24.
Dreary as this may get, it seems otherwise too complicated to express how very displeased we are with the decision to not finish and broadcast season 7.
Newspapers have seen drops of 7-16% each reporting period.
Television has seen its numbers drop. Oscars and sports events - very low numbers. The fact this year the Superbowl went up in numbers does not mean anyone is returning to watch TV rather more people were sold Direct TV this year than last.
Television programs suck and however you may wish to color them, they suck and the public knows this. We have tired of Idol (still high ratings but much lower than past years and while you may publicly deny the change, privately you must understand this or be in a coma) and Survivor - who knows what season they are on and where they have gone this time. Few people care - meaning the ones who determine ratings.
Of course you will show me that ratings for Idol are higher than any other programs and yes, but that isn't hard to do when everyone shuts their TV off after Idol, it only takes 1 viewer to make it 'more watched than any other.'
TV has lost ratings and good programs have lost ratings - LOST, before it went on its LSD trip, did very well ... then the public turned on it and amazingly, the producers decided ... the show would only go for another season or two and wrap itself up. It wasn't Gilligan's Island.
'24' LOST viewers in season 6. LOTS. I found it difficult to watch very boring crap. It was exciting to start, as it always is, but then you made a (in the '24' reality) dead president's brother, president and he was so indecisive and incapable of acting either presidential or acting period (the actor), that the whole season was a wash.
You filmed 8 episodes of season 7 and then (gasp) a strike, and you decide rather than DRAGGING the season into MAY, that you would just not have a season. Oh my gosh, what difficult decisions. Do you have a war planned for late April and need the time slot? Like anything you have planned will work out (it won't) as well as '24' a couple seasons back.
You have just given '24' the death knell and I am really not pleased with your irresponsible and stupid behavior. Did you resent the fact Surnow left, did you hate him for being conservative, did you just plain hate '24' and felt the deep desire to end it for all time, because you have done that whether your little brains can yet comprehend it or not.
Don't mistake me for some '24' twit who watched the show and went on community boards or the internet to comment afterward. I never set up a website to follow the program and its driving around LA. I cared about a well acted, well written program that made all the other programs pale when stacked against '24'.
You lost a percent of viewers with a crappy season 6. You lost a LOT MORE with this stupid strike and will have lost even more postponing it to January 2009.
A few of your brain cells are working - viewers will return ... SOME VIEWERS you twits, not all. Not enough to push the program back where it was two seasons ago, and when the show lags, you will lose even more.
I like to think of it as 100% were with you in season 4 and 5, you started with 90% in season 6 and lost 20% with the crappy season. You end 6 with 70% and after 8 months waiting for 7, you would have begun 7 with 50%. You will now lose 15-20% waiting until January. A great PR campaign and fast paced first two hours will bring in 25% more - puts you at 55-60%. Wow. What a number. You can claim victory and close shop, except when the numbers are looked at as I have offered them above. 8 months between seasons is stupid. Starting in January is stupid. UNLESS YOU REVERSE YOURSELVES AGAIN and put the show on starting March 3 through June, you will have set an irreversible course for the program and by your foolishness, set in motion the replacement with a brainless, idiotic program that appeals to stupid people on LSD.
And don't give us crap about June and it needs a hiatus and the contract and ... you have been abel to find more excuses for a pathetic season than a four year old who wants to stay up just another minute. If you run through June, you still get 3-4 months hiatus. You can still begin filming in Aug and Sept. Your actors really will not be too upset not working for four months. I think they can live with it. Actually you had, in season 4-5, filmed 6 episodes in advance and you did two at a time which means 3 separate occasions. So - start in October and film each week and you will have 6+ in the can by January. It isn't like you couldn't ... you sent Sutherland off to jail in December. There is no commandment about showing a new show in June. way back when, new shows would show up until May/June. You coul, just once, try it the old way.
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