Will The Ellen Show get canned?
01-19-02, 01:40 PM
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Will The Ellen Show get canned?
It is pretty close to the 100 mark on rankings and that is never a good sign. I love this show, but sadly I may be on of only 10 people accross the country watching it. 
01-20-02, 11:36 AM
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Its in the 100's, but cbs chopped that up to the time they were showing it. CBS enjoys the show enough to give it some time to improve itself. Besides, cbs never cancels things like other networks. so it shouldn't be given the axe anytime soon
01-21-02, 04:51 PM
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I thought CBS picked up the option for more episodes of this show after Ellen scored major rating for them during their recent Emmys broadcast.
CBS can't honestly expect a show to get and keep ratings when they move it all over the place. I've been looking for it on Mondays to find that it had been put BACK on Friday but was NOT on last week because of the episode of First Monday they showed.
JEEZ! I wanna watch it, I like it, I can never find it. Besides isn't Friday night a really bad programming spot for a 30 minute sitcom?
CBS can't honestly expect a show to get and keep ratings when they move it all over the place. I've been looking for it on Mondays to find that it had been put BACK on Friday but was NOT on last week because of the episode of First Monday they showed.
JEEZ! I wanna watch it, I like it, I can never find it. Besides isn't Friday night a really bad programming spot for a 30 minute sitcom?
01-28-02, 01:19 PM
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And the FINAL answer is - yes.
This was in PEOPLE Daily News today:
"CANCELED: CBS has shut down production of "The Ellen Show," the struggling sitcom starring Ellen DeGeneres, 43. Variety reports that after originally ordering a full season of 22 episodes of the show, the network pulled the plug after filming only 18. Budgetary considerations are being blamed . . . "
Oh well... that sucks.
"CANCELED: CBS has shut down production of "The Ellen Show," the struggling sitcom starring Ellen DeGeneres, 43. Variety reports that after originally ordering a full season of 22 episodes of the show, the network pulled the plug after filming only 18. Budgetary considerations are being blamed . . . "
Oh well... that sucks.
01-28-02, 03:27 PM
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The show may not necessarily be cancelled. I read an article over at Yahoo! this morning that did say they stopped production after 18 episodes (22 were originally ordered), but it may not be as bad as it sounds. The following sentences are quotes from the article:
So it looks like there's still a shot it'll be back next season.
Five remaining original episodes are slated to air in March and April, and CBS insiders said ``Ellen'' remains a contender to make the net's fall 2002 sked, which will be announced in May.
In recent weeks, several shows previously greenlit for 22 episodes have seen their orders reduced as networks look to save money on underperformers.
In recent weeks, several shows previously greenlit for 22 episodes have seen their orders reduced as networks look to save money on underperformers.
01-28-02, 03:29 PM
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E!Online said today that CBS was considering bringing it back in the Fall.
It's a decent show. Be a shame to completely drop it. Any show with Martin Mull, Cloris Leachman and Kerri Kenney is worth keeping around.
It's a decent show. Be a shame to completely drop it. Any show with Martin Mull, Cloris Leachman and Kerri Kenney is worth keeping around.
01-28-02, 07:21 PM
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i watched it twice and thought that the humor was decidedly forced and not very funny. maybe i just caught 2 bad nights. i suspect that the only reason they haven't cancelled it already is because the last time her show got canned, she was pretty vocal about her show being cancelled because of the subject matter, not because people didn't think it was funny. i think maybe her stand up acts may be a bit funnier, but the writing on this sitcom just didn't seem very funny to me.
