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ABC Cancels FlashForward, Renews ‘V’

Ben Kendrick — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:43:57 +0000

ABC has announced a round of cancelations in preparation for their fall line-up, revealing a number of not-so surprising cuts, as well as crowning their pick for sci-fi spiritual successor to LOST – renewing alien invasion drama V and canceling FlashForward.

Other shows that won’t be receiving another season include Romantically Challenged, as well as Better Off Ted and the near-to-death Scrubs – receiving it’s final deathblow.

It’s a thorough house-cleaning. Obviously, it’s sad to see a few of the names on this list, though none of them come as a huge surprise. FlashForward was originally expected to carry the LOST audience (after the show takes its final bow on May 23rd) and, though the show started off with a bang, the overly-complicated plot and (mostly) unlikable characters resulted in a ratings free-fall. Despite a number ...

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Complete Guide To 2010 TV Season/Series Finales

Anthony Ocasio — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:14:44 +0000

It’s that time of the year when we must once again bid adieu, albeit temporarily (except for Lost, which is gone forever), to our favorite television shows. Over the next four weeks, over 60 shows will be on hiatus until this fall.

While that means your summer viewing schedule will be completely open, you better get your DVR’s ready, because the month of May is going test your television watching ability.

Luckily, Entertainment Weekly has helped put some order to all this television madness by putting together a comprehensive list of all the upcoming season/series finales.

Check out the list below to see when your favorite TV show finale airs. While you’re at it, you better check it twice because there are many overlapping finales. For instance, the two-hour series finale of Lost is on at the same ...

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Will Tonight’s Return of ‘V’ Seal FlashForward’s Cancelation?

Anthony Ocasio — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:22:37 +0000

Tonight will see the return of the ABC’s alien-centric drama, V. After four months of being off the air, viewers will finally witness the battle between the Visitors and the Visitor Resistance start taking shape as the V’s take the offense.

Will tonight’s return prove to the network and viewers both that V is a show worth watching?

The episode, entitled “Welcome to the War”, will find Erica (Elizabeth Mitchell) having to watch her back both at work and at home as a Visitor comes to kill her. Anna (Morena Baccarin) will send her lap dog Michael (Christopher Shyer) to the FBI, where he’s all too happy to provide them with information as to who was behind the warehouse explosion that destroyed their R6 compound.

As public opinion of the Visitors declines, Anna sets out to rectify the problem with a ...

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Rumor Patrol: Will ‘FlashForward’ Go Dark?

Christopher Rosen — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:28:38 +0000

If only the blackout that happened on FlashForward were real, everyone would have seen this coming. Alas!

It’s looking increasingly likely that season one of the tinkered-to-death ABC series will be its only season. According to E! Online, actress Christine Woods (who plays FBI agent/mother-to-be Janet) has been cast as the lead the NBC comedy pilot, Perfect Couples.

This announcement comes on the heels of actors Ryan Wynott (the youngster Dylan) and Zachary Knighton (Bryce) booking fall television pilots as well, meaning the writing might be on the wall around the FlashForward set.

Of course, this doesn’t necessarily mean that FlashForward is doomed to join Invasion on the list of failed Lost rip-off series; E! Online quoted a “source” as saying that the new roles will remain “in second position until there’s official word of a pickup.” But considering that ...

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‘FlashForward’ Returns To All-Time Ratings Low

Anthony Ocasio — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:24:13 +0000

Despite being one of the best episodes of the entire season, ABC’s two-hour return of FlashForward was down 10% in the ratings from the last original episode that aired in December – making it the lowest rated episode since the series began in September.

With 6.6 million people tuning in for the spring premiere, FlashForward is almost to the point where they’re garnering only half of the 12.5 million people that tuned in for the series premiere. As each subsequent episode steadily declines in the ratings, I’m not sure how much longer ABC will wait before they pull the plug on the series.

Before you decide to crucify ABC for pitting FlashForward up against the NCAA playoffs, remember this; if they would have waited another week to bring back FlashForward, it would have been up against new episodes of all ...

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FlashForward: Spring Premiere Review & Discussion

Anthony Ocasio — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:14:26 +0000

After four months, ABC’s Lost-esque drama FlashForward finally makes its way back on the air. With production being halted, losing both original showrunners and their episode order cut by one, we’re finally able to see what the now-retooled series has in store for us.

When we last left the show, Demetri Noh (John Cho) finds out that Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes) is the one that will kill him, Lloyd Simcoe (Jack Davenport) and Simon Campos (Dominic Monaghan) announced to the world that they were the reason for the blackouts and consequently results in an abduction attempt that leaves Benford’s wife, Olivia (Sonya Walger), battered and bruised with Simcoe taken away.

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Dominic Monaghan Talks ‘FlashForward’ & ‘Lost’

Ross Miller — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:43:02 +0000

Those of you looking for your fill of TV news might want to check out this latest item, a video interview with Dominic Monaghan about two shows he stars in: FlashForward and Lost.

