Nathan Gervais

AICN is reporting that after 6 aired episodes Miracles has been given the axe by ABC. Pity, as it was an excellent show that started out strong and was building an interesting backstory. I just don't understand how networks expect a show to find an audience when they make it almost impossible for people to find the show. Can't watch something that is always being pushed aside for something else. Oh well. First Firefly, then Farscape and now Miracles.

dgmayor

#$%#$%#$%#$%@!#$%

zak52

Well this really bites. But it was expected.

Kal-El

Screw ABC.

Chew

Futon Critic is reporting this as well. It was good while it lasted, I guess.

So much for the Monday block, first Veritas, now Miracles.

das Monkey

That Monday block was so destined for failure, it's amazing the idiot who proposed it wasn't fired. TV execs ... gotta love 'em. They probably promoted the guy.

Sad too, as I was starting to enjoy the show

das

MrX

At least after they cancel Alias after next season, you know it's going to happen, I won't have to bother with this network again.

fujishig

Curious... when's the last time Miracles was actually on? This past monday? Why didn't they cancel it before the preempted it for a month straight...

Is the Practice still performing horribly in their "new" timeslot? Isn't Dragnet suffering on Sundays as well? They need to move the Practice back...

DVDTalker002

Are they going to show the rest of the season? This is my favorite show on tv at the moment behind crank yankers. This show is just so creative and freaky. Why do stations allways cancell the cool horror shows? Remember the nightmare cafe that one was awsome to and they cancelled it.
I hope this show gets shown on a different channel because the story is very intregining and I want to learn what everything is tieing up to.

nny

This was a cool show, but I knew from the moment I heard about it that it was going to get cancelled. I never really loved it, so it's almost a good thing it's cancelled since Greenwalt is going back to Angel. Of course, if Angel gets cancelled then I'll probably be a little more mad that Miracles was cancelled too.

Also, there's hardly any way I could hate ABC any more than I already do. They cancelled arguably the best comedy ever, Police Squad, and arguably the best drama ever, My So-Called Life. I'll never forgive them for either of those.

chowderhead

This was not unexpected but sad nevertheless. It was a great show with a solid cast and original, intelligent adult storylines. The ratings were bad for the show and it consistently lost to the CSI clone and crossing jordan ... two other detective dramas.
I think a skilled monkey could have scheduled and treated this show better than the net execs at the alphabet channel. too bad, now I only watch MNF and maybe the Mole (non-celebrity edition) on ABC. sigh.

ChrisHicks

A good show on a bad network. Maybe Sci-Fi will get the reruns of this.

Rogue588

Hammer would get the reruns for "Good Morning, Miami" before she even looks at this..

Never watched this show..I sorta had the feeling it'd be cancelled so I never bothered. I'm getting tired of getting attached to shows that disappear in favour of reality shows thanks to the monkeys running the nets..

Makes me long for the Tartikoff days of television..

adamblast

Yeah, but it made for *such* nice back-to-back beefcake pictures with Ryan, Dylan and Skeet...

Buck Turgidson

Agreed, in all particulars. It's almost quaint to remember when networks were run by people w/ guts and imagination.

I watched this show and savored every minute of it, because I knew it was a goner from day 1. After Prey, Gideon's Crossing and Philly, I know what I'm going to get w/ ABC.

The finger.

das Monkey

• Quoth adamblast •<HR SIZE=1>Yeah, but it made for *such* nice back-to-back beefcake pictures with Ryan, Dylan and Skeet... <HR SIZE=1>

Not a bad babe quotient either for those of us who swing the other way.

das

Rogue588

Quote:

Originally posted by Buck Turgidson
Agreed, in all particulars. It's almost quaint to remember when networks were run by people w/ guts and imagination.

...and a willingness to let a show find its audience.

MrX

Please don't insult monkeys by comparing them to the people running the networks

das Monkey

• Quoth MrX •<HR SIZE=1>Please don't insult monkeys by comparing them to the people running the networks <HR SIZE=1>

Yeah, this talk frequently bothers me. You got a problem with monkeys? Huh? WHO WANTS SOME!?!?!

das

Geofferson

bummer.

Buck Turgidson

Very true.

Brandon Tartikoff, (for those who don't reemember first hand, like us oldsters do), personally intervened and saved both Hill Street Blues and Cheers, when he ran the NBC programming department in the early 80-'s.

He is sorely missed, and his like seems just as gone.

das Monkey

Brilliant visionary. I often point to Tartikoff's departure from NBC as a focal point in the demise of quality network television. He had the vision and patience to populate the airwaves with quality programming and the business savvy to ensure they dominated the ratings. Not a day goes by that I don't wish his like were among us today.

das