Well crap...
What's this thread and why should I care?
This thread is home to ratings, cancellation news, news about pilots/shows being developed, and general industry news.
Recap:
Last season brought us the launches of every streaming service up the wazoo, Baby Yodas, Modern Families Wrapped Up, Good Places were Placed, and we bidded adieu to Schitt's Creek...
AND THEN HELL HAPPENED.
THE PANDEMIC AND ITS EFFECT ON TV.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit TV HARD. And everything was paused until recently, shows are given the go ahead to film now albeit constant testing and isolation while they film, crowd shots are likely a rarity for awhile and older cast members and immune comprised staff are given to choice to sit things out. Because of this, the TV season is in a weird spot as some shows that were filmed for the midseason got saved to the fall, other fall shows got delayed are filming later to early 2021 and reality TV has suddenly come back with some caveats. TV Movies like Lifetime and Hallmark are already running low budgets and low staff anyways so people like DrForester are still doomed to watch them and of course, the loopholes...expect a lot of these for the next few months.
That or people talking to a TV or live sports where half of the stands are green screened videocams, no people, some people or cardboard cutouts like that one episode of Power Rangers.
Oh right...the OTHER THING.
ALL (TV) COPS ARE CANCELLED
After the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks and other black people by cops over the summer, protests over police violence grew and that spilled into people wanting police shows canned or stop being as one sided (*cough* Blue Bloods *cough*). As a result, COPS and Live PD (which it's reckoning was coming anyways) were canned by their networks and people wanting Cop-aganda shows such as EVERYTHING PRODUCED BY DICK WOLF, Blue Bloods and other shows to refocus or at least stop being such power fantasies. Even one of the staff from the upcoming Law and Order spinoff was fired after he threatened on Twitter that he would fight against protesters. With the pandemic already putting shows to a halt, some shows are still in a rut such as Brooklyn Nine Nine which had to reboot its plans for their upcoming season. It also spilled back to sports with sports leagues taking a knee and posting Black Lives Matter messaging all over. Expect to see this also be a lingering thread as shows restart filming.
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STREAMING WARS
Oh dammit this thing as well...
So yeah, last year, ATT completed their takeover of Warner Media and launched HBO Max (at the cost of HBO GO or was it NOW?), Universal launch their service Peacock as well, Disney was the first though launching Disney+ and before those, we have
Look up online for streaming plans because ERA is an INTERNATIONAL SITE and content and pricing differing in each country.
(Also we have Pluto, Britbox, Tubi, Crackle, Epix, IMDB TV...WHY ARE THERE SO MANY OF THESE!)
TV CANCELLATIONS
Ratings resources:
Showbuzzdaily, because TV by the numbers is the worst
SPECIAL THANKS TO...
berzeli being the Godfather
G_Shumi for the daily ratings
Disney + OT
Peacock OT
HBO MAX OT
Want to discuss the show you're currently watching, or check out recent trailers take a look at the TV threads:
UGH...
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