If, like me, you’re still sticking with ABC’s Lost-esque show FlashForward, then you were probably left pretty annoyed when the show went off the air for a break at the end of November. To add insult to injury, they extended the length of the hiatus and it finally returns in a few days, almost four months after it went off air.

Nonetheless, FlashForward is back this week and Monaghan talks to Collider about such things as how big of a part his character will have when the show returns and how much he knows about this season’s finale. Also, for you Lost fans out there, ...

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TV Status Report: Which Shows Are In & Out

Anthony Ocasio — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:35:00 +0000

While we’re nowhere near the new fall season and most pilots have yet to be filmed, the networks are already looking at their current lineup to see where they can trim the fat. While most decisions have to be finalized, people talk, news is announced and assumptions can be made.

Some shows are no-brainers to renew (House), while others have already been canceled… and then there are the shows that sit on the fence; ones that are referred to in the industry as “being on the bubble.” Today we have an update on the status of some of those “bubble” shows.

With such a long list of shows, let’s stop with all the small-talk and get right to it. What’s the fate of your favorite show?

ABC

FlashForward
Chance of returning: 40%

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FlashForward Brings On 3 New Showrunners

Anthony Ocasio — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:43:00 +0000

Three days ago we brought you the news that David Goyer is leaving FlashForward and today it looks like the powers that be are making it harder for the freshman series to lose anymore showrunners, as they’ve named three new ones to replace Goyer. Head writers Lisa Zwerling and Tim Lea, along with executive producer Jessika Borsiczky, have all been promoted to the showrunner position.

If we’re going to continue to talk about showrunners, especially if FlashForward continues to lose them, I figured that it would be nice to define it because I’m sure not everyone is up on TV lingo.

Wikipedia describes the term “showrunner” as,

…a term used in the Canadian and United States television industry referring to the person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television series.

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SR Pick: Minimalist TV Show Posters

Ross Miller — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:49:24 +0000

Over the few months we’ve been sharing some wicked minimalist posters, such as the movies of Quentin Tarantino and the various Star Wars movies. Today we continue highlighting these posters by showcasing a few based on some of the most popular TV shows out there.

Long time readers of Screen Rant might remember a few of these posters from our editor Rob Keyes’ regular Poster Friday articles, but since “major sites” are now reporting on them like they’re new or something, we thought we’d offer you a few more.

There’s literally dozens of these posters by artist Albert Exergian but we’ve chosen just a handful either for how clever/cool looking they are or because the shows are of particular interest to our readers. We’ve chosen posters for True Blood, Heroes, ...

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David Goyer Leaves ‘Flashforward’ (To Write Batman 3?)

Ross Miller — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:25:50 +0000

Things haven’t been going as well as hoped with ABC’s Lost-esque mystery series, Flashforward. It debuted to 12-plus million viewers but has since dropped to half that number. I guess it was the initial curiosity of “How and why does everyone in the world black out at the same time?” that made people watch and then half of the audience fell away when it failed to live up to initial premise.

For those still sticking with the show (like me) some sad and rather annoying news dropped a while ago that production was halted and then we found out the show won’t be coming back on until March 18th this year. That’s an almost four months wait after a fairly big cliff-hanger (watchers of the show will know what I’m referring to).

To add insult to injury, last October ...

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Hulu Is Still Trying To Make You Pay

Kofi Outlaw — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:13:21 +0000

So Back in October we let you know that Hulu was looking for ways to charge users for the service. Then a lot of people got up in arms, swearing to drop Hulu like a bad habit. So then The Hulu execs recounted the statement, saying all was well and their service would remain free.

However, I didn’t believe that and neither did many of you. After all, who gives anything away for free these days? Well, The LA Times says we were right to be skeptical, because Hulu is apparently still working on a ways to implement a fee-based service without losing users.

The latest scheme game plan involves taking Hulu’s current interface – where you can watch 3-5 of the most ...

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FlashForward & ‘V’ Each Lose An Episode

Bruce Simmons — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:49:00 +0000

With FlashForward and V not doing as well in the ratings as ABC had hyped / hoped for, some were worried about their futures.

Rest assured that ABC is committed to the new shows… just not fully committed.

As the shows line up to return from their breaks, each show is now less one episode than the original tally of episodes slated to be filmed. This means that when they return from their mid-season breaks, V will only have 8 new episodes and FlashForward will have 14 episodes.

It’s nice to see that for the moment, ABC is backing their shows. I can only hope they stick to this plan as March approaches.

What Is Up With Mid-Season Breaks?

It seems to be the in-fashion thing these days to yank shows and install mid-season breaks. What’s up with that? ...

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Production On ‘FlashForward’ Halted

Anthony Ocasio — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:36:54 +0000

As the weeks pass and news continues to roll in about the ABC drama, FlashForward, it becomes harder to imagine those 137 seconds seen by folks around the world from April 29^th, 2010 coming to fruition. Today we can add more bad news to the ever-growing pile, as production on the freshman series has been shut down.

