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Originally Posted by mrvideo /forum/post/21692585
ABC is good at fraking up the air order of series. Body of Proof is another show that they screwed up. They just can't seem to leave well enough alone.
Oh, ABC isn't the only network that does this. Fox does it as well. The Finder airs them out-of-production-order sequence as well. They've yet to air the 2nd one.
CBS has aired some episodes of Hawaii Five-0 and Blue Bloods out-of-order as well.
Futurama fans will attest to just how badly FOX can mess up a show's order.
(It's probably the only show list on Wikipedia that most everyone agrees should NOT be listed in airing order)
But at least that show isn't heavily serialized - to do what ABC just did with Pan Am with 1 episode is just ridiculous.
Of course then there's ABC's attempt to get into animated shows with Clerks, and they completely destroyed any chance that show had just by stupid decisions like airing the 4th episode first, then the 2nd episode second, which included lots of references to the 1st produced episode... without ever actually airing it beforehand...
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Originally Posted by HDTVChallenged /forum/post/21692217
Actually, they did: Rich, divorced parents on different continents. He was being shuttled back and forth (for visitation), but apparently the parents couldn't be bothered to actually interact with him on either end of the trip. Simple.
Doesn't look good? I think its fate was pretty much sealed when they only picked up one additional episode for the season instead of the whole back nine.
The problem was that the first couple of episodes after the pilot aired were a huge let down. The spy plot was was about as exciting as watching the UPS man deliver packages to your office, there was too much soap opera drama between the sisters, and the 'international' part of it was lost due to the giant budget cuts and crapppy visual effects in the episodes following the pilot. Eventually, the show found a good balance, and was pretty interesting. But by then the audience had mostly fled.
The only time you'd normally see something in print is if a network decides not to produce or air shows that were part of the original commitment. Like when they pull a show off the air after 2 or three episodes. When a network airs all the episodes that they committed to produce, but does not pick up the option to make any more, it is technically not a cancellation, and is not something you send a press release about. They didn't cancel anything. They made what they said they were going to make, and they just decided not to make any more this year.
If asked, the network PR people would say 'we haven't decided about next season yet'. Mostly because they don't want to embarrass the people involved. But not picking up the back nine was pretty much the death knell for this show. It would be a miracle if Pan Am were on next fall's schedule.
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Originally Posted by vfxproducer /forum/post/21715514
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If asked, the network PR people would say 'we haven't decided about next season yet'. Mostly because they don't want to embarrass the people involved. But not picking up the back nine was pretty much the death knell for this show. It would be a miracle if Pan Am were on next fall's schedule.
That, plus you can get into all kinds of legal trouble talking about "unofficial" decisions. So every decision is "undecided" right up to the moment it's "official" (in the contractually legal sense of the word with the signatures being put on the paper).
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