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WB Cancels Angel
Ray Radlein writes "Despite a 36% increase over last year's comparable ratings, the WB Network announced today that they are cancelling Angel as of the end of this season." Unfortunate since this season was stronger than the last. " The link also makes taunting mentions of movie plans.
Damn sad to see another great show go away. In case you don't know about it Angel Season 6 Petition
There is NO WAY that Angel had higher ratings than West Wing...
They must be talking about increase in viewership, which would be hard to beat if you went up 36% from one season to the next.
On this weekly list, West Wing was 51st and Angel was 87th....
On this season so far list, West Wing was 29th and Angel was 129th... Gee... I wonder why it was cancelled... hmmm... Let's look at the shows above it...
Tru Calling (huh?)
Skin (cancelled)
Miss Match (yikes)
Brotherhood of Poland, NH
Tracy Morgan Show
The Handler (cancelled)
Celebrity Mole Yucatan
Pretty pathetic...
---- It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. It does this whenever it's told.
Pfft, we already won.
Albeit the show remains cancelled, all the Farscape fans really wanted was a proper ending.
And we got it, a 4 - 5 episode Mini Series coming Fall 2004 to finish out the show.
..There's a-dooin's a-transpirin'
Oops... didn't get the url right for the Season So Far ratings...
---- It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. It does this whenever it's told.
Futurama and Family Guy are both on Cartoon Network now, warm and snuggly in their Adult Swim womb. They play every weekday, starting at 11 pm, then again at 2 am.
I find most everything on TV unwatchable these days, but Adult Swim is my safe harbor of not-crap.
Except Inuyasha, which sucks, and should die.
Here is a link to the full comment by Joss. It's the one in red.
***Quis custodiet ipsos custodes***
Time to sign the petition.
:)
A show on Spike and Willow would be nice though.
cheers,
pol
European Linux user, living in Antwerp
Actually, that's the way its been since the first season of Buffy. The overall season always has a general plot. But there are always at least a handful of stand-alone episodes that don't fundamentally push that plot forward, or only give it a minute or two to remind you that there are still unresolved issues hanging over everyone's heads.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
You should check it out. Both the mini-series and the actual series (it's still playing on a few sci-fi stations, eg. Space here in Canada).
Farscape was one of the most inventive, colourful and well-produced shows in recent memory.
Speaking as a long-time fan, its main draw-back was that the storyline was often too complex for most people to simply watch a random episode and understand everything (which is why it had troubles finding new fans in the second season). However, if you took the time to actually watched three or four episodes in a row, the story was immensly involving (ie, it drew you in and glued your eyes to the screen week after week).
If you'd like more information about Farscape, be sure to check out the SaveFarscape website. (Yes, believe it or not, hundreds of thousands of fans can actually make a difference to tv-executives...)
I think it's quite a stretch to imply Angel never shook up the status quo. After all, they did just that at the end of Season 4.
I'm already embarassingly overinvolved in this thread, but what the hell. Spoilers blah blah blah.
When we left Spike 'neath the Hellmouth, he was going all pillar-of-fire. As it turns out, his whaddayacallit (I was going to say "essence," but that gives an illusion of concreteness that really isn't there) was trapped in the medallion he was wearing. Somehow, the medallion (owned by evil law firm Wolfram and Hart) was mailed back to Angel. Angel, for his part, has just been given the position of CEO of Wolfram and Hart (read: Hell, Incorporated).
Angel opens the package, and Spike materializes. Sort of. He's not precisely corporeal, and he's attached to Wolfram and Hart's main offices somehow, so he can't leave.
He narrowly escapes being sucked into Hell, and then another package arrives. When it's opened, Spike gets his body back. This triggers some sort of clause in the Prophecy (which up until now we've assumed means that Angel will someday become human) because now there are two vampires with souls, and both of them are champions. Somehow, this fact is dragging the world towards some sort of apocalypse.
It's been kind of fun to watch the show explore the rivalry between Angel and Spike. Tuning in wouldn't be too bad an idea.
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You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
UPN willingly bought the show for that much, especially since I believe the agreement kept Sarah on the show with a payraise (all the flash of her wanting to stay on was just to make her look good since there was a lot of uproar at the time. She showed her love in season seven, when she said she's done, alledgedly without telling everyone else). I think the total came to $105 million for the two year contract.
Buffy was pretty much done by that time. You could tell how tired that were.
I think they should do a show on the new Watcher's Council. After the episode on Angel with Andrew coming back, I'm curious as to how they're handling all the new slayers.
he's a bit chubby now.
No, she was "a bit chubby" when she was pregnant, but she was on Angel a couple weeks ago and she looks fit and trim now.
You can't take the sky from me...
....she's married already.
:P
And the guy is Alexis Denisof, one of the cast members from Angel. So I imagine they'll have plenty of time together now
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
Farscape is definately filming new material - I have a friend in Sydney who has had several days work as an extra on set in the last few weeks.
cheers
Sara
a Geek Downunder
canceled after 11 shows.
If you buy the DVD set (see sig), you get three that weren't even aired. The saddest part is that they're just as excellent as the rest of the series.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
Another problem with the cancelation is that another FINE HDTV show is gone. Reality shows dont broadcast in HDTV and Angel takes total advantage of the aspect ratio and the high quality picture. Right now only CSI, Alias and Smallville can even hold a candle to Angel in HDTV quality.