Which New Fall Shows will survive to see another season?

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With Smith already being cancelled, I'm hoping some of the other New Fall Shows don't go the way of the Do-Do bird. So far the shows that I've been following and hoping stay alive are The Nine, Shark, Studio 60, Heroes, Friday Night Lights. Unfortunately, things aren't looking too good for some of them.

Article from SF Chronicle: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...DGKVLNKAJ1.DTL

Here are a few notables from the article regarding specific shows:

The Nine: The pilot episode had 11.91 million viewers, but "The Nine" dropped steeply Wednesday night, to 8.41 million viewers, according to Mediaweek. More damning, it lost nearly 2 million viewers after the first half hour, which is always a bad sign.


Heroes: NBC has already ordered a full 22 episodes for "Heroes," the first new serialized drama to get a vote of confidence from a network.

Studio 60: Much has been made of "Studio 60," falling from 13.4 million to 8.85 million viewers. But, like for most Sorkin shows, many are high-value viewers (better educated, higher incomes), and networks will tolerate the lower numbers, not to mention that, for all his stylistic quirks, there are not a lot of Sorkins in the TV business. If you kill one of his projects, he's not going to deliver something else to you. As in baseball, you bank on ace starters and stick with them through slumps.

FNL: The critically successful "Friday Night Lights" was dead on arrival, with fewer than 8 million viewers.

Kidnapped: cutting the season to 13 episodes and dumping it onto Saturday night, the graveyard of television programming.

[aukevin]

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Of the new shows I have watched this year, my opinion is:
The Class will survive
Studio 60 will survive
Friday Night Lights won't survive
Standoff won't survive
Til Death will survive
Happy Hour won't survive
Heroes will survive

[Jimplication]

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Shark is the best show I've been watching this fall. I don't see it being cancelled, but then again, show cancellation is not necessarily related directly to show quality.

[nxt]

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Shark is the best show I've been watching this fall. I don't see it being cancelled, but then again, show cancellation is not necessarily related directly to show quality.

Oops, I put down Smith (as one of the shows I'm following) instead of Shark... Shark is definitely one of my favorite new shows.

[Flyboy]

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From what I've watched... Heroes and The Class. I would say Vanished but... I'm not too sure.

[DaveDQ]

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What am I missing in Shark? I just can't get into it. I haven't seen heroes yets, but I need to check it out. Jericho is dangling with me. I'm interested, but some of it is terrible. One show I actually kinda stumbled across was The Unit. I really like it.

[dbeth]

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The Class? Seems too forced to me (as far as the laughs).

I would hate to see FNL go.

What is it about networks deciding to cut shows after 2-3 episodes??? If that was the case, Seinfeld wouldn't have made it out of Season 1!! Seriously, though...let the show develop an audience. Word of mouth helps, but don't expect EVERYONE who will ever watch the show to watch the pilot. My mom loves FNL now, and she missed the first week.

We truly are in a "what have you done for me lately" society. Instant gratification or it sucks. Sometimes, things need to grow on people.

[SPTO]

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If Shark doesn't make it then I will lose all hope for TV. It's the first series that i've really gotten into in YEARS. James Woods was made for the role and I like the slightly out of wack way of going through the cases each week.

I really enjoyed last night's eipisode with Stark and his previous private investigator. I just liked the way that Stark manipulated the guy to get the result he wanted.

As for other shows, i'm glad to see NBC taking a chance on Heroes. I think that after the 1st season DVD release that it's going to see a popularity in the same vein of 24.

I can't believe someone here thinks 'Til Death will survive. It's one of the most boring and unfunny comedies i've seen in a long time.

I think Studio 60 will see another year only because Sorkin is behind the scenes with that one.

[aukevin]

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I can't believe someone here thinks 'Til Death will survive. It's one of the most boring and unfunny comedies i've seen in a long time.

I don't really care for Til Death, but I think because Fox pushed it so much it will make it to next season. If it doesn't get better I think it will get cut midseason next year. Same with The Class. I like The Class but it just doesn't seem like a show that will be on long, but CBS really pushed it too.

I think of those like NBC's Joey. They are big sitcoms for the network that don't seem to be that great. Joey was given half of a second season to get the fans, it didn't and got cancelled. I think Til Death and The Class, and even Studio 60, will get the same shot.

[SPTO]

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I think of those like NBC's Joey. They are big sitcoms for the network that don't seem to be that great. Joey was given half of a second season to get the fans, it didn't and got cancelled. I think Til Death and The Class, and even Studio 60, will get the same shot.

You're probably right. I've seen "Til Death on Saturdays a couple times in the hopes of capturing an audience. I just don't see it happening. At least the networks are giving a couple shows a shot at capturing an audience.

I remember that Cheers had a crappy 1st season but NBC allowed it to grow and become a pretty darn good show.

[Flyboy]

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Oh, and how could I forget Six Degrees? That show is excellent.. man. ABC has nothing but heat rockz.

[Mashiasu]

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Well I liked "Happy Hour" That one actress who had some nice cleavage hooked me in.

I think "Till Death " has been forced on the viewers and will see another season because fox loves it so much. I hate fox for trying to ram shows down our throat, yes I'm still PO'D about "Firefly" and "Keen Eddie".

I'm sorry to see "Smith" cancelled I have the episodes on Tivo not sure I should watch them now.

Best shows right now for me are "Shark" and "Heroes", "Heroes" is such a great show.

I missed the second episode and I'm upset I missed it so I am trying to find that episode.

"Heros for me is must see T.V.

If you haven't seen it give it a chance.

I have seen the first episodes of "The Class and "Kidnapped" they seem some what interesting hope they survive for a new season.

I have no interest in "Jericho" and "FNL" if anybody can sway me to watch these shows, I'll give them a chance.

Mashiasu

[kodiak]

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I really like Shark and they gave it a good time slot by having it follow CSI.

As for FNL, when they cant even put Permian in the right colors, I had not one single shred of interest in the show. How you put them in blue instead of black is beyond me.

[OSUG1]

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Of the new shows I have watched this year, my opinion is:

Standoff won't survive

I hope Standoff cac come back and be good after the playoffs are over. I would also like to see Jericho continue.

[p_rushing]

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I'm sorry to see "Smith" cancelled I have the episodes on Tivo not sure I should watch them now.

I missed the second episode and I'm upset I missed it so I am trying to find that episode.

I have seen the first episodes of "The Class and "Kidnapped" they seem some what interesting hope they survive for a new season.

Mashiasu

I have also tivod Smith, watched the first one and liked it, but now I'll just delete them.

You can watch Heroes online at nbc.com

Kidnapped has been cancelled, but NBC will atleast show the 13 episodes sometime, probably on saturday nights.