Guest EXPAT Posted August 23, 2011 Posted August 23, 2011 I enjoy reading this blog "AfterElton". Today they published their view of the new Fall TV schedule from a gay perspective. Very good reading. http://www.afterelton.com/tv/2011/08/fall-tv-guide I'm looking forward to "The Playboy Club" and "PanAm". I will also sample the remake of "Charlie's Angels". Quote
Members Lucky Posted October 6, 2011 Members Posted October 6, 2011 The Playboy Club became the first show of the season to be canceled on Tuesday. According to the NY Times, the only hour long drama with poorer prospects was Charlie's Angels. From the Times: The first casualty of the new television season, “The Playboy Club,” which was canceled by NBC on Tuesday, was also one of the shows considered least likely to make it this season, according to players in The New York Times TV Ratings Game. And 12.3 percent of the participating readers correctly predicted that show would last only three episodes...Just 26.3 percent of participants in the Ratings Game predicted that “The Playboy Club” would last. The only hour-long drama with poorer prospects, according to Times readers, was “Charlie’s Angels.” Only 5 percent of players had that re-booted ABC drama in their virtual prime-time lineups, compared to 11.8 percent for “The Playboy Club;” fewer than a quarter of players — 24.7 percent — predicted that the Angels will survive at least eight episodes compared with 26.3 percent for the bunnies. Quote
Members TampaYankee Posted October 6, 2011 Members Posted October 6, 2011 The Playboy Club became the first show of the season to be canceled on Tuesday. According to the NY Times, the only hour long drama with poorer prospects was Charlie's Angels. Surprise, surprise... I knew it wouldn't last three episodes when it was first advertised for the coming season. I don't know how network execs keep jobs (or get them in the first place) when backing such obvious flame-outs. This was likely pushed by a some shallow thinking junior exec who saw the success of Mad Men and thought all that is needed is some 50s/60s period melodrama with a bit of spice. Unable to think of anything original he grasped for the obvious gimmick: the early Playboy clubs. Even more surpising, some big wig VP bought it. Can Pan AM be far behind? Quote
