[B5JMS] TNT Still Fiddles ...

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From: Lisa Coulter<lisa_coulter at my-deja.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:35:52 GMT
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In article <3B314B8F.74119632 at best.com>, Alyson L. Abramowitz says...
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>SSmith1701 wrote:
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>>      TNT still can't seem to work up the guts to actually air a series without
>> cancelling it first:
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>>      http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Search-X!ArticleDeta
>> il-36078,00.html?search_area=Blended&channel=Search&search_text=TNT
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>Actually, I don't think TNT is feeling much pain this week. Their new
>series, "Witchblade," averaged a 2.7 rating during its 9-10 p.m. ET/PT
>time slot premiere. That's 60% higher than TNT's 1.7 year-to-date
>primetime average. It's second week only dropped about 14%. Even the
>demos went fairly evenly across the board. That's good numbers.
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>By comparison, B5 Season 5 and Crusade premiered at 1.5 total US.
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>It's not that unusual for all networks to cancel shows they've ordered
>before putting them on the air. It's just that you don't necessarily
>hear about them. This is really no different than the company that kills
>a product that's been in development before it gets to market. It
>happens all the time. TNT is acting in a pretty standard way by killing
>things it doesn't think will succeed. Whether they did it in a
>EP-friendly manner, I can't comment on. 
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Makes sense.  I can remember many times seeing pilots for series not on a
network's fall schedule presented as movies.  Generally then one hears nothing
more of them.


Lisa Coulter

>Best,
>Alyson
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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 22 Jun 2001 08:25:57 GMT
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>>It's not that unusual for all networks to cancel shows they've ordered
>>before putting them on the air. It's just that you don't necessarily
>>hear about them. This is really no different than the company that kills
>>a product that's been in development before it gets to market. It
>>happens all the time. TNT is acting in a pretty standard way by killing
>>things it doesn't think will succeed. 

If it were standard behavior, I don't think the LA Times, which has been
covering the entertainment industry since there's BEEN one here, would have
dedicated an entire page of coverage to the story....

 jms

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