Friday, October 09, 2009

Southland, R. I. P.

NBC cancels 'Southland' before its premiere--The Live Feed | THR: "NBC has canceled the well-regarded John Wells' cop drama 'Southland.'

No, the network hasn't started airing the show's second season yet. Why -- why do you ask?

Oh, that's right. Because axing a returning scripted drama right before its season debut is highly unusual.

It's sort of like shooting your racehorse in the starting gate."

4 comments:

Randy Johnson said...

This would have been the only reason left to tune in NBC. The Law and Orders have grown tired, Jay Leno in prime time is a bad idea, and Heroes lost it's vigor during the second year.

It seems I'm completely divorced from NBC now. Well, maybe the occasional Sunday night football game.

Anonymous said...

Well regarded? Not by me.

I do agree on Heroes, which we've watched for the last time.

To make it worse, the local NBC station took off the 5:00 news for a daily lifestyle and entertainment show by LX.TV entitled LX New York.

Since then their audience share has dropped 45%. I'm hoping that rises to 100% soon.

Jeff

mybillcrider said...

I gave up on HEROES after the first couple of episodes of the second season.

Richard Robinson said...

Here in Pacific Time, we get Ellen doing her stupid dancing on NBC while the other channels have the 4:00 early evening news. I watched SOUTHLAND once, and thought it was awful. I don't know what's happened to the network. Maybe they put all their intelligent resources into CNBC and MSNBC?