Comments on: NBC’s Day One Looks Like Cloverfield Meets Lost Meets Cheese

By: Goondried

Goondried — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:04:40 +0000

Does anyone else see the irony in commenters praising HBO’s ability to take chances and give series a chance and then in the next post an immediate PASS after seeing a clearly unfinished 2 minutes of trailer??

I’ll see where it goes.

By: Gurnie B

Gurnie B — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:44:36 +0000

Soo . . . what happens after the first 24 hours? It seems like if they wanted a long-running show they would have picked a title that won’t be so quickly obsolete. That, and better actors . . . and plot . . . and dialogue. Maybe we’ll get lucky and this pile won’t make it past “Week One”.

By: Maopheus

Maopheus — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:34:00 +0000

Rusty is dead on. The major flaw with the networks is their impatience with the ratings on new shows and also the desire to only go with shows that have the ability to make it 100 episodes for syndication. Now I don’t know how important that is nowadays with full season DVD’s and downloadable episodes and whatnot but I still think the revenues from that are a lot less than what a good series can get from syndication. Regardless, as long as network TV relies on commercial advertising as it’s main source of revenue, it will continue to hamstring any show that’s intelligent, edgy, or requires a long attention span.

By: Raph

Raph — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:26:19 +0000

Trying to be the new Lost, just after Lost has ended?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:03:02 +0000

I liked Jericho. This looks awful though.

By: Rusty James

Rusty James — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:42:09 +0000

One advantage that HBO has over network is that they’re not beholden to ratings like everyone else. If you’re subscribed to the channel you’re paying for the show whether you watch it or not.
So they can afford to give second chances to unpopular fair like Deadwood and Carnival.

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:03:18 +0000

Oh, now I remember what cheesy dialogue sounds like. But I like it. I hope the Chinese guy gets a love interest.

By: oddlots

oddlots — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:46:38 +0000

From the fired producer of Heroes comes this singularly forgetable new drama. pass.

By: BigHungry

BigHungry — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:31:31 +0000

To RE-quote the ending of the trailer.
â€œTogether we will forget this.â€

By: BigHungry

BigHungry — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:29:50 +0000

To we quote the ending of the trailer.
“Together we will forget this.”

By: the man

the man — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:04:33 +0000

Bad acting…. maybe dvd.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:53:13 +0000

I will watch it for George Mason.