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"Journeyman" to be canceled?
Pure Vanity | 12/19/07

Posted on 12/19/2007 9:25:32 AM PST by pabianice

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To: discostu

How about the shows that have good ratings, then they move it around so many times, no one can find it anymore?


41 posted on 12/19/2007 10:11:16 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I guess I'll have to watch reruns of the much superior "Quantum Leap" to get the same type of storylines.

Ziggy says there's a 98% probability that the whiners will not get what they want.

42 posted on 12/19/2007 10:11:17 AM PST by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: pabianice

I’m still waiting for ‘La Femme Nikita’ and ‘Farscape’ to return.


43 posted on 12/19/2007 10:12:52 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: frogjerk
Never heard of it. Can someone provide a very brief synopsis of the show?

The hero starts spontaneously making trips to the recent San Francisco past, only to return to the present hours after he disappears. This, of course, wreaks havoc on his marriage and job. His trips to the past seem to have a purpose, and he rights wrongs and changes the present while in the past. He meets his old girlfriend (Moon Bloodgood - oo-la-la) who had been presumed dead when she disappeared several years ago. Turns out she had been a time traveler from the 1930s who got stuck in the 2000s for a period of time. Together they fix the future when in the past. When at his job as a newspaper reporter, the hero contacts a Dr. Langley who is a quantum physicist who tell him that tachyons would be required for time travel. It so happens that Dr. Langley calls our hero while our hero is in the past on an antique cell phone he keeps on his person for use in the past. Dr. Langley has many visitors claiming to be time travelers besiging him at his office, visitors who are quickly escorted from the premises.

My guess is that the good doctor has been conducting experiments with tachyons that have had unintended consequences for various people in the San Francisco metropolitan area.

It's actually pretty interesting.

44 posted on 12/19/2007 10:12:55 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s one you can blame on stupid suits, I call it “foxing” because Fox has perfected that method of killing a show for no apparent reason.


45 posted on 12/19/2007 10:13:17 AM PST by discostu (a mountain is something you don't want to %^&* with)
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To: pabianice

As soon as I figure out what you’re talking about, I’ll be devastated.


46 posted on 12/19/2007 10:15:28 AM PST by dragnet2
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To: frogjerk

We watched it twice and it was the same thing all the time...he transports somewhere else leaving behind his wife and ends up somehwhere else. Fixes whatever needs to be fixed and then finds himself home again. Maybe there are fans out there but honestly...after watching it twice we both said it wouldn’t last. It’s too mundane.


47 posted on 12/19/2007 10:19:37 AM PST by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than any of us will ever fully realize.)
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To: bluerose

I vowed never to trust ABC again after they so unceremoniously dumped “Daybreak” right in the middle, breaking their promises to the viewers who invested of their lives into watching that particular series.

In fact, they kept promising particular dates when the remainder of the series would be posted online. And in this particular instance, ABC BROKE those promises to their viewers not once but, as I recall, approximately EIGHT times.

Never again. I don’t even watch TV any more. Which means I won’t even tuning into Lost, which I followed through its first 3 seasons.


48 posted on 12/19/2007 10:19:53 AM PST by Luke Skyfreeper
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To: discostu
Wasn't Quantum Leap just a knock-off of Voyager?
49 posted on 12/19/2007 10:21:51 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: pabianice

“trend-setting show”

I think the trend of cancelling slow building character dramas has been set for some time. A few others come to mind;

Daybreak - Taye Diggs in a groundhog day crime drama.

Firefly - the space cowboy sci-fi that Fox nixed prematurely.

Traveler - hadn’t realized this one was cancelled. College kids tied up in a government conspiracy with a roommate that was actually a gov’t agent using them as assets.

The problem I see with a lot of these shows is that you need to watch a few to get the characters and bond with them — many seem to play for the second season instead of hitting hard early on. Mass audiences typically pop in an out of shows and miss some here and there. Appointment tv is increasingly rare and even dvrs haven’t reversed this trend.

