daphne; she was pregnant; everyone was happy and the show sucked unbelievably.
Back to what I was saying earlier; I just remembered that Fox used to space "The Simpsons" apart by half an hour to sandwich in some crap show. It's a deceitful tactic by networks. NBC used to do that with "Friends" and "Seinfeld." The problem here is that "The Loop" didn't have a big enough fan base to try that, and they only killed the show as a result.
Now I know why tv ratings are declining across the board. It's probably a good thing for the lot of us.
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-Monica Lewinsky
COME ON!
It was cancelled because it was rubbish. The characters were lukewarm, the premise stupid. I really wanted to like this because there's not a lot of shows set in Chicago, but this was cliched and vapid.
That's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it...
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It was cancelled cause they revamped it so it had more to do with the lameass characters at the airline and completely getting rid of the roommates. THAT was what made the show funny....Sully and the two female roommates. Please, I still think that the whole "zip line to the falafel cart across the street" episodes is one of the funniest I've ever seen. I laughed my ass off. the second season sucked cause the decided to concentrate on the work scenario. Not cause they kept moving it to a different time slot.
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I agree completely. Retooling the show is what ruined it. And loved that zip line.
shareAbout Frasier, how about Niles having a heart attack. How unfuny is that?
shareWell, I think Scrubs jumped the shark when Carla and Turk had a baby. It just always seems to get stale once main characters have kids. Notice Dr. Cox and his wife had a kid, but they were so cynical and so weird, that it fit really.
I guess after a while, the characters get older, so they have to marry them off and have them have kids, and then the writer's steam dies down after that.
But The Loop, I do believe it is cancelled because the lead in it is now in the show The Reaper. I liked the Loop, I love Mimi Rogers, and the girl who played Darcy, though they made her character change from an angry overachiever that hated her job, because all her friends were saving the world via medicine and science and she wasn't, to some dorky schoolgirl who liked the main character. Dumb.
The Loop was all over the TV schedule timewise. The way I saw it after it's initial run was by complete and utter accident. It's annoying. At least FX promotes It's Always Sunny in PA, I thought that one would be lost too. I mean, will Scrubs come back in 2008? I mean, all the other Thursday night shows come back, but Scrubs goes off for about a year. They had shows on in 2007, that had references to a hospital staff photo for the current year, 2006 and other nonsense. Just run it after The Office like a real show!!!
"just run it after the office like a real show!"
hey someone listened.
You can spin it any way you want, but itt was cancelled because it was terrible.
shareIn your humble opinion.
shareWhen exactly did this show get cancelled? 'Cause I love the show and haven't heard a word about it being cancelled, so can someone show me a website or something official about the cancelation?
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Someone said that the show is not cancelled but will be on later in the season. It is not in the fall lineup that I can find.
shareShow was cancelled. All those shows they kept playing in half hour intervals every Sunday night was FOX burning through the episodes that were filmed before it was cancelled and to hock the season 1 DVD.
shareit was cancelled before the eps that aired earlier this summer even made it to air...that's why Bret Harrison was free to star in "Reaper" because he didn't have this to worry about...it was already canceled!
show was cancelled because Fox never gave it a chance....it looked like they were going to give it a chance by renewing it (unexpectedly too!) in May of '06 for 13 more eps and give it a timeslot after American Idol results show...then the order got cut to 10 eps and well the after Idol results show timeslot ended up being given to Till Death because Fox really wanted to save that show...
what happened was some one high up at Fox programming obviously didn't like the eps that were made and rather then air them during the year and give the show a chance...he decided to use them as burn off theater for the summer....so thus the show never even aired between the '06-'07 season and was forgotten about by the critics therefore Fox never had to officialy admit that it was cancelling it. but canceled it is!
For the most part, people just didnt watch it. i know thats pretty obvious, but i think its a funny show, like Arrested Development and Kitchen confidential, its pretty funny. Fox just doesnt know how to market it, puts it on the wrong night... whatever.
it really drives me nuts when they change the cast like 6 episodes in, like in kitchen confidential. I havent seen every episode, but what happened to sarah mason and the chick that plays Piper? its pretty obvious they screened the pilot, and the audiences didnt like them. Thats how you kill a show: get rid of the hot chicks.
there were only 6 or 7 eps in the first "season" if you can call it that....in between the first and the second season...fox wanted to try and re-tool it to make it more about the workplace and less about Sam's home life. sadly for some reason this meant taking away sarah mason and piper....yet they kept sully...(which is of course a good thing!) they still showed Sam at home occasionaly but they never had any plotlines with him at home...it was all about the crazy workplace. i would have taken the show in any form either way....it was still wackier then hell...but they made some slight changes to the show including the loss of the girls and also they made Phillip Baker Hall's boss character more knowing....more i think knowledgeble about things in today's society..like he walked around with an ipod attached to his ears...they had him speaking slang in one or two eps...they had him more modernized...still wacky but for some reason he seemed a little more reasonable to sam...though not really reasonable (in one ep he falls head over heels in love with a pet hawk that sam bought him for his birthday...in another ep he wrecks sam's car and tries to cover it up but he also gives sam use of his car at the same time...stuff like that.)
i still liked the show plenty...while i liked the piper and sarah mason characters its not like the show changed all that much without them there...they still had his bitter secretary and of course mimi rodgers! they also added this cute receptionist for a couple eps who sam was flirting with...she was pretty much a lot like the piper character actually but without any of the backstory...they also had a recurring character named Derek who worked on another floor...he pretty much would meet Sam in the elevator...talk smack for like a minute and get off...that was his sole purpose on the show...to be the fast talking ass...
all shows go through that kind of changing thing...i mean not all take away characters...but almost all add people at some point...even Seinfeld added Newman!
Hawk. Hawk the DVD. Hock means to steal...
shareActually Hock is more in relation to trading goods for money as in a "pawn broker" or a "hock shop" or to leave goods for moneyas a guarentee as the dictioary puts it.
I don't think it fits in the context of them trying to hock the DVD's but I find no evidence it means stealing.
You may have different information than I do.
I have an eternal hope.
The Loop, Arrested Development, Drive. These 3 shows would have survived had they been placed on ABC, NBC or CBS. Fox does not know what it takes to give a show a chance to find an audience.
If you are i n the industry, and have a quality show, think twice before you sell it to Fox, maybe they should be your last resort.
I don't think The Loop would have ever aired on the other networks. And I have to absolutely, 100% agree with the original post - the time slot more than anything else, was what killed it. Sure it wasn't promoted & it was moved around. It was fantastically, laugh-out-loud funny (both with & without the grils) and could have made it. But it was absolutely too racy for the timeslot. I can't count the number of times my wife & I commented how we couldn't believe what they were saying in that time slot.
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I REALLY tried to give this show a chance, only because I know one of the co-stars, but the show itself BLEW!! I found my self recording it so I could fast forward to the Derek Tricolli scenes and skip the rest of the crap. Tricolli was the best part of the whole show!
shareI really liked the show. The girls at home with the brother was hilarious. Blindfolded darts so funny.
I wish the show survived. The cast was great. The setting was great. The premise was great.
I download all my tv so it would be cool if they still produced the show if not just for cult followers.
I couldn't believe it when Australia stopped airing it - I was really into it and I knew SO many(!) people who watched it and loved the sh*t out of it!!!!! Argh - well we're just about to get "Reaper" over here so hopefully thats somewhat similar (plus I love Bret Harrison)... I hate it how "they" just give up on a show if it's getting bad ratings during a certain time-slot...why not try another?!!
sharePeople didn't watch it, that's it.
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