I hate CBS...
I can't believe they brought back some crap like Jericho (if even for just 7 episodes next year), but yet they couldn't allow a proper ending to be given to Threshold...
shareI can't believe they brought back some crap like Jericho (if even for just 7 episodes next year), but yet they couldn't allow a proper ending to be given to Threshold...
shareEven if they wanted to the series ended two years ago. All the actors are probably committed to other projects. Sad...it was so good.
shareI agree.
Shame on them!
They should give them at least a 2 hours finale...
What the hell is that ending?
I agree! I found this show on Netflix AFTER it had already been cancelled.
I fell in love with the show and then was destroyed when I found it was the "Complete Series", meaning it was cancelled already. I don't watch any CBS shows, but had this one continued, they would have definitely pulled in a new viewer... BIG MISTAKE on this one CBS! Maybe if you had marketed it better more people would have known about it!
i saw this show on sci-fi today. And the fact that cbs cancelled it just gives me one more reason to hate them and love nbc.
shareCBS was never really behind this show to begin with. First, they put in on Fridays at 9pm. Not the best time slot. They complained it didn't do as well as ghost whisperer. Well, The Ghost Whisperer is a teeny bop show that the whole family can watch(if they can stand it)
So, then they move it to Tuesdays the week of Thanksgiving and give it ONE airdate before they cancel it and say that it 'underperformed'.
No Sh!t!
So, I too hate CBS, and haven't watched a show on it since!
I totally agree , but in the two cases they are wrong , moneywise if they have given it a chance and a good timeslot it would have been a great hit. and if u are about fans, i think it would be very popular as a good sci - fi, great plot, great cast , good production , also Carla Gugino is soooooooo pretty and suits the role. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!!
shareI hate how they treated it....like so many other great shows (not just CBS shows) the network screws with the time slot and never markets the show that well. NO WONDER IT WASN'T A HIT!!!! *grumble*
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Great shows always happened to get
Canned by CBS now don't they
Except for the CSIs!
CBS sucks. They've got Survivor season 47 (or whatever) and they wouldn't even keep Threshold on for a full season.
"I've seen brilliant series' cancelled in less than a year." - Brent Spiner
Not to mention Big Brother 10 and I'm glad to see reruns of
Threshold on Sci-Fi today! A great series that was not
promoted properly and according to Wiki the ratings dropped
very low when CBS moved it to Tuesday to try to boost ratings.
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The fate of Threshold is an example of the current problems with TV that might be broken by the increase in web based TV.
1) A show must hit the ground running
This is the biggest problem these days. Some shows need to find their audience or hit their stride. If this mentality had been used in the past many long lived shows like Happy Days and Quincy would have never lasted past their first season as they didn't really start to click until their second or even third season.
2) Rating manipulation
This has been known since TV really took off in the 1950s. Want a show to do better? Have it come after a popular show with similar demographics. Want to kill a show? Put it in a time slot totally unsuited to its demographics (aka Star Trek's third season) or better yet change it so many times it doesn't have a chance to find an audience (Flash).
Web based TV will help end some of this nonsense because viewers will be able to watch what they want *when* they want. Since the long tail effect takes time to work that will help end much of the hit the ground running stupidity as well.
CBS, NBC, ABC, I hope you read this. For many years I've watched your new sci-fi shows. I will no longer do that, no matter how good. I've grown so tired of you starting a good show and then cancelling it. Most people I hang with feel the same way. I think your companies would best be served if someone cancelled top management, send them all home.
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Give NBC time. If Heroes underperforms watch it dissapear from the lineup like magic. I give them 6 months after the show airs before you start hearing those kinds of rumblings. The writers are going to have their work cut out for them to wow the audience after that mixed bag of a 2nd season.
shareScifi shows are always hanging on by a thread. If they underperform once they get canned and end up on the scifi channel where most people see it for the first time. They never get the proper advertising, they get the worst time slots and are expected to do great.
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Jericho was a friggin brilliant show. How can you call that crap. And call this show brilliant? I like Threshold, but it's nowhere as good as Jericho was, or could have been if CBS was an actual decent network.
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I will disagree... I liked both but I thought Threshold was a much better story and better quality overall. And Jericho at least got a shot at a conclusion (as lame and incomplete as it was). I wish they had done an extra 7 episodes with threshold!
I'm really mad that CBS keeps cancelling good shows that come on before NUMB3RS. First Threshold, then Moonlight! COME ON!!! Good shows, both. Both cancelled before their time.
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Jericho was bullcaca just for its premise alone (people cannot survive radiation like the kind shown from nuclear bombs and survive). Why it survived and not this show, I have no idea. The writers of Jericho should have seen movies like Threads, The War Game, On The Beach, The Day After and Testament and documentaries about Hiroshima and Chernobyl to be better informed about how one would survive such a conflict. Compared to Threshold, this show was bogus, and many people at a lot of places on and off the net complained about how incorrect it was (I remember one such person disrupting a discussion about the show at a convention with just the same objections that I and others had.)
CBS just canceled a good show and promoted the wrong show.
Don't forget they canned Now and Again (Bionic Manremake) as well. At least i wish they would have let the series play out.
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