CBS pulled Friends With Better Lives and Bad Teacher off the schedule. WTF? Just air the remaining episodes! It's summer! 5 million viewers is okay for summer.
CBS pulled Friends With Better Lives and Bad Teacher off the schedule. WTF? Just air the remaining episodes! It's summer! 5 million viewers is okay for summer.
I can understand pulling Bad Teacher because it's ratings were the lowest of all of CBS' Thursday sitcoms despite being the only show airing original episodes, but it seems odd that they'd pull Friends With Better Lives when it was CBS' highest-rated show this past Monday and they're replacing it with reruns of Mom which had ratings that were 0.5 points lower. I guess they've decided that there's no point in showing it anymore regardless of ratings since it's been canceled.
AMC ORDERS SECOND SEASON OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR DRAMA “TURN”
Show Attracted Passionate Core Audience Averaging 2 Million Viewers
Per Week Over Initial Ten Episodes
NEW YORK, NY, June 23, 2014 – AMC today announced that it has ordered a second season of its Revolutionary War drama, “TURN,” which attracted a passionate core audience averaging 2 million viewers a week over its initial 10-episode run. “TURN” will return to AMC with 10 new episodes next spring. The network is also pairing encores of the entire first season of “TURN” with “Hell On Wheels” on Saturday nights this summer, to give new viewers a chance to discover and connect with the show.
“Craig Silverstein, Barry Josephson and a talented cast and crew delivered a truly distinctive and engaging premiere season. We look forward to continuing this revolutionary journey into season two,” said Charlie Collier, AMC president. “AMC and its creative partners have a track record of nurturing programs we collectively believe in, patiently growing viewership and engagement over time. With ‘TURN,’ once again, we dive in with our partners to build upon this very promising first season.”
Season ratings averages, live+3, across initial 10 episodes:
Total audience, 2 million viewers
Adults 25-54, 772,000 viewers
Adults 18-49, 709,000 viewers
On a very competitive night, the “TURN” finale delivered 2.2 million viewers, live+3, including 792,000 adults 25-54 and 706,000 adults 18-49.
A character-driven drama set during the Revolutionary War, “TURN” takes us behind the battlefront, to a shadow war fought by everyday heroes who vowed to keep their heroics a secret. Based on Alexander Rose’s book “Washington’s Spies,” “TURN” centers on Abe Woodhull, a farmer living in British-occupied Long Island, who bands together with a disparate group of childhood friends to form the Culper Ring. Together they risked their lives and honor, and turned against family and King, for a fight they believed in passionately, ultimately helping George Washington turn the tide of the Revolutionary War in favor of the rebels. Their daring efforts also revolutionized the art of espionage, giving birth to modern tradecraft as we know it today, along with all of the moral complexity that entails.
“TURN,” from AMC Studios, is executive produced by Craig Silverstein (“Nikita”), who also serves as showrunner, and Barry Josephson (“Bones,” Enchanted) from Josephson Entertainment. The series stars Jamie Bell as Abraham Woodhull, Seth Numrich as Ben Tallmadge, Daniel Henshall as Caleb Brewster, Heather Lind as Anna Strong, Kevin R. McNally as Judge Richard Woodhull, Meegan Warner as Mary Woodhull, Burn Gorman as Major Hewlett, Angus MacFadyen as Robert Rogers, JJ Feild as Major John André and Samuel Roukin as Captain Simcoe. “TURN” is distributed internationally by Entertainment One Television (eOne), through an exclusive multi-year output agreement.
AMC needs both Turn and Halt & Catch Fire, since they lost Breaking Bad and will be losing Mad Men. The Walking Dead, juggernaut as it is, can't carry the load by itself.
AMC needs both Turn and Halt & Catch Fire, since they lost Breaking Bad and will be losing Mad Men. The Walking Dead, juggernaut as it is, can't carry the load by itself.
Great news indeed!
They can't cancel everything that doesn't get Breaking Bad/Walking Dead ratings.
I think it helped that TURN is owned and produced by AMC instead of another studio. That probably made it more cost efficient for them.
They can't cancel everything that doesn't get Breaking Bad/Walking Dead ratings.
I think it helped that TURN is owned and produced by AMC instead of another studio. That probably made it more cost efficient for them.
I think you're right. Also I saw your post in the the other thread, and you mentioned Hell on Wheels. I forgot to include that with Turn and H&CF.
So there's no way AMC could match the "All-Star" line up they had: Mad Men, TWD, BB...I mean that is just a staggering 1-2-3...but it looks like they are adding some solid, and diverse, shows.
I'm still a little bitter about them cancelling Low Winter Sun. I thought that show was fantastic.
Only FOX can pull crap like this. What a waste of money really.
FOX wasn't happy with the direction of the show, so I think it's fine that they pulled the plug with only a Pilot shot. Might as well cut their losses now than waste more money filming an actual series they aren't happy with.
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