Fans need not worry, as this break in production is not permanent. “How not permanent” you ask? Well, production is already scheduled to resume on Monday. Still, the question needs to be asked; what’s the reasoning behind the break, even if it is short?

If you listen to ABC, they’ll happily tell you that everything is going according to plan and that the production schedule was designed for such breaks.

“They started production early so that they could have the luxury to do this. They ...

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Ratings: ‘Smallville’ Flying High, ‘FlashForward’ Losing Viewers

Anthony Ocasio — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:39:51 +0000

With November sweeps and the World Series both starting last week, it causes a strange effect in television ratings. While November sweeps is supposed to bring in high ratings, the World Series always cuts into their usual audience as we’re seeing with ABC’s much touted drama, FlashForward. The new series created by David S. Goyer and Brannon Braga saw its lowest ratings last week and conversly, this past week Smallville saw their highest ratings since the ninth season began.

Still, can the World Series really account for all these ratings fluctuations? As a fan of Smallville, I make sure to always tune in, but even with the show being able to pull in 2.6 million viewers; it’s still down over 1 million viewers from last season. When Smallville made the move to Friday night, The CW was putting their veteran series ...

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No More Free Hulu?

Kofi Outlaw — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:08:53 +0000

Oh Internet, say it ain’t so!

Hulu – my utopia of free TV online – may soon become another run-of-the-buck paid subscription site (see header image)! (Sigh) It was only a matter of time, really…

Broadcasting & Cable brings us this chilling news, which supposedly originated from the mouth of News Corp. Deputy Chairman Chase Carey, who said during the Onscreen Media Summit that:

“It’s time to start getting paid for broadcast content online…I think a free model is a very difficult way to capture the value of our content. I think what we need to do is deliver that content to consumers in a way where they will appreciate the value. Hulu concurs with that, it needs to evolve to have a meaningful subscription model as part of its business.”

Aw heck, we all knew ...

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Marc Guggenheim Leaving FlashForward

Ross Miller — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:35:48 +0000

ABC’s new Lost-esque mystery TV series, FlashForward – about a global blackout lasting 2 minutes and 17 seconds, in which time the entire human race gets a vision of their future six months ahead – has been impressive so far. The initial high concept is a whopper, enough (evidently) to bring in 12.4 million viewers for its pilot last month. And ABC is obviously confident in the series with the recent news that it has (thankfully) been picked up for a full first season.

Oh, if only things were as rosy as the ratings make them look… But don’t worry, FlashFoward hasn’t been suddenly canceled or anything of that sort! Put those pitch forks away, people! The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that one of FlashForward‘s main players – co-showrunner and executive producer Marc Guggenheim (Eli Stone) – is stepping away ...

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What TV Shows Do You Want More Coverage Of?

Anthony Ocasio — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:19:33 +0000

We here at Screen Rant are here to cater to you, the reader. Now, that doesn’t mean that I’m going to be bringing over any freshly baked ice cream cone cupcakes (remember those? Awesome.), but that does mean that we like to hear from you about what you like, what you don’t, what you watch and what you’d like to see more coverage about.

Over the past few weeks of the fall season premiere, we have played around with reviews and discussions on a variety of television shows – and while some received the expected responses (Stargate, Flashforward, Smallville), others did not (CSI, CSI:NY, Criminal Minds, MythBusters). And then there were some shows that nobody expected to receive the amount of response it did (Ghost Whisperer).

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FlashForward Gets Full Season Order

Anthony Ocasio — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:54:25 +0000

Fans of the series, FlashForward, can now watch comfortably without fear of cancellation as ABC has picked up the freshmen series for a full season order.

The series – which focuses on the mysterious event that causes everyone to simultaneously blackout for 137 seconds and “flash forward” to view a moment in the future on April 29^th, 2010 – has been performing strong in its time slot with a 3.0 amongst adults 18-49, compared to last year with Ugly Betty garnering just 2.6.

Unlike their struggling neighbor, NBC, whose new shows are not performing as expected (they even canceled the returning Southland before any episodes aired), this marks the fourth new series ABC has picked up for a full season with Cougar Town, Modern Family and The Middle all receiving full season orders a few days ago.

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FlashForward Week 3: Puzzle Pieces in a German Prison

Mike Wilkerson — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:29:21 +0000

The third week of ABC’s new FlashForward arrives inside the television review halls of Screen Rant.

The world view of what has taken place expands as we begin in a prison in Munich, Germany, where a long-term prisoner named Geyer and a guard begin a discussion that will change many lives and perspectives. What will we find out this time? Will we garner more puzzle pieces that are put in place or only glimpses at the 2 minutes and 17 seconds that had almost all of us spent frozen three weeks ago?

I’ll be reviewing this and future episodes of FlashForward in an ironic and incredibly-appropriate “stream of consciousness” format, giving you essentially what I’m thinking as the show airs. I encourage everyone to send feedback in regard to any of the points below and use this opportunity as a sounding-off ...

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