Tuesday, November 16, 2010

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Weeds a well-earned redemption.


Spoilers on the sixth season of Weeds.

The dramedy richer and more complex in today's television has just completed its sixth year, and as stated owner of the entry, what makes the best possible way, leaving behind the plot previous years and creating a new universe, the more insane if anything, to which we had seen. The fundamental change is, this time, redefining the character of Nancy, which for the first time we've seen doing an act of personal sacrifice, a selfless act, allowing his family to achieve an escape route.


During the course of the season we Nancy could see how commanding a flight to nowhere trying to get away from Stephen, Shane became a much more amoral than it seemed at first, and Silas was drawn as the true conscience of the family with an uncle andy that still madly in love with his sister and would do literally anything for her.

Weeds ask you to impress us every season, and it does. Nancy The wild fight with one of the hotel cleaners, the rampant sex and graphic with a Mark-Paul Gosselaar reached, taught and ran away, the discovery of the biological father of Shane or punch in the Nancy Esteban car in the season finale get, naive of me at least, surprised as any other series gets, and the ability of Weeds of fun with more black humor and sink into abject poverty in only two scenes is something trying many series, but that is only achieved.

We debated, especially Nahum and I, about the moral values \u200b\u200bthat makes or has made the series along its route, and undoubtedly the last episode of this season is the most heartbreaking thing I remember, keeping the heart into a fist and showing a completely vulnerable Nancy, no options and decided to make the sacrifice in uppercase. And is that the engine remains Series Mary-Louise Parker, great in Red , since none of his fellow actors can overshadow him, his charisma is undeniable.


The next season is expected as Finally, after the cliffhanger that we have come a Jenji Kohan with cameo included, it appears that the redemption of Nancy has not done more than start.

Monday, November 15, 2010

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A year ago, we opened the way to the vagary and a small string to string studio productions commented that they were in a difficult situation, either because of low audience figures, longevity or wear concern the future of the episodes. We are in a prime time of the season, the first sweep, and the ratings that are marked in this period can be definitive, especially for newly released series. How is the picture?

NBC


has many fronts, at least in terms of series, which is what we'll try. Outlaw Undercovers and have already been wiped out and Chase is in a very complicated situation to no greater than 5 million followers, NBC has given full season but it was not surprising that the order was cut.

Chuck, Community and Parenthood are three old acquaintances and find week after week on the tightrope, all have a disastrous ratings around 5 million followers, but they saved their demographic, which will not that inevitably some of them say their final farewell in May.

The Event merely erode viewers and even with full season, if that trend continues, you may not see complete your order. Outsourced is squandering its lead-in and criticism has been anything but favorable, so it is unlikely to renew for a second season.

ABC


After canceling My Generation and The Whole Truth is Better With You which is in the most compromised, the sitcom has been steadily losing viewers during its first five innings, becoming the weakest link in Wednesday's ABC, though surprisingly managed to increase its data for the first time in the last two chapters cast, has orders for the next 22 episodes but its future is uncertain, as the Cougar Town, while maintaining a higher mean it Better With You lose a lot of viewers who are Modern Family.

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getting a mediocre book is hovering around 8 million 1-8-7 Detroit, whose season will consist of only 18 episodes. Brothers & Sisters if you have a good core of fans, but the high cost and erosion are beginning to regret for an ABC can not give a new season.

CBS



The Defenders is the biggest oil does, and that their data do nothing down and in its last issue have managed to accumulate only 8.4 million, which will insure a kill more than likely. Which is already virtually canceled is Medium, with an order of 13 episodes. For CBS-solid network these are the only two moderate problems that do not record, but The Good Wife is making terrible demographic data, as well as CSI: NY and Blue Bloods. The most logical thing is that this is the last season the youngest of the CSI, but CBS will need more holes for the releases of next year and the purest sign of weakness or profitability of any series can be lethal.

FOX


The Dollhouse of the season is The Good Guys, which did not reach the three million be beheaded soon as Running Wilde, which marks a dismal data, and this time not because of the mane of Keri, rather viewers and critics.

Fringe Lie To Me and are in a difficult situation, both make very similar data but it seems that Lie To Me has less support than Fringe by the chain. Human Target opens this week and everything looks quite black, see what happens.

CW


UneXpected Life has not received order for more episodes so it's definitely offside and it worked much worse than Melrose Place last year, otherwise the stability within the very poor levels of network, it is clear, Nikita and Hellcats are working well, and are 90210 and, above all, One Tree Hill that have the lowest ratings. Taking into account the profile of CW and Smallville completion next year, CW may cancel only one of its series if the parts of Life UneXpected work, and seniority is One Tree Hill which has all the papers to say goodbye .

