Re: Knight Rider News - NBC Announces Their 2009-2010 Line-up
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 11:53 pm
I'm sure that EW predicted that The Watchmen was a great movie too. They got that one wrong.
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LMAO!chrisjones wrote:Lets say KR doesnt get picked up for renewal and the shows ratings go through the roof over here in the UK (crazier things have happened!). Your telling me that the 'powers that be' wont re commission the show?
Drake wrote:I'm sure that EW predicted that The Watchmen was a great movie too. They got that one wrong.
that site doesn't have may up yet? knight rider didn't premiere until may?Bishop37 wrote:LMAO!chrisjones wrote:Lets say KR doesnt get picked up for renewal and the shows ratings go through the roof over here in the UK (crazier things have happened!). Your telling me that the 'powers that be' wont re commission the show?
Yes, the ratings are really going to go through the roof on the UK Sci Fi Channel.
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The show's deader than Elvis.
Wow - Well done captain sarcastic. Keep it up, will get you far in the world I'm sureBishop37 wrote:LMAO!chrisjones wrote:Lets say KR doesnt get picked up for renewal and the shows ratings go through the roof over here in the UK (crazier things have happened!). Your telling me that the 'powers that be' wont re commission the show?
Yes, the ratings are really going to go through the roof on the UK Sci Fi Channel.
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The show's deader than Elvis.
That's what I'm saying. I've never heard of a show in recent history that was slammed by virtually every critic, canceled, got explosive overseas ratings, and was re-commissioned on the same network. There's a first for everything I guess.Lets say KR doesnt get picked up for renewal and the shows ratings go through the roof over here in the UK (crazier things have happened!). Your telling me that the 'powers that be' wont re commission the show?
Little? How is 24 a little show? Explain that to me please...Remember a little show called 24?
...... nevermind, that was my point exactly, it was popular...Knight-Armen wrote:Little? How is 24 a little show? Explain that to me please...Remember a little show called 24?
They've done 7 SEASONS and I still love it more than anything on TV right now!
This isn't high school! Nobody goes around with a piece of paper to get signatures from people who wish to keep something. If the network decides to take a necessary action on a show that's not bringing the numbers, not a soul on earth can keep them from doing so. It's not about what people want exclusively, it's also about long term investment and profit. You're not getting the big picture here. The fact that you're spreading optimism on the board is fine and heaven forbid anyone should come in your way but don't tell people they're giving up on anything. If they cancel the show, live with it, get over it. Let's hope for something better in the future! If they'll make another season, then that's great!i don't understand why everyone is giving up so quickly and easily. it feels like a slap in the face to the people who are working so hard to tell NBC they want another season.
A lot of the save the show campaigns at this point are moot. I mean if they help you feel better like you accomplished something go for it. Plus there's no harm done letting NBC know how popular the KR franchise is. But the hopes for this version of KR to return on NBC are lost. I think what's throwing people off is that NBC has kept mum on KR, not even commenting on it like they did with Chuck. So this has people clinging on to some false hope. I only say this b/c what KR is going through right now is the same pattern that Bionic Woman went through. NBC didn't issue a statement saying no decision has been made yet or even that it was canceled. They just acted like it never existed, a step child that was simply excluded out of the will. I have a feeling that until the Fall slate is completely finalized where each time slot is accounted for, people are still going to insist that KR can be saved.KITT wrote:i don't understand why everyone is giving up so quickly and easily. it feels like a slap in the face to the people who are working so hard to tell NBC they want another season.
Knight-Armen wrote:This isn't high school! Nobody goes around with a piece of paper to get signatures from people who wish to keep something. If the network decides to take a necessary action on a show that's not bringing the numbers, not a soul on earth can keep them from doing so. It's not about what people want exclusively, it's also about long term investment and profit. You're not getting the big picture here. The fact that you're spreading optimism on the board is fine and heaven forbid anyone should come in your way but don't tell people they're giving up on anything. If they cancel the show, live with it, get over it. Let's hope for something better in the future! If they'll make another season, then that's great!i don't understand why everyone is giving up so quickly and easily. it feels like a slap in the face to the people who are working so hard to tell NBC they want another season.
amen to that. thanks.SingtheMuse wrote:.....If people "going around with a piece of paper to get signatures" was able to stop a 25 year long war in Uganda, I'm pretty sure it can do something as simple as bring back a TV show...Knight-Armen wrote:This isn't high school! Nobody goes around with a piece of paper to get signatures from people who wish to keep something. If the network decides to take a necessary action on a show that's not bringing the numbers, not a soul on earth can keep them from doing so. It's not about what people want exclusively, it's also about long term investment and profit. You're not getting the big picture here. The fact that you're spreading optimism on the board is fine and heaven forbid anyone should come in your way but don't tell people they're giving up on anything. If they cancel the show, live with it, get over it. Let's hope for something better in the future! If they'll make another season, then that's great!i don't understand why everyone is giving up so quickly and easily. it feels like a slap in the face to the people who are working so hard to tell NBC they want another season.
