May 12, 201114 yr The Finder is now just 'Finder' btw. I am really really really hoping they keep Burrows. She was my favourite from the back door pilot. You should give it a spin, even if you don't like Bones itself. Hart described it as a cross over with a show that doesn't exist yet :lol: He hates the term spin-off.
May 12, 201114 yr I might do if the pilots I'm looking forward to turn out not to be great and I need some fresh TV in my life but I think my viewing schedule is full until about 2015 at the minute! Phil, can you help me with something? A lot of the sites like Deadline and TVbythenumbers talk about multi-cam and single-cam comedies... for example somebody commenting on Whitney on TVbtn says 'meh, tired multi-cam format' - why does it make such a difference whether a comedy is single- or multi-cam? Are multi-cam comedies just more old-fashioned or something?
May 12, 201114 yr As far as I am aware from reading TVbt#'s Multi-Cam comedy's are ones like Will & Grace that were filmed in front of a live audience and use laughter tracks, where as Single-Cam comedy's are filmed more like drama's. I think Wiki has articles on them both Multi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-camera_setup Single: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-camera_setup Wikipedia gives Glee and Modern Family as examples of a Single cam and Friends as an example of a multi cam. Another page on there said that SitComs tend to be Mutli-Cam with the hour long Comedy Drama's being Single cam. Multi-Cam was the most popular type of filming, but Single-Cam seems to have made a comeback to be #1 recently. So i'm presuming they are on about the laughter track element feeling old fashioned. Will & Grace is one of the best sitcoms ever made so i'm inclined to believe that poster is talking $h!te tbh.
May 13, 201114 yr NBC have picked up three more shows: Awake [Formerly known as REM] The Playboy Club Grimm [From TVbtN's]
May 13, 201114 yr I LOVE PILOT SEASON! It's so exciting... this year seems really stellar so far. I'll probably give Playboy a go although no expectations for that. Awake sounds fantastic though - great actor and potentially great premise. Grimm sounds a little dull frankly. Hopefully ABC will pick up Once Upon A Time since it has a similar fairytale element without a boring procedural/case of the week format dragging it down.
May 13, 201114 yr Wow Zooey is coming to tele. I love her. Be sure to check that out Glad christina applegate is back on tv as well. But if you go by her track record, her shows never make it past the second season.
May 13, 201114 yr No shock there then. Apparently FOX and NBC are done with their pickups now. I'm very nervously awaiting ABC... I'm wanting Good Christian Bitches, Once Upon A Time, Scandal, Pan Am, Revenge and Hallelujah to make it but the latter three are apparently touch and go and Charlie's Angels is apparently good to go which means one less spot for the others.
May 13, 201114 yr Yeah, Fox should be done at 4 as they have a shorter schedule. They've got X Factor and TerraNova [Now just one word strangely] premièring in September too! From what I've read, Good Christian Bitches is a lock but needs retitled.
May 13, 201114 yr It's a shame people take offence so easily (although in this case I can understand it) because that title is so punchy and effective. As for Terranova I can hardly believe it's finally going to make it to air... after the time and money that's gone into that it basically needs to be the hit of the season.
May 13, 201114 yr Terranova is going to premier huge then die on it's arse I think. That kind of show just haemorrhages viewers. Look at Flashforward. It started out utterly owning Bones and by May Bones was getting twice it's ratings.
May 13, 201114 yr Yeah you can't help but feel like it's about two years too late. Look at the recent trend of wannabe successors to Lost (V, Flashforward, The Event) and how none of them have been particularly successful although V could potentially limp on to a third series I suppose. This is one of the problems with network TV... they see a success story and then once it's finished they try and recreate it every year when they should be looking to do something original. It's also why we have this silly trend of uninspired spin-off shows.
May 13, 201114 yr Indeed. The constant need to rip-off a hit is irritating. I can't say too much about spin-off's given that I'm currently watching CSI:Miami :lol: I'm finding cable TV much better recently. Even if Rizzoli & Isles just reeks of Bones, it's based on books so is not quite as uninspired :lol:
May 13, 201114 yr Four more NBC pick ups, this time all Sitcoms: Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea [[The title alone makes me want to watch this]] Free Agents Bent BFF (Formerly known as: Best Friends Forever)
May 13, 201114 yr ABC have picked up the following: Charlie's Angels Good Christian Belles (!!!) Once Upon A Time Pan Am Revenge :D Scandal The River No Hallelujah :( but otherwise I can't complain. Bloody fantastic line-up. In terms of comedies: Apt 23 Last Man Standing Man Up Suburgatory Work It CBS have also picked up Person Of Interest (JJ Abrams) and the comedy Two Broke Girls (by Whitney Cummings & Michael Patrick King).
May 13, 201114 yr The last two on your ABC list haven't been confirmed on TVbtN's yet. Glad too see Good Christian Bitches reach the light of day. Should be interesting
May 13, 201114 yr CBS could be interesting. Just have to see how many of their bubble shows they axe. Or rather, how many CSI's they kill.
May 13, 201114 yr CBS Pilot 'Ringer' was rejected by CBS BUT it has been picked up by The CW. Interesting move there by CBS, hopefully it's a sign that they are determined to reverse Dawn's trend of diabolical ratings. Shows failing to get a 1 on a national network is DIRE.
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