Only reason to watch the show...
Posted on 01/17/2006 9:47:28 AM PST by LouAvul
PASADENA, California (AP) -- The Camden family is disappearing from television in May strictly for financial reasons: the WB's top executive said Sunday that the network is losing $16 million this year on "7th Heaven."
The family drama, the most popular program in the network's history, will end its run after 10 years. The decision seems irreversible despite an Internet campaign to save it, even though "7th Heaven" is still the WB's second highest-rated show after "Gilmore Girls." (The WB, like CNN, is a division of Time Warner.)
Production costs tend to jump for television series as they get older, largely because the salaries of actors and others involved grow with success. "7th Heaven," about a family of seven and all their friends, has a large cast.
Reruns of "7th Heaven" were fading in the ratings, too, and that made it tougher for the network to recoup its investment, said Garth Ancier, the WB's top executive.
"As much as we all love the show, we do have to run a business," Ancier said.
Other older WB series, "Smallville" and "Gilmore Girls," don't have the same problem, he said.
Talks about a spinoff to "7th Heaven" have proven inconclusive so far.
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My wife and I watch it every Monday night. We usually end up yelling at the TV. There would have been a good drinking game associated with them talking about NOT having sex. It was a harmless show, a little preachy. I have no idea why it lasted ten years.
i love that show....DAMN fox!
Either ABC or Showtime will pick it up.
Hopefully.
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I used to watch it and like it, then it started going downhill. Redoing the cliche "birth in the elevator" was probably the low point.
I also didn't like they way they portrayed the military giving a death notice to a character. It would never have been done they way they did it, leaving a grieving family member alone.
"Brokeback Mountain - The Saga Continues".
"...all I could get were the networks-ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Fox, PAX, and the WB."
Sounds like you were spoiled (haha). I grew up with three channels: ABC, NBC, and CBS. I remember when FOX came out - thinking how radical a fourth network was. I was also raised on 26 original NFL teams, and the Panther and Seahawk logos still look unusual to me. At least the Bucs ditched their fruity dude and fancy colors.
Growing up we had it all and were the first people in the country to have HBO.
But to say spoiled, no. Spoiled would imply that someone else was paying my bills during my dark ages. It was a simple case of not enough money to cover all my expenses. Something had to give or go. Cable it was for about 8 months.
When I got that line hooked back up, I think I watched 36 hours straight discovery channel.
It was a nice family show when the kids were young, but then as they grew up, they had too many PROBLEMS. When my daughter was young, we watched it together. I used to laugh about the mother having so many mood swings.
The WB is now no more....will combine with UPN next fall. Heaven help us.
If they can Smallville, I will be incredibly pissed.
Fox is CANCELLING Arrested Development?
Are you serious?
Only reason to watch the show...
I can even remember when Fox came out, I was about 9 (1986). It was weird to us then, too.
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