I wanted to say more but I am so insulted by the comment comparing people who's passion it is to try to make difference in the world to being like "high school" that I think it would be best if I said nothing else.
Now thats what I meant to say.......... only I couldn't be arsed to type it all. At least someone is on the same 'page' as me finally.knightendo77 wrote:Okay, firstly, stop blaming NBC. They spent millions promoting Knight Rider, people seem to forget they advertised the hell out of it pre-transmission and over the first few weeks but still it didn't bring in more than mediocre ratings. But they had faith in the concept and told GST to make it more like the original AND commissioned more episodes despite poor ratings. I don't think they can be bitched at, do you?!!?!
Secondly, the Sci-Fi Channel here in the UK may only get small ratings, but it's all relative. Medium is seen as a hit on the channel with 150,000+ viewers and so was picked up by the BBC to show on a mainstream channel where a few million now enjoy it. It's not a matter of it hitting millions on a small niche channel, it's about it getting great ratings in comparison to the channel's other shows that we want.
24 WAS a small show in its first year. Fox were going to cancel it mid-season but spared it in order to finish the story (believe it or not but it's true! Fox - known for cancelling shows before giving them a chance - actually put the viewers first!) and by that time it had aired on BBC 2 here in the UK to stellar ratings and so the international appeal was guaranteed. It was sold to other overseas markets and recommissioned. The rest, as they say, is history.
War? Uganda? Are you listening to yourself? There was a two-freakin'-year negotiation about a so called "Final Peace Agreement" to end the war. Not to mention over $600 million worth of damage and some remaining LRA forces, who are likely to operate on their own hand on the border areas of Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, and South Sudan! How can you even think of comparing such a complex thing as a war to a TV show!?.....If people "going around with a piece of paper to get signatures" was able to stop a 25 year long war in Uganda, I'm pretty sure it can do something as simple as bring back a TV show...
I wanted to say more but I am so insulted by the comment comparing people who's passion it is to try to make difference in the world to being like "high school" that I think it would be best if I said nothing else.
Largely I agree with what you are saying, NBC did hype KR's pilot very much and successfully as that had 12 million viewers. The series also had promo up until the 3rd or 4th episode when the series was interrupted by Obama and his speech, until that time the series had 7-8 million viewers. After that the series did not have any promo... people did not know that it was coming back in 2 weeks and the show suffered and ratings went down to 4.5-5 million... Then there was the hiatus and (by fans) much anticipated reboot... nothing... no big promo, but the show still recovered a bit in terms of viewers and scored 5-6 million in the last few weeks. The series was left to die... Which is a shame really... I mean I would not expect NBC to do posters and big cardboard cut out promos in malls every week... but a little bit more TV exposure would have been appropriate. Ironically "The chopping block" and "Kings" 2 shows that (came after Knight Rider) did get promoted, but did not last more than just a few weeks and are already officially cancelled.knightendo77 wrote:Okay, firstly, stop blaming NBC. They spent millions promoting Knight Rider, people seem to forget they advertised the hell out of it pre-transmission and over the first few weeks but still it didn't bring in more than mediocre ratings. But they had faith in the concept and told GST to make it more like the original AND commissioned more episodes despite poor ratings. I don't think they can be bitched at, do you?!!?!
Secondly, the Sci-Fi Channel here in the UK may only get small ratings, but it's all relative. Medium is seen as a hit on the channel with 150,000+ viewers and so was picked up by the BBC to show on a mainstream channel where a few million now enjoy it. It's not a matter of it hitting millions on a small niche channel, it's about it getting great ratings in comparison to the channel's other shows that we want.
24 WAS a small show in its first year. Fox were going to cancel it mid-season but spared it in order to finish the story (believe it or not but it's true! Fox - known for cancelling shows before giving them a chance - actually put the viewers first!) and by that time it had aired on BBC 2 here in the UK to stellar ratings and so the international appeal was guaranteed. It was sold to other overseas markets and recommissioned. The rest, as they say, is history.