I think Quantum Leap comparisons are unfair, QL was focused very much on the situations of the leaps, with each one standing on its own as a tidy episode. Journeyman tends to focus on the relationships of the main characters with the leaps creating conflict, not serving as the core premise.

Pushing Daisies probably suffers from the same - clever to the point of being cloying, but a bit flat. Really I’m not sure what they’re trying to do on a big scale because it moves so slowly.


50 posted on 12/19/2007 10:28:27 AM PST by sbMKE
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Hehehe.

I read the USENET Skify Channel group, and those posters were of the same mindset.

I described the show to my scifi/horror/paranormal fan mother, and she said it sounds like "Quantum Leap" or some other forgotten show.

I thought the first episode was okay.

Should have been a SciFi Saturday night movie, instead of a series.

51 posted on 12/19/2007 10:30:06 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
What a life altering, soul-crushing disappointment.

LOL - do you think you'll ever recover?
52 posted on 12/19/2007 10:31:32 AM PST by day10 (Rules cannot substitute for character.)
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To: discostu
"There’s nothing stupid about the suits, the ratings suck. The job of the suits is to get viewers and sell commercials, the best show ever made without viewers is a show that should be canceled. Journeyman debuted at #43 sank to #80 and has “rebounded” to the mid 60s. Cancel it."

Yes, IF the ratings were something that was actuality based on reality. However if you have ever participated in Rating a show you would no its akin to "throwing the bones" and "reading the stars".

Tivo and the DVR services viewing numbers differ greatly from Nielson. Which should be a red flag to anyone in the industry who is paid to use such numbers but Nielson is a Big Business and inertia is hard to resist I guess.

53 posted on 12/19/2007 10:43:37 AM PST by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: max americana

I too thought Rome was awesome. I was much more disappointed when I heard there were only two seasons of that (then I am about JourneyMan).


54 posted on 12/19/2007 10:44:43 AM PST by z3n
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To: day10

did anyone notice the name of their production company?
it is left coast productions!

wife-o-buckhead!!!!!


55 posted on 12/19/2007 10:44:59 AM PST by Buckhead (making the comments buckhead won't make!)
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To: pabianice

Heard the same thing when ‘Jericho’ was cancelled.

I don’t expect the end result to differ from that one.


56 posted on 12/19/2007 10:45:47 AM PST by Badeye (No thanks, Huck, I'm not whitewashing the fence for you this election cycle)
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To: discostu

What about “Cheers?” I’m sure there was a lot of pressure to cancel it, and yet, it became one of the most popular TV shows in history. You have to know what you have and ride it out. A kindergartener can look at the numbers and make a purely numerical decision. The reason these guys get paid the big bucks is for their wisodm. Albert Pujols had a few bad months at the start of the baseball season, but you didn’t see a mad rush of fantasy baseball owners dropping him from their teams.


57 posted on 12/19/2007 10:51:32 AM PST by Homer1
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if the dude is a time traveler, doesnt he already know he’s going to get the axe?


58 posted on 12/19/2007 11:06:14 AM PST by isom35
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To: pabianice

It’s sad, but really, I didn’t expect it to last as long as it has. Maybe at some point they will pull a Serenity?

I thought Monday’s episode was especially good. But it’s network TV. I was kind of hoping having the Heroes lead in would help. I’ve never watched Heroes myself and have no interest in that show so maybe they are two completely different audiences?


59 posted on 12/19/2007 11:14:35 AM PST by Duke Nukum (He burns at the center of time and he sees the turn of the Universe.)
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To: Luke Skyfreeper
I've caught most televisions shows off my NetFlix queue. I don't really bother with television.

Journeyman, Life, and Chuck were the only shows I've been watching. Heroes got relegated to cold storage after episode 5 this season. I might watch em, or I might just delete the Tivo files.

Waiting for BSG to start up again, but since it's going to be the last season I have a feeling I'll be done with television for a while again.

Last time I took a TV hiatus it was for about five years of pretty much no television (not counting rentals), BSG brought me back.

60 posted on 12/19/2007 11:19:31 AM PST by Domandred (Eagles soar, but unfortunately weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
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