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Emily Owens - Cancelled
29 Nov 2012
Cancelled Shows
The network has opted not to pick up additional episodes from the series starring Mamie Gummer, which will wrap production on its 13-episod original order next week. The CW plans to air all produced episodes.
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A surprise to NO ONE.
ReplyDeleteOh well. It was expected. I really like Mamie Gummer and she picks up another series soon.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad but i expected it! Can CW please bring Justin Hartley now to Arrow? He had a lot of practice at Smallville being Green Arrow, so now he could be an ally of Stephen Amell ;) And btw i don't mind to see one more hottie there ;)
ReplyDeleteanother one bites the dust.
ReplyDeleteNikita might be the next to go for the CW since it's now thier lowest rated show.
ReplyDeletebring back the secret circle
ReplyDeletewhy can the CW not cancell a crapy shit show like 90210? seriously why?
ReplyDelete..como lo predije este show .yak,.yak
ReplyDeletei liked this show! it was on a network that's for a younger audience, such a shame :(
ReplyDeleteBecause its close to Syndication numbers. It will almost certainly get a shortened 5th season to reach 100 eps & will be cancelled. It seems to be the thing networks are doing now, either cancel shows after 1 season, sometimes 2, or after the 100 ep mark.
ReplyDeleteWont happen. Arrow wants to distance itself from Smallville. Bringing in the guy that was him on Smallville would be the LAST thing they would do.
ReplyDeleteNot really surprised but I'm just gutted. I really like this show and I hope it has a satisfying end.
ReplyDelete90210's ratings are better than Emily Owens this season
ReplyDelete90210 did well for them in previous years and well with CW's bad luck and poor choices with new shows 90210 has always had ratings high enough to keep it middle of the pack so it keeps getting renewed. Off course the syndication thing comes into play too. Emily Owens already so low this early in its life would never make it to syndication, the CW would just be wasting money on it.
ReplyDeleteunlikely, Nikita will at the very least last till the end of this season.
ReplyDeleteArrow's producers did say they want to have a Justin Hartley cameo on the show one day, but I guess they'll wait a while, until the show is a certified hit and establishes its own identity. Right now it's too early - like you said, they need to distance themselves from Smallville and make sure people know this is a different incarnation of the character.
ReplyDeleteWith Nikita being this close to syndication (if it gets a full fourth season, it reaches the desired 88 episodes), there's a good chance of it getting renewed. Otherwise, it's just thrown-out money for the network and studio. Its ratings are horrible, but not much worse than at the end of last year. If they were going to cancel it, they would have done it then.
ReplyDeleteAnd I REALLY don't see it being pulled before the end of the current season. They have no backup plans. They already have to put a repeat in their schedule to replace Emily Owens, if they do the same with Nikita they'll be a laughingstock. A network that programs 10 hours a week, and 2 of them are repeats.
Still can't believe they canceled Secret Circle to make room for this
ReplyDeleteIt's not that surprising now, is it.
ReplyDeleteThe CW seriously messed up by cancelling Secret Circle after its first season. Granted it was not a hit right off the bat like Vampire Diaries (which they were banking on happening) but it still managed to amass a loyal fanbase who fought for the show till the very end. It had the potential of becoming a show in the ranks of Charmed if it only had the time to grow, which by the end of the season it had despite a somewhat rocky start.
Other than Vampire Diaries, Supernatural and the only new hit of the season, Arrow, the other shows are not doing that great. Nikita is holding by a thread but I doubt they will cancel it just now. As for Secret Circle's replacement, Beauty and the Beast, a quick comparison of ratings with those of its predecessor shows that it's doing worse and the critics have dubbed it "lackluster" and "cliched".
As for the upcoming shows on the midseason lineup, Cult seems the most promising though nothing can be said for sure; after all, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
I only watch Vampire Diaries and Supernatural and I used to watch Secret Circle but none of this year's offerings are really my thing, not even Arrow since I'm into fantasy, horror or a mix of the two, not superheroes.
If only they could bring back Secret Circle. I don't know how they could do it but I just wish they would. Most of the cast is still doing guest stints on other shows, like Phoebe Tonkin on Vampire Diaries. I know they cited dropping ratings, cost of special effects among others as the reason for the cancellation but it had so much potential. If only I could cast a spell or something...
"Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring my desire." :/
Yes, I still have hopes!
ReplyDeleteYou mean shortened sixth season? Cause it's in season five now.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if the characters had cast more spells it would have done something. :) Come on, guys, it was a show about teenage witches who could only do magic in groups, but they were teenagers so the dramatic angst was set in direct opposition to the action of the show. It was a bad move from which the show never recovered. Crystals? What were they thinking. It was certainly never gonna turn into Charmed and the ratings weren't gonna get better.