This year the different networks have been quick ask for completed orders for most of the series, because there has been excessive bump, but data from many of these "rookies" are not supported to be renewed beyond a first season, and this year more than ever We could not see how any new venture has been a massive hit Modern Family as it was last year.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

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FX productions that redefined their respective genres.


some time ago TV.com launched an interesting article on this curious subject, and is that for a few seasons, mainly since the start of the wonderful The Shield, FX is becoming a major market benchmark, risking very much with each new production launches. FX is not a premium cable station, as advertising revenue and ratings are their daily bread, and although have not become slaves to the numbers as the decentralized SyFy, leak itself interesting products that provide nominations as Damages, or are genuinely different as Terriers, which is recessed from the zero point.

The premise of giving birth when the FX series is simple, there must be something that is not being seen on television, that is, adopt a basic gender and twist it so it look new, and that television is becoming more and more complicated.
The Shield (2002-2008) that redefines Gender: Police Series.


The greatest success to date of FX shows us the corruption in the police, sometimes in a very cruel, sometimes in human form, demonstrated for 7 seasons that the law is not always the same side for all and it seems incorruptible a priori can be a double edged sword. In 2004 with Rescue Me and 2010 with the aforementioned Terriers turn to shake the foundations of the station's favorite genre.

Nip / Tuck (2003-2010) redefined Genre: Medical Series.



maudlin plots aside, hospice and personal exceedances, Nip / Tuck ambitious presents two plastic surgeons who have no qualms at being sexually involved with patients or skirt the limits of the law when necessary. Its eruption in 2003 shocked friends and strangers, and although their quality declined drastically at the end of their journey was once one of the more risky projects to be issued on basic cable.

On It's Always Sunny Philadelphia. (2005 -?) redefined Gender: Sitcom.


With a pilot they say took $ 200, the sitcom for excellence and most successful of the station has become a hit disproportionate among the target audience for FX, but is that also to be broadcast on cable, has been able to develop taboo topics that are unthinkable in any open network in which only may become implied, Always Sunny goes a step further and reinvents himself as in his day was 30 Rock on NBC how to eat a sitcom.

Damages (2007-2010, 2010 -?) redefined Genre: Drama Legal.


series about lawyers usually take place mostly in the courtroom, but not Damages, one of the best current television series that focuses on the ins and outs with a different seasonal and goings their characters, with fragmented and told a story and casting millimeter would leave with their mouths open to any producer, FX canceled by its low profitability, but DirecTV has saved from burning.

Sons Of Anarchy (2008 -?) redefined Genre: Family Drama .


as it did in 2007 with The Richies, Sons Of Anarchy has the classic form of dysfunctional family dramas, in a Shakespearian tells family problems like no other series had done to date, and it is the current jewel in the crown of his station. Public criticism and had not been made thus never agree.

Archer (2009 -?) redefined Genre: Adult Animation .


One of the most funny and poignant today, Archer has a sense of humor as twisted and dwarfs to gambling allegedly mature Adult Swim, his reception was more subtle but critical reaction more than satisfactory.

Justified (2010 -?) redefined Genre: Western


The last great success of the channel is not set in the nineteenth century but at present, though the rules of behavior have not changed all that much, yes, the ghosts of our society are very much present, although not enough, Justified is a perfect crossroads between traditional values \u200b\u200band cutting edge .

FX now faces a complicated situation, viewers basic cable are not the same as the premium cable, and never have been, risk is more complicated and time of excessive fragmentation, where now, not even the cable, seems immune from cancellations and schedule to dance what we have used the network.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

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Charmed: Behind The Scenes (II).


At the beginning of the 2002-2003 season, TheWB seemed to introduce a new style in your grill with series focused on a family audience, away from the scheme so far we had used, while maintaining its signature series. From that time until his death in the season 2005-2006, WB will fail as major releases in a hurry and are just a few are chosen to survive more than one season.

Season 5.


WB decided to change the date of issuance of his schedule Thursday to death Sunday at the 20:00 where no production records had managed to achieve optimal, and jumped all alarms, thinking it was the expected motion to leave the series die in his day was done with Buffy and his fifth season, but nothing is further from the Actually, Charmed improved over 80% rating the chain had been making last year, up 92% in the demographic data.

serialized arc After the fourth-season asked Brad Kern to soften the plots and to return to the scheme "monster of the week" that had worked so well in the first few seasons and would allow the people adapt to time and to get caught if he had lost the odd episode. In January 2003 the figure reached the hundred chapters with a bittersweet, Julian McMahon had decided to leave the series and embark on a new project called Nip / Tuck, producers were afraid to see another major pillar of the series left the ship, but soon signed him to an unknown Eric Dane as love interest for Phoebe, a relationship that would become reality behind the cameras.

