End of TV season (who gets axe)

I look at one ep a week of The Andy
Griffith Show on TV Land. The first
half of the first season is unwatchable.

Barney is the butt of all jokes, even by
Andy. He's the town fool. Andy's
character is over the top hillbilly, it
makes me cringe. Everything he says
is delivered in the 'aw shucks' very
deep south accent and he has a face
splitting grin on his puss most of the
time. They really toned it all down
later on, I have no idea how this show
ever got a second season.

There have been no cancellations so far for the 21 new tv series on broadcast. Probably if one does get cancelled, most people will never have seen a single episode. Viewership for broadcast continues to plummet overall.

Timeless, the biggest budget historical time travel thriller on NBC is doing poorly.

Network Ranked by age 18-49 - Total Viewers
1 This Is Us NBC 2.61 9.553
2 The Case Of: J Ramsey CBS 1.95 9.332
3 Kevin Can Wait CBS 1.90 8.314
4 Lethal Weapon FOX 1.78 6.842
5 Speechless ABC 1.70 5.851
6 Bull CBS 1.67 12.561
7 American Housewife ABC 1.57 5.592
8 The Great Indoors CBS 1.52 7.309
9 Designated Survivor ABC 1.47 6.637
10 The Good Place NBC 1.46 5.147
11 Son of Zorn FOX 1.42 3.353
12 Man with a Plan CBS 1.35 6.329
13 Timeless NBC 1.31 5.496
14 MacGyver CBS 1.15 8.147
15 Pure Genius CBS 0.91 5.374
16 Notorious ABC 0.86 3.972
17 Pitch FOX 0.83 3.032
18 Conviction ABC 0.73 4.115
19 The Exorcist FOX 0.68 1.932
20 Frequency CW 0.30 1.026
21 No Tomorrow CW 0.30 0.883

Quote: Pacomartin

There have been no cancellations so far for the 21 new tv series on broadcast. Probably if one does get cancelled, most people will never have seen a single episode. Viewership for broadcast continues to plummet overall.

I think I have heard of maybe 4-5 of these let alone watched. Just typing this it is so hard to even remember waiting for "your show" to come on.

Quote: AZDuffman

I think I have heard of maybe 4-5 of these let alone watched. Just typing this it is so hard to even remember waiting for "your show" to come on.

King of Queens was a classic television show, but Kevin James had extremely strong support from his TV wife, Leah Remini, TV father in law, Jerry Stiller, and loser best friend Patton Oswalt. Leah Remini in particular was the master of "disdainfully humorous" and "derisive mocking". Without those strong supporting roles his new series, Kevin Can Wait, is not nearly as funny even though he reuses all of his moves from the first series.

Quote: Evenbob

I like it because I wasn't into computers at all in the 80's, I barely knew they existed..

Present at the first meeting of the Boston Computer Society.
Struggled thru a blizzard to get to the second meeting of the East Coast Hombrew Computer Club at MIT.
Didn't get rich despite being involved when it was only Altair and the IMSAI, the IMSAI not being in working order.

As to TV shows... I meant to watch that secrets and lies show despite a bad premier but I never did even remember what day and time it was on.

Good Wife.. How on earth is that still limping along with new plot lines. Are the writers going to ever run dry and retire the show.

Quote: Pacomartin

King of Queens was a classic television show, but Kevin James had extremely strong support from his TV wife, Leah Remini, TV father in law, Jerry Stiller, and loser best friend Patton Oswalt. Leah Remini in particular was the master of "disdainfully humorous" and "derisive mocking". Without those strong supporting roles his new series, Kevin Can Wait, is not nearly as funny even though he reuses all of his moves from the first series.

"Friends" was the last sitcom I much watched and "24" the last network show. "The Shield" was awesome and was one of the first shows to make the old network model dead. I keep waiting for a broadcast network to abandon nights starting with Saturday though affiliate fees give incentive to keep filling time with any garbage the want.

Quote: Pacomartin

Network Ranked by age 18-49 - Total Viewers
1 This Is Us NBC 2.61 9.553
2 The Case Of: J Ramsey CBS 1.95 9.332
3 Kevin Can Wait CBS 1.90 8.314
4 Lethal Weapon FOX 1.78 6.842
5 Speechless ABC 1.70 5.851
6 Bull CBS 1.67 12.561
7 American Housewife ABC 1.57 5.592
8 The Great Indoors CBS 1.52 7.309
9 Designated Survivor ABC 1.47 6.637
10 The Good Place NBC 1.46 5.147
11 Son of Zorn FOX 1.42 3.353
12 Man with a Plan CBS 1.35 6.329
13 Timeless NBC 1.31 5.496
14 MacGyver CBS 1.15 8.147
15 Pure Genius CBS 0.91 5.374
16 Notorious ABC 0.86 3.972
17 Pitch FOX 0.83 3.032
18 Conviction ABC 0.73 4.115
19 The Exorcist FOX 0.68 1.932
20 Frequency CW 0.30 1.026
21 No Tomorrow CW 0.30 0.883

I haven't watched a single episode of any of these shows (although I have constantly heard good things about This Is Us.)

Cable/HBO and Netflix are where the good TV is these days...

Quote: Fleastiff

Good Wife.. How on earth is that still limping along with new plot lines. Are the writers going to ever run dry and retire the show.

The Good Wife was retired over 6 months ago after 156 episodes. I've never seen it, as I thought it was geared towards women. I know it won a lot of awards. A sequel, ,The Good Fight. will air on CBS All/Access to encourage more people to purchase the streaming version of CBS.

Quote: Pacomartin

, as I thought it was geared towards women.

As it progressed, it became more oriented to women and women as power brokers, successful manipulators, etc. in 'early days' there were strongly feminist leanings: a primarily lesbian investigator who frumps up her tits and goes to some clerk to get information with the parting words to her female attorney-boss "more powerful than a subpoena". Or the same primarily llesbian investigator who has a quickie in the parking lot with a man who says 'let your boyfriend take care of your emotions, I just want to screw you'. But as the show progressed the battles moved from the streets and the firm to the boardrooms and power lunches. Female viewership was remaining high, I'm sure.

Quote: Pacomartin

The Good Wife was retired over 6 months ago after 156 episodes. I've never seen it, as I thought it was geared towards women. I know it won a lot of awards. A sequel, ,The Good Fight. will air on CBS All/Access to encourage more people to purchase the streaming version of CBS.

I didn't much care for it at the start, but kept tuning in now and then. I really enjoyed it when Alicia ran for State AG. I don't know how accurate the portrayal of a political campaign was, but it had a through-the-looking-glass feel to it. The last season involved more politics and was even more surreal.