Press Release to follow shortly.Fox has pulled the plug on Lone Star after two low-rated episodes. Reruns of Lie to Me will fill the show’s Monday-9 pm time slot beginning next week. Post your eulogies in the comments section
Source: EW
Lone Star - Cancelled
28 Sept 2010
Cancelled Shows RatingsPress Release to follow shortly.Fox has pulled the plug on Lone Star after two low-rated episodes. Reruns of Lie to Me will fill the show’s Monday-9 pm time slot beginning next week. Post your eulogies in the comments section
Source: EW
(falls down my stairs laughing) hhahaha...(clears throat) ok..i'm sorry but really...this show really sucked. i'm being serious...this show was just...horrible man...i felt depressed watching it...and i even gave it a second chance by watching the next episode thinking it might get better...but umm it didn't...srry guys...but i think this one deserved it.
ReplyDeleteFOX is not showing re-runs of Lie to Me, they are showing the new 3rd season
ReplyDeleteFOX sucks with mking shows Im sorry but them and CBS cancell every good show they start showing on their network.
ReplyDeleteThat's not exactly true. What Howard Gordon (24 showrunner) said in an interview was that they had no idea what to do if they had to make a ninth season. He was glad that the 8th season was the last one because there was no turning back from where they had taken the story in the last 8-9 episodes, which were written before the cancellation was announced. But anyway, the producers and FOX kind of knew that the 8th season was the last one before it was announced in march (the contract of Kiefer ended after episode 8.24).
ReplyDeleteAnd 24 ratings were great. Yes, they slipped a little from episode 8.07 to episode 8.08 (during the Olympics, 24 lost more than 1 million viewers, they went under the 10 million viewers line and never retrieved the missing viewers). But afterwards, the show was between 8.4 and 9.2 million viewers from episode 8.08 to 8.24, thats pretty stable and pretty good to me! House is pretty much at the same level right now (10.6 million viewers for the season premiere, 10.1 million viewers yesterday, at the very beginning of its season, and the first 4 episode of 24 Season 8 were around 11 million viewers, so...). Lie to Me is around 5.5/6 million viewers and Lone Star was around 3/4 million viewers, so I think FOX misses 24 anyway.
But yes, 24 was very expensive (that's one of the reason it was so good, they had what it takes to make great tv). And the writers never said they had no more ideas since season 6, they admitted season 6 sucked, they went in some wring directions but I think they fixed it very well with season 7, and season 8 was a lot of fun too (especially the second half of the day).
that's sooo frustrating! I was actually really enjoying this show! :(
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Comes with the job at Fox. You get it along with your ID.
yeah make it a 9 to 13 episode show. I think they have to pay for it any way. its weird
ReplyDelete... They cancelled 24 cause the show was starting to suck, (according to fans not me btw, im a new fan and love it) and the actor would sing for a new season that im pretty sure of. Any way ratings where down and the budget was up... No more ideas in the writers room since season 6 also (This is something the creators said in an interview.)
ReplyDeleteWHAT!&??!?!? After two shows? omg, I hate fox
ReplyDeleteFrak FOX. The least they could have done is let the writers time to wrap the show up with a proper ending, because I bet the production is shut down as of today, so there is undoubtedly no conclusion to the show. They should just let the production active for a week, so that they can write an ending, shoot it and so when the DVD set colmes out you have a complete story with at least a quite satisfying ending.
ReplyDeleteThat's too bad, Lone Star should have aired on cable. Now, FOX better not cancel Running Wilde (I'm sure it'll get better, Arrested Development pilot was not that great either) or I'll be mad.
Essentially, they cancelled 24 for reruns of Lie to Me. I've lost all hope in this world.
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ReplyDeleteLove that show.
tsssk! and i have just downloaded the 2 eps lol
ReplyDeleteThat's really disappointing. I'm obviously not at all surprised... but I thought the first two episodes showed a lot of promise.
ReplyDeleteRemember when networks had enough respect for their viewers that they'd leave a new show on the air for a while, give us a chance to find it? Now the networks behave like spoiled brats: you don't watch our new shows immediately, we're pulling them off the air.
ReplyDeleteAnd they wonder why viewership is in steep decline...could be because they've created a situation where we're afraid to get invested in a new show. Why watch any of the new shows, if they're going to get yanked after two episodes unless 14 or 15 million other people watch them right away?
It was a very good prime time soap opera, which of course is on the way out, but it takes time to build an audience for some complicated storylines and Fox gave this absolutely NO chance. Nothing else with the competition on Monday nights will do any better so they are wasting their time.
ReplyDeleteAll the best to James Wolk who will go on to bigger and better things.
This is terrible news. It's one of few new shows I had an interest in this season. Hopefully they'll at least post all of the episodes to Hulu or something.
ReplyDeleteLook, this isn't cable with 100 channels to cater to tiny niche markets or cult favorites; this is network TV where a handful of networks vie for tens of millions of viewers. They just can't hang on to low rated crap to keep a handful of people happy.
ReplyDeleteUnless they're NBC.