ReplyDeleteNew shows will come and some will work and some will fail, but The Secret Circle is gone and no new show is competing against it, they have their own ratings/cost battle to win.
Not that they couldn't use the charisma, but unlikely...I'm kinda hoping for an HoD return though.
ReplyDeleteIt may have been a show about teenage witches but take away all the magic and stuff, it's typical teenage problems. Only along with normal problems, they had to take care of magical ones as well.
ReplyDeletePersonally I find teenage characters in shows such as Secret Circle the ones that we are able to most relate to. I'm not saying that we are all magical or anything but beneath all the magic they are still human - despite all the powers at their disposal, they still have to deal with "normal" problems which shows us that magic isn't really a solution to all our problems - and we can understand them, see the hard choices they have to make and the repercussions, both magical and non-magical, that ensues.
I found the crystal storyline a great way to work some of the novels' plotlines into that of the show. I'm not saying the show didn't have its flaws, but then neither did Charmed. I'm a fan of Charmed but sometimes the continuity errors and flaws can be jarring.
As for the ratings well, Nikita hasn't been doing that great or 90210 and yet these two were renewed, even Gossip Girl was renewed. I'm not saying the ratings for Secret Circle would have magically soared for the second season but they could have stayed steady. As it was, Secret Circle was one of the top 3 shows of the network last year despite its somewhat poor ratings.
And with the president of the CW talking about "TV online" and all the "new ways of connecting with the audience", Secret Circle would have been a hit, if not in terms of ratings, but with the large following it had in only one season.
Secret Circle may be gone but there are still fans out there who are holding on to the tiniest shred of hope that maybe, just maybe Secret Circle could come back.
The problem wasn't that they were teenagers having teen angst. The problem was that they were teenagers having typical teen angst in a show that for anything cool to happen they all had to get along and share the same goal. Since they never did, there wasn't any magic. They set up the "hook" or action of the show in direct opposition to the characterization.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's what the writers were going for. It was to show that despite being bound together, people do not necessarily share the same goal. Everyone has a distinct personality, a different way of thinking, a different perspective on things.
ReplyDeleteIt's like looking at a family. Despite being bound by blood, they won't all be the same, they won't all be striving for the same thing.
For the magic to happen, sometimes it is better to break the ties that bind, which is what the first season was all about: learning that despite unity being force, sometimes it is better for one to go one's own way, to learn things by oneself before committing to something.
The Circle members bound their Circle without knowing exactly what they were getting into. At first they only saw it as a way to rein all the power that they exuded but as they came to learn later on, it limited them individually and while some like Diana and Adam were okay with it, with being tethered, others, like Faye, weren't.
The "hook" of the show may be the Circle members acting as one but by making it in "direct opposition to the characterization" it served to bring forward the whole point of exercising free will and being restrained by being bound to others.
I don't pretend to know all about the show or what was really on the writers' mind but that's how I saw things. :)
I don't take issue with the drama, but the complete lack of action that resulted from it. The CW/WB thrives on pretty people doing interesting things, it requires that they do interesting things. I don't doubt that the writers had a point. But when they thought through their point about individuals or the collective or whatever, they didn't realize that it would result in pulling the rug out from under the audience who were expecting witches and only got whining. The hook wasn't the collective the hook was the magic.
ReplyDelete90210's 100th episode airs this coming Monday (December 3) so it's already past that.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Alex Forrest. I think Nikita will probably get another season so they'll reach syndication, plus I think the CW knows that pretty much any show they put on Fridays will get lackluster ratings, so why not keep something with an established fanbase. Plus I think Nikita is pretty popular in other countries.
ReplyDeleteI'm in shock... SHOCK I say!!! [/sarcasm]
ReplyDeleteCan Justin come back to HoD as Jesse now?
I'm so mad it was cancelled! I really liked that show. Mamie Gummer was really cute, and I liked all the characters. CW...I hate you.
ReplyDeleteNikita is their lowest rated show because it's on Fridays. I love the show So much but I never have time to watch it! I wish they would air it on another night.
ReplyDeletea shame that those who 'think' they 'know' audiences have no sense of good writing, good ensemble acting and excellent quality, exemplified in the shows they cancel. Soon there will be another US dvide: those who watch TV, in real time, and those who use 'tv monitors' to watch what they record, subscribe to, buy at Amazon or the like ...
ReplyDeletewith the rave reviews it's getting lately, I'm surprised it is getting cancelled. I, for one, enjoy it. I'm sick of the 90210 and Gossip Girl (both of which I loved originally). They jumped the shark years ago and should have been stopped earlier.
ReplyDeleteI wish it wasn't cancelled! One of my favorite shows!
ReplyDeleteCW. I HATE YOU. one of the most genius show ever and you cancelled it?
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