Charmed managed to increase the overall ratings compared to last season, something not usually seen in such series, and half got 4.5 million remedy TheWB hole that cost him five years effort.

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The hearings went, but viewers complained angrily about the direction of the frames in the fifth season and decided to turn the scheme, self-conclusive episodes with dramatic arches balanced the scales and the series did not dense, more afraid of the network.

Julian Mcmahon The hole was supplied by the actor Drew Fuller, who joined to be regular throughout the season, while Alyssa was on the crest of stardom after breaking her relationship with Eric Dane and romantically linked to Justin Timberlake. Gossips say that such was his power in the series, after breaking with the actor from Grey's Anatomy this was fulminant fired, and the truth is that his character abruptly left the series and was never heard from again.

4.3 million fans on average were still fully compatible with a WB that was beginning to suffer in the ratings and lost its position against UPN.

Season 7.


This season the producers were looking for more audience hooked to the series and decided to spend more money on well-known guest stars that appeal to the audience, the first move was the signing of Nick Lachey , which was on the show for 6 episodes and was a complete fiasco being a mere partner for Alyssa Milano. Later incorporated Kerr Smith and Billy Zane famous for a three-episode arc ending with the conclusion of episode 150 and the back by a day of Julian McMahon as Cole.

By that point the persistent rumors about the cancellation did not fail to be heard, and the feast of celebration for episode 150, Brad Kern took care to clarify that he had asked for an explanation but since Warner had been deaf, so they hastily decided to create a hybrid of season and series finale for the last episode in case TheWB its renewal was not valid.

It was expected and feared the worst, the pressure from fans and the team had issued days before the last chapter for the confirmation of renewal for the eighth season with several conditions and a drastic reduction in pay for a series that cost him dearly as a small network was TheWB. And is that the data did not help, since Charmed suffered the most erosion, passing 3.5 million fans on average, but the influence of Spelling and 7th Heaven star products on the grid were also feat.

Season 8.


smelled final, actresses and the team ended the contract and after eight years playing the same characters seemed time to end the frame, but Brad Kern insisted that he had to hurry, he wrote the first part of the season as if it were a normal and if not received any signal from the network would put all eggs in one basket in the second half give a deserved end to the series.

The trend continued last season, and signed for six episodes Jason Lewis for Phoebe's love interest, also had players recognized as Ivan Sergei and Victor Webster , which appeared to remain in the final stretch of episodes, but the signing was the most notorious of the time semidesconocida by Kaley Cuoco . Brad Kern always admitted that the orders signed by the chain so that your character will have his own series, and is already in the previous season Showrunner instructed the pilot Mermaid, a spin off created in the first chapter of the fifth season that did not work, but despite that, it seemed that the chain wanted to continue with the brand Charmed.

big changes were coming, the network had decided to end 7Th Heaven with all its pain, as after ten seasons we were unassumable their production costs, plus news broke of the merger between Warner chain and UPN, combined with poor health status of an elder Spelling and neglect of the canal, remained silent about the renovation, had all decided to finish in style whatever happened. So the last ten episodes served as epilogue to the series, and finally decided to advertise TheWB the end of the series with a countdown from Chapter 17 of the season.

It is also the fiscal adjustment was so strong that it forced to restructure work around the campus, had to fire a historical production, Dorian Gregory, who had been regular for 7 seasons, Brian Krause was only contracted for 12 episodes, not the 22 regular and executive producer, showrunner himself and much of the team members decided to voluntarily reduce their salary to the quality of the series not to find bitter.

Finally May 21, 2006 Charmed drew to a close with 4.5 million followers in the last episode and an average of over 3.6 million during his last season, getting also the title of the longest running television production with female leads and being the last survivor of his class, and the second longest running series in the short life of TheWB.


Charmed was a huge success for your station during his eight-year run, garnered a huge amount of money in international sales which surpassed the success in his native country, like Spain, where he was the most-watched foreign series during the 2001-2002 season and earned him the highest profits in its history by selling syndication rights, which led, among other things, the renewal in moments where everything seemed to believe he was about to end.

The mixture of different genres, the judicious choice of cast, unnecessary controversy and a multitude of ups and downs in front and behind the scenes make the story of Charmed one of the most complex of the history of TV.