Sad. This is one of the few shows I watch on a regular basis. At least it had an original premise, unlike most of the other shows that have been running for umpteen seasons.
I think the same thing is going to happen to ‘Pushing Daisies’. Yep, the two best shows.
Never heard of it.
Never heard of it. Can someone provide a very brief synopsis of the show?
It's too much like Quantum Leap - it gets lost in the mix.
I guess I'll have to watch reruns of the much superior "Quantum Leap" to get the same type of storylines.
I am so p*ssed. My husband and I love this show! I was p*ssed that The Traveler was cancelled. Intelligent shows usually never stand a chance.
Of course the actually good shows are the ones that go and they add yet another “reality” show like Battle of the Choirs or whatever the crap they put on in the Chuck timeslot.
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.
“this excellent, trend-setting show”
excellent?
trend-setting?
Everyone I talked to about the show said they thought it was “goofy”, “repetitious” and “seemed like a cut and paste job”.
Loath as I am to defend the Hollywood suits, this usually comes down to the free market.
People claim that they want intelligent, challenging shows, but they don't actually watch them.
That is sad. I now watch only three TV shos (other than sports). The Unit, Numbers and Journeyman and Numbers is getting boring.
I suppose they need more room for another realitytrash or sitgarbage show to attract the brainless.
Folks - as much as I like Journeyman...IT’S JUST A TELEVISION SHOW!
Ping.
I’m still waiting for ‘La Femme Nikita’ and ‘Farscape’ to return.
As soon as I figure out what you’re talking about, I’ll be devastated.
“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.
Heard the same thing when ‘Jericho’ was cancelled.
I don’t expect the end result to differ from that one.
if the dude is a time traveler, doesnt he already know he’s going to get the axe?
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?