Only show I watched
It was the only show I watched on TV, and my 15 year old daughter likes the show so much that she bought the first season DVDs - the only DVDs she owns.
Fox terminates The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Fox has announced that it's terminated The Sarah Connor Chronicles after two series, the Hollywood Reporter reports. The Terminator spin-off, starring Brit thesp Lena Headey, had evidently failed to deliver audience bangs-per-buck. Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly explained: "It was not an inexpensive show. We looked …
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 11:38 GMT John Baker
Sack the writers....
After the whole writers strike screwed up this and other series it does make you wonder if the studios were right for not paying them much.
Heroes was even worse, great first series. 2nd series makes Terminator look amazing compared to that drawn out, long-winded excuse for a tv program. I like Heroes don't get me wrong but they were cheap in the 2nd series. Poor writing coming from the US at the minute in MHO and many I've talked with agree.
I'm switching to Dextor, Chuck & The Unit. Thankfully they are yet to suffer if at all!
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 11:38 GMT Robb Dunphy
Ah damn
It was actually one of the few decent shows out there at this time. What is it with Fox cancelling decent shows? Firefly, Terminator, and all they keep pumping out is more bloody simpsons (which is long in the tooth and terrible to be quite honest).
Let's just hope the new trilogy of Terminator movies (starting next month) are able to make up for it.
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 11:40 GMT Frizz
IQ issue
I think the main issue was..it required a bit of mental input to watch, hence it's decline. At the end of the day, no brainers win every time. Now if it had been fly on the wall, or titled 'big brothers terminator chronicles' it would have grabbed 70% of the ratings!!
Paris...coz u know Arnie would be back!
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 11:40 GMT Andrew Garrard
Again with the Fox and the good SF shows...
So, they renewed Dollhouse (with a reduced budget; all hail Joss, but it's still allegedly not very good - find out tonight!), Fringe (unless it got much better in the second half season, awful - I gave up shortly after the giant alien suppository episode) and Lie to Me (appears to be like The Mentalist, but a bit more obvious), and killed this. After *that* season finale? (And Smallville's still going?)
If the second season were out on disc yet over here, I'd have bought it by now; it's going on my blu-ray shopping list as soon as Sony drop the price of the PS3.
I know it got bankrolled a bit by Terminator: Salvation. I'll be very pleased if there's a tie-in moment. I'll be even more pleased if another studio picks it up for another season. Come on Sky, we need a replacement for BSG. I doubt Caprica counts.
I can't understand how this didn't get better ratings. I wish, at least, they'd give these shows enough of a heads-up to finish off their story lines when they cancel them. When you tell a story, you have a contract with the viewer that you're going to explain things - as Lost has found out - and it's really rude to leave things up in the air. Would you cancel 24 after 12 hours? They need to find a better way, or people are going to give up on watching series with long plot arcs (i.e. the good ones) out of frustration.
RIP T:tSCC. (And Veronica Mars. And Firefly. And BtVS/Angel.)
[Go, because it shouldn't have been stopped.]
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 11:40 GMT Terry Pears
Fox'ed again
And yet they're giving Dollhouse another year, citing allegedly strong "future" DVD sales, Hulu views (also owned by News Corp)... maybe Fox are just wanting to avoid completely pissing off Joss Whedon and avoid another repeat of the Firefly effect.
Thank the gods Fox didn't do BSG, now they would have constantly tinkered, shifted the timeslots and axed it after 1 season because they didn't like it anymore.
Idiots.
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 11:40 GMT Martin Lyne
Fox
Nobody is going to end up watching any of their shows BECAUSE THEY NEVER GET A FULL RUN AND THERE IS NEVER ANY RESOLUTION.
When will they accept that good sci-fi will never have massive ratings, they should just produce it becuase they aim to serve more than just the lowest common denominator. Perhaps by putting the shows on they would actually generate more interest. Or if they had a pay-per-episode service for the whole world to use.
Why don't the BBC spend some of my goddamn money making decent sci-fi? DOCTOR WHO DOESN'T COUNT.
It'll be ages before the next Hamilton or Banks book is released
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 11:40 GMT Pete
was it the acting or the writing?
Having watched this, the story of the Parson's egg comes to mind. Some episodes were very good (though, apart from the last ones, I'd be hard-pressed to name them) and others were pretty dire. I couldn't help feeling that whoever sold these series had worked out the beginning and the end, but didn't really have much idea how to fill in all the episodes in the middle.
To that end, there was much irrelevant stuff, lots of samey relentless persuits in series #1, dead-end stories and (frankly) filler episodes. I got the distinct impression that the writers were being given "turns" at coming up with stories - and that some were so self-indulgent that they played no part in the story as a whole.
Having said that, there was not much in the acting that made the series stand out. Although Arnie could carry off the "wooden" approach, some of these guys took the style to new lows. Strangely, it was the robots who appeared most human at times, and also (by design or talent, or simply by accident - who can say) came up with some of the best lines.
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 11:40 GMT CockKnocker
i liked it!
Byebye sarah cronner cronicles, the ending of series 2 really made me wanna see the next series!
And I especially liked the foxy terminator (summer glau), she could throw me around any day ;)
The movie should be cool, but by making it a 12A its gonna be like the 1st AvP film - Pants.
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 11:40 GMT Rob
GUTTED!
Flippin Amecs and their flippant TV watching, bloody FOX do this far too often.
I liked it, a lot, like fishman, was the only thing I begged for space on the Sky+ from my wife. Meant there was one less space for all that reality-car-crash-TV tripe.
