Re: Day Break - ongoing thread (merged)
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Originally Posted by NeilO
Except that the viewing figures for Kidnapped, Vanished and DayBreak are a symptom of all of this. Kidnapped, at least, got great reviews, but there was still a resistance to the fear of being abandoned by the network.
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And yet, people dove into
Lost in droves and made
Heroes a huge hit. While I don't think that "fear of cancellation" is something that can be completely dismissed, I think it's something that is likely to be overrepresented on message boards, just because of the self-selecting nature of the forum - fans of serials and people who follow the business end of entertainment are more likely to complain about such things than the public at large.
Kidnapped,
Vanished, and
Day Break all tanked, but they were all pretty flawed shows -
Vanished was often over-the-top ridiculous,
Day Break seems to spin its wheels by its very nature, and
Kidnapped was sort of boring. It's not that their numbers started low and stayed there, but the decreased week-to-week, meaning people were tuning out. I sort of suspect that if "network distrust" was the issue, they wouldn't have had even relatively strong starts.
As to ABC not following through with putting them on the web - eh, I don't know how big a deal that really is. You'd think most people who paid attention to press releases would have learned by now that they represent current plans, not ironclad commitments.
