The New Fall Show Death Pool contest is over – with a very surprising “winner”. I don’t mean surprising because it was dropped – just that it was dropped first.
ABC announced today that they are dropping the new fall series “Big Shots”. What’s truly amazing is that the show still have 3 brand new episodes that ABC will not be airing. With the writer’s strike in full swing, and original scripted programming being a rare thing in the coming weeks and months, you would think that they’d go ahead and run the 3 remaining episodes of the series.
Instead, however, ABC will be running reruns of Private Practice.
Wow. This show must have been really bad.
The show, for those of you that missed it (which I assume is pretty much all of you) was about 4 CEOs (Michael Vartan, Christopher Titus, Joshua Malina and Dylan McDermott) with “issues”. I’m amazed that the American public didn’t embrace this one. I mean, COME ON – what’s easier to relate to than being a rich and powerful head of a corporation…but with “problems”?
Anyway – you can stick a fork in this baby…it’s done.
4 Responses to: ABC “drops” Big Shots
Chandra
December 12th, 2007 at 11:13 am
“Big Shots” wasn’t canceled. It was placed on indefinite hiatus. That means it joins the ABC sitcoms “Cavemen” and “Carpoolers,” both of which were also pulled with fresh episodes left but not canceled. Your Death Pool isn’t over just yet, unless something has happened since this news broke yesterday.
Michael
December 12th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
They’re refusing to even air the last 3 episodes of this thing. It’s over.
Chandra
December 12th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
That’s not the issue. A show is canceled when the network officially says it is. TV Jab is the only television blog I’m aware of that’s reporting the news about “Big Shots” and “Journeyman” inaccurately. The correct description for the first series is “on indefinite hiatus” and for the second series “option not picked up.”
Obvious correlations aside, neither reality equals canceled *until the network says so officially.* Discrepancies like this in blog posts is one reason why serious TV bloggers don’t get as much respect as deserved. Consider me unsubscribed from the TV Jab feed since I obviously can’t trust what’s written here to be accurate.
Michael
December 12th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
I have changed the word “cancelled” to “dropped”, I hope that makes things more accurate.
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