Posted on 11/21/2012 6:29:37 AM PST by jmaroneps37
Who's the boss? Not Kelsey Grammer.
Starz television network has decided not to give Grammer another term as mayor of Chicago.
The cable network said Tuesday that it was canceling the drama "Boss" after two seasons.
The show premiered to critical acclaim, starring Grammer as tyrannical Chicago mayor Tom Kane. The role earned Grammer a Golden Globe for best actor in a drama earlier this year.
Starz says in a statement that although the network is proud of the show, it has "made the difficult decision to not proceed with `Boss."' The move was a flip-flop for Starz, which renewed the show for a second season even before its first season began.
"Boss" also stars Martin Donovan, Connie Nielsen and Kathleen Robertson. Farhad Safinia is the show's creator and executive producer.
Grammer's rep said the star had no comment on the show's cancelation, but earlier this year, Grammer complained to Jay Leno on the "Tonight Show" that being a Republican could have cost him, and hence the show, a prestigious Emmy nod.
“Now explain something to me, you get a Golden Globe for ‘Boss,’ but you don’t even get an Emmy nomination,” Leno asked.
“Yeah, its hard to figure,” Grammer said. “It may have to do with several things, honestly, but I think it’s possible, I mean, I am a, I’m a declared out of the closet Republican in Hollywood.”
Light applause rippled through the audience and Leno emitted a comic gasp.
“Do I believe it’s possible that some young person, young voting actor, or even older voting member for the Emmys, would sit there and go, ‘Yeah, that’s a great performance, but oooooh, I just hate everything he stands for?’”
Grammer asked hypothetically, before answering with sarcasm: “I don’t believe that’s possible.”
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Hi, Blackirish:
Both series dealt with corruption. Though, with ‘The Wire’, you could actually follow where the Barksdale drug money went and into whose political coffers.
No disagreement in regard to what made ‘The Wire’ the best written and acted series in HBO’s lineage of exceptional shows.
I can’t think of a television series that actually has credited college courses devoted to it. Yet, ‘The Wire’ does.
Conspiracy theories are fun, but the reality is the show’s ratings were atrocious. Second season averaged a quarter million viewers, that won’t keep many shows on the air.
Bingo! I refuse to pay extra for those type channels. Maybe TNT or the like will pick up and give folks like me a chance to watch.
It was a good show, and did a good job of depicting the cesspool of Chicago politics. But I guess it didn’t attract enough viewers. And with no ancillary market interest (no action figures or video games), hard to build up a rabid online fanbase. Too bad...
Kelsey should consider pulling a Reagan and running for office—that may be his only chance to find work in Obama’s Hollywood. he should run for Governor of California—he would do a better job than the Circus strong man we had.
According to the numbers the ratings were not there and went down the second season.
It was one of my favorite shows. The medical problem was a nice angle.
Too bad FX, AMC, Showtime or HBO won’t step up.
HBO saved Damages, which was a quality series by putting it on the Audience Channel (#500). Time to save this one.
I’d agree with you, except 30 Rock on NBC had NO VIEWERS of any consequence and they kept renewing it. It was like a jobs program for washed up liberal comics.
It paints Chicago in far too realistic a light.
I hope somebody else (I’m looking at you, Fox) picks up the show and says, “Seeya later, Stinktown,” to Starz.
Until this year it had more viewers than Mad Men.
30 Rock also grew its audience its second year.
30 Rock never did as well as the network hoped, but Boss has been an unmitigated disaster.
And expectations were very high for Boss - after all you had the star of Frasier, a show that put up champion numbers for years.
For most of its run 30 Rock has averaged around 5 million viewers. Not a lot, but dramatically more than the 250,000 Boss got.
Comparing viewership of a program on NBC with viewership on a pay-tier network like Starz is stupid. The networks can put on the worst junk (like the atrocious Lavern & Shirley remake) and pull in several million viewers for a half season or so.
I didn’t initiate the comparison, but if it makes you bristle consider the ratings for Mad Men instead.
Still not sure the comparison is apt. Mad Men, which I like quite a lot, is on AMC which is an “extended basic” channel like ESPN on many cable systems. You can reach many more eyeballs on AMC than on Starz or Encore or Showtime.
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