Shows Learn Their Fate As Strike Ends, Cancellations Begin

Variety:

As showrunners flip on the lights and scribes once again occupy long-abandoned writers' rooms, network and studio execs are still figuring out what lives, what dies -- and when it all comes back.

ABC got the ball rolling Monday, renewing nine series for fall in a post-strike pickup binge.

The renewals were essentially no-brainers, encompassing some of the Alphabet web's top-rated scripted performers. Frosh series scoring orders include "Dirty Sexy Money," "Private Practice," "Pushing Daisies" and "Samantha Who?" All four have received 13-episode pickups, as is standard practice among frosh skeins.

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Comments

[NicoleAnonymous]

04:27 PM on 02/12/2008

If they cancel FNL while these horrible reality TV continue then I will so angry.

[protagonia]

12:54 PM on 02/14/2008

I hope they take the cage-fighting bullshit off Sci-Fi as well.

It's making us into sub-humans. We're devolving from this trash.

We've forgotten how to be embarrassed by it.

[hummpf]

03:44 PM on 02/12/2008

I think FNL is terrific too, not always the greatest acting, or best improvising, but so well-filmed and with so many great characters. I look forward to it every week, but then I'm a middle-aged woman and I think we're it's best audience; it is a bit of a soap-opera. The problem, I think, is that its characters and setting probably aren't a good fit for the fantasies a younger audience might have, and the soap format and youthful characters aren't conducive to building an older male audience. I'm sure it has viewers in all audiences, but obviously there aren't very many of any.

[SmootyBooty]

01:34 PM on 02/12/2008

NBC only has one real show-FNL. If it goes so do I. What idiots are watching a bad remake of a superb UK show and a hirsute scientologist?
Only Tracy Morgan and Tina Fey are worth anything...

[aznurse]

12:10 PM on 02/12/2008

Friday Night Lights is one of the best shows on NBC. Please don't cancel it.

[kellygrrrl]

10:10 AM on 02/12/2008

I cannot believe Friday Night Lights isn't getting ratings.

I am no football fan, and I'm no Texas gal, but I love that show. I think the problem is the real audience that watches this show is neither football or Texas folk. Some of the best young actors I've seen in a long time.

[EinChicago]

02:48 PM on 02/12/2008

Wow. So you are the three people suffering through the uinsufferable friday night Lights.

[wm1066]

01:13 PM on 02/14/2008

The shaky camera work bothered me. I wanted to like it because I liked Kyle but the camera movements got in the way for me.