By LillyKatPTR Senior Staff Writer
'kay ... I just got done singing the praises of this week's Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles ep, and now I'm hearing that the show's disappointing ratings are putting it at risk of being one of the first casualties of this television season?
WTF?
Seriously?
I confess I don't analyze, dwell, obsess, compulse, freak out and/or track ratings of every show I watch ('cause Neilsen ratings seem like Algebra in disguise to me, and I really wasn't one for Algebra).Nonetheless, I'm a little dumbfounded and/or stunned and/or whatever to hear various reports in the television blogosphere (like, this one at Wired, or this one at SyFyPortal, or this one at io9) already calling for a Save Sarah Connor Chronicles Campaign. Worse, Mr. Scoop-in-the-Know, EW.com's Michael Ausiello, is reporting the ratings are "Armageddon-like" and/or FOX could pull the plug and not order any additional episodes past the 13 already in the can.
Cripes.
Can we not try to move it AWAY from competing against Monday Night Football? Or put it back at 9:00 p.m. like it was LAST season, whereby Prison Break was the lead-in?
Or if people really aren't digging the whole slower, less action, more character development vibe, then go back to blowing up anything and everything and/or re-tool this GENIUS show before we send it off to the 2008 Television Graveyard.
PLEASE?!?!?!?!
If you're not watching, now would be an excellent time to start.
It needs you.
EDITED TO ADD: In my passion in wanting to get the word out to our readers about this crime, er, story ... we need to clarify that there isn't an official Save T:SCC Campaign initiated as yet by any one blogger and/or fandom (like Jericho). Some, not all, of the reports have made their own suggestions on how the show could be saved. But if those suggestions don't work, or FOX doesn't help it out by moving it away from the Monday 8 p.m.
A reminder that new episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles air Mondays at 8 p.m. on FOX. You can also watch full episodes online. Visit the Official Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Web site to catch up (or re-watch!)
4 comments:
Hey, Pass the Remote! As always, great stuff!
I just wanted to point out that SyFy Portal hasn't mentioned anything about a "Save Sarah Connor" campaign, as we are very particular about what fan campaigns we affiliate with or report about. We haven't heard anything about a campaign to save this show yet, but I'm with you ... the scheduling for this show is HORRENDOUS. Move it to a new night please!
Michael Hinman
www.SyFyPortal.com
This is one of the best shows on TV and it is danger of cancelation?!?!
Being on Fox is always dangerous. They have no patience with developing shows.
I hope it makes it. And if it doesn't get Summer Glau a new show right now.
Thanks, Michael, for the clarification! As I was reading the various stories (and being completely dumbfounded by them), it seems as if there is this pseudo how - can - the - show - be - saved kind of vibe out there. But you are right in that there is no official campaign (a la 'Jericho'). If there were, we here at PTR would definitely join in! My apologies for any confusion as it pertains to SyFyPortal. Thanks for the scoop!
What can I say, I'm fired up on this one.
Save T:SCC!
The Neilsen Ratings are not like Algebra but are Statistics 101 (which is much harder than Algebra). All it is is a glorified poll, much like you see with the presidential elections the differences is that Neilsen is much shadier as you notice whenever you see their ratings they don't bother to release the margin of error and they like you to believe the number the release is the exact number but the actual number is most likely a million more or less (depending on what exactly their margin of error is), and that is only assuming that Neilsen is getting a correct sample pool. Certainly with all this technology, the networks could come up with a better why computing how man people are watching these shows.
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