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holytoastrWitchblade Slayed
Revolution News, 2002-09-05
© Joe Crowe
TNT has canceled Witchblade, says Variety.
The show has just finished its second season. Its ratings were consistently good. It fit the general tone of TNT, with their “we know drama” slogan. TNT executive Steve Koonin in the story says the cancellation was a “very tough decision” and the show did well in building the network’s ratings, being advertiser-friendly, and putting TNT on the map. “‘Witchblade’ did all of that great for two years... we just felt to stretch it to a third year could hurt some of those areas.”
I’ve read the story on several websites, all cut and pasted from the Variety story. But what no one has an answer for is this:
WHAT IN THE WORLD DOES THAT MEAN?!
So what this guy is saying is that it’s best to cancel a show while it’s making money, rather than risk it making less money if it continues? Good thinking. This is why NBC wants so badly to cancel “Friends.”
I’ve heard a lot of cockamamie reasons for cancelling a show -- reasons silly enough to make me use the word “cockamamie” -- but this is a new one. I would even understand if the show was a bomb, no matter how many fans liked it. But apparently, the show was a hit. And got canceled anyway.
Variety mentions that the reason could be the lack of reliability in star Yancy Butler, after her rehab stint. Except that she finished rehab pretty quickly and got back to work.
Boy, it's a good thing TNT isn't giving her a reason to start drinking again. There’s nothing like sudden unemployment to make someone NOT DRINK. Thanks, TNT!
The only other thing on the channel that I know of is reruns of “Law & Order,” and they’re not even the only channel that has those. So there goes the network brand identification. Now they’re not “that channel that shows Witchblade.” They’re “that channel that canceled Witchblade.”
Apparently, in the television industry, all the networks can talk about are their new fall cancellation schedules. Cancelling is the new renewing.
Revolution News, 2002-09-05
© Joe Crowe
TNT has canceled Witchblade, says Variety.
The show has just finished its second season. Its ratings were consistently good. It fit the general tone of TNT, with their “we know drama” slogan. TNT executive Steve Koonin in the story says the cancellation was a “very tough decision” and the show did well in building the network’s ratings, being advertiser-friendly, and putting TNT on the map. “‘Witchblade’ did all of that great for two years... we just felt to stretch it to a third year could hurt some of those areas.”
I’ve read the story on several websites, all cut and pasted from the Variety story. But what no one has an answer for is this:
WHAT IN THE WORLD DOES THAT MEAN?!
So what this guy is saying is that it’s best to cancel a show while it’s making money, rather than risk it making less money if it continues? Good thinking. This is why NBC wants so badly to cancel “Friends.”
I’ve heard a lot of cockamamie reasons for cancelling a show -- reasons silly enough to make me use the word “cockamamie” -- but this is a new one. I would even understand if the show was a bomb, no matter how many fans liked it. But apparently, the show was a hit. And got canceled anyway.
Variety mentions that the reason could be the lack of reliability in star Yancy Butler, after her rehab stint. Except that she finished rehab pretty quickly and got back to work.
Boy, it's a good thing TNT isn't giving her a reason to start drinking again. There’s nothing like sudden unemployment to make someone NOT DRINK. Thanks, TNT!
The only other thing on the channel that I know of is reruns of “Law & Order,” and they’re not even the only channel that has those. So there goes the network brand identification. Now they’re not “that channel that shows Witchblade.” They’re “that channel that canceled Witchblade.”
Apparently, in the television industry, all the networks can talk about are their new fall cancellation schedules. Cancelling is the new renewing.
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Date: 2002-09-08 10:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-09-08 03:12 pm (UTC)The tv people need to lay off of it...