Wish they wouldn't leave them on cliff hangers, especially when there could be doubt on whether it will carry on running for another series. They need to round it off as there series has left it with a complete change in the timeline of gigantic proportions (plus I want to see them develop the 'Rebel Terminator' faction).
:(
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 11:40 GMT Sarah Bee
Re: Sadly to be expected...
Peter: “Well, unfortunately, Lois, there’s just no more room on the schedule. We’ve just got to accept the fact that Fox has to make room for terrific shows like Dark Angel, Titus, Undeclared, Action, That ’80s Show, Wonderfalls, Fastlane, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Skin, Girls Club, Cracking Up, The Pitts, Firefly, Get Real, Freakylinks, Wanda at Large, Costello, The Lone Gunmen, A Minute With Stan Hooper, Normal Ohio, Pasadena, Harsh Realm, Keen Eddie, The $treet, American Embassy, Cedric the Entertainer, The Tick, Louie and Greg the Bunny.”
Lois: “Is there no hope?”
Peter: “Well, I suppose if all those shows go down the tubes, we might have a shot.”
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 11:42 GMT Aaron
ratings fail?
This was one of the shows that everyone in work talked about, I loved it. I often wonder with shows like this how the big studio's are measuring the ratings and if its really an accurate way to determine if a show is really being watching that much.
While Im not saying it was the best show ever, far better show's have been axed for just the same reason's. Over the last few years every show I've liked has got axed, every show I cant stand wont watch and wont buy/pay anything for seams to go on and on. Im not saying my personal taste's reflect the world's but when everyone I talk to miss's the show's I liked I wonder if target audiences are not being counted correctly.
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 11:46 GMT Anonymous Coward
It never stood a chance
It really wasnt a terminator show which is where it failed. The average Terminator fan would of been turned off by its slow pace and lack of action and people who dont like Terminator stuff wouldnt watch it because it had Terminator in the title.
Its main failing though is it had 3 key characters, John Connor who we all know cant die, Sarah Connor who had her name in the title so she wasnt going to die in a hurry, and Cameron who was a cyborg and if she did die future John could just send another sex bot back to keep his adolescence self warm at night. At first these three were trying to stop judgement day, which we know cant be stopped, by finding a computer that can play chess really well while being chased by a terminator that had no chance of killing them (so distraught was this terminator at its lack of success it gave up and started singing nursery rhymes to a ginger kid). Now its been fairly obvious since the first film that the evil terminator sent back isnt going to win but at least in the movies they have the budget to blow shit up and Skynet was a bit more sinister than your average pc
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 11:46 GMT Youngdog
This has caused outrage..
over on the boards at AICN.
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To summarise my post there (don't read if you watch but haven't seen it all) - this programme was just getting good but series 2 finale was a great conclusion to the story. All of Sarah's efforts were in vain and a lot of innocent people died for nothing. It turns out that John never WAS that important and the future resistance was born anyway with someone else taking the lead.
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 12:26 GMT The Fuzzy Wotnot
Money, money, money!
If you ain't pulling in the wonga your career ain't going anywhere! Same with the music biz, no one gets a chance to prove they can do something anymore. The media companies pander to the brain-dead, beer-swilling, BB watching lowlifes who consider opening a packet of crisps to be an intellectual challenge!
One day the media companies will get their cumuppence when all these cottage industry movie and music producers start out selling the mass-produced tripe that is being force-fed to people.
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 12:26 GMT jai
it wouldn't be so annoying...
but Fox do seem to get a lot of decent shows - and then they cancel them just as their fanbase really gets going
but is it Fox that is to blame? They are, afterall, just watching their ratings
surely the blame lies squarely with the american public for not knowing a good show when they see one - and then complaining AFTER it's axed instead of watching it when it's on telly
if less people were capping these shows and up'ing them to the interwebz then people would have to watch the shows as they broadcast and so the ratings would be higher
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 12:26 GMT Anonymous Coward
cancelled???
I really enjoyed the show. I even managed to get my room mate to watch it and she's into reality shows and has even bought the 'flavor of love' dvds (I will admit the show is funny, but I hope I never meet any woman like the ones on that show). Now, I'm going to be left with 'The big bang theory' and no Summer Glau. This sucks as much as the last few episdoes of BSG and Caprica (and the story had such potential)!!!
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 12:48 GMT Anonymous Coward
One reason for cancellation
Is that the Terminator franchise isn't owned by Fox, so even if the series does well on DVD they don't see much income. Dollhouse is a fully owned property, so strong DVD sales will add to Fox's bottom line.
I've seen both and after a rough start, Dollhouse is the better series (IMHO). I really don't see where people get the impression TSCC had a particularly deep story; it was good on occasion, but rarely anything to write home about.
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 13:01 GMT Anonymous Coward
Que?
I don't watch much TV but I need the expensive satellite subscription to keep my wife happy.
At the end of Season 2 it was clear that there would be no third season. All the loose ends were tied up, most of the main characters dead and there was very little possibility of returning to "the present" to continue the story arc.
The end of Season 2 did feel very very rushed though, reminded me of how Twin Peaks ended.
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Tuesday 19th May 2009 13:08 GMT Inachu
TOTAL IDIOTS!!!
Your neilsen rating system or what ever they use totally sucks!
I always watched the show and if I did miss it then I watched it on HULU.
Duhhh did you ever think of tracking hulu viewership? Did you track total viewrship using all data sources?
Fox needs to be taken out back and shot.
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